By CHERYLL D. FIEL
Oscar Breva, one of the lawyers watching for the Aquino-Roxas camp during the canvassing of votes, said a lot of things were invisible to the eyes in the new way of counting votes.
Author Archives: CHERYLL D. FIEL
By CHERYLL D. FIEL
Jim Galez, a member of the regional secretariat of partylist group Bayan Muna, was driving his motorcycle on the road to Barangay Little Panay in Panabo City on Wednesday, May 19, when shot by still unidentified gunmen.
By CHERYLL D. FIEL
The City Board of Canvassers lowered the threshold of votes necessary for the winning candidates to be proclaimed winners. The Board proclaimed the winners five hours after it resumed counting of votes on Wednesday, May 12.
By CHERYLL D. FIEL
It was not the machine glitches that many people were worried about but the poll clerk’s hunt for names of registered voters and other verification procedures that slowed down the voting process in the recently-concluded elections.
By CHERYLL D. FIEL
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has placed the city under its control in the country’s first automated elections.
By CHERYLL D. FIEL
The speaker issued a call to his comrades in the mountains to continue fighting. He said this is “the only way to end the suffering of the Filipino people.”
By CHERYLL D. FIEL
To treat Rebelyn’s case as a common crime totally exonerates the state of its culpability in the killing, said Kelly Delgado, secretary-general of the human rights group Karapatan.
By CHERYLL D. FIEL
Davao lawyers are restive over the issue of the President’s impending appointment of a new Chief Justice, following a Supreme Court ruling which allows her to do this despite a standing ban on this action in the Philippine Constitution.
By CHERYLL D. FIEL
A 74-year-old man, a 32-year-old mother, three farmers and two Bagobo lumads find themselves accused of the military’s trumped up charges as the government’s Oplan Bantay Laya (OBL) deadline to end the four-decades of Communist insurgency nears.
By CHERYLL D. FIEL
Duterte announced he would assume the post of deputized head of the Davao City Police, a post he relinquished at the start of the Commission on Human Rights’ (CHR) probe into the summary killings in the city.
