THERE was sad news last weekend about a Benguet farmers’ group that was purposely not invited to a farmers’ congress held this month at the capitol, following written and unwritten petitions by the group against illegally imported carrots, onions, other vegetables, and even strawberries that had been flooding lowland and [...]
“KAKAILYAN,” masapol mo ba ti tulong (townmates, do you need help)?” That line printed on a tarp and posted on fences, barangay halls, houses, and walls of sari-sari stores located along roadsides in Benguet is simply telling people in need of help to call the cellphone number on the poster. [...]
FIRST, allow me to repost an advisory to member -consumer- owners of Benguet Electric Cooperative (Beneco). Please be advised to pay your electric bills at official collection centers at South Drive Beneco office, at the Maharlika Livelihood Complex, Baguio; Bonuan collection center at Salud Mitra, Baguio; at the Km. 4, [...]
AT least 100 public schools and a small number of private colleges in the country slowly went back to classroom teaching or face to face (F2F) classes last Monday, November 15 after one school year of distance learning. This would test if it is now safe to allow schoolchildren to [...]
LISTENING to the weekly ulat sa bayan and IATF meetings, I have yet to hear President Duterte reprimand his men for their failure in distributing the much needed vaccines to the provinces outside of the National Capital Region. Instead, the president last week turned his ire on the LGUs by [...]
THE political lines that were drawn are becoming clearer. Presidential daughter and Davao Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio will not run for any national position in next year’s election nor will she support the candidacies of Senator Bong Go and President Duterte. Meanwhile, Bong Go has declined his nomination as standard bearer [...]
ON behalf of co-workers in the media, I wish to thank Messrs. Fernando S. Tiong and Roland “Chongloy” Wong for the assistance they provided us especially during these times of a health crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Words are not enough to describe how truly grateful we are for [...]
THEY still find time to play music together although many of them are successful in their selected fields. More than a dozen have migrated to the USA in search of better opportunities and protection in “Uncle Sam’s Arms” while the rest of the bunch preferred to be busy with [...]
APOLOGIES to whoever felt upset with the news last week on the vaccination to fight the Delta variant that is causing an exponential increase in infections and more deaths in the NCR+ areas which are under enhanced community quarantine (ECQ). As far as I am concerned, the intention of the [...]
WHEN it comes to navigating unvaccinated people to vaccination sites similar to steering cows into a corral, we do not lack talent. Opening several vaccination sites 24/7 according to a Manila mayor before the scheduled enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) lockdown on August 6 not only magnetized qualified vaccinees, it saved [...]