Month: November 2009

3 MIN READBy ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW www.nordis.net Muslims, Imam join condemnation as they observe Haj season BAGUIO CITY – Initiated by local media practitioners with a prayer and a candle lighting ceremony at the Baguio Cathedral...

3 MIN READBy ADELA WAYAS www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — National Union of Journalists in the Philippines (NUJP) Baguio-Benguet Chapter unites in condemning the carnage in Maguindanao and called for justice for the colleagues and...

2 MIN READBy WENDY ATUBAN www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — As of 11:40 last Saturday, six are contending to become the lone representative of this city in the congress while the local mayoral post has four aspirants as yet. Leading...

2 MIN READBy WENDY ATUBAN www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — Cases of violence against women here have increased, yet it can be construed as both positive and negative. That is what civil society groups as well as the police claimed...

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2 MIN READBy ALDWIN QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — The Cordillera Human Rights Alliance (CHRA) expressed condemnation on the ongoing militarization in sitio Gumhang, Tinoc, Ifugao. Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP)...

2 MIN READBy ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — The city, through its Centennial Commission, gave recognitions to Anglican institutions at the awarding ceremony last Sunday. Four Anglican institutions were among the...

2 MIN READBy MANNY A. LOSTE www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — Scores of incumbent and aspiring politicians from the Cordillera took their oath of membership as Liberal Party members before former Senate President Franklin M. Drilon...

2 MIN READBy MANNY A. LOSTE www.nordis.net Phto courtesy of Baguio Pride Network Baguio City. – They were not members of the Ang Ladlad partylist, but when the COMELEC trashed Ang Ladlad’s second attempt at...

3 MIN READBy ARTHUR ALLAD-IW www.nordis.net FIRST OF TWO SERIES BAGUIO CITY – Environmental experts say this summer capital of the country is a landslide prone area. But intervention measures can be adopted by the local...

< 1 MIN READBy ADELA WAYAS www.nordis.net I keep it inside I always hesitate and forget my heart Looking at you I am pained Being with you will just be in the air. A meter away is always miles Your mind and heart I can not...

< 1 MIN READBy ADELA WAYAS www.nordis.net Baguio City — City Mayor Reinaldo Bautista Jr. announced on his regular media briefing that the city has recieved donations from Japan and the King of Saudi Arabia as relief...

< 1 MIN READBy WENDY ATUBAN www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — With 92.2 million population and most of whom are young people, the new thrust of the programs of the Population Commission now engages the youth in advocating its...

2 MIN READBy WENDY ATUBAN www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — A support enterprise firm servicing the interest and well-being of small and medium entrepreneurs (SMEs) by providing financial and training support, launched its North...

2 MIN READBy BAGUIO PRIDE NETWORK www.nordis.net We the members of the Baguio Pride Network (BPN), an alliance of LGBT organizations, individuals, friends and families here in Baguio City and the Municipality of La Trinidad join...

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3 MIN READBy KATHLEEN T. OKUBO www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — In a resolution passed by the City counncil recently and finally approved by Mayor Reinaldo Bautista, Jr. last week, February 23 has been declared Ibaloy day. The first...

2 MIN READBy WENDY ATUBAN www.nordis.net LA TRINIDAD, Benguet — Local officials of this vegetable producing town with the leaders of the different provinces of Cordillera expressed alarm over the rampant degradation of forests...

2 MIN READBy ADELA WAYAS www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — The Commission on Elections (Comelec) Monday started its information drive for registered voters on the automation system of the May 2010 elections at Saint Louis University...

2 MIN READBy JING GODIO www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY— The Cordillera Ecological Center- Pine Tree provided a two day training on vermiculture for 30 housewives in an effort to lessen household wastes generated at bunkhouses in...

< 1 MIN READBy ADELA WAYAS www.nordis.net I were once like a frail butterfly Trying to spread my wings in the midst of war But I am weak and alone Hopeless and have no courage to fight The oppressor that kills my land. With...

2 MIN READBy CATHY CALUYA www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — The city council, Monday finally approved an additional appropriation of P45M tipping fee to be used until the end of the year for the hauling of the city’s garbage. Acting...

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2 MIN READBy MANUEL A. LOSTE www.nordis.net Baguio City — Considered as the oldest and most widespread grassroots organization advocating indigenous peoples rights in northern Luzon, the Cordillera Peoples Alliance (CPA) is...

2 MIN READBy ALDWIN QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — City Mayor Reinaldo Bautista Jr. expressed final acceptance that efforts to win back the hosting of such major and essential event were bound to fail. Weeks after saying...

2 MIN READBy ALDWIN QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — Irisan residents expressed fears of the stench as the city sought to construct a septic-tank waste containment facility at the Irisan dumpsite for the city’s slaughter...

2 MIN READBy WENDY ATUBAN www.nordis.net photo by Marv Terceño BAGUIO CITY — Less than two decades ago the opposition to the San Roque mega dam was at its height, now with the massive flash flood that hit nearly the whole...

< 1 MIN READBy WENDY ATUBAN www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — One of the city’s sister city extended cash donations coursed thru the local government to the victims of typhoon Pepeng here. Taebaek city of South Korea which forged...

2 MIN READBy WENDY ATUBAN www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — This city is after all not that all too critical in terms of landslide susceptibility but it is landslide prone nonetheless. Due to its geomorphic (mountainous) and geologic...

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2 MIN READNORTHERN DISPATCH WEEKLY www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — In a resolution that was unanimously passed by the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) in a meeting en banc on October 27, Tuesday urges the government...

2 MIN READBy ALDWIN QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — Thanks to typhoon Santi, the city government decided to haul the four-week old piles of more than 22,000 tons of stinking uncollected garbage. The decision only came...

2 MIN READBy ALDWIN QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — After helping one migrant family whose house was destroyed by the recent typhoons go back to their home province, the city extended its “Balik Probinsiya Program” to more...

2 MIN READBy WENDY ATUBAN www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — As the country commemorates the 17th Children’s Month celebration this October, the city has noted a five percent yearly increase in the number of its youth constituents...

3 MIN READBy WENDY ATUBAN www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — The City Camp Lagoon area here is not only landslide prone but is a geologically critical area as well. Thus said councilor Isabelo Cosalan of the Committee on Lands and...

3 MIN READBy KATHLEEN T. OKUBO www.nordis.net It is tradition that we go pay our respects to out dead on this day, 1st of November. This year today let us also remember why Baguio and the Cordillera had so many victims from the...