It is undeniable that the team up of Alden Richards and Maine Mendoza was truly a success. Both were given various awards and are slowly being known worldwide.
On Tuesday, The AlDub love team along with the Trio, Jose Manalo, Paolo Ballesteros and Wally Bayola were among those celebrities who were honored with stars on the Walk of Fame in Eastwood.
Alden also received an award, but due to health issues, he wasn't able to attend the said event.
All four of them individually thanked all their fans for supporting Kalyeserye and AlDub throughout their journey. They claim that it is an honor to be part of a huge event.
Wally Bayola being Lola Nidora added that what they're receiving now is the outcome of all their hard works and prayers.
The Walk of Fame is now celebrating its 10th year anniversary!
Recently, the tragic news came upon the family of AngelicaYap or Pastillas Girl. Her mother was shot at the back of the head which ended her life.
The public assumed that these were the results of the politics because Teresa Yap was a barangay official in their area. She was a kagawad there and people thought that the death threats were a result of politics.
However, their relatives spoke up about their side of the story. The angle that they are looking at was the fact that the mother recently ended her relationship with her boyfriend who is always jealous of everyone.
After breaking up with him, that was the time when she got the death threats.
But the police are still pursuing the investigation of the case.
The supporters of Mayor Rodrigo Duterte celebrated when he announced that he will pursue running for thePresidential Elections in 2016.
A lot of people somehow saw that he will be proclaimed as the new president because of the great skill that he showed towards Davao City.
But as a result of his candidacy, issues and controversies are being thrown at the strong candidate.
One of the issues was his video when the Pope came to the country for his Papal Visit. Duterte was really mad and irritated because of the heavy traffic, which was caused by the Papal Visit. In the video, he was also filmedcursing the Pope because of severe irritation.
This video gained mixed reactions from the netizens. Some claims that he should not be cursing the Pope since he was in the country for a good reason.
But there are a lot of people who defended him as well saying that his anger was not directed to the Pope, but it was for the government who could not provide a better accommodation at the expense of the public people.
Duterte said that he did not intend to offend the Pope. If in any case that the Vatican was offended, he will step down and withdraw his certificate of candidacy.
While Duterte supporters sought to do damage control, the Davao City mayor shot back at the Catholic Church, saying he was abused as a child by a Catholic priest when he was studying at the Jesuit-run Ateneo de Davao University.
“I was abused by one of you when I was young,” Duterte said, addressing himself to Church leaders who criticized him. “Priests are also corrupt.”
When pressed for details about his abuse, Duterte blurted: “The priest was holding my penis, where else?”
He said his revelations would “destroy the church and the present status of so many priests.”
“I will tell you the names of the prominent persons who were my batch mates [in the Ateneo.] All of us were victims of sexual abuses committed against minors at that time, including me. And I will tell you my story.”
“We are all abused! Sexually!” Duterte exclaimed.
In a statement posted on his personal Facebook account, the CBCP president urged all Filipino voters to think twice before choosing Duterte as president.
“Is this the leadership by example that Mayor Duterte excites in us? Is this the leadership by example that makes a public official deserving of the title “Honorable”? I grieve for my country,”Villegas said.
Villegas’ statement came after Duterte delivered a speech on Monday where he cursed Pope Francis for causing traffic during his visit to Manila in January.
Duterte said that he was trapped in traffic in Manila for five hours because of that.
“I wanted to call out, Pope, son of a b----, go home. Don’t visit us here,” he said.
Villegas also said he grieved for Filipinos who found Duterte’s vulgarity funny, saying that individuals who tolerated such behavior by laughing at it were themselves becoming “beastly and barbaric.”
“Vulgarity is corruption. When we find vulgarity funny, we have really become beastly and barbaric as a people,” Villegas said.
“When a revered and loved and admired man like Pope Francis is cursed by a political candidate and the audience laughs, I can only bow my head and grieve in great shame. My countrymen have gone to the dregs,” he said.
He said that the kind of president that voters should choose are “visionaries and exemplary.”
“What the world desperately needs now is leadership by example. We have so many leaders in office and many more aspiring to sit in office but are they examples of good citizenship? If the leaders we choose are to be leaders for national progress they must be visionaries and exemplary,” Villegas said.
He said that corruption may be rooted to Philippine politics, but said that “killing, adultery and vulgarity” are also forms of corruption.
“Corruption is indeed a great scourge of Philippine politics. The usual face of corruption that we recognize easily is stealing from public funds. Corruption, like a monster, is a devil with many faces. Killing people is corruption. Killing is a crime and a sin whether it is done by criminals or public officials no matter what the intention. Adultery is corruption. It makes married love cheap and uses people for pleasure. Adultery corrupts the family; it destroys children and victimizes the weak. Vulgarity is corruption,” he said.
Duterte, who substituted PDP-Laban presidential aspirant Martin Diño, has admitted earlier that he is a womanizer and has already killed some 1,000 criminals in Davao.
Other bishops also lambasted Duterte, calling him “irresponsible and disrespectful.” With Macon Ramos-Araneta and Sandy Araneta
Manila Auxiliary Bishop Broderick Pabillo said if parents do not want to learn their kids curse, they should be careful in choosing their next leader.
Cotobato Auxiliary Bishop Jose Collin Bagaforo said people should have second thoughts about Duterte’s candidacy, saying what he did in Davao might not be applicable to the entire country.
He also warned that if Duterte becomes president, the country might slip back into a dictatorship.
Duterte supporter and former governor Manny Piñol quoted Duterte as apologizing for his remarks about the Pope.
“I can never curse my Pope. I was cursing at incompetence. If it was taken by some in that light, I sincerely apologize. I will continue to curse so our suffering nation takes action,” Piñol quoted Duterte as saying in a Facebook post.
In a statement late Tuesday afternoon, Duterte said that it was never his intention to malign the Pope.
“Mayor Rody Duterte expressed sadness and regret that the part of his speech mentioning Pope Francis in relation to the monstrous traffic gridlock in January, came across as being disrespectful to the person of His Holiness Pope Francis. It was farthest from his mind and was never his intention,” the statement said.
“[Duterte] acknowledges that he should have explained better his point on the matter of that monstrous traffic gridlock. His strong statement on the incompetence of those in government to address the traffic problem in Metro Manila was his expression of anger borne out of the helplessness of the millions of commuters suffering from this daily gridlock.”
“Mayor Rody also fully understands the reactions of many who, at the very least, are displeased and disappointed at this unfortunate and regrettable incident.”
On Monday, towards the end of his rambling, obscenity-filled speech at the Century Park Hotel in Manila after being proclaimed as PDP-Laban standard bearer together with Senator Alan Peter Cayetano as his vice-president, Duterte lashed out at Pope Francis, blaming him for causing traffic jams in Metro Manila when he visited in January.
On Monday night, Duterte also said he would withdraw from the presidential race if Pope Francis was offended by his profanity.
“If the Pope said that he is hurt [by my statements], then I will withdraw tomorrow,” Duterte said in an interview with TV5.
In an ambush interview after his expletive-laced speech at the Century Park Hotel, Duterte said Pope Francis wouldn’t take issue with his comments.
“The Pope is compassionate. He would understand me. If you have to pee inside a car, would you be happy with that?” Duterte added, referring to the time he was stuck in traffic.
Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda attacked Duterte for cursing the Pope, posting on Twitter: “Mayor Duterte, you can say all you want about politicians but you don’t curse my Pope Francis! #defendthepope”.
In the Senate, Cayetano again defended Duterte while Senate Minority Leader Juan Ponce Enrile likened him to tycoon Donald Trump, who is seeking the presidency in the United States.
Cayetano said Duterte’s anger and frustration were actually directed at government failures, not at the head of the Catholic Church.
“Pope Francis is a man of God. He is loved and respected by millions of people, from different religious affiliations worldwide, Mayor Duterte included. But even Pope Francis would never allow people to suffer at his expense,” Cayetano said.
Cayetano insisted Duterte cursed only the traffic and not Pope Francis.
“It is unfortunate that the mayor’s statements were grossly taken out of context. Mayor Duterte deeply respects religious beliefs and the Filipino’s spirituality. Those who know him can attest to this. He himself has a deep relationship with God. He doesn’t talk about it publicly but I know this personally having discovered this through my constant engagement with him,” Cayetano added.
Cayetano said he understands that Catholic bishops were angered by Duterte’s speech.
“Mayor Duterte’s environment and experience brought him up speaking tough, rough and uncensored. The mayor came from a time and place of great conflict and suffering. While the mayor’s words and statements were stronger than what is deemed socially accepted by some, and may rub some in the wrong way, the most important thing is, he is authentic and his heart is in the right place. He is who he is. He will always fight for the people and never allow them to suffer,” Cayetano said.
“We are here to change the country, not to change him,” he added.
Enrile said Duterte is skilled in politics.
“I think he says- I am not pretending. I’m telling you what I a. You take me for what I am. Now if you will elect me, they you know the kind of person I am.”
He compared him to Trump, who is rating well despite or because he attacks and offends people.
But he added he was unsure if the strategy would work well for Duterte.
“Well, he’s going to the extreme situation to test the smoothness or roughness of Philippine society. Normally people who aspire for high office would be very prudent in their statements. They are guarded. But you have a man who’s telling who he is,” Enrile said.
“You’re very curious about the man so that’s a part of strategy. Maybe, he’s doing it for people to talk about him. Everybody is now curious—some are angry, some are taken aback but everybody’s getting an interest about him,” he added.
In his remarks to reporters, Duterte said it took him seven years to finish high school after being expelled from the Ateneo de Davao University for misconduct. He was then sent by his father to a distant school in Digos City, the Holy Cross of Digos, where he eventually finished his secondary education.
Duterte lashed out at the Catholic Church for being “all-sacred” despite its sins.
“I said, look at you priests and bishops… This religion is not so sacred,” he added.
Duterte challenged the CBCP to seek his withdrawal so that the Church’s “darkest secrets will be revealed.”
“File for my withdrawal and I will withdraw. Then I will challenge you to a debate and reveal your dark secrets,” Duterte said.
Ateneo de Davao University said that they could not comment on Duterte’s allegations as it was not familiar with his past, and he was not a graduate of the university.
THE Commission on Elections on Tuesday night disqualified Senator Grace Poe, the frontrunner in opinion polls for next year’s presidential race, saying she was guilty of material misrepresentation in her Certificate of Candidacy.
In a resolution, the Comelec 2nd Division granted the petition of Estrella Elamparo to deny due course to Poe’s COC.
“Based on the Constitution, law, and jurisprudence, and viewing it solely from the legal perspective, shorn of emotional and other extraneous considerations, we are led to no other result than to grant the petition and find respondent Mary Grace Natividad Sonora Poe Llamanzares committed a material misrepresentation,” said the 2nd Division, chaired by Comelec Commissioner Al Parreño.
Disqualified. The file photo on the left shows lawyer Estrella Elamparo submitting her petition to disqualify Senator Grace Poe from running for president. Poe spokesman Mayor Rex Gatchalian, right, explains the ruling in favor of the petition in a press conference. Sarah Fabunan/Ey Acasio
“Accordingly, the Certificate of Candidacy for President of the Republic of the Philippines in the May 9, 2016 national and local elections filed by respondent Mary Grace Natividad Sonora Poe Llamanzares is hereby cancelled,” the 2nd Division said.
In its ruling, the Comelec said Poe made a deliberate attempt to mislead or hide a fact in her residency, which she declared as “10 years and 11 months” in her COC.
It mainly cited Poe’s COC in the 2013 polls, when she ran for senator, as making her a resident of the Philippines for only nine years and six months up to May 9, 2016.
“In short, the declaration of ‘10 years and 11 months’ in her present COC for President was intended to hide the fact earlier stated under oath in her 2013 COC for Senator that she had actually resided in the Philippines since November 2006. In her present COC for President, she made it appear that she has been a Philippine resident since May 2006 so as to meet the residency requirement of 10 years for said office,” the decision stated.
“All told, respondent’s deliberate action of contradicting the sworn data earlier given in her 2013 COC betrays an indubitable attempt to mislead or misinform the electorate and hide from them the fact that she is actually not compliant with the requirement prescribed in the Constitution that a candidate for president of the Philippines should have been a resident of the Philippines for at least 10 years immediately preceding the election,” it added.
As for the issue of her citizenship, the Comelec noted that while Poe did not commit material misrepresentation, she still failed to prove that she is indeed a natural-born citizen.
“Even if the wordings of (international) conventions are deemed to have declared that a foundling found in the Philippines is a natural-born Filipino citizen, these international conventions cannot supplant or override the Constitution, which requires a bloodline to a Filipino parent to confer the status of being a natural-born Filipino citizen,” said the commission.
“Consequently, it stands to reason that respondent’s claim in her subject COC that she is a natural-born Filipino citizen is false,” it added.
The Comelec stated that they would have wanted to declare that Poe is eligible, but had to follow what the law stated.
“We would have wanted to declare the respondent eligible to seek the highest position in the land within the gift of our people. After all, she is not only popular, she is potentially, a good leader,” the resolution stated.
“However, it is our bounden duty to resolve this case by applying the Constitution, law, jurisprudence, and none other,” it added.
The division is composed of Commissioners Al Parreño, Arthur Lim, and Sheriff Abas.
Poe’s lawyer, George Garcia, said they were caught by surprise by the swift decision of the Comelec’s 2nd Division.
“Definitely, we will be filing a motion for reconsideration with the Comelec en banc,” Garcia said.
Aside from the petition of Elamparo, Poe is also facing three other disqualification cases at the Comelec 1st Division on the petitions filed by former University of the East Law dean Amado Valdez, former senator Francisco Tatad, and De La Salle University Professor Antonio Contreras.
On Dec. 3, Poe’s camp is scheduled to submit its memorandums on the cases before the 1st Division, which is composed of Commissioners Christian Lim, Luie Guia, and Rowena Guanzon.
Poe said Tuesday night she was disappointed by the Comelec ruling, but said that was not the end of the process.
‘‘I will continue to fight for the rights of foundlings and the fundamental right of the people to choose their leaders,” said Poe, who is the frontrunner in all presidential surveys.
“I maintain that I am a natural-born Filipino and have complied with the 10-year residency requirement based on settled applicable jurisprudence,” she added.
Poe said her critics will use any excuse to exclude her, much like they tried to do when her father, the late Fernando Poe Jr., ran for president in 2004.
In the process, she said, the disqualification cases will disenfranchise the people.
“They show a lack of trust in the ability of Filipinos to make the right decision,” Poe added.
She added that she was confident that the Comelec en banc “will side with the interest of the people.”
Her spokesperson, Valenzuela Mayor Rex Gatchalian said Poe will remain a presidential candidate in the upcoming 2016 elections.
“The senator is confident that she will stay a candidate [for president] until 2016,” Gatchalian said.
He told Poe’s supporters and followers not to be scared because the law is on their side because the senator is a natural-born Filipino citizen.
He also said “what happened today is not a disqualification” but merely the decision of the 2nd Division.
“We have legal remedies. There is an appeal. We will definitely appeal,” he said.
He also said they can prove that Poe has met all the requirements for running for public office.
Poe’s running mate, Senator Francis Escudero, said she can still file an appeal before the Comelec en banc. Whoever loses in the en banc can then make an appeal before the Supreme Court, he added.
Earlier, the camp of Poe expressed hope the Comelec would defer to the decision of the Senate Electoral Tribunal, which dismissed the disqualification filed against her.
The Palace, which had failed to recruit Poe as the running mate for the Liberal Party standard bearer Manuel Roxas II, declined to comment on the Comelec decision.
“We haven’t seen the decision yet,” said presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda, in a text message.
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