3 MIN READBy KIMBERLIE NGABIT-QUITASOL www.nordis.net LAGAWE, Ifugao — Human rights defenders under the banner of the Cordillera Human Rights Alliance (CHRA) successfully staged their third regional congress on July 28 to 29,...
Read More3 MIN READBy ALMA B. SINUMLAG www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — Katribu partylist strongly condemned the abduction of an Aggay leader in Rizal, Cagayan by joint elements of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine...
Read More3 MIN READBy ALMA B. SINUMLAG www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY – Parents and faculty of Mountain Province State Polythecnic College (MPSPC) called on the protesters to resume their classes while waiting for the result of the...
Read More2 MIN READwww.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — A day before the PNoy’s State of the Nation Address (SONA), a staff of the Community Health Education, Service and Training in the Cordillera Region (CHESTCORE) received a threat on her...
Read More4 MIN READBy ALDWIN QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — In a statement sent to the media, the spokesperson of the Cordillera People’s Democratic Front (CPDF) said the miserable situation in the region of Ilocos and the...
Read More4 MIN READBy ALMA B. SINUMLAG www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — “Walang pagbabago sa panahon ni Aquino,” (There is no significant change in Aquino’s regime). This was the cry of the Baguio multi-sectoral group after the 2nd State of...
Read More3 MIN READBy ALMA B. SINUMLAG www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — Anakbayan-Cordillera slammed the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on their continuing red baiting against progressive youth organizations in the region....
Read More4 MIN READBy KIMBERLIE NGABIT-QUITASOL www.nordis.net LAGAWE, Ifugao — Officers and members of the Cordillera Human Rights Alliance (CHRA) expressed their highest recognition and deepest gratitude to Atty. Reynaldo Cortes for...
Read More2 MIN READBy ALMA B. SINUMLAG www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — The militant alliance of Cordillera peoples organizations here called for concerned agencies and local government units (LGU) to let the Municipality of Itogon heal from...
Read More2 MIN READBy ALMA B. SINUMLAG www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — Santos Mero, the deputy secretary general of the Cordillera Peoples Alliance (CPA), said once an FTAA is approved, the owner of the applications are given a permission...
Read More< 1 MIN READBy KIMBERLIE NGABIT-QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Regional Director Clarence Baguilat commended the present administration for the recognition and...
Read More2 MIN READwww.nordis.net By BLAINE JENNER BILALAT BONTOC, Mt. Province — The five-week running protest action against the administration in Mountain Province State Polythecnic College (MPSPC) has caught the attention of the...
Read More2 MIN READwww.nordis.net By ATTY. RONALD L. PEREZ / IBP Release BAGUIO CITY — While everybody was commemorating the 1990 killer earthquake some eleven years ago, and the City’s fast recovery to be a premiere City of the country,...
Read More2 MIN READwww.nordis.net By ISAGANI LIPORADA / PIO MANILA — With barely a week of preparations for a battle pitting the best kicksters in the country did not stop six Baguio boys from pressing their luck in the 2011 Adidas...
Read More3 MIN READwww.nordis.net Or is it rather the right to remain human? While this observation is written, the country has just heard the President’s State of the Nation Address and the Cordillera Human Rights Alliance is in the...
Read More2 MIN READBy KATHLEEN T. OKUBO www.nordis.net The State of the Nation Address (SONA) is used as a venue by an incumbent president to enumerate his or her achievements from the past year. It is also used as a ground to lay down...
Read More5 MIN READBy KATHLEEN T. OKUBO www.nordis.net Last week in Bontoc, as the community continues to sift through the myriad issues (that surfaced when an angry mob made the bubble burst earlier this month) in the local Mountain...
Read More2 MIN READBy ALDWIN QUITASOL www.nordis.net On the day the yellow president of the yellow crowd delivered his Statement of No Achievement (SONA), progressive organizations, groups and sectors staged a protest activity in one of...
Read More4 MIN READBy PIO VERZOLA JR. www.nordis.net It is typhoon season once more, and those of us in media who have to file reports on a daily or hourly basis know how it is to be on typhoon-tracking mode—to be familiar with PAGASA...
Read More3 MIN READBy REV. LUNA DINGAYAN www.nordis.net “When the Holy Spirit comes upon you, you will be filled with power, and you will be witnesses for me in Jerusalem, in all of Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” — Act...
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Read More2 MIN READBy ALMA B. SINUMLAG www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY – “Walang pagbabago sa panahon ni Aquino,” (There is no significant change in Aquino’s regime). This was the cry of the Baguio multi-sectoral group after the...
Read More3 MIN READBy ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY – Aside from his total failure to uplift the situation of Cordillera indigenous peoples, the militant Cordillera Peoples Alliance (CPA) said that Pres. Benigno...
Read More< 1 MIN READwww.nordis.net VIGAN CITY, Ilocos Sur – Militant groups of Ilocos Sur led by ANAKBAYAN, KARATULA, NUSP, CEGP, STOP Exploitation and Ilocos Human Rights Alliance (IHRA-KARAPATAN), held a protest...
Read More2 MIN READBy PAULA ESPIRITU www.nordis.net LA UNION — In their own version of the State of the Nation Address (SONA), more than 4,000 students joined in the State of the Youth Address (SOYA) on July 19 to convey disappointment...
Read More2 MIN READBy KIMBERLIE NGABIT-QUITASOL with reports from RONALYN OLEA/Bulatlat www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — Another activist, a member of Gabriela-Ilocos was arrested after she was accused of being a high ranking official of the...
Read More2 MIN READBy KIMBERLIE NGABIT-QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — The Cordillera People’s Democratic Front (CPDF) in an emailed statement called for the disintegration, disarming and punishment of the Cordillera People’s...
Read More2 MIN READBy ALMA B. SINUMLAG www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — Kilusang Mayo Uno-Cordillera (KMU-Cordillera) gave President Benigno Aquino III a failing mark on his administration’s attention to labor issues. Michael Cabangon,...
Read More2 MIN READBy ALMA B. SINUMLAG www.nordis.net TUBLAY, Benguet — The Sangguniang Bayan (SB) of this town through a resolution oppossed the establishment and operation of a mineral processing plant at Sitio Suyoc, of Barangay...
Read More5 MIN READBy MARY LOU MARIGZA www.nordis.net BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya — The people of Nueva Vizcaya, particularly the people of Kasibu and Quezon, are determined to oppose three mining giants exploring for gold and other...
Read More< 1 MIN READBy LOUIE SANTOS www.nordis.net LA UNION — The Ilocos Human Rights Alliance (IHRA) in coordination with Kabataan Partylist held a forum on the National Situation and the State of Human Rights at the Apilado Hall of...
Read More2 MIN READBy GIL CORPUZ www.nordis.net ILAGAN, Isabela — Marcelino Espiritu, a 53-year old peasant and indigenous peoples’ leader from San Mariano, Isabela was recently appointed a sectoral representative of the farmers sector...
Read More2 MIN READBy ALMA B. SINUMLAG www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — One of the member of the Board of Trustees of the Mountain Province State Polythecnic College (MPSPC) said that the students have gone beyond the so called academic...
Read More3 MIN READBy ALMA B. SINUMLAG www.nordis.net TUBLAY, Benguet — The municipal agricultural officer (MAO) of this town shared how the municipality is mitigating the effects of Climate Change with focus on agriculture. MAO Jeffry...
Read More2 MIN READwww.nordis.net Last year our president defined in his first state of the nation address the paths he may take and said; “My beloved countrymen: Our administration is facing a forked road. On one direction, decisions...
Read More5 MIN READBy KATHLEEN T. OKUBO www.nordis.net Being Cory’s son many had high expectations on PNoy’s presidency. I give the column space today to one group that did not have such high expectations: ‘Failure’ aptly describes...
Read More4 MIN READBy REV. LUNA DINGAYAN www.nordis.net “When the Holy Spirit comes upon you, you will be filled with power, and you will be witnesses for me in Jerusalem, in all of Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” — Act...
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Read More3 MIN READBy ALMA B. SINUMLAG www.nordis.net “Entayo agpabuya, paypayew kalkalsada, salidummay salidummay ay ay. Minas ken kabakiran, teatro pay ti babaknang, salidummay salidummay ay ay. Bannog, puyat ken bisin, tudo pudot ken...
Read More4 MIN READBy MARY LOU MARIGZA www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — Doctor Andres Roldan Bugnosen joined his Creator last July 10. He was a surgeon, a politician, a friend and a preacher but most of all, he was the servant of the...
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Read More3 MIN READBy ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — Standing firm on the community’s united decision and indigenous political systems in protecting their homeland, members of the Sadanga tribe of Mountain Province...
Read More2 MIN READBy ALMA B. SINUMLAG www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — The taxi meter calibration for the new P35 flag down rate has started on July 13. Celina Claver, the regional director of the Department of Transportation and...
Read More2 MIN READBy ROBELIZA HALIP www.nordis.net QUEZON CITY — Ifugao Representative Teddy Brawner Baguilat is up in arms over the difficulties securing valuable assistance to his constituents from the National Livelihood Development...
Read More2 MIN READBy ALMA B. SINUMLAG www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — The Sangguniang Bayan (SB) of the Municipality of Bontoc passed a resolution strongly supporting the pressing multi-sectoral clamor for the immediate replacement of Dr....
Read More3 MIN READBy ALMA B. SINUMLAG www.nordis.net LA TRINIDAD, Benguet — “Haste makes waste.” This was the statement of Governor Nestor Fongwan during the Benguet Consultation on the 3rd attempt for an autonomous Cordillera region on...
Read More2 MIN READBy ALMA B. SINUMLAG www.nordis.net TUBLAY, Benguet — Mayor Ruben Paoad of this town said that the recommendation of the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) on the construction and establishment of a copper concentrate...
Read More2 MIN READBy ALMA B. SINUMLAG www.nordis.net LA TRINIDAD, Benguet — The Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) here on July 11 approved on 2nd and final reading a resolution requesting the Land Registration Authority (LRA) and the...
Read More2 MIN READBy KIMBERLIE OLMAYA NGABIT-QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — Believing that rivers are important to the ecosystem, the La Trinidad local government unit (LGU) and the University of the Philippines Baguio (UPB)...
Read More2 MIN READBy ALMA B. SINUMLAG www.nordis.net LA TRINIDAD, Benguet — Itogon Mayor Oscar Camantiles forwarded a letter to the provincial governor, who at the same time chairs the Provincial Solid Waste Management Board (PSWMB) to...
Read More2 MIN READwww.nordis.net By ACE ALEGRE BAGUIO CITY — Court sheriffs in Baguio and Benguet went for a day in court donning “black eyes” to protest the punching incident in Davao they said is “a black eye” to justice. Sporting...
Read More< 1 MIN READBy KIMBERLIE NGABIT-QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — The International Solidarity Mission on Mining (ISMM) visited the Lepanto Consolidated Mining Company (LCMCo) in Mankayan, Benguet on July 12 to 13 as part...
Read More< 1 MIN READBy ALMA B. SINUMLAG www.nordis.net LA TRINIDAD, Benguet — Tuba officials recently enacted an ordinance aimed at ensuring a safe water source for the municipality, free from chemical pollutants. The municipality...
Read More2 MIN READwww.nordis.net By LITO DAR/PIA CAR BAGUIO CITY — In support to city government’s effort to cleanse the city of gambling, the City Council voted 10-4 in favor of a proposed resolution opposing the entry of ‘Loterya ng...
Read More2 MIN READwww.nordis.net By LEILANI ADRIANO LAOAG CITY, Ilocos Norte — If you’re experiencing foul odor urine, perspiration or a bad breath, you are most likely a candidate of kidney disease, said experts from the Renal Disease...
Read More2 MIN READBy ALMA B. SINUMLAG www.nordis.net LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – “Give due respect to the dead”. This was the statement of councilor Jim Botiwey on July 12 during their regular session with regards the proliferation of salisi...
Read More3 MIN READwww.nordis.net Alderman ask the public to re-circulate the coins By Joseph B Zambrano (PIA CAR) BAGUIO CITY — City dads are enjoining the public to re-circulate coins in their possession and use them in the purchase of...
Read More3 MIN READwww.nordis.net One nationally recognized economist qouted a report that said the Philippines was seen as owning to the lowest level of foreign direct investment in East Asia, and the reasons, “A major explanation is...
Read More2 MIN READBy MARY LOU O. MARIGZA www.nordis.net Today I beg your indulgence while I pay tribute to a friend and a spiritual giant of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines, not only here in Baguio but in the whole...
Read More3 MIN READBy KATHLEEN T. OKUBO www.nordis.net When I go to the Baguio market for the week’s supply because of the usual packaging system I bring home more than a dozen plastic bags of different sizes. As is practised at home...
Read More4 MIN READBy PIO VERZOLA JR. www.nordis.net Of course there is only one Internet. Yes, it is composed of many parts and there are many ways of “surfing it.” But it is just one big whole, in the same way that there is only one...
Read More3 MIN READwww.nordis.net By LEAGUE OF PROGRESSIVE STUDENTS July 12, 2011 The League of Progressive Students (LPS), a national democratic youth organization in the Mountain Province State Polytechnic College calls for the...
Read More3 MIN READBy REV. LUNA DINGAYAN www.nordis.net “The city’s rulers govern for bribes, the priests interpret the Law for pay, the prophets give their revelations for money — and they all claim that the Lord is with them.” — Micah...
Read More2 MIN READwww.nordis.net By COLLEGE EDITORA GUILD OF THE PHILIPPINES — BAGUIO-BENGUET This July 19, students and youth groups all over the country will stage a nationally-coordinated action (NCA) to show its protest against the...
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Read More5 MIN READwww.nordis.net By LUCHI MARANAN For this year at least, this would have to be the most colorful, interesting gathering, incendiary even as the liberal atmosphere of Plaridel Hall was rife with the energy of delegates...
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Read More3 MIN READBy KIMBERLIE NGABIT-QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY—At the height of the celebrations of the government’s Cordillera month, the organizations under the Cordillera Peoples Alliance (CPA) call for the scrapping of...
Read More3 MIN READBy KIMBERLIE NGABIT-QUITASOL www.nordis.net QUEZON CITY — The Alyansa dagiti Pesante iti Taeng Kordilyera (Apit Tako, Cordillera Peasant Alliance) and the Danggayan dagiti Mannalon ti Isabela (Dagami, Isabela farmers...
Read More2 MIN READwww.nordis.net By JULIET B. SALEY / PIA-MP BONTOC, Mt. Province — The Sangguniang Panlalawigan here has made official the opposition of the people and the officialdom of this province to large-scale mining exploration...
Read More4 MIN READBy ALMA B. SINUMLAG www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — In press briefing held here on July 8, it was shared that the Board of Trustees (BOT) of the Mt. Province State Polythechnic College (MPSPC) through a board resolution...
Read More2 MIN READBy ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — In light of the public debate caused by recent same sex marriage that happened in this city, officers of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines chapter (IBP) here...
Read More3 MIN READBy ALMA B. SINUMLAG www.nordis.net TUBLAY, Benguet — The proponent of the copper concentrate processing plant located in barangay Caponga, here did not follow any legal process before its construction and installation...
Read More2 MIN READwww.nordis.net By DAN B. CODAMON / JDP / DBC-PIA CAR, Ifugao with reports from KIMBERLIE NGABIT-QUITASOL LAGAWE, Ifugao — A police officer involved in a shooting in Tinoc, Ifugao killing two police officers, two...
Read More3 MIN READBy KIMBERLIE NGABIT-QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — The Amnesty Internationa (AI) annual report on the human rights situation in the country confirmed the earlier pronouncements of the rights groups in Northern...
Read More2 MIN READwww.nordis.net By REDJIE CAWIS / JDP /RC-PIA CAR BAGUIO CITY — The recent signing of the Memorandum of Agreement between the Philippine government and the Cordillera Peoples Liberation Army (CPLA) closure agreement...
Read More3 MIN READBy MARY LOU MARIGZA www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — Development workers need to upgrade and update their skills and knowledge on good practices and trends to be more efficient in meeting the challenges in their work and...
Read More2 MIN READwww.nordis.net Even the simple respect accorded the position of president was absent in the action of besieging the office of the president and literally destroying the door. With the safety of the people with her in...
Read More3 MIN READBy ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW www.nordis.net The “rehabilitation” of the Bokawkan and Loakan Roads by the DPWH is under fire from the local residents. They had raised and questioned the rehabilitation of standards roads and...
Read More3 MIN READBy ALDWIN QUITASOL www.nordis.net “The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.” — Harlan Ellison According to the spokesperson of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), around 20,...
Read More8 MIN READBy REV. LUNA DINGAYAN www.nordis.net “Now, will God not judge in favor of his own people who cry to him day and night for help? Will he be slow to help them? I tell you, he will judge in their favor and do it quickly.”...
Read More5 MIN READwww.nordis.net By LEAGUE OF PROGRESSIVE STUDENTS-MT.PROVINCE YOUTH ASSOCIATION The League of Progressive Students, a national democratic youth organization in the Mt. Province State Polytechnic College and a member of...
Read More4 MIN READBy ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — “Mr. President, James (Balao) is my uncle and I miss him so much. Please help!” The above words were written by Sarah Balao Strugar on a postcard, which was among the...
Read More3 MIN READBy ALMA B. SINUMLAG www.nordis.net QUEZON CITY — “The most noble thing and greatest task in the world is to sacrifice for our people and land. United we will stand firm and divided we will fall… It is our...
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Read More3 MIN READBy ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — Greatly disturbed by the daily traffic and delay it creates, residents of this city urged concerned government agencies to investigate those who recommended the...
Read More2 MIN READBy MICHAEL UMAMING www.nordis.net TABUK, Kalinga — Rep. Teodoro Baguilat of Ifugao called for more consultations on Regional Autonomy warning that a third rejection might mean strike-out just like strike three in...
Read More2 MIN READBy ALMA B. SINUMLAG www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — In the afternoon of July 1, an agitated group of students and teachers in the Mountain Province State Polythechnic College (MPSPC) besieged and pressured the college...
Read More3 MIN READBy KIMBERLIE OLMAYA NGABIT-QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — The 3rd Organic Act is finally bringing government officials, journalists and even the militant group in the same page. Ifugao Representative Teodoro B....
Read More3 MIN READBy KIMBERLIE OLMAYA NGABIT-QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — Human rights groups in Northern Luzon assailed the administration of President Benigno Aquino III (PNoy) saying that he did not just fail to deliver...
Read More2 MIN READBy ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — Bishop Prudencio Andaya Jr., of the Apostolic Vicariate of Tabuk, clarifies that they, as one institution, did not make a common stand to throwing support to the...
Read More2 MIN READBy ALMA B. SINUMLAG www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — The Cordillera Peoples Alliance (CPA) maitains that the indigenous peoples of Gambang, Bakun remains restless as the threat brought about by the questionable issuances...
Read More2 MIN READBy ALMA B. SINUMLAG www.nordis.net TUBLAY, Benguet — The ancestral domain of Tublay in Barangay Ambassador and the Indigenous Peoples Organization (IPO) of Atok in separate resolutions rejected the proposed small scale...
Read More2 MIN READwww.nordis.net LUNGSOD NG BAGUIO — Nananawagan ang Progressive Organization of Gays (ProGay) Metro Baguio sa mga lider ng sambahang Kristiyano at sa lokal na pamahalaan na lubayan na ang gay community kaugnay ng...
Read More< 1 MIN READBy KIMBERLIE OLMAYA NGABIT-QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY—“Ang kasalanan ko doon hindi ako nakapagtimpi.” Kalinga Governor Jocel Baac in an interview here last June 28 admitted hitting, maintaining that it...
Read More2 MIN READBy ALMA B. SINUMLAG www.nordis.net LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – The province of Benguet through the office of the provincial veterinarian will be distributing carabaos to the farmers specially in the rice producing areas to...
Read More3 MIN READwww.nordis.net Conner road mishaps claim lives By Morris Longid CONNER, Apayao — One June 25, two road mishaps here claimed the lives of Lolit Culili and Sherill Lawani. Lawani died after her motorcycle collided with...
Read More3 MIN READwww.nordis.net “The path to Hell is paved with good intentions…” The members of the third Autonomy Act drafting committee announced last Wednesday that the consultation is the last of the several and the...
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