August 23, 2009 in Baguio City
By BRENDA S. DACPANO
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BAGUIO CITY — In commemoration of the centennial of the city of Baguio, The Baguio We Know will be launched at National Bookstore, SM Baguio on September 2, 2009 at 6 p.m.
The book is a collection of essays that explore the various manifestations of what it means to be “from Baguio.” Read the rest of this entry →
August 23, 2009 in food
Ni BRENDA S. DACPANO
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Agruar dagiti tukak iti panagtutudo. Adu ti magatang iti tiendaan ngem nangina met, P160-180 ti maysa a kilo a nakulanitanen a tukak. Nalaklaka no sibibiag pay, ammo yo la ketdi ti mangkulanit maymayat daytoy a gatangen. No adda kayo met iti asideg ti taltalon, mayat ti agtiliw ti tukak (saan la ketdi nga agbagbagyo).
Saan nga amin a tukak ket makan, adda dagiti makalason a klase. Isu a nasayaat a no saan kayo a sigurado, saludsuden kadagiti makaammo kadagiti klase a mabalin a kanen. Masansan met a dagiti magatang iti tiendaan ket mabalin a kanen. Read the rest of this entry →
August 16, 2009 in editorials
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Read that again. That is not what the late Sen. Ninoy Aquino said when he was about to embark on his return home which ended tragically in an airport tarmac 26 years ago.
This parody is what is circulating in the virtual social network as an expression of the peoples’ disgust over those expensive dinners of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her entourage in a recent trip abroad while the nation was mourning the death of the late President Corazon “Cory” Aquino. Read the rest of this entry →
August 16, 2009 in columns, opinion
By ARTUR ALLAD-IW
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Grand old man of Philippine politics. Militant and Nationalist. Principled statesman. Brilliant legislator. Principled statesman. Civil libertarian.
The above are among the words used to describe the late Senator Lorenzo Tanada, especially remembering him on his 110th birth anniversary last August 10, 2009. Read the rest of this entry →
August 16, 2009 in columns, opinion
By KATHLEEN T. OKUBO
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But not in the Philippines, otherwise all those skin whiteners in all the malls’ cosmetic sections would not be there or “sell like pan cakes”. It looks like every young Filipina, and now also the Filipino, think it is a must to whiten their skin. The highschool kids save up from their allowances for a bottle or jar of skin whitener. They even know and advise each other to rub calamansi or alcohol if they cannot afford the commercial concoctions.
If the Filipino believed and perceives that dark skin is as beautiful then all those skin clinics would not be making just as good in profits on whitening as they are now. There is even a prevailing “racist” perception among non-igorots that their skin is fairer than the mountain people or shall we place it in the plain words that I have many times been confronted with; “ ay, Igorot ka? bakit ka maputi?!” (Ay, you an Igorot? why are you fair?). Just by the statement, suggests that the Filipino speaker has something against two things. One is against Igorots and the other, is against dark skin. Read the rest of this entry →
August 16, 2009 in columns, opinion
By IRENE CEBA
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P1 million dinner in New York for President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and company.
Bial Palaez, member of the Regional Director Council. Although I don’t like her in many ways, I still respect her. She shouldn’t have done that. Never mind if someone paid the expenses for her, dapat hindi niya ginawa for discipline’s sake. She should have discipline in spending money.
“Just Simple Dinner”- Palace Read the rest of this entry →
August 16, 2009 in columns
By REV. LUNA L. DINGAYAN
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If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets they will not be convinced even if someone were to rise from death. — Luke 16:31
Extravagant Meals
One of the latest controversies against the Arroyo Administration is about the one million peso ($20,000) meal President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo gave to her chosen ones at Le Cirque, one of the most expensive restaurants in downtown Manhattan, New York City, as reported by New York Post and picked up by the local media. Malacañang tried to justify the luxurious meal by saying that it was a gift of Leyte Representative Martin Romualdez in celebration of the First Couple’s wedding anniversary. Press Secretary Cerge Remolde also tried to downplay the issue by considering the meal as an ordinary “simple meal” blown up by the media. Read the rest of this entry →
August 16, 2009 in columns, opinion
By ALDWIN QUITASOL
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Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed. — Mwai Kibaki
Http//www.inthepalace.com (how thick is the pagmumukha/walanghiya sa worldwide)
Imagine how the hungry people feel when their stomachs are grumbling and then hear that their rulers feast in expensive restaurants spending hundred thousands or millions of pesos of their hard earned taxes. Read the rest of this entry →
August 16, 2009 in columns, lifeways
By JUDY Cariño
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Local builders of Baguio city learned the ins and outs of building small biogas systems last week. The training on biogas construction started at the height of Typhoon Isang, which did not dampen the enthusiasm and bayanihan spirit of the participants.
Construction workers and organic farmers, were among those who volunteered their time and labor to learn the skill, by actually building a biogas digester in barangay Lualhati. This will serve as a demonstration site for interested people to come and visit. Read the rest of this entry →
August 16, 2009 in statements
By NATIONAL UNION OF JOURNALISTS IN THE PHILIPPINES
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The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines welcomes the filing of House Bill No. 6622 by Makati Representative Teodoro Locsin Jr.
The measure of Locsin, chair of the House committee on suffrage and electoral reforms and himself a respected media practitioner, if enacted, will correct what we would like to believe, a unwitting oversight in the election law that has deprived generations of journalists and media workers of their right to suffrage. Read the rest of this entry →
August 16, 2009 in general
August 16, 2009 in Cordillera
By ALDWIN QUITASOL
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BAGUIO CITY — The Lepanto Consolidated Mining Company (LCMC) together with the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources of the Cordillera Administrative Region insists that the massive subsidence in Mankayan was caused by natural causes.
In the regular session of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) of Benguet, Lepanto said the sinking of the portion of Aurora St. in Barangay Poblacion in Mankayan last June 5 onwards is a result of poor geographic soil and rock composition which was enhanced by continues rains.The MGB confirmed what Lepanto have said before the members of the SP. Read the rest of this entry →
August 16, 2009 in national
By ARTHUR ALLAD-IW
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BAGUIO CITY — As President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s allies in the House of Representatives have not given up their move to transform Congress into a Constituent Assembly (Con-ass) to amend the 1987 Constitution, bishops of the Episcopal Church in the Philippines (ECP) join the opposition to charter change.
The ECP bishops believe that the Chacha, through the Con-ass, is a means for GMA to remain in power after the end of her term in 2010. Read the rest of this entry →
August 16, 2009 in Baguio City, national
By ARTHUR ALLAD-IW
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BAGUIO CITY — An urban poor alliance in this city welcomed the House Resolution by progressive party list representatives in Congress which calls for the investigation of the one million peso dinner of Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Aroyo and her entourage at a New York restaurant.
Urban poor leader Ignacio Pangket said that the dinner is a display of arrogance by a state leader whose majority of its people experience extreme poverty and involuntary hunger. He cited a latest Social Weather Station’s survey where 20.3 percent among the Filipino families are experiencing involuntary hunger. Read the rest of this entry →
August 16, 2009 in columns, food, lifeways
Ni BRENDA S. DACPANO
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Kadawyan nga aglutoak ti adobo a tulingan, galunggong wenno bangus a babassit no matsambaak a nalaka idiay tiendaan. No dadduma ket ilutok iti pressure cooker a kasla sardinas nga Spanish style, malaukan ti pickles, carrots, mantika, asin, paminta ken bulong ti laurel.
Ti adobo a tulingan ket inyaramidak ti kumbinasyon na wenno side dish nga ensalada a celery. Naranaak dagiti uggot ti celery idiay palengke idi naminsan a nakitiendaak isu a napanunot ko ti agaramid ti ensalada. Mayat a perresan daytoy ti lemon. Read the rest of this entry →
August 16, 2009 in Baguio City, Cordillera
By ALDWIN QUITASOL
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BAGUIO CITY — Various student groups and individuals led by the Asia Pacific Indigenous Youth Network (APIYN) held a cultural parade and a rally here on Monday as part of the observance of the 15th World Indigenous Peoples Day.
The groups staged a program at the Peoples Park airing the real plight of the Indigenous Peoples (IP) of the Philippines. They said the IPs despite the presence of the United Declaration on the Rights of the Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) still suffer from abuse and violations to their Ancestral Land Rights. They said the continuing entry of big mining corporations and explorations displace the IP communities. They added that with the development aggressions over the land of the IPs comes the heighthened militarization in the guise of anti-insurgency campaign but was in reality to sow terror and quell the strong resistance of IP communities against the exploitation of their lands. Read the rest of this entry →
August 16, 2009 in national
By ALDWIN QUITASOL
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BAGUIO CITY — The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) expressed doubts wether the resumptions of the peace-negotiations with the Governement of the Republic of the Philippines will push through because of the latters violations on their previous agreements.
In an e-mailed statement, the NDFP said the GRP is in gross violation of the agreement between the NDFP and the GRP negotiating panels on June 15. The two agreed on the release of detained NDFP consultants in compliance with the Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees (JASIG). Read the rest of this entry →
August 16, 2009 in Cordillera
By JEREMY GAWONGNA
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IFUGAO — Aspiring to become the premiere university in Ifugao Province, the Ifugao State College of Agriculture and Forestry (ISCAF) beats the odds as the Senate Plenary approved on second reading House Bill 4409 under Committee Report 536 in line with the conversion of ISCAF into Ifugao State University (IfSU) on August 11, 2009.
The Senate Plenary also approved the motion of Senate Committee on Education Chairman Senator Mar Roxas that all senators will co-sponsor the said bill. Read the rest of this entry →
August 16, 2009 in national
By ALDWIN QUITASOL
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QUEZON CITY — Representatives of different Indigenous Peoples(IPs) of the Philippines presented the situation and the calls of the Ips in contrast to the ninth State of the Nation Address (SONA) of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
The delivery of the State of the Indigenous Peoples Address (SIPA) coincided with the celebration of the IP day and the obervance of the United Nations Declaration on the rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). IP representatives from the Aeta, Manobo, Dumagat, Igorot and Palaw’an comnunities among others aand support groups and advocates participated in the delivery of the SIPA in the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City. Read the rest of this entry →
August 16, 2009 in Baguio City
By NONETTE BENNET
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BAGUIO CITY — The Children’s Park will be ready by September 1, according to Councilor Perlita Chan-Rondez in a letter dated 4 August to Bishop Carlito J. Cenzon, Baguio Centennial Commissioner.
Councilor Rondez assured the Bishop that the drainage work undertaken by Engr. Gamaliel Flores is complete as reported by City Engineer Leo Bernardez. Read the rest of this entry →
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