Ifugao power plant listed as project of nat’l value
LAGAWE, Ifugao --- The Department of Energy (DOE’s) Energy Investment Coordinating Council (EICC) has issued to SN Aboitiz Power (SNAP) a certificate of energy projects of national significance for a...
View ArticleReelected Ilocos Norte mayor vacates position
PAOAY, Ilocos Norte — Mayor Jessie Galano of this heritage town has turned over his post to Vice Mayor Romulo Acdal “to prevent any untoward incident.”Galano. reelected mayor of this town was removed...
View ArticleBaguio City establishments without biz permits closed
Magalong warns erring businessmen By Gaby Keith and Dexter A. SeeBAGUIO CITY – The crackdown on erring establishments operating without any business permit in the Summer Capital is on.The City Mayor...
View ArticleCordillera marks 32nd anniversary; events set
Palace declares July 15 holiday BAGUIO CITY – The Office of the President has declared July 15, Monday, a special non-working day in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) to mark its 32nd founding...
View ArticleScams, greed and shady deals
HAPPY WEEKENDGina DizonSAGADA, Mountain Province -- “There’s a sucker born every minute,” an adage attributed to showman Phineas Barnum tells that this world does not run out of con men and victims....
View ArticleKiller earthquake recalled at Busol watershed tree- planting
CITY HALL BEAT Aileen P. RefuerzoBAGUIO CITY – Barangay officials and media practitioners trooped to Busol watershed last July 16 for city’s the annual earthquake memorial rites in honor of those who...
View ArticleAutonomy notions get lost in traffic
LETTERS FROM THE AGNOMarch L. FianzaBAGUIO CITY -- There are genuine reasons in as far as the quest for Cordillera regional autonomy or “self-rule” is concerned. The arguments of fighting for genuine...
View ArticlePrinciples that death teaches us about life
A GOOD TEACHER Jun MalazoSAGADA, Mountain Province -- My article last week was entitled “The Inescapable Appointment.” In that particular article I discussed the inevitability and reality of death....
View Article‘WON got it all wrong’
BEHIND THE SCENESAlfred P. Dizon(Jeannette Ribaya-Cawiding, regional coordinator of Alliance of Concerned Teachers – Cordillera Administrative Region writes this week’s piece) This is a...
View ArticleGoing after ill-gotten wealth of corrupt officials
EDITORIALUncovering and recovering ill-gotten wealth of corrupt government officials had been an exercise in futility over the years given government’s bureaucratic maze and red tape. But this could be...
View ArticleDPWH completes 16-km rehab on vital Isabela road
SAN PABLO. Isabela – The year-long rehabilitation work on the 16.7-km intermittent sections of Daang Maharlika in Isabela was recently completed, the Department of Public Works and Highways...
View Article2 million plus passengers travel via Clark .
CLARK, Pampanga -- More than two million passengers traveled via Clark International Airport (International Code: CRK) from Jan. 1 to June 30, the airport’s highest number in passenger traffic in just...
View ArticleBaguio jailbirds finish elem, high school via ALS
By Pamela Mariz Geminiano BAGUIO CITY-- A total of 20 persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) at the male dorm here received their diplomas after graduating from elementary and high school through the...
View Article6 ‘elderly’ artists in month-long exhibit in Baguio
By Pigeon LobienBAGUIO CITY – Six “aging” artists from Baguio mounted another month-long exhibit on Wednesday at the Fred’s Gallery in barangay Greenwater here.Noted Baguio artists Roland Bay-an, Fredi...
View Article‘One Ilocos Norte’ spirit being revived
By Freddie Lazaro LAOAG CITY, Ilocos Norte – The “One Ilocos Norte” label of the province that suggests unity between the provincial and city governments seemed to have been revived after local...
View ArticleP107-M bridge to link Cagayan with NL provs
By Liezle Basa Iñigo PIAT, Cagayan -- The P107.6-million Aquib-Dugayong Bridge here is now finished and will link Cagayan with Northern Luzon provinces.This was disclosed by the Department of Public...
View ArticleBaguio rehab not extensive as Boracay, says Magalong
By Dexter A. SeeBAGUIO CITY – Mayor Benjamin B. Magalong said the proposed rehabilitation of the city will not be as extensive as that of Boracay’s but focused principally on the rehabilitation of the...
View ArticleMore congestion seen with 200 new Baguio taxi slots
By Jessa Mardy P. SamidanBAGUIO CITY -- The recent opening of 200 taxi franchise slots for the public to apply by the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) Cordillera is being...
View ArticleReds declared persona non grata in Central Luzon’
SAN FERNANDO CITY, Pampanga -- The Central Luzon Regional Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (RTF-ELCAC) has declared the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) as...
View Article4 drug suspects slain in Ecija, P’sinan, LU P6.4-M shabu seized
Three drug suspects were killed in stings while another was shot dead by unidentified men in Nueva Ecija, Pangasinan and La Union Wednesday and Thursday.Melchor Anarcon and Jomar de Guzman shot it out...
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