Jess Quijano

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COMELEC approves case against Sabio

Jess Quijano posted an article on - Feb 9, 2012, 9:17 am
By:  Herbie Gomez Mindanao Gold StarDaily  9 February 2012 2010 ELECTION MESS AT 'BASURAHAN' THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) has held former Cagayan de Oro elections officer Gina Zayas Sabio liable in connection...
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COMELEC, DOJ take over investigation of 2004 poll fraud

Jess Quijano posted an article on - Feb 8, 2012, 6:11 pm
Chairman Sixto Brillantes, Jr. By:  Sheila Crisostomo  The Philippine Star,  09 February 2012. MANILA, Philippines - The joint panel of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) will assume the lead ...
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Tagle named as new COMELEC Overseas Absentee Voting Committee Chair

Jess Quijano posted an article on - Feb 8, 2012, 4:28 am
Commissioner Lucenito N. Tagl The Commission on Elections (COMELEC) on Wednesday announced the designation of COMELEC Commissioner Lucenito N. Tagle as the new Chairman of the poll body’s Committee on Overseas Absentee Voting (COAV). The COMELEC said in Resol...
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Iligan SP thanks Mis. Occ. LGU for immediate assistance to Sendong victims

Jess Quijano posted an article on - Feb 6, 2012, 12:34 pm
By:  Pat Nano OROQUIETA CITY, Misamis Occidental, 6 Feb. 2012, (PIA) -- The Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) of Iligan City has passed a Resolution No. 12-07, s. of 2012, thanking the Misamis Occidental Provincial Government for extending help to the reside...
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New PNP bldg in Mis Occ now ready for occupancy

Jess Quijano posted an article on - Feb 5, 2012, 12:41 pm
By: Pat Nano OROQUIETA CITY, Misamis Occidental, 5 Feb 2012 (PIA) -- The Philippine National Police (PNP) in Misamis Occidental is now ready to occupy its newly completed building inside the Provincial Police Service Compound (PPSC), in the city, af...
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Smartmatic: PCOS machines in perfect condition

Jess Quijano posted an article on - Feb 5, 2012, 4:12 am
By:  Sheila Crisostomo The Philippine Star MANILA, Philippines - Smartmatic International Corp. gave assurances that the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines used in the country’s first automated polls in 2010...
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Ozamiz CDC approves P59.77-M annual investment plan for 2012

Jess Quijano posted an article on - Feb 4, 2012, 10:14 pm
By Rutchie Cabahug-Aguhob Friday 3rd of February 2012 OZAMIZ CITY, Misamis Occidental, Feb. 3 (PIA) -- The Ozamiz City Development Council (OCDC) has passed a resolution endorsing, for final approval, the program,projects, activities of the c...
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DILG challenges Mis Occ LGU's to adopt policy of transparency

Jess Quijano posted an article on - Feb 2, 2012, 8:03 pm
By:  Pat Nano OROQUIETA CITY, Misamis Occidental, Jan. 21 (PIA) – The Provincial Office of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), here, has challenged the local government units (LGU’s) to improve their services by adopting the policy of ...
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PCA pushes for the standardization of coco sugar industry

Jess Quijano posted an article on - Feb 2, 2012, 8:08 am
By:  Phres A. Evardone QUEZON CITY, Feb. 2, 2012, Thursday (PIA) -- To further boost the growing local coco-sugar industry and meet the increasing domestic and global demand for coco-sugar, the Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) and the Department of Agr...
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DOH notes 163 leptospirosis cases with 7 deaths in Iligan

Jess Quijano posted an article on - Feb 1, 2012, 7:20 pm
By:  Rutchie C. Aguhob OZAMIZ CITY, Misamis Occidental, Jan. 31 (PIA) – A total of 616 suspected Leptospirosis cases have been recorded in region 10 as of Jan. 13, this year. Reports reaching the Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and M...
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52.84 hectares in NorMin identified as relocation site for Sendong victims

Jess Quijano posted an article on - Jan 31, 2012, 9:06 am
By:  Rutchie Cabahug-Aguhob OZAMIZ CITY, Misamis Occidental, Jan 31 (PIA) -- A total of 52.84 hectares of land have been identified as relocation site for the tropical storm Sendong victims in Region 10. Per monitoring report submitted by the National Hous...
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ECCD benefits thousands of pre-schoolers in Ozamiz City

Jess Quijano posted an article on - Jan 29, 2012, 12:44 am
by:  Rutchie Cabahug-Aguhob OZAMIZ CITY, Misamis Occidental, Jan. 28 (PIA) -- At least 3,188 pre-schoolers in Ozamiz City were benefited by the implementation of the Child Welfare Program under the Early Child Care Development (ECCD) of the City Social Welf...
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ARMM Voters Registration to Resume March 5

Jess Quijano posted an article on - Jan 26, 2012, 11:02 am
The system of continuing registration of voters and validation of registration records in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) will commence on March 5, 2012 and will end on October 31, 2012, the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) announced Thursday. The COMELEC en banc, in Resolution No. ...
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PAGASA issues general flood advisory No. 16 for Northern Mindanao

Jess Quijano posted an article on - Jan 8, 2012, 8:49 am
The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) has issued the General Flood Advisory No. 16, for the residents of Region 10 in Northern Mindanao. Issued at 9:00 a.m., today, Jan. 8, the advisory said the tail end of...
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Sea rescue of typhoon Sendong victims in Iligan City

Jess Quijano posted an article on - Dec 25, 2011, 8:30 pm
ILIGAN CITY (24 Dec 2011) -- The crew of M/V YANG A, a cargo vessel chartered by HOLCIM CEMENT Corporation, a local cement manufacturer based in Iligan City, rescued some eight (8) persons - 3 adults and 5 children (including a 2-yr old child) - floating among the debris some 12 ki...
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List of Missing and Dead Victims of Typhoon Sendong

Jess Quijano posted an article on - Dec 24, 2011, 9:52 pm
The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) reported, as of 5:00 a.m. of December 21, 2011, the following data: rescued/survived, 432 persons. NDRRMC counts 3,581 houses were totally de...
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More help needed for Typhoon Sendong survivors

Jess Quijano posted an article on - Dec 23, 2011, 7:25 am
By:  Irma S. Boza More than 285 people are dead and 400 missing after Tropical Storm Sendong ripped Iligan City on Friday, December 15, 2011. Despite the claims that there were tropical storm signal warning from PAG-ASA - the Philipp...
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Mendoza vs Familara and COMELEC

Jess Quijano posted an article on - Nov 22, 2011, 10:49 pm
EN BANC CONSTANCIO F. MENDOZA, Petitioner,                  - versus - &#...
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COMELEC presents high profile witnesses in 2007 Maguindanao poll fraud

Jess Quijano posted an article on - Oct 3, 2011, 7:42 am
The Commission on Elections (COMELEC) today presented fourteen (14) Election Officers and one (1) Computerized Voters List Technician (CVL Tech) from the Province of Maguindanao who were witnesses to large-scale election fraud perpetrated in the Province during the 2007 Senat...
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PEPSI eyes RP as source for coconut water

Jess Quijano posted an article on - Oct 3, 2011, 5:32 am
Global beverage giant PepsiCo Inc. is looking at the distribution of ‘coconut water’ in the US market with the Philippines as primary source.   Trade officials said that Brazilian businessman Rodrigo Veloso, founder and CEO of One Natural Experien...
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Robed Franciscan defender of the Sierra Madre

Jess Quijano posted an article on - Sep 26, 2011, 1:17 am
LUCENA CITY, Philippines - For Franciscan priest Pedro Montallana, the vast Sierra Madre mountain ranges in Luzon is his revered cathedral where he communes with God in fulfilling his advocacy to protect Mother Earth.  “I have yet to reach that ‘mystical experi...
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R.A. No. 10023 - An Act Authorizing the Issuance of Free Patents to Residential Lands

Jess Quijano posted an article on - Sep 13, 2011, 10:38 pm
Republic of the PhilippinesCONGRESS OFTHE PHILIPPINESMetro Manila FourteenthCongressThirdRegular Session Begun and held in Metro Manila, on Monday, thetwenty-seventh day of July, two thousand nine. REPUBLICACT No. 10023 ANACT AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF FREE PATENTS TO RESIDENTIAL LANDS Be it enacte...
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Resolution No. 9279 - Reception of Multi-Type Voter Applications

Jess Quijano posted an article on - Sep 10, 2011, 7:54 pm
Resolution No. 9279 RECEPTION OF MULTI-TYPE OF APPLICATIONS SUCH AS:   (1) TRANSFER WITH REACTIVATION AND CORRECTION OF ENTRIES;  (2) REACTIVATION WITH CORRECTION OF ENTRIES; AND (3) TRANSFER WITH CORRECTION OF ENTRIES, IN CONNE...
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Poll workers stage nationwide streamer hanging to demand salary adjustment

Jess Quijano posted an article on - Sep 8, 2011, 11:25 am
Commission on Elections (COMELEC) employees in the central and field offices will be putting up posters and streamers calling for the adjustment on their salaries during their lunch break on Friday, September, 2011. Under the auspices o...
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Virgin coconut oil hailed as cure for Alzheimers

Jess Quijano posted an article on - Sep 5, 2011, 1:33 pm
After previous claims as an antiseptic, AIDS cure, anti-infective, cholesterol-basher, and remedy for various aches and pains, coconut oil is now being hailed as a possible miracle cure for Alzheimer’s. The American physician, who has been dubbed...
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House OKs allocation of P8 billion for 2013 poll automation

Jess Quijano posted an article on - Sep 5, 2011, 6:39 am
MANILA, Philippines - The House appropriations committee has endorsed the allocation of nearly P8 billion for the automation of the May 2013 congressional and local elections. The amount is 80 percent of the P10-billio...
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COMELEC Chairman Brillantes promotes early voter registration at LRT

Jess Quijano posted an article on - Jul 31, 2011, 4:25 am
Commission on Elections (COMELEC) Chairman Sixto S. Brillantes Jr. this morning rode the Light Rail Transit (LRT) to drive home the poll body’s call for the Filipino public to register as voters. Brillantes was at the Recto Station of the LRT Line 2 Friday, 29 July 2011, to inspect the installati...
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COMELEC eyes own poll technology for 2013 elections

Jess Quijano posted an article on - Jul 25, 2011, 10:58 pm
COMELEC COMMISSIONER AUGUSTO LAGMANMANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) will develop its own canvassing and consolidation system for automated 2013 mid-term polls as part of a five-year program that it will put in place under the Aquino administration. Comelec Commissioner A...
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Law to postpone August 8 ARMM Elections

Jess Quijano posted an article on - Jul 5, 2011, 12:02 pm
Republic of the PhilippinesCongress of the PhilippinesMetro Manila Fifteenth CongressFirst Regular Session Begun and held in Metro Manila, on Monday, the twenty-sixth day of July, two thousand ten. REPUBLIC ACT NO. 10153 AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE SYNCHRONIZATION OF THE ELECTIONS IN THE AUTONOMOUS REG...
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Water level rose too quickly, Davao flood victims say

Jess Quijano posted an article on - Jul 1, 2011, 6:15 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/30 June) – Most of the flashflood victims on Tuesday evening have a common story to tell:  "the water level rose too fast."Meanwhile, the Office of the Civil Defense reported that as of 7:30 p.m. Thursday (June 30), two more bodies were recovered.  They were identified as K...
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Campaign for August 8 ARMM polls begins Friday, since no law mandates to postpone it

Jess Quijano posted an article on - Jun 24, 2011, 9:53 am
MAKATI CITY (MindaNews/23 June) – The campaign period for the August 8 elections in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) begins Friday, June 24 with former Sultan Kudarat Governor Pax Mangudadatu and Margarita “Tingting” Cojuangco, the PDP’s candidates for governor and vice govern...
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Iligan Mayor Cruz requests DPWH P260-million infrastructure projects for 2012

Jess Quijano posted an article on - Jun 19, 2011, 1:44 am
Iligan City, Philippines - Mayor Lawrence Ll. Cruz requested the Department of Public Works and Highways for P260 million worth of infrastructure projects for Iligan City for 2012. These include P50 million for the Iligan River Control Project, P50 million for the Mandulog River Control Project, P20...
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Ex-seminarians condem act of historian tourist-guide Carlos Celdran

Jess Quijano posted an article on - Jun 18, 2011, 10:28 pm
We, the officers and members of the Philippine Alliance of X-Seminarians (PAX), a nationwide umbrella organization representing various federations of Catholic ex seminarians and Catholic seminary alumni organizations in the Philippines, do hereby declare: 1. That freedom of expressio...
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COMELEC junks proposal for manual ARMM polls

Jess Quijano posted an article on - May 16, 2011, 7:33 am
By:  Mayen Jaymalin MANILA, Philippines - The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) elections will definitely be automated, a source at the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said yesterday. The poll body, according to the source, has already junked a proposal to go to manual in the ARMM polls...
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DA allots funds for rehab of Misamis Occidental irrigation systems

Jess Quijano posted an article on - May 7, 2011, 4:39 am
AT LEAST P13 million was allotted by the Department of Agriculture (DA) to rehabilitate two communal irrigation systems in Misamis Occidental as part of government efforts to make the country rice self-sufficient by 2013. The two irrigation projects, Labo and Clarin, serve a combined area of 160 ...
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COMELEC sets early voter's registration for 2013 polls

Jess Quijano posted an article on - May 6, 2011, 10:19 pm
MANILA CITY, METRO MANILA — Starting May 3, new and eligible voters for the upcoming 2013 elections can start filing their applications, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said. “We are urging all eligible first-time voters who will turn at least 18 years old on May 2013 to file their voter's...
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SC orders Palace, COMELEC, Congress to answer ARMM petitions

Jess Quijano posted an article on - May 4, 2011, 12:01 am
MANILA, Philippines - The Supreme Court (SC) yesterday ordered the executive and legislative branches to answer petitions opposing the proposal to postpone the elections in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) set in August this year to 2013. In a two-page resolution, the SC gave the Pala...
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Voter registration and validation of registration records resumes today

Jess Quijano posted an article on - May 3, 2011, 1:59 am
Voter registration and validation of registration records in areas not within the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) resumed on Tuesday, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said. The continuing registration in non-ARMM areas was supposed to resume on April 1, 2011 but was moved to May 3, ...
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Guidelines in Filing COCs and Nomination for Aug 8, 2011 ARMM Elections

Jess Quijano posted an article on - Apr 28, 2011, 11:46 am
Republic of the PhilippinesCOMMISSION ON ELECTIONSM a n i l a GUIDELINES ON  THE FILING OF CERTIFICATES OF CANDIDACY AND NOMINATION OF OFFICIAL CANDIDATES OF REGISTERED POLITICAL PARTIES IN CONNECTION WITH THE AUGUST 08, 2011 ELECTION OF REGIONAL OFFICIALS IN THE AUTONOMOUS REGION IN MUSLIM ...
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COMELEC employees welcome appointment of new poll commissioner Lagman

Jess Quijano posted an article on - Apr 28, 2011, 8:38 am
Members of the Alliance of Commission on Elections Employees in Service (ACES) on Wednesday welcomed the appointment of veteran IT expert Augusto "Gus" Lagman as the new Comelec commissioner. “Though the ACES earlier hoped for an insider, Mr. Lagman’s appointment to the seven-member collegial bo...
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Veteran IT expert Gus Lagman is new COMELEC commissioner

Jess Quijano posted an article on - Apr 27, 2011, 2:59 am
Agusto C. LagmanMANILA, Philippines - President Noynoy Aquino has appointed IT professional Augusto C. Lagman as Commission on Elections (Comelec) commissioner for a term that will expire until February 2, 2018, deputy presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte announced today. Lagman is currently cha...
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COMELEC taste for solid narra beds hit hard

Jess Quijano posted an article on - Apr 27, 2011, 2:17 am
NARRA tree MANILA, Philippines — This is one failed bidding the Commission on Elections will not likely rue. A bidding failure may have helped the COMELEC escape further controversy after the poll body Tuesday came under fire for its choice of Pterocarpus indicus as furniture for its five cot...
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Godofredo "Boy" Villarin Señires, Jr joins his Maker

Jess Quijano posted an article on - Apr 24, 2011, 9:24 am
GODOFREDO "Boy" VILLARIN SENIRES, JR. GODOFREDO "Boy" V. Senires, Jr. joined our Creator last 23 April 2011 (Saturday) at 12:35 a.m. while confined at the V. Luna General Hospital in Quezon City. His medical certificate reported: "ARF Type I secondary obstructive pneumonia non-small cell lung ade...
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ATTY. GODOFREDO "Boy" SEÑIRES, JR JOINS HIS MAKER

Jess Quijano posted an article on - Apr 24, 2011, 9:07 am
GODOFREDO "Boy" SEÑIRES, JR.GODOFREDO "Boy" V. Senires, Jr. joined our Creator last 23 April 2011 at 1235am while confined at the V. Luna General Hospital in Quezon City.  His medical certificate reported: "ARF Type I secondary obstructive pneumonia non-small cell lung adeno, CA stage IV bone meta...
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Commissioner Lim to focus on Electoral Reforms & Training of Election Officers

Jess Quijano posted an article on - Apr 6, 2011, 3:55 am
COMELEC Commissioner Christian Robert LimNewly appointed Commission on Elections (COMELEC) commissioner Christian Robert Lim said he felt "overwhelmed" after his first en banc session but is challenged to do reforms in the electoral system. In an interview on GMA Network's Unang Balita on Wednesday,...
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New poll commissioner denies plot

Jess Quijano posted an article on - Apr 5, 2011, 6:25 am
Commissioner Christian Robert LimMANILA, Philippines - The newest commissioner of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) denied Tuesday his appointment has anything to do with preparations by former Senator Mar Roxas for an election bid in 2016.Lawyer Christian Robert Lim was asked this question in h...
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Voter Registration and Validation to Start on May 3, 2011 instead of April 1

Jess Quijano posted an article on - Mar 28, 2011, 4:58 am
RESOLUTION NO. 9168 IN THE MATTER OF THE RESETTING OF THE RESUMPTION OF THE SYSTEM OF CONTINUING REGISTRATION OF VOTERS IN THE NON-ARMM AREAS, FROM APRIL 1, 2011 TO MAY 3, 2011.Promulgation: 22 March 2011 WHEREAS, Resolution No. 9149, promulgated on February 22, 2011 entitled “Rules and Regula...
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COMELEC and watchdog gear up voter information in Muslim communities outside ARMM

Jess Quijano posted an article on - Mar 16, 2011, 3:47 am
QUEZON CITY, Philippines - The Commission on Elections and a citizen watchdog that is operating in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao have started a voters’ education partnership program intended for Muslim voters who came from the ARMM, but are residing in Metro Manila and other areas outsi...
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COMELEC expedites fast-track issuance of voter IDs to Taiwan-bound OFWs

Jess Quijano posted an article on - Mar 10, 2011, 4:17 am
Good news for overseas Filipino workers bound for Taiwan.The Commission on Elections (COMELEC) has announced that they have instituted measures that shall expedite the issuance of their voter identification cards.The COMELEC said such measures were implemented after Malacanang requested the poll bod...
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