Comelec
slams poll
cheating allegations
By
KIT BAGAIPO |
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The
Commission on Elections (Comelec) will try to
disprove allegations that massive cheating will
take place in Monday's polls where some 661,001
registered voters will troop to 3,265 precincts
to elect local and national officials.
This,
even as the Comelec-PNP Regional Election Joint
Command has confirmed reports that vote-buying
has started as early as Thursday in some Bohol
towns.
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SURVEY LEADERS.
Gov. Erico Aumentado (r) and City Mayor Dan Lim (l)
both re-electionists, showed excellent ratings during
the latest Bohol Poll which generate quick forcasts
of their victories come elections on Monday.
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US
Peace Corps
sends fresh batch
By
RODNEY JALECO
WASHINGTON
D.C. A fresh batch of US Peace Corps volunteers arrived in
Manila today, a little over a month after the murder of Peace
Corps volunteer Julia Campbell in Ifugao province, and in
time for them to witness first-hand the country's midterm
elections.
Philippine
Consul-General Ding Nolasco said they issued non-immigrant
visas to 65 Peace Corps volunteers, keeping the consular office
open until eight in the evening to accommodate the group.
"This
shows the United States' continued commitment to help the
Philippines," Nolasco averred.
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Bishop
Medroso appeals for clean, honest election
By: KIT BAGAIPO
Bishop
Leonardo Medroso of the Diocese of Tagbilaran has made
an appeal to Boholano voters and candidates alike to
ensure the holding of clean, honest and credible elections.
In
a message aired over dyRD and dyZD, member stations
of the Catholic Media Network, the prelate asked electors
to "pause and reflect for just one minute, to make
up [your] minds and to decide for the future of our
nation and the Filipino people."
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Boholano
launches new book
MANILA.
What would have happened if the Germans conquered the
Philippines a hundred years ago?
The
new two-volume book, Philippine-German Relations: A
Modern History, 1834-2000, by a Boholano scholar, Monsignor
Hermógenes E. Bacareza, SVD, answers the question
with one word: discipline. The corruption, scandals,
crimes and unbridled politics might have been less conspicuous
and more controlled by the German system, which adopts
love of order and discipline not only in individual
lives but also in government circles.
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VOTE
AND PROTECT YOUR VOTES
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Philippine
- Bohol - elections are flawed. Are we doing
something about it?
Vote-buying has been the order of the day -
because the opponents are doing the same. Elections
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become
expensive - and public office, rather than becoming
a
public trust - becomes an instrument to hasten the
return on "election investment."
Corruption,
therefore, abounds and we all have become the poorer
for it - except the pompous politicians and their
private sector contractors and suppliers. This analysis
has been beaten to death yet what have we seen?
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| GMA's
FAVORITE PROVINCE. Pres. Arroyo with Gov. Aumentado
(on board) during a drive-through inaugural run of the
BCRIP 2 last Wednesday from Jagna town. |
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