Month: December 2009

2 MIN READwith NORDIS reports www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — Katribu Partylist declared that climate change mitigation and adaptation initiatives must be pursued at the community level as it commended and welcomed the the draft...

2 MIN READwww.nordis.net It is an election year. With all that has happened in the country’s economic and political scene just last year is basis that can be used to make some resolutions for the new year especially in the...

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2 MIN READBy ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW www.nordis.net Benguet SP support their cause BAGUIO CITY — Families and clans affected by a geothermal project in Daclan, Bokod, opposed anew the project as it caused stress on the social...

2 MIN READBy CONYAP G. www.nordis.net BONTOC, Mt. Province — Various sectors held a dialogue with the 54th IB of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on their bid to seek justice for the victims of human rights violations...

2 MIN READBy RODA TAJON www.nordis.net VIGAN CITY — A staff of a non-government organization (NGO) in the Cordillera Administrative Region has been charged with cases filed about 20 years ago in Quezon Province. Rodolfo Reyes,...

2 MIN READBy ALDWIN QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — Cordillera People’s Democratic Front (CPDF) Spokesperson Simon “Ka Filiw” Naogsan said the Cordillera Peoples Liberation Army is in the same sinking boat as the Ampatuan...

2 MIN READBy WENDY ATUBAN www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — The Department of Environment and Natural Resources looks forward to a zero importation of Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) an ozone-depleting chemical, in January next year. On...

2 MIN READBy CONYAP G. www.nordis.net BONTOC, Mt. Province — Acknowledging that the militarization of Indigenous Peoples’ territories such as the case in some parts of this province and in the Cordillera region as not an...

2 MIN READBy WENDY ATUBAN www.nordis.net LA TRINIDAD — Acknowledging that the “true measure of success is not financial but the amount of help given to host communities,” SN Aboitiz Power Corp., Inc. turned over to some Benguet...

2 MIN READBy ADELA WAYAS www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY – City Environment and Parks Management Office (CEPMO) officer-in-charge Cordelia Lacsamana told the members of the Sangguniang Panlungsod that the city can reduce...

3 MIN READwww.nordis.net Underneath the never-ending and intensifying political conflict is the permanent and worsening crisis of the economy. The raging economic crisis feeds the growing dispute among the various factions of...

2 MIN READBy MANNY LOSTE www.nordis.net After the Nacionalista Party now headed by presidential aspirant Sen. Manny Villar forged an alliance with the Marcoses’ Kilusang Bagong Lipunan (KBL) with Rep. Ferdinand “Bongbong”...

3 MIN READBy ALDWIN QUITASOL www.nordis.net Peace is no mere matter of men fighting or not fighting. Peace, to have meaning for many who have known only suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice,...

2 MIN READBy PAMELA BADONGEN PATAL-E www.nordis.net “Of one thing I am certain; the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.” — Phyllis McGinley How do you tell a child that his/her mother or father is dead?...

< 1 MIN READBy KIMBERLIE OLMAYA NGABIT QUITASOL www.nordis.net Hundreds of them are fallen And a hundred others are taken In broad day light At daybreak or night In remote valleys Crowded streets or dark alleys They were...

< 1 MIN READBy ADELA WAYAS www.nordis.net I’ve been living in this world for twenty years now Looking at things differently from the others that I used to be with And in this times, I always ask myself Should I be happy or...

3 MIN READBy ADELA WAYAS www.nordis.net Why fear if you are telling the truth? Why not shout if you are tyrannized? Why not fight if there is something worth fighting for? The merging minds and creative action of relating the...

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2 MIN READBy ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — The chapter of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) here claims that the Presidential Proclamation No. 1959 which declared Martial Law in Maguindanao fails to...

3 MIN READBy ALDWIN QUITASOL www.nordis.net Photo courtesy of Edward Bagni/KMU Cordillera MANKAYAN, Benguet — Protesting the continued non-remittance of their SSS and Pag-ibig contributions, delayed and partial giving of wages...

3 MIN READBy ALDWIN QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) mission investigating the November 23 Ampatuan Town massacre has just released its preliminary report on its findings...

2 MIN READBy ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — The regional office of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED-CAR) conducted a teachers’ seminar last week on the use of a guide for teaching Cordillera regional...

2 MIN READTHIS EDITORIAL, DRAFTED BY DAVAO TODAY, IS PUBLISHED BY PROGRESSIVE AND ALTERNATIVE MEDIA OUTLETS IN THE PHILIPPINES. WWW.NORDIS.NET At a time when even war itself strives to be humane, the carnage that killed 57...

2 MIN READBy ADELA WAYAS www.nordis.net As the term of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo nears its end, she files her certificate of candidancy for the position of congresswoman in the second distric of Pampanga, December 01, in...

< 1 MIN READNi ADELA WAYAS www.nordis.net Hindi ko mabilang ang bawat patak Ng luhang sa mukha’y di mapigilan Ang hinagpis ay ang kantang humihiyaw At ang sakit sa dibdib ay pawang walang katapusan. Sa bawat paglingon ay...

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2 MIN READBAGUIO CITY – Militant leaders here on Monday urged Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to abandon its political alliance with the Ampatuans to ensure that justice be rendered to the 57 victims in the Maguindanao carnage. Not to...

3 MIN READBy JULIET SALEY/PIA MP www.nordis.net BONTOC, Mt. Province – A total of 371 political aspirants are vying for the various elective positions in the province. The congressional seat is contested by incumbent Gov. Maximo...

3 MIN READBy ALDWIN QUITASOL www.nordis.net Slams GMA bid for congress QUEZON CITY — Bayan Muna Partylist Representatives top bets Teddy Casiño and Neri Colmenares and fellow nominee Atty. Joven Laura led its contingent in...

< 1 MIN READBy UPB/OPA www.nordis.net Historical memory should go beyond the celebration of centennials. A sustained cultivation of the collective consciousness of Baguio’s past should be pursued. As the City’s celebration of...