By Rocky Ngalob FOR four years now, I have sat behind the less-occupied table at the NCIP-CAR office, dissecting papers on Free Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) processes. As the FPIC Focal for the region, I am barred from participating in the conduct of the Free Prior and Informed [...]
ON Tuesday, House Bill No. 10026 strengthening the field offices of the Commission on Elections by upgrading and creating certain positions, which was filed by Congressman Eric Yap was approved in the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives. "Mula sa pagpaparehistro ng mga botante hanggang sa paghahanda para [...]
Inomahi Ville, a roadside eatery and fast becoming a bikers’ favorite stop-over along Km 6, Tadiangan, Asin, Benguet, accepts ingredients brought by customers and cooks their requested dish. The family-owned business practices this innovation as they cannot easily travel to the city market to buy ingredients due to the movement [...]
Linemen of the Benguet Electric Cooperative implemented various activities as part of the annual preventive maintenance of High Voltage Power Equipment, Protection, and Statistical Meters during the 10-hour power outage affecting most parts of Baguio City and Benguet on Thursday, September 23, 2021. - Photo by RMC PIA-CAR
A Ga'dang Weaving Story is going to this year's Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany on October 20-24, 2021. The National Book Development Board selected the storybook for the Philippine Book Collections. The storybook is published in cooperation with Cordillera Textiles Project (CORDITEX) and Museo Kordilyera, and is now on its [...]
People With Disabilities participate in the voter registration program of COMELEC at a mall in Baguio. Baguio City Election Officer Jaypee Martin said they are targeting 300 registrants per day until September 30 or until a given extension. - Photo by Francheska Mayumi
POLICY experts said the failure to adopt tobacco harm reduction (THR) strategies negatively affects public health and disproportionately targets those in low- to- middle income countries as eight million people die from tobacco-related use each year, and 80 percent of the more than one billion tobacco smokers are from developing [...]
By Marilou Guieb Over a hundred years ago, when tuberculosis (TB) was ravaging the country, many of the afflicted were sent to Baguio, then known as Kafagway, to recover. It was believed that the pristine environment and clean air, lots of vegetables and fresh fruits, would be the key to [...]
NO more space left in the inns, so might as well go home. During the virtual Kapihan, health officers suggested that households come out with “isolation rooms” because of the rising cases of COVID-19. For the past nine days, the daily cases in Baguio never went below 200. Recoveries only [...]
KABUGAO, Apayao -- The National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) has green-lighted the development of the 150-megawatt (MW) Gened-1 renewable hydro power project in Apayao after a series of deliberations and consultations with indigenous peoples and traditional communities. In its meeting on August 13, the NCIP en banc resolved to [...]
