2 MIN READBy NORTHERN DISPATCH BAGUIO CITY — It is final: the local Liberal Party (LP) and Nationalist Peoples Coalition (NPC) has united for the May 2013 elections behind, what they called the tandem, Marques S. Go and Jose...
Read More3 MIN READBy DELIA BAGNI www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — In support to the plea of Baguio residents to stop the removal of 182 heritage pine trees in favor of a mall expansion here, Sting moved his concert venue from the Mall Of...
Read More4 MIN READBy ALDWIN QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — In an interview, PISTON-Cordillera President Carlito Wayas said, DOTC Assistant Secretary Virginia P. Torres issued a memorandum recently directing the agency branches...
Read More2 MIN READBy ALDWIN QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — According to the Samahan ng mga Taxi sa Cordillera Administrative Region (STCAR) head Melanio Panayo, the imposition of the Common Carrier Tax (CCT) under Republic Act...
Read More2 MIN READBy KIMBERLIE NGABIT-QUITASOL www.nordis.net LA TRINIDAD, Benguet — Indigenous people of Tabeo, Madaymen, Mankayan, Benguet opposing the drilling operations of the Far Southeast Gold Resources Inc. (FSGRI) vowed to...
Read More3 MIN READBy DELIA BAGNI www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — Militant groups in a nationally coordinated activity staged a silent march protest infront of Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center (BGHMC) signifying consistent...
Read More2 MIN READBy KIMBERLIE NGABIT-QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — The revised guidelines on free prior and informed consent (FPIC) that the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) approved earlier this year attempts...
Read More3 MIN READwww.nordis.net It has been described as “the massacre” of a family and an “act of brutality against the most vulnerable sector”. According to news stories, it was committed by State security forces particularly by the...
Read More2 MIN READwww.nordis.net On September 1, 1989 Cooper Resabal wrote, “This is our maiden issue of the Northern Dispatch (Nordis), a weekly packet of news and features on Northern Luzon. Initially the coverage will be on the...
Read More2 MIN READBy ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW www.nordis.net I got the chance to visit the natural beauties of Ilocos Norte and Ilocos Sur last year. It was a visit that deepened my appreciation for these natural areas, complimented by...
Read More3 MIN READBy MARY LOU MARIGZA www.nordis.net Now we told you so. Despite protests that the cyber crime law is bound to be abused, it was still signed by the president. It was the vigilance of the netizens and freedom loving...
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3 MIN READBy KATHLEEN T. OKUBO www.nordis.net Carol Brady deRaedt is part of an old Baguio family...
Read More3 MIN READBy LADWIN QUITASOL www.nordis.net “If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.”— Joe Hill Reading the national and local newspapers, lots...
Read More2 MIN READBy ABIGAIL B. ANONGOS CORDILLERA PEOPLES ALLIANCE “If you really want to define civilization it should be a culture that doesn’t destroy its environment. If you burn down the kitchen one day and expect to eat the next,...
Read More2 MIN READBy PHILIPPINE TASK FORCE FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES RIGHTS We are alarmed by the latest in a series of killings of innocent indigenous peoples. On October 18, 2012, Juvy Capion and her children Pop (13 yrs old) and John (8...
Read More3 MIN READBy REV. LUNA DINGAYAN www.nordis.net “My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? I have cried desperately for help, but still it does not come.” — Psalms 22:1 Responses to questions of Cathryn Taylor of Australia...
Read More2 MIN READBy INNABUYOG-GABRIELA www.nordis.net Congratulations to Northern Dispatch Weekly or Nordis on its 10th year anniversary as a news paper and 24th year since its founding as a regional news dispatch! The Cordillera...
Read More7 MIN READBy ALDWIN QUITASOL www.nordis.net “Maibus iti kuwarta, ngem saan iti daga, ti bunga iti daga, awan ti patingga na.” — Salidummay On January 23 of 2012, residents of Sitio Madaymen, Tabio of the municipality of...
Read More8 MIN READBy DELIA BAGNI www.nordis.net Trash slide! On August 27, 2011, the retaining wall of the Irisan dumpsite of Baguio City collapsed causing an avalanche of garbage sweep down to Asin Road, Tuba, Benguet. This killed 6...
Read More6 MIN READBy ALDWIN QUITASOL www.nordis.net “We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.” — Aldo Leopold...
Read More3 MIN READNi ANTONINO PUGYAO NANGNANGNGEG YO KADIN TI MAKUNKUNA A SIN TAX? Ti sin tax (buis ti basol?) ket buis a makolekta manipud kadagiti produkto a bisyo kas iti sigarilyo ken arak. Iti agdama, nabara a mapagsasaritaan iti...
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3 MIN READNi BRENDA S. DACPANO www.nordis.net Umadanin ti Paskua ken baro a tawen, nalabit nga...
Read More2 MIN READBy KIMBERLIE NGABIT-QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY—A large number of Cordillerans are still undecided on the autonomy bid as majority are unaware of the House Bill 5595 or the autonomy bill pending in congress. In...
Read More3 MIN READBy ROD TAJON www.nordis.net QUEZON CITY — The families of Tineg 8 and San Narciso 11 in Abra and Quezon provinces appeared before the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) and Joint Monitoring Committee (JMC) to demand...
Read More2 MIN READNi ROD TAJON www.nordis.net SALCEDO, Ilocos Sur — Kinondena ng isang grupo ng karapatang pantao sa Ilocos ang ginawang pagtortyur ng militar sa dalawang magsasaka noong nakaraang Setyembre. Ayon kay Mila Marcelo,...
Read More3 MIN READBy DELIA BAGNI www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — After a long wait, the clamor of the residents for urgent action on their request for the segregation of 13 barangays surrounding John Hay reservation is paving its way with...
Read More3 MIN READBy ALDWIN QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — According to Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) Chief Executive Office Arnel Paciano D. Casanova, 25% of the more than P3 billion unpaid rent of Camp John...
Read More2 MIN READBy DELIA BAGNI www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — Center for Development Programs in the Cordillera (CDPC Inc.) denounced the continous harassment and persecution of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and certain...
Read More2 MIN READBy KIMBERLIE NGABIT-QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — Government officials who attended the New York fashion week paid for their own travel expenses even after the Regional Development Council (RDC) Cordillera...
Read More< 1 MIN READBy ALDWIN QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — Baguio City Mayor Mauricio G. Domogan urged city government to consider replacement and management venture as a practical option to improve the city’s lighting...
Read More2 MIN READNi ABRA HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENT (PR) BANGUED, Abra — Nangisayangkat ti Abra Human Rights Alliance (AHRA) ti maysa a seminar-workshop mainaig iti karbengan tao kagiddan na ti asembliya ti organisasyon idi Oktubre 9...
Read More< 1 MIN READBy JOHNNY SAWADAN www.nordis.net TABUK CITY, Kalinga — The Timpuyog Daguiti Mannalon ti Kalinga (TMK), a federation of farmer’s organizations in the province will hold its 6th congress on October 21 and 22 at the...
Read More2 MIN READBy ALDWIN QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — Peasants from different municipalities of Mountain Province and nearby places led by the Alyansa dagiti Pesante iti Montanyosa (Apit-Montanyosa) and Katribu Party List –...
Read More2 MIN READBy KATRIBU (PR) BAGUIO CITY — Indigenous youth organizations led by the Dap-ayan ti Kultura ti Kordilyera is geared to stage a youth gathering dubbed as “Sinsinapo” at the University of the Philippines Baguio (UPB) on...
Read More2 MIN READBy KIMBERLIE NGABIT-QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — Bayan Muna Representative Teddy Casiño called for an independent and impartial investigation on the mine leak from Philex Mining Corporation’s tailings pond 3...
Read More2 MIN READBy KABATAAN (PR) QUEZON CITY — Kabataan Partylist Representative Raymond Palatino decried the “railroaded” passage of House Bill No. 6643 or the K-12 Bill on second reading, saying that the rushed bill contains...
Read More< 1 MIN READBy ACE ALEGRE Itogon, Benguet – A well-known Australian yacht designer was murdered here according to a belated Benguet police report. Joseph Allan Adams, 81, reportedly one of Australia’s best known yacht...
Read More< 1 MIN READBy ACE ALEGRE TUBA, Benguet — Two alleged “salvage” victims were found on October 17 dumped a few meters below Marcos Highway in barangay Poyopoy. Benguet police intelligence chief Supt. Mario Mayam-es said a...
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Read More2 MIN READwww.nordis.net “It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.” — Eleanor Roosevelt By the way our government projected it on media, the conflict...
Read More3 MIN READBy MARY LOU MARIGZA www.nordis.net This week I received a text message from friends in Cagayan informing me that US and Philippine troops are staging Balikatan 2012 exercises in Sta Ana, Cagayan. Earlier, I saw TV...
Read More2 MIN READBy ALDWIN QUITASOL www.nordis.net “There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.” – Frank Zappa This week, the Department of Labor and Employment boasted that the...
Read More2 MIN READNi MILA MARCELO ILOCOS HUMAN RIGHTS ALLIANCE Manu pay laeng a bulan manipud idi nagbase dagiti kameng ti 81st Infantry Battalion ti Philippine Army ditoy probinsya ti Ilocos Sur kas paset ti programa ti gobyerno ni...
Read More3 MIN READBy ERLINDA CASTER PALAGANAS Greetings to all participants to CHESTCORE’s “First All Health Youth Leaders’ Summit: Asserting the People’s Right to Health”. Congratulations for responding to the invitation of spending 2...
Read More3 MIN READBy REV. LUNA DINGAYAN www.nordis.net “My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? I have cried desperately for help, but still it does not come.” — Psalms 22:1 Responses to questions of Cathryn Taylor of Australia Third...
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< 1 MIN READNi BRENDA S. DACPANO www.nordis.net Naimas nga armusar ken uray ania nga oras iti...
Read More3 MIN READBy KIMBERLIE NGABIT-QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — Drivers and operators here in Baguio City trooped to the regional office of the Department of Transportation and Communication (DOTC) to reiterate their demand...
Read More3 MIN READBy KIMBERLIE NGABIT-QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — Developing self sufficiency among the Filipino poor through social enterprise is a better poverty reduction program than the present conditional cash transfer...
Read More2 MIN READBy JOHNNY SAWADAN www.nordis.net TABUY CITY, Kalinga — One-on-one electoral fight for the 2013 national and local elections has become a trend in this province. According to the official records of the Commission on...
Read More2 MIN READBy ALDWIN QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — On the month-long observance of October as peasant month, the Alyansa dagiti Pesante iti Taeng Kordilyera (Apit Tako) and the Katribu Party List spearheads a research...
Read More< 1 MIN READBy DELIA BAGNI www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — Pinatud-Anakbayan hosted a cultural gathering and discussion forum on indigenous people’s struggles and the role of the community youth in the celebration of Tribal...
Read More2 MIN READBy MPYA (PR) BONTOC, MOUNTAIN PROVINCE — Mountain Province State Polytechnic College (MPSPC), Bontoc Campus, Celebrated Indigenous Peoples’ (IP) month at the MPSPC Auditorium on October 6, 2012 on the theme...
Read More2 MIN READBy DELIA BAGNI www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — With the theme: “Advancing the Indigenous People’s Agenda for Self-determination Towards Progressive Social Change”, multi-sectoral organizations led by the Regional...
Read More2 MIN READBy CEGP (PR) BAGUIO CITY — The College Editors Guild of the Philippines-Baguio Benguet (CEGP-BB) in a statement said Baguio City Mayor Mauricio Domogan’s remarks of being a victim of cyber-bullying resounds the claim...
Read More< 1 MIN READBy ALDWIN QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — Newly appointed Noel Perez Aperocho vowed no fake titles will enter the City Registry of Deeds (ROD) in his term of office during the flag raising ceremonies in the...
Read More6 MIN READBy KATHLEEN T. OKUBO www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — On the 5th International Day of Rural Women in 2012, the Asian Rural Women’s Coalition (ARWC) highlights the critical roles rural women play in transforming the world...
Read More2 MIN READBy MAKABAYAN (PR) QUEZON CITY — Makabayan senatorial bet Teddy Casiño today called on the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to level the playing field for candidates in terms of media exposure. The progressive solon...
Read More3 MIN READBy BAYAN MUNA (PR) QUEZON CITY — Bayan Muna Rep. Neri Colmenares urged yesterday the speedy approval of HB 1009 filed by Bayan Muna on July 28, 2010 which seeks to decriminalize libel by repealing Articles 353 to 362...
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Read More2 MIN READwww.nordis.net In 1978, the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines declared every second Sunday of October as Tribal Filipino Sunday. This was in recognition of the historical injustice against the indigenous...
Read More2 MIN READBy ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW www.nordis.net Republic Act No. 10175 otherwise known as the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 was hastily passed by Congress and signed into law on September 12. It took effect on October 3 after...
Read More3 MIN READBy MARY LOU MARIGZA www.nordis.net Some two weeks ago, we had a staff development training for KADUAMI staff at Bengao. On the second day we had an input on concepts in ecology and climate change given by prof Celia...
Read More2 MIN READBy ALDWIN QUITASOL www.nordis.net “I wouldn’t say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they’re certainly exploited and mined by them.” — Dan Savage On television and radio, anchors and hosts...
Read More2 MIN READBy PHILIPPINE TASK FORCE FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES The Philippine Task Force for Indigenous Peoples’ Rights (TFIP), once again condemns the murder of another indigenous leader, Gilbert Paborada. He was the chairperson of...
Read More3 MIN READBy REV. LUNA DINGAYAN www.nordis.net “My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? I have cried desperately for help, but still it does not come.” — Psalms 22:1 Responses to questions of Cathryn Taylor of Australia...
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2 MIN READNi BRENDA S. DACPANO www.nordis.net Pad Thai wenno fried Thai style, ginisa a rice...
Read More5 MIN READwww.nordis.net As outrage against the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 continues to snowball and create unprecedented unity and defiance among netizens, the Aquino administration has not backed down in its resolve to...
Read More2 MIN READBy ALDWIN QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — As the filing for Certificate of Candidacy (COC) closed 5pm of October 5, there are six contenders for congress representatives and seven for the mayoralty post in the...
Read More3 MIN READBy KIMBERLIE NGABIT-QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY—The leaks of Philex Mining Corporation’s tailing pond 3 has adversely affected the source of livelihood of indigenous peoples of Benguet as shown in the results...
Read More2 MIN READBy ALDWIN QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — National Federation of Labor Unions (NAFLU) national president and Kilusang Mayo Uno (May First Movement or KMU) national Vice-chairperson Joselito Ustarez said that the...
Read More< 1 MIN READBy MAURICE MALANES BUGUIAS, Benguet — Vegetable farmers, who have transformed a forested plateau into commercial vegetable plots, now want to bring back the trees into their land, which used to be mossy and pine...
Read More3 MIN READBy ACE ALEGRE BAGUIO CITY — A Kalinga-based environmental group sued Mountain Province officials for their failure to address the continuing pollution of the Chico River. Kalinga Anti-pollution Action Group (KAPAG)...
Read More3 MIN READBy KATRIBU (PR) BAGUIO CITY — KATRIBU Indigenous Peoples Partylist strongly condemns the killing of Gilbert Paborada, an indigenous peoples (IPs) leader in Northern Mindanao by two unidentified men riding in tandem on...
Read More2 MIN READBy CWEARC (PR) BAGUIO CITY — On this year’s celebration of World Rural Women’s Day and World Foodless Day, Innabuyog and the Cordillera Women’s Education Action Research Center (CWEARC), members and partners of...
Read More2 MIN READBy MAKABAYAN (PR) QUEZON CITY — Partylist Representative Teddy Casiño filed his certificate of candidacy (COC) on a daring quest to be the alternative senatorial candidate in a contest dominated by incumbent and former...
Read More2 MIN READBy ALDWIN QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — Union of Faculty and Employees of Saint Louis University (UFESLU) President Joseph Andaya stated that the most serious concern that should get their focus and attention...
Read More2 MIN READBy ROMANA K. TUACA BAGUIO CITY— The Quezon Hill elementary School (QHES) inaugurated a newly constructed multi-purpose hall built with the ingenuity and concerted efforts of teachers and parents at Quezon Hill, Baguio...
Read More< 1 MIN READBy FERMINA BRILLO BAGUIO CITY — Easter College, in coordination with the Association of Christian Schools, Colleges, and Universities (ACSCU) and Fund Assistance for Private Education (FAPE), will be conducting a...
Read More2 MIN READBy CLEOFE P. KOLLIN BAGUIO CITY—The Easter College Elementary Parents Teachers Association (PTA) led by their president, Arch. Eugenio Lumdang Sr., carried out different activities in school that were geared towards...
Read More2 MIN READBy ALDWIN QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — Department of Trade and Industry-Cordillera Administrative Region (DTI-CAR) Legal Division Head Atty. Samuel Gallardo disclosed that not all the business establishments...
Read More3 MIN READBy KADUAMI (PR) BAGUIO CITY — Katinnulong Daguiti Umili iti Amianan (Kaduami) conducted a two day training for its staff and development workers of Northern Luzon on Participatory Action Research and Orientation on the...
Read More2 MIN READBy DELIA BAGNI www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — In celebration of the childrens Month Mayor Mauricio G. Domogan stated that victims of child abuse in the city of Baguio decreased during the Regular Kapihan in Office of the...
Read More< 1 MIN READBy DELIA BAGNI www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — Council Committee Chairperson on Social Service, Women and Urban Poor, Councilor Betty Lourdes Tabanda said that they will study House Bill 4455 or the Positive and...
Read More3 MIN READwww.nordis.net The many elections that have come and gone in our country has over and over shown that it is but the arena of the privileged to jockey for political positions, negotiate big government contracts, power...
Read More2 MIN READBy ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW www.nordis.net The world’s population increases by 78 million annually, where 95 percent of the said increase live in less developed countries, according to the United Nations Population Data...
Read More4 MIN READBy MARY LOU MARIGZA www.nordis.net I like to thank my lucky stars for the opportunity I had last Sunday (September 30) of going to Santol, La Union and meeting student journalists of La Union and Ilocos Sur. These are...
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3 MIN READBy KATHLEEN T. OKUBO www.nordis.net One of our recognized opinion makers in the local...
Read More2 MIN READBy ALDWIN QUITASOL www.nordis.net “What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.” — Karl A. Menninger World Teachers Day! Teaching is the noblest profession worldwide they say because teachers mold the...
Read More2 MIN READBy IVAN LABAYNE Chairperson College Editors Guild of the Philippines-Baguio-Benguet Last year, the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) asserted that the criminal sanction for libel in the country is...
Read More2 MIN READNi JEREMY JESUS DE PERALTA BUENO III Mayor Santa, Ilocos Sur Ang mamamayan ng Santa, Ilocos Sur ay nakikiisa at sumusuporta sa mga residente ng Mankayan sa pagdepensa ng kanilang lupain, kabuhayan at buhay sa mga banta...
Read More3 MIN READBy REV. LUNA DINGAYAN www.nordis.net “My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? I have cried desperately for help, but still it does not come.” — Psalms 22:1 Responses to questions of Cathryn Taylor of Australia First...
Read More4 MIN READBy ABIGAIL ANONGOS / CPA Today, October 5, we remember Daniel Ngayaan, tribal elder, leader, hero and martyr of the Cordillera peoples’ struggle, abducted and slain at Cagaluan Gate, Pasil, Kalinga province, by the...
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