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Punks freed!
3 MIN READBest Christmas gift LA TRINIDAD, BENGUET (Dec. 20) — Nine punks who were released today and their lawyers pointed out that lapses on police work caused innocent civilians unfathomable sufferings and police brutality in...
Read MoreIlocos broadcaster stabbed to death
< 1 MIN READ12th journalist killed in 2006 BAGUIO CITY (Dec. 21) — A male broadcaster was mercilessly stabbed several times by a still unknown attacker while he was on his way home on Wednesday night in Batac, Ilocos Norte....
Read MorePolice beefs up forces in tension-gripped Abra
3 MIN READBAGUIO CITY (Dec. 21) — Cordillera police has beefed up its forces in Abra province, in a very tensed situation now, intending to douse fears of further violence. Cordillera police spokesman Sr. Supt. Joseph Adnol said...
Read MoreCagayan activists denounce killings
2 MIN READTUGUEGARAO CITY (Dec. 19) — A youth leader was killed while a 64-year old farmer survived an attack in two separate incidents in Cagayan province, a local chapter of the militant Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP)...
Read MoreTask Force Usig acts on Donton killing
2 MIN READBAGUIO CITY (Dec. 23) – A human rights watchdog in the Cordillera claimed that the Task Force Usig of the Philippine National Police conducted an investigation on the killing of peasant leader Jose Doton at the PNP...
Read MoreCagayan State University students mulled
2 MIN READTUGUEGARAO CITY (Dec. 10) — A university president’s son, a janitor and two others believed to be hired goons reportedly mulled two student leaders of the Cagayan State University (CSU) after the duo hung two protest...
Read MoreNAPC, Ornus says government anti-poverty measures inept
2 MIN READBAGUIO CITY (Dec. 15) — The National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) and the Organisasyon dagiti Nakurapay nga Umili ti Syudad (Ornus), an urban poor group here agreed that anti-poverty programs of the government failed...
Read MoreIlocos indigenous mat tries Guinness
2 MIN READSAN JUAN, Ilocos Sur (Dec. 19) — Trying to make it to the Guinness Book Of World Records for its locally produced buri mat and presenting on December 27 the prospective World’s Longest Buri Mat, local folk here are...
Read MoreMigrants’ family and kin protest on Migrant’s Day
2 MIN READBAGUIO CITY (Dec. 18) — Bong, not his real name, is now both mother and father to his three-year old son, after his wife, a dentist, left for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on June 2, 2005. His wife keeps on texting him...
Read MoreNight market opens at Harrison Road
< 1 MIN READBAGUIO CITY (Dec. 18) — Itinerant vendors considered illegal in Baguio City may find a place to sell their wares during designated time this yuletide season as acting Vice-mayor Leandro Yangot, in his capacity as...
Read MoreBaguio Barangay Execs controversial bingo games swooped down again
2 MIN READBAGUIO CITY (Dec. 19) — Alleged jueteng operations hiding under the cloak of legalized bingo games is stiffly facing Cordillera policemen’s drive to stamp out the illegal numbers game. In yet another raid three days...
Read MoreYangot creates hydros mgt body
< 1 MIN READBAGUIO CITY (Dec. 20) — Administrative Order 202-2006 dated December 15 created the Ad Hoc Management Committee for the Asin Hydro-electric Plants. Initially stalled after Acting Mayor Reinaldo Bautista left...
Read MoreEditorial Cartoon: 24 Dec. 2006
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Read MoreEditorial: Matter of life and death
2 MIN READAnother Christian season of joy has arrived; another year is about to bow out of the front pages into recent history. As the whole of Christendom celebrates the birth of Jesus two thousand years ago, other religions...
Read MoreAdvocate's Overview: Pasko ng pagbibigayan at pagmamahalan
< 1 MIN READBy ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW (Can-aw Michelle Allad-iw, my grade four daughter, is guest for the advocate. Her piece was re-printed from Damag, the official Tagalog publication of the Elementary Department of Easter...
Read MoreBrutally Frank: The World this Christmas Day and New Year (1)
3 MIN READBy MARY ANN MANJA BAYANG If Jesus Christ were alive today, what would he be doing this Christmas? Will he be attending a wedding at Cannah? Feeding the hungry and quenching the thirst of the thirsty? Healing the sick...
Read MoreFrom Under This Hat: It’s the Season
2 MIN READBy KATHLEEN T. OKUBO It was International Human Rights Day when I had to bid the greatest man in my life goodbye and on the following Saturday we – his sons, grandchildren and great grandson, friends and relatives –...
Read MorePoint and Shoot: 20 Steps to Safety
2 MIN READBy ARTEMIO A. DUMLAO On Dec. 19, the National Union of Journalists in the Philippines – perhaps the largest journalist group in the country with over 30 provincial chapters nationwide – launched its 20 Steps to Safety...
Read MoreWeekly Reflections: Peace on Earth
3 MIN READBy REV. LUNA L. DINGAYAN “Glory to God in the highest heaven, and peace on earth to those with whom he is pleased.” — Luke 2:14 War on Terror According to the Lukan Gospel, Jesus was born when Augustus was the emperor...
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Read MoreBurburtia Krokis: Puzzle (24 Dec. 2006)
2 MIN READBy ART B. BELISARIO GNU-GPL copyleft 2002-2005 (http://www.gnu.org) ACROSS 1 kasangkapan (Tag) 5 pakong pang-sapatos (Eng) 9 bayan sa Isabela na pinagbasehan ng 5th ID PA 13 sakim (Ilok) 14 bayan sa Abra sa pagitan ng...
Read MoreBurburtia Krokis: Solution (17 Dec. 2006)
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Read MoreBalancing Wheel: Biking this Christmas season
2 MIN READBy TITO SANQUI SR. Today is Christmas eve! People are now busy preparing for tomorrow- Christmas day. But in the rush of this season let us not forget its meaning – giving; but not only gifts and material things...
Read MoreMakan a la Pinoy: Tedtedda a makan pagbalinen a baro manen a resipi
3 MIN READNi BRENDA S. DACPANO Makán, mangán, kaán….. Adu ti makan ita a panawen ti Krismas agingga iti baro a tawen. Ugali tayon a Pinoy ti agsagana ti adu a makan nangruna ita a panawen ti panaguummong dagiti pamilya....
Read MoreSalun-at tayo, biag tayo: Dagiti na tukkol a tultulang
2 MIN READNatukkol a paragpag Ti natukkol a paragpag ket saan a kadawyan a makatudok iti bara. No aguyek ti tao nga addaan dara a rumuar wenno marigatan nga aganges mabalin a nadangran ti bara na. Ipakita a dagus iti mangngagas....
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Punks released from jail
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Migrants’ Day in Baguio City
< 1 MIN READALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS… A young girl is among those who attended the...
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Paskua ti nakurapay
< 1 MIN READMAY TSUNAMING TAON NA ANG BINIBILANG. Nanay Mameng Dionida assails Gloria...
Read MoreSanidad, activists call for vigilance against Cha-Cha
2 MIN READDespite GMA, JDV withdrawal of Con Ass BAGUIO CITY (Dec. 14) — Veteran anti-martial law activist and human rights lawyer Pablito Sanidad urges th Filipino people to be extra vigilant for any move to change the...
Read MoreCordi IPs wary of Cha-Cha
2 MIN READBAGUIO CITY (Dec. 15) — Indigenous peoples (IP) in the Cordillera are wary that pro-IP provisions of the 1987 Philippine Constitution might be removed should the charter change pushes through. In an interview, Johnny...
Read MoreCall centers: boon or bane (2)
3 MIN READBAGUIO CITY (December 16) — Despite the outward glamor and fairly high salaries of working in call centers — things that are valued by many college-level youth nowadays — some painful trade-offs remain obvious, most of...
Read MoreCampus journalists slam de facto Martial Law
2 MIN READHold GMA administration accountable for muzzling of the press, grave HR abuses BAGUIO CITY ( Dec. 10) — The College Editors Guild of the Philippines Baguio-Benguet Chapter condemned the spate of killings that include...
Read MoreYouth leader in Cagayan killed
< 1 MIN READBAGUIO CITY (Dec. 14) — A youth leader was shot dead inside of his house at San Jose, Rizal, Cagayan. Ambut Asocena, 20 years old, a Sanguniang Kabataang Barangay chairman who is also a member of Anakbayan and...
Read MorePag-IBIG loan rates lowered
2 MIN READBAGUIO CITY (Dec.13) — Housing loan interest rates are lowered by the Pag-IBIG Fund Board of Trustees for the prospective member borrowers. Officer-in-charge Jocelyn Necesito, Pag-IBIG Baguio branch, said that loan...
Read MoreAbra court employee shot dead
< 1 MIN READLA TRINIDAD, Benguet (Dec. 12) — A court employee became the most recent victim of unabated killings in Abra province, touted as Northern Luzon’s “Killing Fields”, according to a police report. Lucrecia Cardenas...
Read MoreHydros divide Baguio dads, admin
3 MIN READBAGUIO CITY (Dec. 14) — The city’s elective and administrative officials appeared divided over the management of the Asin hydroelectric plants after Hedcor reportedly decided to turn over the facilities on December 26...
Read MoreIlocos youth groups launch HR network
< 1 MIN READVIGAN CITY (Dec. 13) — Youth leaders vowed to defend human rights amid undeclared martial law and state terror under the Arroyo government, conveners said during the launching of its Youth Alliance for the...
Read MoreOFWs seek GMA ouster on International Migrants Day
2 MIN READBAGUIO CITY (Dec. 15) — As Migrante-Metro Baguio commemorates December 18 as International Migrants Day, the group calls for the ouster of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (GMA) saying that GMA “has no moral ground to lead” the...
Read MorePhilex tries 12-hour shift
< 1 MIN READBAGUIO CITY (Dec. 1) — Workers of Philex Mining Corporation are now facing problems with the management’s “two-shift” policy which started on November 1. According to an underground miner (name withheld), Philex...
Read MoreMabaca micro hydro project provides electricity to 35 households
2 MIN READBy ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW SAGADA, Mt. Province (Dec. 11) — A twenty-five (25) kilowatt micro hydro project recently electrified 35 households among the Mabaca tribe of Bayawong, Balbalan, Kalinga on November 30. While...
Read MoreThe Indiestream: The lens of that “cheap cam”
3 MIN READBy PINK-JEAN FANGON MELEGRITO Blurred shots from digital video camera. Themes coming from the outskirts, railroads, bay walks. People are stories themselves. Alternatively, sometimes just like a TV commercial. Parcel...
Read MoreKM ipinagdiwang ang ika-42 na anibersaryo
2 MIN READBAGUIO CITY (Dec. 16) — Matagumpay na naidaos ng Kabataang Makabayan-Demokratiko a Tignay ti Agtutubo ti Kordilyera (KM-DATAKO) ng Metro Baguio ang dalawang linggong pagdiriwang nito ng ika-42 taong anibersaryo ng...
Read MorePNP raids bingo dens
2 MIN READAllegedly jueteng fronts operated by Baguio local execs BAGUIO CITY (Dec. 14) — Jueteng operations in the city allegedly hiding under the cloak of legalized bingo met a big stumbling block on Thursday noon when...
Read MorePMA band pulls out of UP Baguio lantern parade
2 MIN READBAGUIO CITY (Dec. 16) — Moments before the start of the University of the Philippines Baguio’s annual lantern parade, the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) marching band pulled out of the said activity because of an...
Read MoreEaster College grader bags first prize in feature writing
< 1 MIN READBaguio City ranks 1st in overall regional campus press LAGAWE, Ifugao (Dec. 1) — A grade six student of the oldest American school in Baguio City bags the over all first prize in Filipino feature writing in a...
Read MoreCordi youth assembly discuss people’s issues
2 MIN READBAGUIO CITY (Dec. 3) — Issues facing not only the indigenous youth but also all sector in Philippine society, were raised during the recently concluded Regional Assembly of the youth organization Anakbayan-Cordillera,...
Read MoreBeneco welcomes relaxed policy on electric connection
2 MIN READBAGUIO CITY (Dec.8) — The Benguet Electric Cooperative (Beneco) Board in a press conference today appealed for “compassion for those who have less in life” as its officers hoped for a more relaxed policy on the...
Read MoreBaguio City dads bicker over Convention Center
3 MIN READBAGUIO CITY (Dec. 15) — The local government of Baguio City stands to lose control of another government facility if the city government does not move fast, a city councilor said over the week as he contemplates that...
Read MoreEditorial Cartoon: 17 Dec. 2006
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Read MoreEditorial: Basted na nga, hihirit pa
2 MIN READImagine the Philippine Constitution to be a fairly decent woman called Connie, who has the tough luck of having to live and work in a sleazy neighborhood ruled by a gang of street-corner bullies who are in cahoots with...
Read MoreBrutally Frank: No to Charter Change
2 MIN READBy MARY ANN BAYANG I want to share with Nordis readers the statement on the issue of constitutional amendments by Counsels for the Defense of Liberties(CODAL-BAGUIO), of which I am a member. It says: The issue on...
Read MoreFrom Under This Hat: In memory of Bernardo Okubo (1919-2006)
4 MIN READBy KATHLEEN T. OKUBO With our hats off, in today’s column, I share with you what Manong Andy, (older cousin Fernando O. Afable) remembers of my Dad who had just decided to leave for the greater beyond last Sunday...
Read MoreLabor Watch: Security of tenure
2 MIN READBy ALDWIN QUITASOL Article 279 of the Labor Code provides: “In cases of regular employment, the employer shall not terminate the services of an employee except for a just cause or when authorized by this title. An...
Read MoreBurburtia Krokis: Solution (10 Dec. 2006)
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Read MoreBurburtia Krokis: Puzzle (17 Dec. 2006)
< 1 MIN READACROSS 1 lokoloko (Pil) 4 dulas (Ilok) 9 ekspresyon ng sakit o takot 10 sa Internet, kategoryang militar (abbrev) 11 katuwang ni Ina 12 Denmark (Internet abbrev) 13 inilagay sa bao (Tag) 14 United Arab Emirates...
Read MoreSagawisiw: 17 Dec. 2006
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Read MoreMakan a la Pinoy: Puto-bumbong
< 1 MIN READNi BRENDA S. DACPANO Masansan a mainaig iti Paskua ti kankanen a puto-bumbong. Gagangay a maiserserbi daytoy nga adda kakuyog na a salabat kalpasan ti misa iti parbangon. Daytoy ket naisangsangayan a makan a...
Read MoreSalun-at tayo, biag tayo: Dagiti natukkol a tultulang
3 MIN READNo natukkol ti tulang, ti kangrunaan nga aramiden ket pagtalinaeden daytoy iti maysa a posisyon (saan a garawen). Daytoy ket manglapped ti ad-adda a pannakadangran ti paset a natukkol ken mangtulong daytoy iti...
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No to Charter Change Forum
< 1 MIN READNo to Charter Change Forum 14 December 2006 Catholic Renewal Center, Bishop’s...
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No to Charter Change Noise Barrage, Baguio City
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Read MoreCordi farmers reject China vegetables
4 MIN READQUEZON CITY (Dec. 6) — Cordillera farmers went home happy, but still apprehensive, after they stood their ground rejecting the government move to facilitate the entry of Chinese carrots into the country, despite...
Read MoreCon-Ass, GMA’s desperate move to stay in power — Cordi militants
2 MIN READBAGUIO CITY (Dis. 9) — Progressive groups here are outraged by the passage of the Constituent Assembly or con ass, saying that it is a desperate move of a beleaguered president. The Tongtongan ti Umili (TTU)-Cordillera...
Read MoreYouth’s cry: No to Cha-cha
2 MIN READBAGUIO CITY (Dec. 7) — On December 7, the youth of Baguio staged a noise barrage at middle Session Road in protest of the December 6 approval by the House of Representatives of the Constituent Assembly (ConAss) much to...
Read MorePNP detains 19 Ilocos activists
< 1 MIN READLAOAG CITY (Dec. 9) – A total of 19 activists were arrested by elements of Philippine National Police (PNP) Laoag City under Chief of Police Wilson Lopez after a picket at Aurora Park in front of Ilocos Norte...
Read MoreCordi rights group renew strength
3 MIN READBAGUIO CITY (Dec. 8) — While December 10 is celebrated worldwide as an international human rights day, human rights advocates in this northern Luzon hinterlands gathered to strengthen and broaden their ranks to fight...
Read MoreWomen’s group launches justice campaign
2 MIN READObserving 16 days to end VAW BAGUIO CITY (Dec. 9) — As part of the international commemoration of the 16 days to end violence against women (VAW) which ends on December 10, Innabuyog-Gabriela distributed campaign...
Read MoreUS wants Human Rights abuses in RP resolved
2 MIN READBAGUIO CITY (Dec. 8) — The United States government is vowing its long standing commitment to respect and promotion of human rights around the world, US Ambassador to the Philippines Kristie Kenney vowed here Friday....
Read MoreSining para sa Karapatang Pantao
2 MIN READBallangbang 2006: Kumpas ng Karapatan BAGUIO CITY (Dec. 8) — Ballangbang, an indigenous term to mean community dance through the pattong, has served more meaning and purpose for sectoral organizations here in the city....
Read MoreN. Ecija broadcaster slain in front of wife
< 1 MIN READ11th journalist killed this year CABANATUAN CITY (Dec. 9) — A broadcaster and former newspaper columnist in Nueva Ecija was shot and killed by two men while visiting his farm in Barangay Sta. Arcadia, Cabanatuan...
Read MoreBaguio’s centennial celebration kicks off
2 MIN READBAGUIO CITY (Dec. 7) — Baguio, the country’s vacation capital and premier tourist destination, is kicking off its centennial celebration on Thursday. CENTENNIAL. From its former name Kafagway into Baguio City, the...
Read MoreDoes Baguio Mayor have the balls to kick out Jadewell?
3 MIN READBAGUIO CITY (Dec. 9) — Baguio City Acting Mayor Reinaldo Bautista Jr. finally got balls to kick out the controversial private parking firm Jadewell out of the city because it has no more legs to stand on. Telling city...
Read MoreTuba urges city to draw up concrete plans for Asin hydro
2 MIN READBAGUIO CITY (Dec. 7) — Tuba land claimants and officials urged the city government of Baguio to immediately draw up plans for the management of the Asin hydro plants as the contract between the Baguio Water District...
Read MoreRegional elders group formed
3 MIN READBAGUIO CITY (Dec. 8) — Comunity elders from different ethno-linguistic groups in the region founded the Cordillera Elders’ Alliance (CEA) last December 6 to 7 here with the renewed commitment to be at the forefront of...
Read MoreCordillera villages cope with trafficking in person
4 MIN READBAGUIO CITY (Dec. 4) — The lone Cordillera city is among several cities outside Metro-Manila identified as a hot spot for human trafficking, but indigenous communities have their own way of protecting their...
Read MoreBomb explodes at Baguio City Hall
2 MIN READBAGUIO CITY (Dec. 8) — An improvised bomb, later confirmed by police here to have been made by a bomb expert, exploded at the men’s comfort room at the left wing of the two-storey Baguio City Hall Monday night sending...
Read MoreEditorial Cartoon: 10 Dec. 2006
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Read MoreEditorial: Cha-Cha is about political survival
3 MIN READAgainst all odds, the Macapagal-Arroyo administration and its allies in the House of Representatives are ramming through their charter change initiative. After being stopped by the Supreme Court in its track of making...
Read MoreBrutally Frank: Faces of human rights abuses
2 MIN READBy MARY ANN BAYANG In a small village in the countryside, a couple committed suicide because they could no longer bear the series of intimidation and torture in the hands of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. They...
Read MoreFrom Under This Hat: Outwitted?
2 MIN READBy KATHLEEN T. OKUBO It’s International Human Rights Day, let us remember all those who have fought and laid down their lives so that we of today know what human rights is and draw the courage to respect and defend it...
Read MorePoint and Shoot: Hell hath no fury like a people scorned
2 MIN READBy ARTEMIO A. DUMLAO I thought all the while that “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned” was only for women, of course scorned by their husbands. It can also be applied to people scorned by Jadewell. # # # Forgive me...
Read MoreWeekly Reflections: Witnessing for human rights
5 MIN READBy REV. LUNA L. DINGAYAN “You yourselves judge which is right in God’s sight – to obey you or to obey God; for we cannot stop speaking of what we ourselves have seen and heard.” — Acts 4:19b-20 Human Rights Day...
Read MoreWomen's Front: Commit Smith to Philippine jail, junk VFA
2 MIN READBy INNABUYOG-GABRIELA The verdict on the Subic Rape case convicted Corporal Daniel Smith to 40 years of imprisonment. The three other servicemen watched the incident happen and even cheered for Smith to go on, were...
Read MoreLetters and statement: Statement of the Cordillera Peoples Alliance On the Deferment of the Adoption of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
3 MIN READThe CPA joins the many voices of indigenous peoples and their advocates including a number of state governments in the disappointing turn of events at the 61st General Assembly of the United Nations. The UN General...
Read MoreBalancing Wheel: Drop-offs
2 MIN READBy TITO B. SANQUI SR. I really cannot get enough of the Loakan Downhill Invitational! But first I would like to apologize for my error in the results of the kid’s division; Gecko Navalta’s time is 46 seconds, not...
Read MoreSagawisiw: 10 Dec 2006
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< 1 MIN READACROSS 1 pipi, yupi 6 buyo, sulsol (Ilok) 10 dumi (Pang) 11 daga (Ilok) 13 ___ Manzano, artistang Pinoy 14 United Arab Emirates (Internet abbrev) 15 walang suot (Tag) 16 palayaw nina Alvin at Albert 18 Fri, ___,...
Read MorePoetry: Invisible II (for the Philippine Indigenous Peoples)
< 1 MIN READBy CHERYL DAYTEC-Yañgot We were born rich in an abundant land. Then they saw us and all of a sudden We were invisible. They did not see us when they came to vandalize the burial grounds of our ancestors to herald...
Read MoreMakan a la Pinoy: Palitaw
2 MIN READTi palitaw ket saan a kas ti puto bumbong a kadawyan a mailako iti ruar ti simbaan kalpasan iti “simbang gabi” (misa iti parbangon manipud Disyembre 16 agingga iti bisperas ti Paskua, tradisyon dagiti Katoliko). Ngem...
Read MoreSalun-at tayo, biag tayo: Dagiti komplikasyon ti naimpeksyon a sugat
2 MIN READ1. Tetano (lockjaw) 2. Gangrene a gapu iti bakterya a nagtaud iti nakaserra ken nalungsot a sugat. Adda makita a labutab ken ti lugar nga asideg iti sugat ket nalitem, nalungsot ken nabangsit (gangrenous). 3....
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No to Cha-Cha, No to Constituent Assembly
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Torch parade to commemorate the International Human Rights Day in Baguio City
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Read MoreLabor hits GMA policies
3 MIN READAs GMA remains silent on wage hike BANGUED, Abra (Nov. 29) —The national leadership of a militant group of government employees and a labor group in the Cordillera, on separate occasions, assailed the anti-labor stance...
Read MoreSlain DAR employee not a rebel — NPA-Abra
2 MIN READBANGUED, Abra (Nov. 29) — The Agustin Begnalen Command-New People’s Army Abra denounced claims of the Northern Luzon Command of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) that Albert Terredaño was the NPA-Abra...
Read MoreJadewell asks Malacañang to suspend 12 Baguio officials
3 MIN READBAGUIO CITY (Nov. 26) — If the Jadewell Parking Systems Corporation could convince Malacañang, most of Baguio’s officials may soon suffer the same fate as Mayor Braulio Yaranon, who was suspended by the Office of the...
Read MoreNo more wailing widows
3 MIN READBy LYN V. RAMO BANGUED, Abra (Nov. 29) — The widows no longer wailed one year after the untimely death of Jose Manegdeg and Albert Terredaño on November 28 and 29, respectively. Instead, Florence or Dom-an, Manegdeg’s...
Read MoreUCCP pastor urges GMA to stop killings, repression
3 MIN READKin, friends hold mass for Manegdeg, Terredaño BAGUIO CITY (Nov. 28) — The pastor/activist survivor of assassination in Ilocos Sur urged the administration of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to stop political killings and...
Read MoreGunmen kill another Cagayan peasant leader
2 MIN READBAGUIO CITY (Nov. 27) — Another peasant leader in Cagayan was shot dead today, November 27, by alleged elements of the 17th IB and 21st IB marines operating in Gonzaga town. Just two weeks after Jose Javier was...
Read MoreCHRA urges exhumation, autopsy of killed Abra peasant
2 MIN READBANGUED, Abra (Nov. 29) — The Cordillera Human Rights Alliance (CHRA) proposed the exhumation of the body of a victim of summary execution as it requested the assistance of the medico-legal officer of the National...
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