Bishops accept Catholic vote not yet at its full strength in elections
Source: Inquirer.net
Bacolod :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-14 06:52:44 -0700 | political-news
Philippines The Catholic Church's efforts to sway the electorate into supporting senatorial candidates it deemed good for the country ended in disappointment. Lipa Archbishop Ramon Arguelles, who had publicly endorsed senatorial bets who fought the reproductive health law, said on...
Church issues sample ballots in Negros
Source: Inquirer.net
Bacolod :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-10 19:40:00 -0700 | political-news
Catholic Church dioceses in Negros Occidental are distributing sample ballots containing the names of their chosen candidates who are considered as prolife. The Diocese of Bacolod began handing out sample ballots to churchgoers in all its churches urging them to...
Man gets life for selling P200 worth of shabu to cop in sting operation
Source: Inquirer.net
Bacolod :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-08 00:26:01 -0700 | political-news
A local resident will have to spend the rest of his life in jail for selling P200 worth of shabu to a cop. Judge Raymond Joseph Javier of the Bacolod Regional Trial Court Branch 47 found Stephan Suarez Cabiles guilty...
DOJ junks murder charges vs Negros vice gov, mayor, vice mayor
Source: Inquirer.net
Bacolod :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-07 01:23:08 -0700 | political-news
PhilippinesThe Department of Justice has dismissed the murder charges filed against Negros Occidental Vice Gov. Genaro Alvarez Jr., his son Ilog Mayor John Paul Alvarez and Cauayan Vice Mayor Jerry Tabujara for the killing of Kabankalan Judge Henry Arles in...
Philippines' Roman Catholic Church's influence wanes
Source: Japan Times
Bacolod :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-05 08:32:08 -0700 | political-news
In cathedrals around the Philippines, huge black-and-red banners are asking the faithful to choose between Team Life and Team Death, with priests warning the nation's soul is at stake. The signs are part of efforts by the Catholic church to...
P3M fake money may be circulating in Negros Occidental — cops
Source: GMA News
Bacolod :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-03 19:53:11 -0700 | political-news
P3M fake money may be circulating in Negros Occidental cops May 4, 2013 9:40am Some P3 million in fake bills that could be used to buy votes may have started circulating in Negros Occidental province in Western Visayas alone, the...
13 inmates with gun escape from Philippine jail
Source: Boston.com
Bacolod :: Philippines | updated 2013-04-17 07:05:27 -0700 | political-news
Philippines (AP) Philippine police say 13 inmates, some accused of murder, have escaped from a provincial jail in a central province using a smuggled gun to disarm guards...Ricardo de la Paz says the inmates pointed a pistol and improvised knives...
Negros Occidental gov sues mayor for libel
Source: Inquirer.net
Bacolod :: Philippines | updated 2013-04-17 06:31:22 -0700 | political-news
PhilippinesNegros Occidental Governor Alfredo Maranon Jr. has sued for libel Pulupundan Mayor Magdaleno Pena and sought P7 million in damages for claiming in a local newspaper article that he is having delusions and dementia. In a complaint filed before the...
PHL, US and a love affair with sugar
Source: GMA News
Bacolod :: Philippines | updated 2013-04-17 02:47:20 -0700 | political-news
Both areas supplied up to a third of the sugar in the United States. But even in Hawaii, the Filipino manongs' worked the sugar plantations. In World War II, a sugar shortage hit America when the Philippines was overrun by...
Susan Roces pitches for Grace Poe
Source: Inquirer.net
Bacolod :: Philippines | updated 2013-04-11 15:01:54 -0700 | political-news
PhilippinesMovie actress Susan Roces returned to her roots in this city on Wednesday to campaign for her daughter, Grace Poe-Llamanzares, a candidate for senator with the administration Team PNoy coalition. Roces went to the public markets, surprising vendors and customers...
SC suspends Bacolod lawyer who made secretary sign pleading
Source: Inquirer.net
Bacolod :: Philippines | updated 2013-04-09 04:37:21 -0700 | political-news
Philippines The Supreme Court has suspended a Bacolod City lawyer from legal practice for one year for letting his secretary sign a pleading. The high court's Second Division, chaired by Justice Antonio Carpio, found Charlie Bancolo administratively liable for violating...
Retired Negros prosecutor dies without getting retirement pay
Source: Inquirer.net
Bacolod :: Philippines | updated 2013-04-05 02:16:04 -0700 | political-news
PhilippinesAfter 36 years of government service, Marcelo del Pilar counted on his retirement pay to finance a badly needed heart bypass operation and had been pleading for it...Thursday at the home of his daughter here where he had been staying...
Relief of Negros Occidental police chief sought
Source: Inquirer.net
Bacolod :: Philippines | updated 2013-04-04 06:24:19 -0700 | political-news
Negros Occidental Provincial Police Office acting chief following the killing of a policeman and police asset on Monday in Escalante City. He also called on Interior Secretary Manuel Roxas II to act on the findings of Task Force Escalante, which...
Poll lawyer wants priests, lay leaders kicked out of PPCRV
Source: Inquirer.net
Bacolod :: Philippines | updated 2013-04-04 00:26:25 -0700 | political-news
Lawyer Romeo Macalintal said in an interview with Radyo Inquirer 990AM that some of the church's leaders have shown themselves to be politically active...One example of such campaigning was the infamous Team Patay, Team Buhay tarpaulins displayed in front of...
Cop, companion shot dead in Escalante City
Source: Inquirer.net
Bacolod :: Philippines | updated 2013-04-01 16:02:36 -0700 | political-news
PhilippinesA policeman and a police asset were reportedly killed by six men in front of the public market in Escalante City around 6:35 p.m...PO1 Bejien Tanguan and Joseph Lutrago who were on board a motorcycle were killed while in front...
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