2 MIN READBANAWE, Ifugao — With rape registering one-fifth of all index crimes in the province, officials here and the visiting regional heads of government agencies agreed violence against women and children is a social concern...
Read More2 MIN READITOGON, Benguet — With the July 10 turnover of the power generation facilities of the Binga and Ambuklao hydroelectric complex, winning bidder SN Aboitiz Power (SNAP) has set into motion its plans for the plant...
Read More3 MIN READBAGUIO CITY — The homosexual community in the city along with their families and supporters proudly paraded around the city’s central business district in rainbow colors last July 20. Clad in their most flamboyant...
Read More3 MIN READBAGUIO CITY — Participants to the Seminar on Women and Mining at the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) at Camp John Hay, here, concluded that mining’s adverse impacts fall hardest on women among the world’s poorest...
Read More2 MIN READBAGUIO CITY — While the city faces consequent problems by the shutting down of the Irisan dumpsite, the local government is now considering offers made by private individuals for possible landfill sites for its...
Read More2 MIN READLA TRINIDAD, Benguet — Bakun folk who trooped to the provincial capitol here last July 21 were dismayed after the post-consultation meeting allegedly failed to tackle issues they were raising surrounding a January 25...
Read More2 MIN READITOGON, Benguet — Workers of the Binga hydro-electric power plant in Barangay Tinongdan, here, are facing a blank wall as the new owner of the power-generating facility placed all employees under a five-month...
Read More< 1 MIN READBANAWE, Ifugao — Benguet Gov. Nestor Fongwan presided over a regional body for the first time Friday after Ifugao Gov. Teddy Baguilat sworn him in as the new chair of the Regional Peace and Order Council (RPOC)....
Read More2 MIN READBANAWE, Ifugao — “There were no takers,” the head of a regional peace body said of his proposal to take up the garbage issue intelligently. MARKET DUMPSITE. Trash dumped at upper Zandueta Street at the Baguio Public...
Read More2 MIN READBAGUIO CITY — Baguio City observes the national disability rehabilitation and prevention week. Held every third week of July, this year’s (commemoration) was hosted by the Department of the Interior and Local...
Read More2 MIN READBAGUIO CITY — The Maryknoll Ecological Sanctuary here, commemorated the 18th anniversary of the July 16 killer earthquake Wednesday. HEALING THE EARTH. Bamboo poles serve as acupuncture needles to “heal the earth.”...
Read More2 MIN READBAGUIO CITY — The Department of Tourism (DoT) of the Cordillera Administrative Region is now geared towards developing a program for a community-based rural tourism (CBRT) as disclosed by Regional Director Purificacion...
Read More2 MIN READBAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya – In a bid to widen its chances of getting its much needed funds, OceanaGold is taking time to do some image boosting while its construction work in Didipio remains suspended. Jamila Abassi,...
Read More< 1 MIN READBAGUIO CITY — The National Food Authority (NFA) today announced it would be issuing family access cards to ensure that only the poorest of the poor get a steady supply of the staple. The Department of Social...
Read More2 MIN READMANILA — Militant legislators in the House of Representatives are pushing for a full-blown investigation into “the oil companies’ alleged engagement in overpricing, profiteering, transfer pricing and other forms of...
Read More5 MIN READBy TONGTONGAN TI UMILI – CORDILLERA PEOPLES ALLIANCE Social unrest is rapidly deepening, triggered by unhampered and striking increases in oil prices and basic commodities. The rice problem is still burdening the...
Read More< 1 MIN READBan drinking, gambling at funeral parlors – Aliping BAGUIO CITY—Councilor Nicasio Aliping Jr. last week filed a proposed ordinance prohibiting drinking of liquor and gambling activities within the premises of...
Read More< 1 MIN READVizcaya officials move to create env’t code BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya—Environment officials here are conducting consultations and workshops with non-government organizations for the crafting of the environment code...
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Read More2 MIN READOver the week there were too valuable forums held in the city. One on bio-fuels and the other on traditional knowledge. Both discussions stem from the growing global concern for sustaining nature, sustaining earth,...
Read More2 MIN READBy ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW The population issue is hot in the country, particularly with the pending bill on reproductive health in Congress. The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) released its position...
Read More2 MIN READBy MARY ANN MANJA BAYANG Mary Ann Manja Bayang is giving way to Atty. Cheryl Daytec-Yangot’s article. — Ed. It was another bad week for the Philippines. The Supreme Court just strengthened the culture of impunity...
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3 MIN READIs the government really sincere in realizing autonomy? I do not think so. Government is shortcutting processes of obtaining free and informed consent on development projects, including those on mining.
Read More3 MIN READBy REV. LUNA L. DINGAYAN “I tell you whenever you did this for one of the least important of these followers of mine, you did it for me!” – Matthew 25:40 Third of 3 parts (click here for the 2nd part) Some...
Read More2 MIN READBy INNABUYOG-GABRIELA Gabriela Women’s Party Rep. Luzviminda Ilagan condemns the massive military operations and human rights violations against the Aetas of Porac and Floridablanca, Pampanga, where the 72nd Infantry...
Read More2 MIN READBy MIRIAM U. GUILLERMO* From the dictionary the word misunderstand means “to take a wrong meaning; to define wrongly; or to take in a wrong sense.” As the word grew to its existence, it evolved in this meaning. But...
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Read More2 MIN READBy ART B. BELISARIO ACROSS 1 probinsya sa Mindanao (2 salita) 12 obserbasyon (abbrev) 13 _____ Baskets: koponan sa basketbol ng Hamburg 14 tulong, alalay (Eng) 15 loro ng New Zealand 16 lutong Bikol na ginataang dahon...
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Read More2 MIN READBAGUIO CITY — With the camera as a potent tool for any documentation be it historical, news or simple family portraitures, a day-in-a-life kind of pictorial project is being readied as an added feature of Baguio’s...
Read More3 MIN READMAYOYAO, Ifugao — The deterioration of culture in this world heritage site due to economic condition and modernization prompted a youth group here called Pochon to organize the Pfoto’ ad Majawjaw, a rice harvest...
Read More3 MIN READNi BRENDA S. DACPANO Sawsawan a ketchup ti inluto tayo idi napan a lawas. Kurang daytoy kinuna ti editor mi ta awan met ti isawsaw. Agpayso dayta. Ania ngay ti isiwsiw, tammudo samonto silamutan? Ay na, kasta unayen ti...
Read More2 MIN READThe Recycling Market Fair held every first Friday and Saturday of each month at SM City Baguio has become a habit for many environment conscious shoppers who wish to dispose of their waste items properly. Molten...
Read More3 MIN READBAGUIO CITY — The lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans-gender (LGBT) community here are out of their closets calling for equal rights and the end of discrimination. PROUD TO BE A LESBIAN. A member of the Thunderbirds...
Read More2 MIN READBAGUIO CITY — The 12% value added tax (VAT) on oil will remain despite popular demand to have it scrapped as Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo stood pat on her position that it is where her government gets funds for...
Read More3 MIN READBAGUIO CITY — Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo announced here Friday the merger of two political parties would deliver the country into a First World status in the next generation. In a sheer display of her savvy as the...
Read More< 1 MIN READBAGUIO CITY — Another Cordilleran has been elected last July 15, 2008 into one of the indigenous peoples’ positions in the United Nations system. Secretary Eugenio A. Insigne, chairman of the National Commission...
Read More2 MIN READBAGUIO CITY — As majority of congress representatives are in favor of mining, a few solons consider it to be an uphill battle for the repeal of the Philippine Mining Act of 1995 or Republic Act 7942. According to...
Read More2 MIN READITOGON, Benguet – This mining town’s small scale miners find it hard to comply with the law regulating their trade, making them unable to register as miners. Top town officials here admit small scale miners may be...
Read More< 1 MIN READBAGUIO CITY — Members of the militant youth organization Anakbayan were harassed and violently dispersed during their protest action in the city’s public market. Anakbayan members conducting a signature campaign...
Read More< 1 MIN READBAGUIO CITY — “Help me look for a suitable land for (the expansion of) the export processing zone,” Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo asked local officials here as she held in abeyance the closure of the lone airport...
Read More3 MIN READBAGUIO CITY — Its hauling trucks full and the collapse of the Irisan dump site that ensued made the city literally stink since July 13 when barricading residents denied the entry of garbage. COLLECTOR’S ITEM....
Read More< 1 MIN READBAGUIO CITY — Camp John Hay Development Corporation (CJHDevCo) has inked a P230 million condominium development project inside the former American rest and recreation facility. The third among agreements signed in...
Read More2 MIN READBAGUIO CITY — Professing their support to the Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo administration, local elective officials belonging to the Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats (CMD) and Kabalikat ng Mamamayang Pilipino (Kampi) in the...
Read More2 MIN READVIGAN CITY — The City Prosecutor’s Office of Vigan City denied the Motion for Reconsideration filed by Nolito Ragunjan, University of Northern Philippines’ (UNP) coordinator for Student Publication, stating there is no...
Read More2 MIN READMayor wants city to take over market dev’t from Uniwide BAGUIO CITY—Mayor Reinaldo Bautista Jr. would rather that the city government takes over the Uniwide Sales Realty and Resources Corporation (Uniwide) in...
Read More2 MIN READSocial workers lobby for additional benefits TABUK CITY, Kalinga—Social workers employed with the provincial and municipal governments in the province are lobbying for additional benefits mandated under RA 94331 or the...
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Read More2 MIN READBaguio’s garbage used to be incinerated until it was discovered how bad incinerating the garbage can be to the atmosphere and eventually how bad its effect was against the wholeness of our environment. So the Baguio...
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3 MIN READDefending mother earth from the annihilation of global warming is indeed an important task, a key task of every life on the planet.
Read More3 MIN READBy KATHLEEN T. OKUBO Peter Parker noticed that under the fast winds and heavy rain that Typhoon Helen carried with her through our City, Benguet Electric Cooperative’s (Beneco) electric service did not falter. He...
Read More4 MIN READBy REV. LUNA L. DINGAYAN “I tell you whenever you did this for one of the least important of these followers of mine, you did it for me!” – Matthew 25:40 Second of 3 parts (click here for the first part)...
Read More2 MIN READBy INNABUYOG-GABRIELA Over the years, large-scale corporate mining has caused tremendous damage to the food resources of rural communities putting indigenous and peasant women in more difficult hunger and human rights...
Read More2 MIN READBy RONALD B. DULAY* “The influence of world TV culture on the perceptions of foreign costumers is enormous.” — Trends Symbols, and Brand Power in Global Markets: the Business Anthropology Approach by Jeanne van Rij...
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Read More2 MIN READBy ART B. BELISARIO ACROSS 1 suot (Ilok) 4 agos (Ivatan) 7 pagkamuhi, pagkasuklam (Ilok) 11 “is” kung iisa, ___ kung mahigit sa isa (Eng) 12 halaman na pinagmumulan ng hibla’t sinulid (Pil) 14 kumikiling (Eng) 15 sa...
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Read More5 MIN READBy CHEN REYES-MENCIAS It was a cloudy morning and the wind was howling from the northeast when I drove north. Sheets of rain drowned the windshield as I approached Burgos, a town approximately 35 kilometers from Laoag...
Read More2 MIN READNi BRENDA S. DACPANO Nalaka laeng ti agaramid ti ketchup. Ngem no adu met ti magatang apay pay laeng nga agbannog ka nga agaramid? Naidumduma daytoy a ketchup ta adda laok na nga herbs ken spices. No bambantayan ti...
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Read More2 MIN READOrders fiscal to reinvestigate rebellion case vs. NDF consultant CANDON CITY, Ilocos Sur — A Regional Trial Court judge here today, July 7, scolded the provincial prosecutor and ordered him to reinvestigate the...
Read More2 MIN READBAGUIO CITY — “Manhid na tayo sa krisis,” (We have grown numb with crisis) was how Carol Araullo, Bayan chairperson, described the Filipino masses continue to face one crisis after another – political crisis, social...
Read More2 MIN READBAGUIO CITY — Malacanang has declared July 14 as a special non-working holiday in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) to mark the 21st Foundation Day Anniversary of the region. By virtue of Proclamation...
Read More4 MIN READCONNER, Apayao — Residents here found the consultations and strategies done by foreign mining companies in the locality as anomalous and dubious. OceanaGold mining company with its local subsidiary Copperfields and...
Read More5 MIN READBAGUIO CITY—The Regional Trial Court here affirmed the validity of the city government’s contract with the Uniwide Sales Realty and Resources Corporation (Uniwide) for the development of the city market ending a...
Read More2 MIN READBAGUIO CITY — Four out of six Cordillera provinces are among the country’s poorest with three towns in two other provinces belonging to the poorest 100 towns in the Philippines. The National Statistics Coordination...
Read More3 MIN READBAGUIO CITY — A thousand students marched the streets of Baguio last Thursday, July 10, airing one grievance after another under the administration of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, promising that this will mark the...
Read More2 MIN READBAGUIO CITY — Key officials of the Camp John Hay Development Corporation (CJHDevCo) including its senior vice President, OIC, legal officer and four more middle level managers were sued for robbery, malicious mischief,...
Read More< 1 MIN READLA TRINIDAD, Benguet — Surprisingly in record time, barely 9 hours after the “hit”, Abra policemen nailed the look-out and has lodged murder raps against the hitman and mastermind. In the same breathe,...
Read More2 MIN READLA TRINIDAD, Benguet — Care-giving course continues to attract students despite a slump in employability of its graduates making it a major blunder in the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA)....
Read More2 MIN READLA TRINIDAD, Benguet – Mankayan town hosted Friday 11 July, a youth gathering that tackled major issues as child abuse, teenage pregnancy and early marriage, drug addiction, Internet abuse, preparing for gainful...
Read More2 MIN READSession rd, partially car-less BAGUIO CITY—Session road, the city’s main road shall be partially car-less during Sundays starting July 13 as stated in Administrative Order 99, dated July 7 as issued by Mayor Reinaldo...
Read More< 1 MIN READLate rainy season threatens corn producers ILAGAN, Isabela—While the rest of the country is still reeling from the floodwaters brought by typhoon Frank, some corn producing towns in Isabela’s first district are...
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Read More< 1 MIN READThe Baguio City First United Methodist Church With the BCFUMC Scholarship Committee and The United Methodist Young Adults Fellowship Invites you to a Visual Art Exhibit by Tito B. Sanqui for the benefit of its...
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Read More2 MIN READThe lesson from recent history: “Past experience has shown that no compensation nor livelihood project could replace or surpass the destroyed ancestral land and traditional livelihoods of affected indigenous peoples....
Read More< 1 MIN READStarting July 15, 2008, you can contact NORDIS at 0917-5064631. Our fax and landline number remains the same,...
Read More< 1 MIN READMayoyao rice farms, largely organic (July 6, 2008 issue) In our organic rice story entitled “Organic agriculture persists in Ifugao town,” we said “only a portion of only two of Mayoyao’s 27 barangays are using...
Read More3 MIN READBy MARY ANN MANJA BAYANG I have always been a brutal critique of governments pretending to be a democracy but are in fact the violators of democratic rights; and the oppressors and exploiters of the people to whose...
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3 MIN READFilipinos can contribute to the arrest of global warming by stopping forest denudation, significantly reducing or eliminating carbon exhausts, shifting to lifestyles that exert less pressure on resources, promoting recycling rather than resource extraction, and adopting production, packaging, transport, and consumption technologies that are environmentally friendly or that significantly reduce carbon emissions.
Read More3 MIN READBy KATHLEEN T. OKUBO Buwaya, is the local term for crocodile. It is misconstrued that they are an endangered species in the country. They actually are a common sight especially to travelers along the Isabela-Tuguegarao...
Read More3 MIN READBy REV. LUNA L. DINGAYAN “I tell you whenever you did this for one of the least important of these followers of mine, you did it for me!” – Matthew 25:40 First of 3 parts Filipino-American Friendship Day To...
Read More2 MIN READBy INNABUYOG-GABRIELA Today is the second year anniversary of Beth’s (not her real name) rape by Fr. Gabriel Madangeng of the Bontoc-Lagawe Vicariate. She was 14 years old at the time of the incident that happened in...
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Read More2 MIN READBy ART B. BELISARIO ACROSS 2 lubhang pagod (Eng) 11 nasugatan ng kutsilyo (Tag) 13 kargado (Eng) 15 gamit panggadgad, hal. para sa papaya o keso (Eng) 16 asyenda, plantasyon (Eng) 17 kahit na, pantay (matulaing Eng) 18...
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Read More2 MIN READBAGUIO CITY — Benedicto Reyes Cabrera – or BenCab, as he is more popularly known – launched his 3rd book and an exhibit of his paintings of nudes here at the Café by the Ruins last Tuesday, July 8. Photo by Brenda S....
Read More3 MIN READNi BRENDA S. DACPANO Adun a pamuspusan ti ar-aramiden ti kaaduan tapno makatipid ken maiyanay ti badyet. Ngem uray kasano ti pamay-an ket narigat latta ti agbadyet no kurang a talaga ti kwarta. Masubok ti...
Read More2 MIN READFood crisis reflects governance woes BAGUIO CITY — The present food crisis Filipinos are suffering from is but a reflection of a bigger crisis of our country, a visiting Liberal Party official told barangay captains...
Read More< 1 MIN READBAGUIO CITY — Residents are inviting the Baguio populace to join the Baguio Electric Consumers Cooperative (Baelco), a recently formed electric cooperative, seeing to compete with the Benguet Electric Cooperative...
Read More< 1 MIN READBAGUIO CITY — The city council Monday sought the conduct of a feasibility study on the adoption of a design concept for a two-storey market building to be built at the area affected recently by a fire. The body...
Read More3 MIN READBAGUIO CITY — Rep. Lorenzo Tañada, in a meeting with the Liberal party, here said the government’s rice importations to solve the food crisis is but a stop gap measure and evidence of sheer neglect of the country’s...
Read More2 MIN READBAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya — Bayan Muna Rep. Teddy Casiño today hailed the provincial board of Nueva Vizcaya as it withdrew its support to OceanaGold Philippines, which operates in Barangay Didipio, Kasibu town. “They...
Read More2 MIN READLA TRINIDAD, Benguet — Three mountain bikers are going on a 24-hour non-stop off-road biking in November not only for the thrill, neither for any feat to outdo anyone but for a “green” dream to help revive the already...
Read More2 MIN READBAGUIO CITY — The city council last Monday requested Mayor Reinaldo Bautista Jr. to pursue an experimental night market to determine the feasibility of said venture seen to help remedy the worsening problem on illegal...
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