Water shortage looms in Metro Manila and in surrounding provinces. Save that water, folks.

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Comelec is reiterating its warning against premature campaigning.

Give us the guidelines so we will know what is premature campaigning.

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Justices are interested in the position of Chief Justice but they don’t want GMA to be the appointing power. They want her successor to do it.

They don’t want to be called midnight appointees.

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Dick Gordon will give teachers P40,000 monthly salary if he becomes president.

If the teachers unite for Gordon, he will become a formidable candidate.

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Johnny Ponce Enrile says the 1987 Constitution does not have any provisions for succession in case of a power vacuum.

If there is a failure of election in May, who will take over Malacañang. Not the military please.

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Speculations are rife that GMA will appoint a new Chief Justice to get rid of Justice Reynato Puno before his retirement in June and on the eve of elections.

She wants to have a Supreme Court that will be more friendly in case problems arise after she steps down in May.

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GMA was responsible for the appointment of the 14 justices of the High Tribunal.

Can she appoint a new Chief Justice on the eve of elections and risk violation of the Constitution?

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Comelec is worried by the arrival of 5,000 jammers of mobile phone signals.

They will use the jammers to queer the operations of the automated counting machines. We have a big problem.

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Asian Development Bank warns of a decline in remittances from OFWs due to a slowdown in the deployment of Filipino professionals.

A serious matter that should be addressed by the government and one that’s difficult to lick.

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37,000 pass nursing board exams.

How many will stay in the country and how many will go abroad?

High grade cocaine worth P13 million dumped by foreign vessel from South America on the coast of Eastern Samar.

RP is the No. 1 transshipment point in Asia.

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Field tests of automated machines of Comelec yield mixed results.

Better decide if we will go automated before and not during the elections.

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Two senior justices of the Supreme Court have declined to be nominated as the new Chief Justice.

What’s going on?

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PNP is urging Comelec to stand firm on its resolution imposing a nationwide gun ban and limiting bodyguards assigned to candidates to only two.

Comelec will be only too glad to comply.

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Famous last words: Sugar situation in RP still better compared to that of other countries.

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Muntinlupa City is prohibiting business establishments from issuing plastic bags and Styrofoam for their customers.

A good example for others to follow.

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Out of 100 kids who enter school today, only 65 finish primary. In 1988, 70 got to finish primary while only 42 finish high school compared to 54 who did in 1998.

Figures that should worry all of us.