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54 PARTY-LIST PARTIES WIN IN 2025 ELECTIONS

THESE REPRESENTATIVES HOLD OFFICE STARTING JULY 28, 2025 MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Monday, May 19, proclaimed the victory of 52 out of the 54 party-list groups who won in the 2025 midterm elections. There were 155 parties which took part in the balloting. T...

7 BBM CANDIDATES WIN SENATE RACE AS NATION INCHES TOWARD OLIGARCHY

©2025 By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (PhilaMessenger.net) BUT STILL UNLIKELY TO SINK VP SARA! 4 PAIRS OF SIBLING SENATORS CAN ACQUIT AN IMPEACHED OFFICIAL RE-ELECTIONIST Sen. Christopher “Bong” Go of former President Duterte’s PDP-Laban Party topped the senate race dominated by seven (...

COMELEC PROCLAIMS 12 SENATE WINNERS

By Ferdinand Patinio and Joyce Ann L. Rocamora (Philippine News Agency) MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) officially proclaimed on Saturday, May 17, 2025, the 12 winning senators just five days after the national and local midterm elections. The proclamation...

JGL Eye: SORSOGON GOVERNOR CHARGED WITH ACTS OF TERRORISM; ADMITS CODDLING NPA’s, PRIVATE ARMY

©2025 By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (PhilaMessenger.net) ON THE EVE OF ELECTIONS, FOR FEAR OF THEIR LIVES, RIVALS FLEE TO MANILA! CANDIDATES ASK PROVINCE OF SORSOGON BE PLACED UNDER COMELEC CONTROL! CHICAGO (PM) – IN 2016 when I covered the presidential elections in Sorsogon City in the ...

Sisyphus’ Tricks: ANY MAN CAN BE A POPE

By Cip D.C. Cabrera, A.K.A. Tracy Cabrera FACTS ABOUT CONCLAVES In this age of artificial intelligence, we cannot forget that poetry and love are necessary to save our humanity. — Pope Francis MAYPAJO, Caloocan City — There are n...

DEADLINE FOR OVERSEAS FILIPINOS TO VOTE EXTENDED TO SATURDAY, MAY 10, 2025 AT NOON!

©2025 By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (PhilaMessenger.net) CHICAGO (PM) – If you are a Filipino or dual Filipino-American citizen and at least 18 years of age and are not disqualified by law and a registered voter, you have until 12 noon Central Time Saturday, May 10, 2025, or 12 Midnight Saturday P...

FILIPINO JOURNALISTS FACE NOT ONLY CRIMINAL LIBEL BUT ALSO DEATH THREATS

The Straphanger ©2025 By BOBBY M. REYES (PhilaMessenger.net) PART II OF 'PROTECTING FILIPINO JOURNALISTS" SERIES HOW CRIMINAL LIBEL CHILLS JOURNALISTS LOS ANGELES (PM) -- One of the biggest threats to freedom of the press -- and freedom of speech -- in the Philippines is the fa...

QUAINT PH COFFEE SHOP BUCKS ODDS, MARKS 100 YEARS!

©2025 By MILDRED FAJARDO DENIEGA* TIA TINAY’s: A Sorsoganon Coffee Original That Endures HOW CARINDERIA GOT ITS NAME (This write-up, Sundays with Cha Sonia, will appear on this week's issue of Sorsogon Today. If anyone is interested in hard copies, Sorsogon Today's editorial office i...