Friday, November 5, 2010
KAALAMAN SA GLOBAL WARMING
Ang Pag-init ng Daigdig (o Global Warming sa Ingles) ay tumutukoy sa naranasang pagtaas ng katamtamang temperatura ng himpapawid at mga karagatan sa mundo nitong mga nakaraang dekada. Tumaas ng 0.6 ± 0.2 °Celsius (1.1 ± 0.4 °Fahrenheit) ang temperatura sa loob ng ika-20 siglo ang katamtamang pandaidigang temperatura. Ayon sa siyentipikong opinyon, “ang naranasang pag-init nitong huling 50 taon ay gawa ng tao”. Ang pagtaas ng antas ng carbon dioxide at iba pang mga greenhouse gases na resulta ng pagsunog ng produkto mula sa petrolyong langis, pagpapanot ng kagubatan, pagsasaka, at iba pang kagagawan ng tao ang mga pangunahing sanhi ng pag-init ng mundo.
Nagpapakita sa mga pagmamatyag na pag-aaral at ng mga modelong pangklima na ang pagka-sensitibo ng klima upang madoble ang antas ng CO2 ay mangyayari kapag tumaas ng 1.5-4.5 °C ang katamtamang temperatura. Ang mga modelong basihan ng Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ay humuhula na ang pandaigdigang temperatura ay tataas sa pagitan ng 1.4 at 5.8 °C (2.5 hanggang 10.5 °F) mula taong 1990 hanggang 2100.
Sinasabing ang pagtaas sa pandaigdigang temperatura ay magdudulot ng malaking pagbabago kasama rito ang pagtaas ng karaniwang taas ng dagat at pagbabago sa dami ng mga pag-ulan. Ang mga pagbabagong ito ay sinasabing magpaparami sa dalas at lakas ng mga mapanirang kalagayan ng panahon tulad ng baha, tag-tuyot, bugso ng init (heat waves), bagyo at buhawi. Sinasabing ang pag-init ay makaaapekto sa bilang at tindi ng mga ito, Mahirap na iakibat ito sa partikular na kalagayan ng panahon sa pag-init ng mundo. Gayunman, ang mga pag-aaral ay nakatuon sa panahon hanggang taong 2100 na ang pag-init (at pagtaas ng pantay laot mula sa pag-aalsang dulot ng init) ay patuloy na mangyayari dahil sa ang CO2 ay may mahabang buhay sa himpapawid.
May maliit na bilang na mga siyentipiko ang laban sa pananaw na ang gawa ng tao ang nagdudulot ng malaki sa pagtaas sa temperatura nitong nakaraang panahon. Gayundin, walang katiyakan ang nakapalibot rito kung gaanong kalaking pagbabago sa panahon ang makikita sa darating na araw. May mainit na debateng politikal at publiko kung paano mapabababa o mababaliktad ang pag-init sa darating na panahon at kung paano haharapin ang mga bunga nito.
Ang katagang “global warming” (pag-init ng mundo) ay isang tiyak na dulot ng mas malawak na katagang “climate change’ (pagbabago sa klima) (na tumutukoy din sa paglamig tulad ng nangyari noong Edad Yelo). Sa prinsipyo nito, nyutral ang global warming sa dahilan nito ngunit sa karaniwang gamit, kalimitang pinahihiwatig na may papel ang tao sa pag-init ng mundo. Gayunman, ginagamit ang ‘climate change’ ng UNFCCC sa pagbabagong gawa ng tao, at ‘climate variability’ (pabago-bago ng klima) na dulot ng ibang kadahilanan. Ang ilang organisasyon ay gumagamit ng katagang 'anthropogenic climate change' sa pagbabagong dulot ng tao. read more...
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
|ECOWASTE CALLS FOR AFFORDABLE ECO-FRIENDLY BAG|
by: Angela Lopez De Leon
BEGINNING today and every Wednesday thereafter, more malls and supermarkets will observe "Reusable Bag Day" by not providing free plastic bags for their customers’ purchases or charging them a fee for preferring plastic bags.
The "Reusable Bag Day Campaign" was launched last month by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in partnership with the National Solid Waste Management Commission, Earth Day Philippines Network, and the retail industry under the Philippine Amalgamated Supermarkets Association, Philippine Retailers Association and some other participating stores.
Some of the bigger outlets like the Ayala Malls, Ever Malls, Hi-Top Supermarket, Isetann Malls, Makro, Robinson’s Supermart, Savemore, and SM Hypermart have been implementing this for some time now despite initial resistance from customers.
The campaign calls for concerted efforts to shift public consciousness from using plastic bags to reusable bags to address the environmental hazard posed by improper disposal of plastic bags.
The environmental group EcoWaste Coalition, however, appealed to participating retailers to bring down the price of their eco-friendly bags for the benefit of consumers on tight budgets. The group said the current price of reusable bags which range from P25 to P295 each will not attract ordinary consumers who might want an alternative to plastic bags but cannot afford the reusable bags’ price.
"Budget-conscious consumers, even if they appreciate the ecological benefits of reusable bags, are put off buying anything expensive," said Sonia Mendoza of the EcoWaste’s Task Force on Plastics.
EcoWaste said Hi-Top’s reusable bags are P25 each; SM, P35 each; National Book Store, P65; Healthy Options, P75; Robinson’s, P90; Shopwise/Rustan, P99.50 for canvas and P60 for waterproof bags; and Body Shop, P295 each.
"We definitely welcome the initiative of these market leaders to introduce eco-friendly bags and we hope that more supermarkets and stores will join the green bandwagon," Mendoza said. "Any scheme that will allow consumers to get their reusable bags for free or at a discounted or subsidized price will hopefully bring about increased preference and demand for reusable bags,"
Mendoza suggested the promotion of home-based, job-generating industry in the provinces, with support from the private and public sectors, that can flood the market with more affordable and durable eco-friendly bags made from non-plastic, cloth-based, and locally-sourced materials, knowing that plastic reusable bags will soon disintegrate and pose disposal problems.
Ecowaste advised retailers to encourage their customers to make and bring their own reusable bags by providing financial and non-financial rewards such as discount, rebate, movie or museum pass for earth-friendly buyers.
Gloria Estenzo-Ramos of the Philippine Earth Justice Center advised consumers to make a "financial sacrifice" and spend money for reusable bags – if they are not able to make their own – for the sake of the environment. She pointed out that Chapter IV of RA 9003 provides for various incentives to encourage and support local government units, business enterprises, non-government organizations and other entities to actively implement ecological solid waste management, including waste prevention, reduction, reuse and recycling activities.
BEGINNING today and every Wednesday thereafter, more malls and supermarkets will observe "Reusable Bag Day" by not providing free plastic bags for their customers’ purchases or charging them a fee for preferring plastic bags.
The "Reusable Bag Day Campaign" was launched last month by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in partnership with the National Solid Waste Management Commission, Earth Day Philippines Network, and the retail industry under the Philippine Amalgamated Supermarkets Association, Philippine Retailers Association and some other participating stores.
Some of the bigger outlets like the Ayala Malls, Ever Malls, Hi-Top Supermarket, Isetann Malls, Makro, Robinson’s Supermart, Savemore, and SM Hypermart have been implementing this for some time now despite initial resistance from customers.
The campaign calls for concerted efforts to shift public consciousness from using plastic bags to reusable bags to address the environmental hazard posed by improper disposal of plastic bags.
The environmental group EcoWaste Coalition, however, appealed to participating retailers to bring down the price of their eco-friendly bags for the benefit of consumers on tight budgets. The group said the current price of reusable bags which range from P25 to P295 each will not attract ordinary consumers who might want an alternative to plastic bags but cannot afford the reusable bags’ price.
"Budget-conscious consumers, even if they appreciate the ecological benefits of reusable bags, are put off buying anything expensive," said Sonia Mendoza of the EcoWaste’s Task Force on Plastics.
EcoWaste said Hi-Top’s reusable bags are P25 each; SM, P35 each; National Book Store, P65; Healthy Options, P75; Robinson’s, P90; Shopwise/Rustan, P99.50 for canvas and P60 for waterproof bags; and Body Shop, P295 each.
"We definitely welcome the initiative of these market leaders to introduce eco-friendly bags and we hope that more supermarkets and stores will join the green bandwagon," Mendoza said. "Any scheme that will allow consumers to get their reusable bags for free or at a discounted or subsidized price will hopefully bring about increased preference and demand for reusable bags,"
Mendoza suggested the promotion of home-based, job-generating industry in the provinces, with support from the private and public sectors, that can flood the market with more affordable and durable eco-friendly bags made from non-plastic, cloth-based, and locally-sourced materials, knowing that plastic reusable bags will soon disintegrate and pose disposal problems.
Ecowaste advised retailers to encourage their customers to make and bring their own reusable bags by providing financial and non-financial rewards such as discount, rebate, movie or museum pass for earth-friendly buyers.
Gloria Estenzo-Ramos of the Philippine Earth Justice Center advised consumers to make a "financial sacrifice" and spend money for reusable bags – if they are not able to make their own – for the sake of the environment. She pointed out that Chapter IV of RA 9003 provides for various incentives to encourage and support local government units, business enterprises, non-government organizations and other entities to actively implement ecological solid waste management, including waste prevention, reduction, reuse and recycling activities.
NY-based think tank rains on PPP parade
NY-based think tank rains on PPP parade
BY DENNIS GADIL
The government risks piling up more contingent liabilities instead of tapping more private funds from an "ill-conceived" public partnership program (PPP), a New York based economic think-tank said.
In its quarterly report on the country, Global Source said most of the projects initially identified under the PPP program either lacked "quality" or "skillful" preparation.
"We remain unconvinced results will be seen in this area (PPPs) in the near term even assuming that paperwork and physical execution can be fast-tracked," it said.
Global Source said the problem appears not to be funding but the failure to do a thorough homework on the projects’ feasibility.
"For instance, government’s current PPP wish list of infrastructure that can be immediately financed looks thin and, except for one or two mass transport projects, not fully prepared at this time," it said.
Global Source added that the presence of regulatory risks also poses complications on the success of every PPP project.
"But the major constraint as we see it is not a lack of funding but rather a lack of quality and skillfully prepared projects to fund," the US-based economic think tank said in a report written by Filipino economists Romeo L. Bernardo and Margarita Gonzales.
Global Source said implementation of half-baked PPPs would lead to more contingent liabilities for the government in the long run if it would provide counterpart funding for a doomed-to-fail project.
Government proponents of the PPP project have said some guarantee cover and tax holidays will be extended to PPP investors to ensure decent returns on their multi-billion investment.
"In that case, PPP projects may just lead to higher fiscal risks and hard-to-manage contingent liabilities down the road," it said.
Global Source likewise belittled the move of government to charge Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corp. with technical smuggling for alleged non-payment of P24.5 billion in excise taxes for its oil imports from 2005 to 2009.
The New York-based think tank said it was "surprised" by the filing of criminal case against Shell.
"This trumpeted ‘big smuggling case’ however may not be the airtight case government needs to show its no-new taxes strategy can really work given the complexity of the legal issues involved," it said.
"And may even signal that fiscal managers have run out of options in terms of hiking collections, resorting to past practice of ‘hunting in the zoo’ and squeezing those already within the tax net."
Global Source also said such development is "possibly counterproductive to government’s efforts to attract more FDI (foreign direct investment)."
The government is looking at an initial of P180 billion to P200 billion in private funds that would be generated from its list of 10 to 13 projects that would be unveiled during the PPP summit slated this month.
Among the projects included in the PPP short list from a bigger list of 70 projects are airports on Panglao Island off Bohol and another in Daraga, Albay.
The list also includes the improvement of the Laguindingan airport in Misamis Oriental as well as an irrigation facility in Sultan Kudarat and additional lines of the Light Rail Transit system.
Economic managers met Wednesday at the finance department building to discuss preparations for the November PPP summit.
BY DENNIS GADIL
The government risks piling up more contingent liabilities instead of tapping more private funds from an "ill-conceived" public partnership program (PPP), a New York based economic think-tank said.
In its quarterly report on the country, Global Source said most of the projects initially identified under the PPP program either lacked "quality" or "skillful" preparation.
"We remain unconvinced results will be seen in this area (PPPs) in the near term even assuming that paperwork and physical execution can be fast-tracked," it said.
Global Source said the problem appears not to be funding but the failure to do a thorough homework on the projects’ feasibility.
"For instance, government’s current PPP wish list of infrastructure that can be immediately financed looks thin and, except for one or two mass transport projects, not fully prepared at this time," it said.
Global Source added that the presence of regulatory risks also poses complications on the success of every PPP project.
"But the major constraint as we see it is not a lack of funding but rather a lack of quality and skillfully prepared projects to fund," the US-based economic think tank said in a report written by Filipino economists Romeo L. Bernardo and Margarita Gonzales.
Global Source said implementation of half-baked PPPs would lead to more contingent liabilities for the government in the long run if it would provide counterpart funding for a doomed-to-fail project.
Government proponents of the PPP project have said some guarantee cover and tax holidays will be extended to PPP investors to ensure decent returns on their multi-billion investment.
"In that case, PPP projects may just lead to higher fiscal risks and hard-to-manage contingent liabilities down the road," it said.
Global Source likewise belittled the move of government to charge Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corp. with technical smuggling for alleged non-payment of P24.5 billion in excise taxes for its oil imports from 2005 to 2009.
The New York-based think tank said it was "surprised" by the filing of criminal case against Shell.
"This trumpeted ‘big smuggling case’ however may not be the airtight case government needs to show its no-new taxes strategy can really work given the complexity of the legal issues involved," it said.
"And may even signal that fiscal managers have run out of options in terms of hiking collections, resorting to past practice of ‘hunting in the zoo’ and squeezing those already within the tax net."
Global Source also said such development is "possibly counterproductive to government’s efforts to attract more FDI (foreign direct investment)."
The government is looking at an initial of P180 billion to P200 billion in private funds that would be generated from its list of 10 to 13 projects that would be unveiled during the PPP summit slated this month.
Among the projects included in the PPP short list from a bigger list of 70 projects are airports on Panglao Island off Bohol and another in Daraga, Albay.
The list also includes the improvement of the Laguindingan airport in Misamis Oriental as well as an irrigation facility in Sultan Kudarat and additional lines of the Light Rail Transit system.
Economic managers met Wednesday at the finance department building to discuss preparations for the November PPP summit.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
EDITORIAL
Leave the SK alone (The Freeman) November 02, 2010
If there is so much noise about the character and conduct of the Sangguniang Kabataan, it is only because there are so many hypocrites in our midst who pretend not to see that when the SK swung around years ago, there was never any pretention as to its direction.
There was no way the SK can be anything other than what they are supposedly being trained to become later -- as adult leaders of our country. That was the one and only purpose in creating the SK.
So if SK members behave like their models, they should be applauded instead of condemned. At least they succeeded in becoming what they were meant to be. Had they strayed away from their intended direction, then that should be the time to flog them.
In fairness to the SK, it is not the only one whose activities are patterned after adult models. Even in campus politics, where participants are as young as grade-schoolers, the signs of hewing to pre-set adult examples are already there and unmistakable.
This is not to say that people should be pleased with what they see in the SK, or that they believe in the reasons for its being. But why blame the SK when, shorn of all pretense and hypocrisy, it is only being truthful to what it was truly conceived to be.
If people do not like what they see in the SK, or do not see any reason for its continued existence, then they should work mightily to have it abolished. But while it exists, do not flog it for being true to itself.
For there can be no disliking the SK while at the same time tolerating the model after which it was designed to learn from and emulate. There is a method to the madness of politics and the SK is just part of that process.
So its either we put up or shut up. The SK cannot be so bad if the model is so good. Year in and year out we fill the air with the agonized screams of our bellyaching, and yet year in and year out we go through the same exercise with so much excitement you'd think a revolution was on.
Almost to a man, Filipinos love to condemn our brand of politics. And yet almost to a man Filipinos take to no other undertaking with so much passion as politics. So what is it really? Or are we just being hypocritical even with our own hypocrisies?
There was no way the SK can be anything other than what they are supposedly being trained to become later -- as adult leaders of our country. That was the one and only purpose in creating the SK.
So if SK members behave like their models, they should be applauded instead of condemned. At least they succeeded in becoming what they were meant to be. Had they strayed away from their intended direction, then that should be the time to flog them.
In fairness to the SK, it is not the only one whose activities are patterned after adult models. Even in campus politics, where participants are as young as grade-schoolers, the signs of hewing to pre-set adult examples are already there and unmistakable.
This is not to say that people should be pleased with what they see in the SK, or that they believe in the reasons for its being. But why blame the SK when, shorn of all pretense and hypocrisy, it is only being truthful to what it was truly conceived to be.
If people do not like what they see in the SK, or do not see any reason for its continued existence, then they should work mightily to have it abolished. But while it exists, do not flog it for being true to itself.
For there can be no disliking the SK while at the same time tolerating the model after which it was designed to learn from and emulate. There is a method to the madness of politics and the SK is just part of that process.
So its either we put up or shut up. The SK cannot be so bad if the model is so good. Year in and year out we fill the air with the agonized screams of our bellyaching, and yet year in and year out we go through the same exercise with so much excitement you'd think a revolution was on.
Almost to a man, Filipinos love to condemn our brand of politics. And yet almost to a man Filipinos take to no other undertaking with so much passion as politics. So what is it really? Or are we just being hypocritical even with our own hypocrisies?
Thursday, October 28, 2010
4,000 incumbents in Monday’s barangay polls face ouster
MANILA, Philippines—A cloud is hanging over the candidacy of over 4,000 barangay captains seeking reelection for the nth time as the country holds barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK, Youth Council) elections on Monday.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) Sunday announced that it would file disqualification cases against barangay candidates whose names were on the list of “multiple termers” the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) had provided the poll body.
The DILG inventory has identified 4,410 barangay captains nationwide who were found to be on their third or fourth terms but are still seeking reelection.
Under the law governing the synchronized barangay and SK elections, no elected village official can serve for more than three terms.
“Our election officers are now checking the records against the list of candidates in their respective jurisdictions,” Comelec spokesperson James Jimenez said at Sunday’s press briefing in Intramuros, Manila.
“And if there are matches, the Comelec law department will right away file disqualification cases against those people,” Jimenez said.
Appropriate criminal charges—perjury and material misrepresentation—shall also be filed against these candidates, he said.
The list provided by the DILG has been distributed to all the election officers nationwide on Saturday for validation.
In a last-minute move, the Comelec Sunday night decided to postpone the elections in Barangays San Isidro and Salumague in Paniqui town in Tarlac province because floods spawned by Supertyphoon “Juan” have not subsided.
It said Election Chair Jose Melo approved the request of municipal officials to defer the elections in the two barangays because most of their residents were still in evacuation centers and the floodwaters would make it impossible for them to go to their polling stations.
The elections on Monday are expected to fill 672,400 elective posts in 42,025 barangays across the country.
Sixteen positions are to be filled in each barangay—eight in the barangay council (one barangay chair and seven council members) and eight in the SK council (one SK chair and seven SK council members.)
More than 50 million Filipinos (18 and above) are eligible to vote in the barangay elections and 2.46 million (15 to 17 years old) in the Sangguniang Kabataan balloting.
Barangays are authorized by law to disburse some P53 billion for local economic development projects and services under the 1991 Local Government Code. Their leaders act as judges in domestic disputes, supervise delivery of basic services and secure neighborhoods.
Unlike in last May’s automated national elections, voting and counting of ballots in Monday’s polls will be done manually.
On the eve of the elections, President Benigno Aquino III called on the people to vote as he assured them that Monday’s polls would be peaceful and orderly.
“This is an important chance for us to strengthen our barangay, the branch of government that first provides service to our people,” he said.
Mr. Aquino is expected to be in his home province of Tarlac on Monday where he will be casting his vote at Central Azucarera Elementary School, his deputy spokesperson Abigail Valte said in a radio interview.
Even if Monday is a national holiday, Mr. Aquino is expected to hold meetings with Cabinet members after he votes in Tarlac, according to Valte.
To effectively deal with “multiple termers,” the Comelec issued Resolution No. 9077, directing all barangay board of canvassers to put on hold any proclamation of winning candidates on the DILG list.
Multiple termers
The resolution also said that a hearing on disqualification cases against the “multiple termers” would be set immediately and be “summary in nature.”
“This means that there will be no more witnesses, no more testimonies,” Jimenez said. “There will only be submission of memoranda or position papers.”
The Comelec is expected to come out with a decision three days after the cases shall have been filed or “within the week,” he added.
To notify voters of “multiple termer” candidates in their respective barangays, an annotation will be provided on the list of candidates attached to either the ballot secrecy folders or tables where they will be filling out their ballots.
“The names of candidates found on the list will be annotated so voters will be aware that there is a cloud hanging over these candidates and if they happen to win, their proclamation will be suspended until such time that they are cleared,” Jimenez told reporters.
Voters should watch out for asterisks beside the names of candidates found to be “multiple termers” to ensure that their votes would not end up as stray votes, he advised.
Should these “multiple termer” candidates win in the elections, the Comelec will suspend the proclamation until they have completed the process of clearing their names.
Interim official
If the suspension of proclamation has not been lifted by Nov. 30, the Comelec will direct the DILG to appoint an ad interim official to take the place of the winning candidate, whose name has not yet been cleared, Jimenez said.
He said that as of 2 p.m. Sunday, the delivery of election paraphernalia to election sites was “close to 100 percent.”
“We are very optimistic that we will have regular elections in the whole country except for those areas affected by the recent typhoon,” he said.
The poll body, nevertheless, has prepared contingency measures should it decide to postpone the elections in some towns.
Voting hours
The measures include deferring the elections to Tuesday or extending election hours in some places. Polling precincts will accommodate voters from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday.
But the elections could be extended according to the number of hours of delay in problematic areas, said Jimenez.
Earlier Sunday, Comelec officials said only the towns of Divilacan, Palanan and Maconaco in Isabela province, which were hit hardest by the typhoon, would hold the elections at a later time.
The Comelec was still studying whether it also would postpone the elections in some towns in Tarlac, Abra, Mountain Province and Batanes.
“These are four other provinces where there are a lot of reports of impassable roads and unusable facilities as some are still being used as evacuation centers,” Jimenez said Sunday afternoon.
“We are monitoring the situation there on a 24-hour basis,” he said. With a report from Christine O. Avendaño.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) Sunday announced that it would file disqualification cases against barangay candidates whose names were on the list of “multiple termers” the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) had provided the poll body.
The DILG inventory has identified 4,410 barangay captains nationwide who were found to be on their third or fourth terms but are still seeking reelection.
Under the law governing the synchronized barangay and SK elections, no elected village official can serve for more than three terms.
“Our election officers are now checking the records against the list of candidates in their respective jurisdictions,” Comelec spokesperson James Jimenez said at Sunday’s press briefing in Intramuros, Manila.
“And if there are matches, the Comelec law department will right away file disqualification cases against those people,” Jimenez said.
Appropriate criminal charges—perjury and material misrepresentation—shall also be filed against these candidates, he said.
The list provided by the DILG has been distributed to all the election officers nationwide on Saturday for validation.
In a last-minute move, the Comelec Sunday night decided to postpone the elections in Barangays San Isidro and Salumague in Paniqui town in Tarlac province because floods spawned by Supertyphoon “Juan” have not subsided.
It said Election Chair Jose Melo approved the request of municipal officials to defer the elections in the two barangays because most of their residents were still in evacuation centers and the floodwaters would make it impossible for them to go to their polling stations.
The elections on Monday are expected to fill 672,400 elective posts in 42,025 barangays across the country.
Sixteen positions are to be filled in each barangay—eight in the barangay council (one barangay chair and seven council members) and eight in the SK council (one SK chair and seven SK council members.)
More than 50 million Filipinos (18 and above) are eligible to vote in the barangay elections and 2.46 million (15 to 17 years old) in the Sangguniang Kabataan balloting.
Barangays are authorized by law to disburse some P53 billion for local economic development projects and services under the 1991 Local Government Code. Their leaders act as judges in domestic disputes, supervise delivery of basic services and secure neighborhoods.
Unlike in last May’s automated national elections, voting and counting of ballots in Monday’s polls will be done manually.
On the eve of the elections, President Benigno Aquino III called on the people to vote as he assured them that Monday’s polls would be peaceful and orderly.
“This is an important chance for us to strengthen our barangay, the branch of government that first provides service to our people,” he said.
Mr. Aquino is expected to be in his home province of Tarlac on Monday where he will be casting his vote at Central Azucarera Elementary School, his deputy spokesperson Abigail Valte said in a radio interview.
Even if Monday is a national holiday, Mr. Aquino is expected to hold meetings with Cabinet members after he votes in Tarlac, according to Valte.
To effectively deal with “multiple termers,” the Comelec issued Resolution No. 9077, directing all barangay board of canvassers to put on hold any proclamation of winning candidates on the DILG list.
Multiple termers
The resolution also said that a hearing on disqualification cases against the “multiple termers” would be set immediately and be “summary in nature.”
“This means that there will be no more witnesses, no more testimonies,” Jimenez said. “There will only be submission of memoranda or position papers.”
The Comelec is expected to come out with a decision three days after the cases shall have been filed or “within the week,” he added.
To notify voters of “multiple termer” candidates in their respective barangays, an annotation will be provided on the list of candidates attached to either the ballot secrecy folders or tables where they will be filling out their ballots.
“The names of candidates found on the list will be annotated so voters will be aware that there is a cloud hanging over these candidates and if they happen to win, their proclamation will be suspended until such time that they are cleared,” Jimenez told reporters.
Voters should watch out for asterisks beside the names of candidates found to be “multiple termers” to ensure that their votes would not end up as stray votes, he advised.
Should these “multiple termer” candidates win in the elections, the Comelec will suspend the proclamation until they have completed the process of clearing their names.
Interim official
If the suspension of proclamation has not been lifted by Nov. 30, the Comelec will direct the DILG to appoint an ad interim official to take the place of the winning candidate, whose name has not yet been cleared, Jimenez said.
He said that as of 2 p.m. Sunday, the delivery of election paraphernalia to election sites was “close to 100 percent.”
“We are very optimistic that we will have regular elections in the whole country except for those areas affected by the recent typhoon,” he said.
The poll body, nevertheless, has prepared contingency measures should it decide to postpone the elections in some towns.
Voting hours
The measures include deferring the elections to Tuesday or extending election hours in some places. Polling precincts will accommodate voters from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday.
But the elections could be extended according to the number of hours of delay in problematic areas, said Jimenez.
Earlier Sunday, Comelec officials said only the towns of Divilacan, Palanan and Maconaco in Isabela province, which were hit hardest by the typhoon, would hold the elections at a later time.
The Comelec was still studying whether it also would postpone the elections in some towns in Tarlac, Abra, Mountain Province and Batanes.
“These are four other provinces where there are a lot of reports of impassable roads and unusable facilities as some are still being used as evacuation centers,” Jimenez said Sunday afternoon.
“We are monitoring the situation there on a 24-hour basis,” he said. With a report from Christine O. Avendaño.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Barangay at SK Election... October 25, 2010
Oktobre 24, 2010, huling araw bago ang araw ng Halalan (October 25, 2010). Bagamat't ipinagbabawal na ang pangangampanya ang mga kandidato ay maraming pamamaraan na isinagawa maikutan lamang ang batas sa pangangapanya. Maraming ginawang gimik na hindi masasabing sila ang nangampanya, naglipana ang mga taong ang kanilang suot na damit ay ang mga T-Shirt na tinangap mula sa kanilang kandidato. Patuloy padin ang house to House na hindi lantaran. Sa gabi ng Oktobre 24 ng gabi, dito magaganap ang kanilang sinasabing BARILAN (ito ay pamimili o pagbabayad sa Leaders ng mga kalaban). Mapapansin mo sa inyong mga lansangan ang naglipanang mga naka-motor, sasakyan at mga naglalakad sa mga lansangan. Ang lahat ng ito ay mga Lider ng mga kandidato na binabantayan ang kani-kanilang botante para hindi na maagaw ng ibang kandidato. Iba-ibang pamamaraan para lamang maka-pwesto sa Pamahalaang Barangay.
May nabanggit ba ang inyong mga kandidato, tungkol sa mga suliranin ng inyong mga Barangay. Ang isang sigurado maraming mga planong pangako ang mga kandidato, ang tanong magagawa kaya nila?
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Barangay and SK Election 2010
Election na naman, maraming mukha ang mga nakadikit sa mga pader, poste, puno at iba-ibang gimik ang inyong makikita.
MAY TAGA-SAYAW bigyan kasiyahan lamang at aliwin ang dumalo sa kanilang meeting
May nagtaas pa ng kamay... Si Sec. Ding Deles daw yan. Ang alam ko ang Barangay Election ay non-partisan
Ayon at may softdrinks pa, galing ng mga ideas, sana ganun din sa paggampan ng mga tungkulin sa mamamayan
Ayon at may kantahan pa! Ang awitin kaya ay kasing ganda ng Plataporma?
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