By Vino Lucero
WEEKS after balloting day last May 9, the campaign posters and stickers of some candidates remain, a clutter of messy memories on the walls, lamp posts, and electric wires of the city.
A photo-walk session over the weekend on the...
Here's the full statement of the Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG) in response to the proposition of president-elect Rodrigo Duterte to reimpose death penalty and adapt a "shoot-to-kill"policy in his war against...
By Davinci S. Maru
MILLIONS of Filipino voters cast their ballots today to elect a new president and 18,000 other elective positions. These are scenes from the voting day in Batasan Hills, Quezon...
May 7, 2016 · Posted in: 2016 Elections, Access to Information, Campaign Finance, Congress Watch, Data Journalism, Governance, In the News, Investigative Reports, Local Government, Money Politics, Noynoy Watch
By Rowena F. Caronan
Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
LOCAL POLITICAL families, not political parties, are important to national politicians as they mobilize electoral support, says political scientist Julio C. Teehankee. National...
May 7, 2016 · Posted in: 2016 Elections, Campaign Finance, Congress Watch, Data Journalism, Freedom of Information, Governance, In the News, Investigative Reports, Local Government, Money Politics, Noynoy Watch
By Rowena F. Caronan
Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
THROUGHOUT THE 24 years of elections in the Philippines’s 20 provinces with the most number of registered voters, family names on the ballots seem to keep repeating themselves,...
May 6, 2016 · Posted in: 2016 Elections, Access to Information, Campaign Finance, Data Journalism, Freedom of Information, Governance, In the News, Internet, Investigative Reports, Money Politics, Noynoy Watch
By The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
PCIJ's Wealth Check Reports on the Candidates for President:
* JEJOMAR BINAY, United Nationalist Alliance
* MIRIAM DEFENSOR-SANTIAGO, People's Reform Party
* RODRIGO DUTERTE, PDP-Laban
* GRACE...
May 6, 2016 · Posted in: 2016 Elections, Campaign Finance, Congress Watch, Data Journalism, Freedom of Information, Governance, Investigative Reports, Jejomar C Binay, Money Politics, Noynoy Watch
By The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
JEJOMAR 'JOJO' BINAY marked his Year 1 in public office as OIC (officer-in-charge) mayor of the country’s premier financial district, Makati City, in 1989 with a net worth of only P2.9...