In New Bataan, Rains Prevent Many from Voting
By Cheryll D. Fiel davaotoday.com NEW BATAAN, Compostela Valley -- Many voters in this town were not able to vote. In the first three precincts at the Cabinuangan Elementary School…
Last-Minute Vote Buying in Davao Oriental
By Mai Gevera
Though no longer new in a province that publicly exhibited vote buying, supporters of candidates distributed their last draw of campaign goodies before election started at 7am.
Foreign Observers in ComVal Wary Over Elections
Monitors. Some of the foreign observers during a briefing on Sunday. (davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)
By Cheryll D. Fiel
davaotoday.com
DAVAO CITY — International observers who are in the southern Philippines to monitor today’s elections said Sunday that a clean, peaceful and honest elections in the country remains a pipe dream.
Gill Boehringer, a professor of history and philosophy at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, who is one of the five foreign delegates of the International Observers Mission (IOM) assigned in Southern Mindanao, said he did not have any illusions that the elections will be any better today, that “people would be on their good behavior.”
Philippines mulls write-off of farmers’ debt
MANILA — Farmers who availed themselves of loans provided for by the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law but have not been able to pay their amortizations may soon be presented with relief from debt once a Task Force created by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo comes out with its recommendation on this proposal, Cabinet Secretary Ricardo Saludo said today.
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