“Siguro nasa 20 percent pa tayo (ng recovery), malaki pa masyado (ang hahabulin) lalo na sa agriculture.” — Compostela Valley Governor Arturo Uy
After Pablo, ComVal still far from recovery
Day: June 25, 2013
Kalinga folk block entry of mining firm
By ACE ALEGRE Northern Dispatch BAGUIO CITY – Tribal folks in barangay Balatoc, in Pasil town, Kalinga denied the entry of Carrascal Nickel Corporation (CNC) into their ancestral domain. “There was no Free Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC),” said Balatoc villager Victoria Gumisa-Kaloci. Barangay Balatoc is one of the 14 barangays in Pasil, which formerly…
Mt. Province folk demands pull out of soldiers
By DELIA BAGNI Northern Dispatch NATONIN, Mountain Province – Residents here demanded the pull out of soldiers stationed in their community, citing threats to their life and security. In their petition, residents called on the National Commission on Indigenous People (NCIP) to notify the Philippine Army’s 54th Infantry Battalion (IB) to pull out from their…
Baguio’s garbage woe affects classes
“Even you cannot endure the stench,” Dr. Conrado Rotor Jr., Philippine Science High School director told Northern Dispatch. The garbage dump is a few meters the newly built four-storey, 16-classroom building of the government-run secondary school servicing students in the Cordillera and the rest of Northern Luzon.
Another witness tags soldiers in abduction of UP students
“Seven years quickly passed by but the progress of our case has been painstakingly slow.” – Mrs. Concepcion Empeño, mother of Karen
KMU slams arrest of labor leader in Pentagon skirmish
Bulatlat.com MANILA — National labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno condemned today June 24 the arrest of the president of the Metro Manila chapter of one of its federations during another clash this morning of workers and police forces in front of Pentagon Steel Corporation in Barangay Apolonio Samson, Quezon City. Camilo Cuares, president of the…