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BAGUIO CITY — Idi May 10, 2012, maysa a mining forum ti insayangkat ti Lepanto Consolidating Mining Company (LCMCo) ken Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB-CAR) para kadagiti kameng ti League of Municipalities of the Philippines (LMP) – Ilocos Sur Chapter idiay Baguio Country Club.
Naiyaramid daytoy a forum tapno kumbinsaren ti Lepanto dagiti [...]
By ACE ALEGRE
BAGUIO CITY — All eleven board members of the Camp John Hay Development Corporation (CJHDevCo) are facing estafa lodged by a Korean family and three firms owned by former House of Representatives leader for allegedly deceiving them into leasing properties at the Camp John Hay (CJH) they may not be able to use [...]
By ALDWIN QUITASOL
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BAGUIO CITY — According to Mia Liquigan Rasalan of the Community Health Education, Service, Training in the Cordillera Region (Chestcore), the incidence of maternal deaths not only in the region but in all parts of the country as well can be blamed to the government giving maternal health or the people’s health the [...]
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For the past two weeks, we watched the neighborhood garbage pile grow and wondered when the garbage truck would come to gather it up. Compared to last year’s piles, it was noticeable the individual bags of garbage, the way it was piled up around the electric post was very neat and relatively much cleaner. No [...]
By ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW
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I finished my Mass Communication course in one of the universities in the City of Baguio. Just after graduation, I thought that what I learned inside the four walls of the classroom was enough for me to become an effective journalist. I was wrong. Dead wrong. My experience as a working journalist [...]
By MARY LOU MARIGZA
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“It is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married.” With these words POTUS (President of the United States) declared he was for same-sex marriage.
Now, cyberspace is erupting on the declaration with those in favor clapping with glee while those [...]
By KATHLEEN T. OKUBO
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Greet your mother a Happy mother’s day. She is the only person you can trust, really prays for you and wishes you well every time without being asked to. Even if mother’s day has turned to be so commercial and expensive like all the days that have names that begin with happy…, [...]
By ALDWIN QUITASOL
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A hero is a man who does what he can — Romain Rolland
Months ago, a peasant organizer passed away in his hometown, Besao, Mountain Province. His name is Lester Wayan, a soft spoken diligent and determined with the tasks at hand. He has traversed to and fro many villages of the Cordillera [...]
By REV. LUNA DINGAYAN
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“Jesus saw his mother and the disciple he loved standing there; so he said to his mother, ‘He is your son.” Then he said to the disciple, ‘She is you mother.’ From that time the disciple took her to live in his home.” — John 19:26-27
Mothers’ Day
The second Sunday of May has [...]
By CONNIE HAPULON
The scorching sun searing the skin of farmers is not the sole concern of the corn growers in lowland Ifugao. The introduction of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) as well as chemical pesticides and high input of chemical fertilizers have burned holes through the pockets of the farmers so much that they are in [...]
By KIMBERLIE NGABIT-QUITASOL
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Attending the Cordillera Day celebrations every April has been a part of our summer vacation. My son has been attending it since he was born. When he was younger he did not really have a choice and we would just tag him along. But as he grew older he came to enjoy it. [...]
By RUEL CARICATIVO
It was the 28th Cordillera Day, the celebrations were decentralized and I decided to go to Kalinga.
That was the first time that I set foot on the province and it was far more than the usual portrayals that I usually heard where headhunters roamed the place. I grew up in a small province [...]
By LYN V. RAMO
BAGUIO CITY — The audience was in awe as the film Guerrilla Midwife reeled off at an unlikely venue, the Victor Oteyza Community Art Space (VOCAS) at the heart of the central business district.
The film on Robin Lim, a documentary, was directed by Deja Bernhardt. It is not an ordinary midwife’s story. [...]
By ALDWIN QUITASOL
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BAGUIO CITY — The local court here declared Department order 2008-39 of the Land Transportation Office-Department of Transportation and Communications (LTO-DOTC) unconstitutional and therefore null and void.
Branch 5 of the Regional Trial Court, First Judicial Region under Judge Antonio M. Esteves on May 3, decided in favor of the Maria Basa [...]
By GWEN LONGID
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GUINAANG, Bontoc — Women delegates to the 28th Cordillera Day Celebration held in Guinaang, Bontoc, Mt. Province; call for demilitarization of Mt. Province Villages, among others.
Sixteen women leaders representing various organizations and villages drafted a petition addressed to the local government units of Mt. Province, church denominations, and other concerned agencies and [...]
PRESS RELEASE TI DEFEND ILOCOS
SAN FERNANDO, La Union — Kas paset iti tuloy-tuloy a kampanya laban kadagiti dadakkel ken makadadael a panagminas iti Rehiyon ti Ilocos, nangisayangkat ti Defend Ilocos Against Mining Plunder (DEFEND ILOCOS) iti piket ti opisina ti Mines and Geosciences Bureau Region I idiay Lingsat, San Fernando, La Union idi agsapa [...]
By ALDWIN QUITASOL
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BAGUIO CITY — More than 400 workers from different workplaces in the Cordillera Region, their children, members of different organizations, students, individuals and other right advocates led by the Kilusang mayo Uno-Cordillera staged a protest rally as part of the commemoration of May day.
LABOR DAY. Workers renew the call for [...]
By CORDILLERA PEOPLES ALLIANCE (PR)
The Cordillera people’s demands to stop mining operations and revoke mining applications, pullout military troops from indigenous communities, and end human rights violations resonated in the Cordillera provinces of Apayao, Abra, Benguet, Kalinga, Ifugao and Mountain Province and the City of Baguio in a week of peoples’ protest from April 20-29, [...]
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VIGAN CITY — Maysa a petisyon para iti Writ of Kalikasan ti maipila iti Korte Suprema kontra iti Altamina Exploration and Resources, Inc (ALTAMINA) nga iyaramid ti Defend Ilocos Against Mining Plunder, network dagiti environmental defenders iti Ilocos region, kaduada ni Mayor Jeremy Jesus Bueno III iti Santa, Ilocos Sur ken [...]
Time tested knowledge and traditional practices of environmental conservation among the indigenous peoples of the country has so far proven ‘time immemorial’ to be what has worked and continues to be what works. These valuable time honored traditional conservation practices were never for any kind of commerce or monetary value. Even under the genocidal threat of government sponsored development aggression, militarization, and trade liberalization programs. It was always and remains to be only for the future generations. Is it not more prudent to work and support programs at the ground level: by, for and with the people in their communities?
Ni DONNA RABANG PETA
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BAGUIO CITY — Idi May 10, 2012, maysa a mining forum ti insayangkat ti Lepanto Consolidating Mining Company (LCMCo) ken Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB-CAR) para kadagiti kameng ti League of Municipalities of the Philippines (LMP) – Ilocos Sur Chapter idiay Baguio Country Club.
Naiyaramid daytoy a forum tapno kumbinsaren ti Lepanto dagiti [...]
By ACE ALEGRE
BAGUIO CITY — All eleven board members of the Camp John Hay Development Corporation (CJHDevCo) are facing estafa lodged by a Korean family and three firms owned by former House of Representatives leader for allegedly deceiving them into leasing properties at the Camp John Hay (CJH) they may not be able to use [...]
By ALDWIN QUITASOL
www.nordis.net
BAGUIO CITY — According to Mia Liquigan Rasalan of the Community Health Education, Service, Training in the Cordillera Region (Chestcore), the incidence of maternal deaths not only in the region but in all parts of the country as well can be blamed to the government giving maternal health or the people’s health the [...]
By ALDWIN QUITASOL
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BAGUIO CITY — The Cordillera Peoples’ Alliance criticized the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+), a United Nations Program addressing climate change as is a market-based mechanism maintaining the businesses of corporations and developed countries believed to contribute much on the global warming.
According to the group’s position paper on REDD+, [...]
By BAYAN MUNA (PR)
MANILA — In commemoration of Health Workers’ Day, partylist Rep. Teddy Casiño joined health workers from various hospitals decry attempts to cut their allowances and hazard pay at the same time demand for higher wages and benefits for the sector.
Casiño pointed out that it has been more than a decade since [...]
By KIMBERLIE NGABIT-QUITASOL
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LA TRINIDAD, Benguet—Innabuyog-Gabriela condemns the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) for dismissing the rape case filed against Captain Danilo Lalin of the 86th Infantry Batallion of the Philippine Army as a mere smear campaign against the AFP as they continue to call for the perpetrator to come out and seek justice for [...]
By BRICCIO DOMONDON
BAGUIO CITY — With the assurance that a portion of a three (3) hectare lot within the city is feasible and accessible for immediate development and use, Honorable City Councilor Isabelo B. Cosalan Jr. has filed a proposed ordinance appropriating the amount of one million pesos (P1,000,000) for a feasibility study on [...]
By KIMBERLIE NGABIT-QUITASOL
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LAGAWE, Ifugao — “Wada nan luta ahi nawada nan tagu ahi nan kali. Hay kanon taku ya malpu nah luta. Nate taku e ya mibangad taku nah luta.” (The land came to existence long before the people and then language. Our food come from the land. When we die we go back to [...]
By ALDWIN QUITASOL
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BAGUIO CITY — The new and old members of the urban poor youth group Panagtignay dagiti Nakurapay nga Agtutubo para iti Tarigagay ti Umili a Demokrasya-Anakbayan (Pinatud-AB) meet on their 7th general assembly at the Baguio Central School Hall on May 19, 2012.
The Organisasyon dagiti Nakurapay nga Umili ti Syudad-Kalipunan ng Damayang Mahihirap [...]
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For the past two weeks, we watched the neighborhood garbage pile grow and wondered when the garbage truck would come to gather it up. Compared to last year’s piles, it was noticeable the individual bags of garbage, the way it was piled up around the electric post was very neat and relatively much cleaner. No [...]
By ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW
www.nordis.net
I finished my Mass Communication course in one of the universities in the City of Baguio. Just after graduation, I thought that what I learned inside the four walls of the classroom was enough for me to become an effective journalist. I was wrong. Dead wrong. My experience as a working journalist [...]
By MARY LOU MARIGZA
www.nordis.net
“It is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married.” With these words POTUS (President of the United States) declared he was for same-sex marriage.
Now, cyberspace is erupting on the declaration with those in favor clapping with glee while those [...]
By KATHLEEN T. OKUBO
www.nordis.net
Greet your mother a Happy mother’s day. She is the only person you can trust, really prays for you and wishes you well every time without being asked to. Even if mother’s day has turned to be so commercial and expensive like all the days that have names that begin with happy…, [...]
By ALDWIN QUITASOL
www.nordis.net
A hero is a man who does what he can — Romain Rolland
Months ago, a peasant organizer passed away in his hometown, Besao, Mountain Province. His name is Lester Wayan, a soft spoken diligent and determined with the tasks at hand. He has traversed to and fro many villages of the Cordillera [...]
By REV. LUNA DINGAYAN
www.nordis.net
“Jesus saw his mother and the disciple he loved standing there; so he said to his mother, ‘He is your son.” Then he said to the disciple, ‘She is you mother.’ From that time the disciple took her to live in his home.” — John 19:26-27
Mothers’ Day
The second Sunday of May has [...]
By CONNIE HAPULON
The scorching sun searing the skin of farmers is not the sole concern of the corn growers in lowland Ifugao. The introduction of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) as well as chemical pesticides and high input of chemical fertilizers have burned holes through the pockets of the farmers so much that they are in [...]
By KIMBERLIE NGABIT-QUITASOL
www.nordis.net
Attending the Cordillera Day celebrations every April has been a part of our summer vacation. My son has been attending it since he was born. When he was younger he did not really have a choice and we would just tag him along. But as he grew older he came to enjoy it. [...]
By RUEL CARICATIVO
It was the 28th Cordillera Day, the celebrations were decentralized and I decided to go to Kalinga.
That was the first time that I set foot on the province and it was far more than the usual portrayals that I usually heard where headhunters roamed the place. I grew up in a small province [...]
By LYN V. RAMO
BAGUIO CITY — The audience was in awe as the film Guerrilla Midwife reeled off at an unlikely venue, the Victor Oteyza Community Art Space (VOCAS) at the heart of the central business district.
The film on Robin Lim, a documentary, was directed by Deja Bernhardt. It is not an ordinary midwife’s story. [...]
By ALDWIN QUITASOL
www.nordis.net
BAGUIO CITY — The local court here declared Department order 2008-39 of the Land Transportation Office-Department of Transportation and Communications (LTO-DOTC) unconstitutional and therefore null and void.
Branch 5 of the Regional Trial Court, First Judicial Region under Judge Antonio M. Esteves on May 3, decided in favor of the Maria Basa [...]
By GWEN LONGID
www.nordis.net
GUINAANG, Bontoc — Women delegates to the 28th Cordillera Day Celebration held in Guinaang, Bontoc, Mt. Province; call for demilitarization of Mt. Province Villages, among others.
Sixteen women leaders representing various organizations and villages drafted a petition addressed to the local government units of Mt. Province, church denominations, and other concerned agencies and [...]
PRESS RELEASE TI DEFEND ILOCOS
SAN FERNANDO, La Union — Kas paset iti tuloy-tuloy a kampanya laban kadagiti dadakkel ken makadadael a panagminas iti Rehiyon ti Ilocos, nangisayangkat ti Defend Ilocos Against Mining Plunder (DEFEND ILOCOS) iti piket ti opisina ti Mines and Geosciences Bureau Region I idiay Lingsat, San Fernando, La Union idi agsapa [...]
By ALDWIN QUITASOL
www.nordis.net
BAGUIO CITY — More than 400 workers from different workplaces in the Cordillera Region, their children, members of different organizations, students, individuals and other right advocates led by the Kilusang mayo Uno-Cordillera staged a protest rally as part of the commemoration of May day.
LABOR DAY. Workers renew the call for [...]
By KIMBERLIE OLMAYA NGABIT-QUITASOL
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BAGUIO CITY— Members of the Agbiag Matusalem Association-Roxas Isabela (AMA-RI) decry the burning of houses and violence perpetrated by the security guards of the Isabela State University (ISU) and barangay officials of Matusalem, Roxas, Isabela against them.
Over a telephone interview, this writer was informed that already more than 70 residences in [...]
By ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW
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BAGUIO CITY — Practicing journalists, mass communication students, and advocates urged Philippine Congress to de-criminalize libel as it is directly inconsistent with the fundamental freedom of the press, which is enshrined in the Bill of Rights of the constitution.
“We demand that the Philippine Congress – both the Senate and the House [...]
