December 31, 2007 in general
By ART BELISARIO
ACROSS
1 huling heneral ni Aguinaldo na nadakip ng mga Amerikano;
6 gabi (Ilok);
11 mga dahong tuyot (Ilok);
13 edad, taong gulang (Eng);
14 ekspresyon ng pagkabigla o pagtataka (Tag);
15 dalawang hita, kapag ginawang upuan ng bata (Tag); Read the rest of this entry →
December 31, 2007 in Cagayan Valley, general, tourism
By CHEN REYES-MENCIAS
I love walking barefooted on the sand. I think most people do, specially if the sand is super soft and white. It is amazing how leaving footprints on the sand can actually be a learning experience. In case you have not heard about the concept of “ecological footprint”, then this article is for you. This is my way of paving the way for more responsible travels for the coming year.
Chen. The author exploring one of the most remote and pristine places in Luzon.
The first time I set foot on an uninhabited beach over at the Pacific side of Luzon I was awed by the sheer rawness of nature. I ran along the shore like a child until I can run no more. Then I walked and skipped and walked again. I looked behind me and saw my prints, winding, looping and making interesting patterns that seem to be out of place in such a pristine and untouched environment. Read the rest of this entry →
December 31, 2007 in employment, general, Ilocos
STO. DOMINGO, ILOCOS SUR (Dec. 23) — Squash, for some Europeans, refers to the sport. For farmers here, it is the raw material gestating a business partnership with overseas Filipino workers (OFWs).
As the year ends, this town may squeeze profits from selling a novel product from that raw material: canton-style noodles from squash – the vegetable, not the sport. Read the rest of this entry →
December 31, 2007 in food, general
Ni BRENDA S. DACPANO
No nauma kayon ti nabalkot a turon padasen yo daytoy turon hubad. Agusar met laeng ti pangbalkot ngem agsina nga iprito ti saba ken lumpia wrapper.
December 22, 2007 in Baguio City, general
Baguio dads cautious this time
BAGUIO CITY (Dec. 17) — The bid for Baguio City barangay officials’ cash incentive did not gather much support as some councilors did not favor a half-baked resolution, this time taking care to study all aspects in appropriating public funds.
Authored by Councilor Rufino Panagan, Association of Barangay Captains president, the cash incentives are initially estimated at P4.2 million, if given to elective officials only. Which set of officials, the out-going or the incoming, remains a question, however. Read the rest of this entry →
December 22, 2007 in Cordillera, general
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet (Dec. 18) — Police regional Operations Officer Wilfredo Franco, in a media forum, underscored the need for police forces to exemplify discipline if the peace keepers were to bring back the image of the Mamang Pulis.
Speaking during the Media Funshoot in Camp Dangwa here, Franco iterated the police used to be a disciplined man in dignified uniforms. Read the rest of this entry →
December 22, 2007 in Cordillera, general
BAGUIO CITY (Dec. 20) — Arabica coffee, among the best coffee variety worldwide, coffee enthusiasts say, may be adopted by Cordillera farmers as a livelihood or supplemental source of income.
Presidential Assistant Thomas Killip said that the commercial farming of Arabica coffee in the region is viable due to its temperate climate and natural conditions. He believes that the region’s potential in the coffee industry may transform the Cordillera as the Arabica coffee capital of the country but that entails the active participation of all stakeholders particularly the farmers. Read the rest of this entry →
December 22, 2007 in general, international
TAIPEI (Dec.11) — Members of the Taiwan Committee for Philippine Concerns (TCPC) staged a lightning protest addressed to the Philippine government representatives at the opening ceremony of the 2007 Austronesian Forum held in Taipei December 11.
After the representative of the Philippines Atty. Eugenio Insigne, was introduced a group of protesters rose up and shouted “Philippines—Stop the Killings!!” Insigne is the chairperson of the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) of the Philippines. Read the rest of this entry →
December 22, 2007 in energy, general
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet (Dec. 21) — Aboitiz group of companies won the bidding of the operation of Binga and Ambuklao dams as part of the privatization of assets of government owned and controlled corporations for power generation.
Aboitiz in partnership with a Norweigan company won the bidding conducted on November 29, 2007. Read the rest of this entry →
December 22, 2007 in Cordillera, general
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet (Dec. 18) — The gun culture should be at the right age, a high-ranking police official said during the Media Funshoot at Camp Dangwa, here, as he welcomes any move to ban the sale of toy guns.
“I never relish the idea of indoctrinating the youth because the gun culture should be at the right age,” Col. Wilfredo Franco, Chief Operations Officer of the Philippine National Police Cordillera told the media Tuesday. Read the rest of this entry →
December 22, 2007 in general
This is based on Republic Act 7183.
Legal firecrackers:
1. Bawang
2. Baby rocket
3. El diablo or labintador
4. Small triangle
5. Judas belt Read the rest of this entry →
December 22, 2007 in Baguio City, general
BAGUIO CITY (Dec. 15) — In a Christmas-cum-OFW family day party held in honor of OFWs and their families, Mrs. Marlene de Castro, executive director of Baguio Center for Young Adults (BCYA) announced the partnership between BCYA, Overseas Workers Welfare Administrations (OWWA) and Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) in a project for overseas Filipino workers and their families.
Initiating Core Activities Responding to the Empowerment of OFW children and families (I CARE), which was made effective in a memorandum of agreement signed on Dec. 7 “is a way to address to the OFW families’ special needs,” De Castro said. Read the rest of this entry →
December 22, 2007 in Baguio City, general
BAGUIO CITY (Dec. 11) — “Conduct sex education to your children,” Councilor Atty. Betty Lourdes Tabanda appealed to the parents after a forum to support efforts in preventing Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) /Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) among young women and girls on December 11 at the Baguio City Multi-Purpose Hall.
Dr. Celia Brillantes, head of the City Hygiene Clinic, said HIV is acquired only through semen, vaginal fluids, blood and breast milk. AIDS is the terminal stage of HIV, which can be transmitted in the course of sex, blood transfusion, organ transplant and even prenatal transmission through pregnancy, delivery and breastfeeding. Read the rest of this entry →
December 22, 2007 in Cordillera, general
LAGAWE, Ifugao (Dec. 17) — Japanese officials exhumed the remains of Japanese soldiers who died in Ifugao during the World War II and accorded them Japanese burial rites last week.
A Japanese Mission composed of officials from the Japan Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare and two Japanese nationals arrived in Banaue, Ifugao on December 10 and started the exhumation of Japanese soldiers’ remains in predetermined locations in Barangays Hapao and Abatan in Hungduan and Barangay Bokiawan in Kiangan town. Read the rest of this entry →
December 22, 2007 in Cordillera, general
By GLORIA A. TUAZON
It was a hundred years ago when Christianism first came to the land of the Igorots. A group of mostly Belgians together with a few Dutch priests came to the Mountain Provinces and took roots here. It was Valentine’s Day in 1906 when the apostolic delegate to the Philippines Msgr. Ambrosius Agius sent a letter of request to Father Adolf Van Hecke who was then the Superior General of the CICM congregation.
The papal nuncio with one of the oldest parishioners in Bontoc Billy Claver. Photo courtesy of Gloria A. Tuazon Read the rest of this entry →
December 22, 2007 in Baguio City, general
BAGUIO CITY (Dec. 18) — Now flying high over former American rest and recreation facility – Camp John Hay – a huge Philippine flag donated by DENR secretary Lito Atienza was hoisted Tuesday morning at the 20 meter pole where the Star Spangled Banner used to be raised.
The 10 x 20 foot RP flag is a far shot from the miniature Philippine flag which used to be hoisted at the tall pole noticed by Sec. Atienza two weeks ago, said DENR-Cordillera Regional Executive Director Samuel Peñafiel. Read the rest of this entry →
December 22, 2007 in Cordillera, general, social concerns
KAPANGAN, Benguet (Dec. 19) — Police here chanced upon a marijuana plantation in Barangay Sagubo recently.
An approximate area of 1,350 square meters was proven planted with the illegal plant, all fully grown and ready for harvest. No one was reported arrested. Read the rest of this entry →
December 22, 2007 in Baguio City, general
City officials draft anti-vending plan
BAGUIO CITY (Dec. 21) — After a series of meetings with central business district barangay chiefs, a team of city officials led by city Administrator Peter Fianza drafted a general plan, Administrative Order (AO) 05, to snowball the city’s anti-vending campaign.
The AO allows vending from December 20, 2007 up to January 6, 2008 only. The draft order likewise provided for the payment of barangay clearances and special permits. A “no permit, no vending” policy shall strictly be implemented, the draft added.
The same draft provides that vendors shall be allowed to pay permits in two-installments with the second and final installment due December 28. # Isagani S. Liporada/PIO
Public school teachers feed 98 pupils
BAGUIO CITY (Dec. 21) – Baguio City teachers last Wednesday fed 98 of the poorest of their pupils together with their parents at the City Schools Division Office.
Guided by city schools superintendent, Dr. Ellen Donato, the teachers, through the Baguio City Association of Supervisors and School Heads headed by Dr. Elma Donaal, pooled some P15,000 for the annual project.
The children were also given gift packs. # Ramon Dacawi/PIO
December 22, 2007 in general, NL general
Pangasinan redistricting move up anew
PANGASINAN (Dec. 21) — Pangasinan representatives together with Atty. Raul Lambino are drafting a bill seeking the redistricting of the said province to add more representatives to the House of Representatives.
One of the suggestions is for the towns in the first, second and third districts to be grouped into five districts, and for the fourth, fifth and sixth district towns to compose the other five districts for Pangasinan to have a total 10 districts. The province have six districts at present.
Lambino said that redistricting is a better option than the proposal to divide the province into two or even three provinces. # Danny O. Sagun/PIA
Virginia tobacco floor prices increase
VIGAN CITY (Dec. 21) — The floor price of the flue-cured Virginia tobacco increased as a result of the recently concluded tripartite conference in National Tobacco Administration (NTA) in Quezon City on December 10.
Ilocos Sur Governor Deogracias Victor “DV” B. Savellano said the newly approved floor prices per kilo of Virginia tobacco are the following: Grades AA – P61.00; A – P59.00 ; B – P57.00; C –P55.00; D – P50.00; E – P49.00; F1 – P45.00; F2 – P42.00; and R – P23.00. Read the rest of this entry →
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