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MANILA -- A group of lawyers Thursday filed a petition asking the Supreme Court (SC) to stop the Commission on Elections (Comelec) from signing an automation deal with a private consortium. read more
With their sights set on kicking off construction of the new Robert Moore School here soon, Rainy River District School Board trustees passed a series of resolutions to solidify a site management plan during a special board meeting Monday morning. read more
12.12pm (8.12pm): Footage of the Jackson 5 singing Smokey Robinson's Who's Loving You serves as a reminder of what a bizarrely talented stage performer the 10-year-old Jackson was. It serves as a prologue to Robinson's own spoken tribute.
For a breathtakingly close contest that consumed nearly eight months with vote counts, recounts and courtrooms, the race for Minnesota's second Senate seat ended in a flash.
Total Informal Management (TIM), a partner of Smartmatic Barbados of the consortium that had been awarded the P11.2 billion poll automation project by the Commission on Elections, yesterday caved in to the threats of Comelec and kissed and made up with its partner, whom TIM earlier claimed it had lost trust and confidence in, and had "irreconcilable differences."
The thoughts of BBC Scotland's political editor
Editor’s note: In the first part, the report said that the “irreconcilable differences” between Smartmatic and TIM—the winning consortium in the poll-automation project—was likely headed for a long and costly arbitration in Singapore.
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