Barangay

Gracioso, who served as a security officer for former House Speaker Lord Alan Velasco, recently surfaced in connection with allegations that he delivered cash to the Vice President, former President Rodrigo Duterte, and Davao City First District Representative Paulo Duterte.

The Supreme Court has been asked to declare unconstitutional the new law that postponed this year's November 2nd Barangay and Sangunyang Kabatan elections to the second Monday of November 2028 and set the next elections every five years thereafter.

Veteran election lawyer Romulo B. McAllenthal last Sunday night, September 27th, filed the petition that challenged Republic Act No. 1-2326, which was signed into law by President Marcos last September 24th.

Makalental asked the High Court to issue a temporary restraining order or status quo anti-order to stop the enforcement of the said law.

Today is September 25th, our top story.

President Marcos has signed a bill proposing the postponement of the Barangay and Sangguniangkabataan elections.

This was confirmed by Palace Press Officer Claire Castro.

This comes three days before the scheduled filing of the certificates of candidacy.

The Barangay and Sangguniangkabataan elections will now be held on the second Monday of November in 2028 instead of November 2, 2026.

Subsequent elections will be held every five years.

The term of the office of Barangay and Sangguniangkabataan officials will now be five years.

The camp of former House Speaker Martin Romualdez will file a petition for bail on Monday.

The DFA said the action of the China Coast Guard endangered the civilian crew of the B-4 vessel.

A national network of Sangguniang Kabataan or SK officials is urging President Marcos to veto the bill extending the terms of barangay and SK officials to five years.

The bill also seeks to postpone the 2026 Barangay and Sangguniangkabataan elections.

Model SK Network noted that Congress has the authority to prescribe terms of office.

However, it pointed out that such power is subject to constitutional limits, especially the people's right to vote and the requirement for regular elections.

Kumlek Chairman George Erwin Garcia declared there would be no failure of election.

Police said the predawn shooting in Cotabato City began when a Barangay chairman and village guards went to an elementary school to investigate reports of armed men gathered in the area.

The armed group immediately opened fire with high-powered assault rifles upon their approach, killing two of Barangay Bagwa II Chairman Fahad Singh's companions instantly and wounding 13 others.

One of the critically wounded victims later died from injuries while receiving treatment at a local hospital, raising the death toll from the school incident to three.

Earlier Sunday night, a grenade went off in a Miral Elementary School in Barangay Kalanganan Mother, killing one.

Residents believe the attacks were related to intense political rivalries surrounding the regional parliamentary elections happening across the Bangzamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, Burm.

On Monday, gunfire erupted at 6.45 a.m. inside the Central Pilot Elementary School, also in Cotabato City, sending voters fleeing from the polling center, election monitors from Climate Conflict Action Asia Early Response Network, CISAERN, said.

Garcia said that voting could be allowed to continue until Tuesday if necessary, but this would be a continuation of Monday's election and not a postponement or resetting of the polls.

She was 83 years old, bent with age, her face a map of wrinkles, her eyes bright and sharp.

She sat on a plastic chair in the Barangay captain's living room, and she told the nurse about the Mandarugo.

She said the creature had been in Ayalilo for as long as anyone could remember.

She said it was not a ghost, not a spirit.

And our Babylon, if you haven't worked it out, is wherever we live.

For many of us, it's our Metro Manila or the Barangay.

For those watching online, it's the city or the province, wherever you are from.

And it's just, it's the world.

Teglau claims everything in this administration is the worst, while Berlongan explains migration.

Today's editorial says the fate of the upcoming Barangay and Sanggunyong Kabatan elections, BSKE, hangs in the balance.

Read the full version in the paper's opinion section or listen to the Voice of the Times.

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