Despite the outward glamour and relatively high salaries offered in call centers – things that are valued by many college-level youth nowadays – there are some painful trade-offs affecting call-center agents. BY PIO VERZOLA, JR. Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat...
Of all human rights, it is the right to life which is most violated in the Cordillera region. This is what is shown by figures from the Cordillera Human Rights Alliance (CHRA). BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY – Of all...
The national leadership of a militant group of government employees and a labor group in the Cordillera, on separate occasions, assailed the anti-labor stance of the administration of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo that keeps mum on clamors for P3,000...
The activist pastor who survived an assassination attempt last month in Ilocos Sur urged the Arroyo administration to stop political killings and repression. This developed as human rights advocates and relatives of victims gathered last week to commemorate the...
Like other people’s lawyers, labor lawyer Nenita Mahinay has found herself being tailed by state agents. But such tactics have not hindered Mahinay's lawyering for the people. These have in fact strengthened her will to continue giving legal services to the...
Friends and families of the nine punks still languishing at the Benguet Provincial Jail in La Trinidad have asked the fiscal to immediately throw out the case against them. They maintain that the nine punks are innocent and their arrest was “unlawful from the...
The United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP) pastor and Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan or New Patriotic Alliance) leader in Ilocos region who survived an assassination attempt by gun-toting men on a motorcycle along Del Pilar Street in Vigan City last...
An organic fertilizer, known as Bio Green Grow Organic Fertilizer, can increase farm yield, protect the environment and restore soil bio-diversity. It was first produced in a demonstration at Barangay Balugan, Sagada, Mountain Province. BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW...
Lead, a heavy metal believed to be a health hazard, is found in Baguio drivers' blood samples, a study presented at an academic forum at the University of the Philippines (UP) in this city shows. The study, “Incidence of Lead in the Blood of Jeepney Drivers in...
Amid the unabated political repression, killings and human rights violations of the administration of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (GMA), the militant Cordillera Peoples Alliance (CPA) has successfully carried out its 9th Regional Congress from October 21-23, 2006 in...
A proposal from a Baguio City councilor to turn the Marcos mansions in this city into a tourist hub is facing bright prospects, with a PCGG lawyer expressing openness to the idea. BY ACE ALEGRE Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY – It was perhaps...
Representatives from Innabuyog-GABRIELA, an alliance of indigenous women, and the Alyansa dagiti Pesante iti Taeng Kordilyera (Apit-Tako or Peasant Alliance in the Cordillera Homeland), have come together to address the World Rural Women's Day and the World Food...
Oct. 6, 2006 is a day to look forward to among the Chinese, and the Filipinos alike, as it marks the unfolding of this year’s Moon Festival – a feast with rich significance stemming not only from folklore but also from history. BY LYN V. RAMO Northern Dispatch...
After staging two strikes and signing three memoranda of agreement, the employees of the Philippine Rabbit Bus Line (PRBL) still have unpaid back wages to collect. This, in spite of a motion of execution issued by the National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC), an...
That tasty, thumb-sized meat product that used to be called as “the Ultimate Baguio Pasalubong” is this year’s focus of the 3rd Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism (HRT) Weekend, when the longest Baguio original longganisa will be paraded and sold on Sept. 30 along...
Was it a simple case of attempted hold-up, or was it a political threat? The recent attack on a council member of the National Union of Journalists (NUJP) Baguio-Benguet chapter by an unidentified knife-wielding man has brought this question to the fore. BY ARTHUR...
Three nurses – two of them nursing deans and one a professor at UP Baguio – have declined nominations to the Board of Nursing (BoN), saying the nominations would not solve the nursing board scam and cure the ailing health care system. BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW Northern...
The controversial Tasadays lost their identity as a group because of fallacious media projection and faulty research. BY PINK-JEAN FANGON MELEGRITO Dispatch Posted with other reports by Bulatlat BAGUIO CITY – The controversial Tasadays lost their identity as a...
In Baguio, the influx of Korean nationals has caught some attention. Baguio now is host to almost 10,000 Koreans. At first, only teenagers came here to study the English language. Most of them stayed for two months during their vacation from school in Korea. Then...
The local and regional chapters of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) condemned the ambush that killed a Commission on Elections (Comelec) official in Apayao on Thursday, Sept. 7, even as the Comelec regional director moved to coordinate with the police to...
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