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TODAY IS SPECIAL NON-WORKING DAY IN IFUGAO
Tuesday 18th of June 2013
LAGAWE, Ifugao, June 18 (PIA) -- The Office of the President has declared June 18 as a special non-working day in this province to mark its 47th founding anniversary.
Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa signed Proclamation No. 598 declaring this day as holiday in the whole province for the people of Ifugao to be given full opportunity to celebrate and participate in the occasion with appropriate ceremonies.
The week-long founding anniversary festivities started on June 16 with a thanksgiving mass in the morning and a moral recovery rally in the evening.
A street dancing contest and Gotad Mascot contest were held yesterday and the winners wer...
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17Jun2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, June 17(PIA)- The Sangguniang Bayan of Kiangan will be awarded the 2012 Provincial Legislative during the Gotad Ad Ifugao and 47th founding anniversary of the province this week. The award which was initiated by the Philippine Councilors League-Ifugao chapter in partnership with the Department of the Interior and Local Government here seeks to recognize a sangguniang bayan(SB) that excels in the enactment of ordinances or resolutions that ultimately contribute to the atte...
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17Jun2013BAGUIO CITY, June 17(PIA) -- The recent Baguio Reunion Concert for a Cause initiated by the Association of Government Information Officers in the Cordillera(ASGIOCO) has helped indigent patients particularly government employees who are in need of financial assistance. During the concert, at least P104, 000 was raised aside from P4,000 and $100 pooled from the audience. The ASGIOCO recently turned over financial assistance of P5,000 to a jail officer who is suffering from a kidney fail...
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17Jun2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, June 17 (PIA)-- Provincial officials here came up with an ordinance establishing a provincial educational assistance program for teachers. This provides that one teacher per barangay shall be hired by the province to teach in public elementary or secondary level especially in remote schools where there are no available teachers. The provincial government believes that this program will reduce the problem on the lack of teachers; extend an alternative solution to some s...
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17Jun2013BAGUIO CITY, June 17 (PIA)-- Cordillera born Colonel Romeo Brawner Jr. is one of the awardees for this year’s The Outstanding Philippine Soldiers (TOPS). TOPS is an annual recognition program of the Metrobank Foundation, Inc. and the Rotary Club of Makati Metro, for the members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), that honors and recognizes their dedication, bravery, professionalism and sacrifices in the military service. Brawner, son of the late Justice Romeo Brawner Sr. an...
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17Jun2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, June 17 (PIA) -- The Tublay Municipal Council has now an indigenous peoples (IP) representative to push for the IP agenda as provided for under Republic Act No. 8371. Tublay Vice-Mayor Armando Lauro said that Lauro Aniceto was installed as IP representative and was welcomed by the members of the council during its June 10 session. Mayor Ruben Paoad signed Anacleto’s appointment as IP representative. Under the law, the IPs are given the option to craft guidelines ...
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17Jun2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, June 17 (PIA) -- An official of the Department of Education (DepEd) said that students who will graduate under the K-12 program can easily obtain employment or they can put up their own business because they will acquire technical and vocational skills. DepEd Assistant Regional Director Sebastian Tayaban said that with the added two years in the secondary school, students will polish their abilities in arts and technical vocational and entrepreneurship. “The K-12 grad...
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17Jun2013BAGUIO CITY, June 17 (PIA) -- The Saint Louis University-Laboratory High School (SLU-LHS) won their fourth straight crown in the 16 and Under Division of the 4th Miners Cup. The SLU-LHS Team A successfully defended their championship crown against their fellow Louisians, the SLU-LHS Team B, with a 79-46 in their championship match at the Baguio City National High School Auditorium on June 12. In the 14 and Under Division, University of the Cordilleras High School (UCHS) toppled the SLU-LHS, 82...
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17Jun2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, June 17 (PIA) -- The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is set to distribute livelihood projects amounting to P1.83 million to five recipient groups in the province. DOLE Kalinga chief Dr. Alexander Gumabol said that this is part of the government’s poverty alleviation program called the DOLE Integrated Livelihood Program (DILP) which is geared towards Community Enterprise Development. The DILP aims to develop, nurture, and sustain income-generating and job-creati...
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17Jun2013BAGUIO CITY, June 17 (PIA) -- A shopping mall in Baguio City unveiled the largest Philippine flag made of flowers during the Independence Day celebration last week. City officials led by Vice Mayor Daniel Farinas together with SM officials and other guests unveiled the 11 x 22 feet Philippine flag made out of thousands flowers at the SM City Atrium as part the Independence Day celebration in this city. SM-Baguio Public Relations Officer Karen Padilla said that the Philippine flag made of flo...
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15Jun2013BONTOC, Mountain Province, June 15 (PIA) -- A total of 19,817 indigent families in the province are enrolled for year 2013 in the National Health Insurance Program (NHIP) under the Sponsored Program. This program ensures the availability and accessibility of quality medical care services to less-privileged sector of society through the efforts of the local government units, national government and private institutions or individuals who provide the subsidies for the annual premium of thes...
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15Jun2013BONTOC, Mt. Province, June 15 (PIA) -- Students whose families are covered by Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) or the conditional cash transfer (CCT) program of the government are now given the chance to finish college education under the Student Grants-in-Aid Program for Poverty Alleviation (SGP-PA) of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). The SGP-PA which aims to increase the number of graduates in higher education among poor families, entitles a student grantee ...
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14Jun2013BAGUIO CITY, June 14 (PIA) -- Healthy lifestyle for a healthy kidney. Thus advised nephrologist Alma Suclad, a member of the government’s Renal Disease Control Program (REDCOP) Speakers Bureau. Suclad said renal disease especially kidney failure is a health concern in the country, including the Cordillera. She reported that there are 1,196 kidney patients who have gone Hemodialysis treatment from 2008 to 2012 in the region. For the first quarter of this year, 94 new hemodialysis...
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14Jun2013BANGUED, Abra, June 14 (PIA) -- The maternal, newborn, and child health and nutrition (MNCHN) technical working group (TWG) recently convened in the province to set the direction for the project’s second year of implementation. The MNCHN is part of the “Cordillera-wide Strengthening of the Local Health System for Effective and Efficient Delivery of Maternal and Child Health Services,” a five-year project to further improve the health status of the people in the Cordillera re...
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14Jun2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, June 14 (PIA) -- A remote village in this city will join the observance of the ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations) Dengue Day on June 15 through mass cleaning, according to Dr. Bernadette Andaya of the Center for Health Development (CHD). "Barangay Bulo of this city was chosen as a grassroot partner in the observance of the ASEAN dengue awareness campaign because of its active involvement in controlling the spread of the disease,” Andaya said. She said that d...
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14Jun2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, June 14 (PIA) -- Rice production in the province is seen to increase further after the Department of Agriculture (DA) has opened this cropping season the “plant now, pay later” scheme to rice farmers to propel its Food Sufficiency Program. Rice Specialist Joe Casibang of the Office of Provincial Agriculturist (OPAG) said the scheme is under DA’s rice hybridization campaign, where a beneficiary farmer is provided subsidy in the cost of hybrid seeds and farm inputs. ...
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14Jun2013BAGUIO CITY, June 14 (PIA) - - With the official start of the rainy season and with the observance of Dengue Awareness Month this June, the Department of Health (DOH) is reviving its “Four O’clock Habit” campaign, which calls for a community clean-up drive for possible mosquito breeding sites and a massive awareness campaign on how to combat dengue. The campaign theme "Sugpuin ang Dengue! Mag 4 o’clock Habit: Stop, Look, and Listen, Aksyon Barangay Kontra Dengue (ABKD) Pagtibayin" cal...
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14Jun2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, June 14 (PIA) -- National Food Authority (NFA)-Kalinga will deliver this month 25,000 bags of rice to augment the country’s national rice reserve for the lean and disaster months of the year. NFA-Kalinga Assistant Provincial Manager Ric Baliang said the commitment came in the wake of the agency’s high palay procurement performance of 86,000 in the last cropping from rice farmers in the province. Baliang assured that even with this contribution of NFA-Kalinga to the nat...
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14Jun2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, June 14 (PIA) -- An official of the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) called on concerned agencies to open their doors and link with the agency in pushing for the promotion, preservation and protection of the indigenous peoples rights. Chairperson Brigida Zenaida Pawid said the NCIP is the primary government agency responsible in pushing for the promotion, preservation and protection of the IP rights. She spoke in a briefing recently on the Indigenous P...
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14Jun2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, June 14 (PIA) -- The provincial government of Kalinga is set to hold a training on Basic/Intermediate Incident Command System (ICS) from June 18 to 20 for the members of the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (PDRRMC). Kalinga PDRRMC Coordinator Rosemaritez Oyawon said that this aims to improve the PDRRMC’s networking in dealing with the emergency response operations of the province in times of calamities and other possible incident that would ...
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14Jun2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, June 14 (PIA) - - The Commission on Election (Comelec) called on candidates, winners and losers, during the last synchronized national and local elections last May 13 this year to file their respective statement of campaign contributions and expenditures as provided by law. Provincial Election Supervisor Atty. Dexter Barry Cawis said the deadline of filing is June 13 and candidates should act as models for the citizenry by showing them the right deeds when it comes to pe...
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14Jun2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, June 14 (PIA) -- The Ifugao Provincial Police Office (IPPO) reported during the second quarter Provincial Peace and Order Council (PPOC) meeting that from January 1, 2013-May 31,2013 there was a decrease of 53 or 34% as compared to same period last year. Police Superintendent Brent Madjaco, IPPO officer-in- charge, said a total of 105 crime incidents were reported for the said period while 158 crime incidents happened in the same period in 2012. Out of the total crime incide...
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13Jun2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, June 13 (PIA) -- A total of 352 dengue suspect cases from January 1 to June 1 this year had been reported to the Provincial Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit (PESU) at the Kalinga Provincial Health Office (PHO). PESU Officer Jose Pardito Jr. said that the number of cases is the highest in the region, and this calls for immediate intervention to stop the spread of dengue in the province. The large number of cases he said could be attributed to the improvement of case ...
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13Jun2013BANAUE, Ifugao, June 13 (PIA) -- The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) data revealed that 561 students were employed under the Special Program for the Employment of Students (SPES) implemented here last summer. DOLE Ifugao Field Office data shows that nine municipalities including the provincial government hired the students to work for a certain number of days. Under the SPES, the LGUs provide 60 percent counterpart of the wages of the students while DOLE provides 40 percent. The pro...
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13Jun2013BAGUIO CITY, June 13 (PIA) -- The National Youth Commission (NYC) in the region calls on interested organizations to join the 10th search for the Ten Accomplished Youth Organizations (TAYO). Mr. Jun Angeles, NYC Area Officer for Northern Luzon said the the TAYO awards Foundation, Inc has successfully established itself as the country’s only award giving body that recognizes and supports the outstanding contributions of youth organizations to the country through the annual search. It began i...
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13Jun2013LUNA, Apayao, June 13 (PIA) -- Personnel of the Apayao provincial police office have confiscated nearly P100,000 worth of illegally cut lumbers through its operation master plan “Sangyaman”. Senior Superintendent Albertlito Garcia, police provincial director of Apayao, said 6,747.99 board feet of lumber with different dimensions with a cash value of P95,791.46 and a chainsaw STIHL 070 model with a defaced serial number were recovered by the police. All confiscated items are n...
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13Jun2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, June 13 (PIA) -- The provincial government is set to conduct a documentary film contest as part of the “2013 Gotad ad Ifugao” activities next week. Based on the guidelines, the contest is open to all residents or ethnic Ifugaos whether professional or amateu, group or individual. All entries should be submitted on June 24 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The documentary film shall deal with the “2013 Gotad ad Ifugao” and shall consists of two components; motion picture and stil...
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13Jun2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, June 13 (PIA) -- The Office of the Provincial Agriculturist (OPAG) will engage in natural pesticide preparations using different kinds of herbs and plants as natural concoction to boost organic agriculture. “We are encouraging farmers to adopt the use of organically prepared pesticides as a good agricultural practice and as an alternative to pesticides which are chemically or commercially prepared,” OPAG head Lolita Bentres. Natural concoction is now becoming a ...
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13Jun2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, June 13 (PIA) -– Direct service workers from the private institutions and government service providers have attended a ‘Trainors Training and Workshop on Sensitivity’ so they can better help their person with disability (PWD) clients. Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Assistant Regional Director Isabel Sy-Nillas, who served as the resource person and speaker, said that before a service provider handles a PWD, he should be aware and understand the di...
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13Jun2013BAGUIO CITY, June 13 (PIA) - - The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) Saturday celebrated Migrant Workers’ Day with the theme, ”Migranteng Pilipino: Tayo ay Magkasa sa Pag-abot ng Pangarap Mo.” OWWA administrator Carmelita Dimzon, in a message read by OWWA-CAR Regional Director Manuela Peña, said the theme shows that the government is doing its best to help every OFW family in the fulfillment of their dreams. Dimzon also outlined that through stronger family ties and support...
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13Jun2013BAGUIO CITY, June 13 (PIA) -- A total of 704 jobseekers were hired-on-the-spot during the Kalayaan Jobs Fair at the University of Cordilleras Amphitheater yesterday as part of the celebration of country’s 115th Independence Day. The Independence Day Jobs Fair, which was spearheaded by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) in partnership with the Philippine Overseas Employment Authority (POEA) and the City Public Employment Service Office (PESO-Baguio), drew 3,572 applicants both ...
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13Jun2013BANAUE, Ifugao, Hunyo 13 (PIA) -- May 561 kabataan sa buong lalawigan ang nabigyan ng pagkakataon na magtrabaho noong nakaraang bakasyon sa ilalim ng Special Program for Employment of Students (SPES) na pinangasiwaan ng Department of Labor and Employment at mga local government units (LGU). Sa 10 lokal na pamahalaan na kumuha ng SPES beneficiaries, ang bayan ng Aguinaldo ang may pinakamaraming nakuhang mga mag-aaral sa bilang na 210, sumunod ang provincial government - 84 at pangatlo naman a...
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13Jun2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, June 13 (PIA)-- Ifugao chefs and culinary enthusiasts are invited to participate in the Culinary Arts Festival in line with the week-long celebration of the 47th Ifugao Foundation Day anniversary on on June 17-23. Maribel Bimohya, chairperson of the committee, said that interested participants must be part of a people’s organization, women’s organization and non-government organization. The opening of the said festival will be on June 17 at the public plaza here. Bim...
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11Jun2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, June 11 (PIA) -- An official of Department of Education (DepEd) said 453 non-formal learners had graduated under the Alternative Learning System for 2012-2013. During the graduation rites conducted in the various municipalities, Officer-In-Charge Schools Division Superintendent (OIC-SDS) Felipe Ballitoc lauded the graduates for the commitment in fulfilling the requirements needed to compete the Basic Education Curriculum. “You have proven to the world, and most especially to...
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11Jun2013BAGUIO CITY, June 11 (PIA) -- Although asthma can be genetically acquired, the disease is preventable and reversible. Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center (BGHMC) pediatrician Dr. Maria Rosalina Tandoc said keeping away from Asthma triggers such as outdoor pollutants and environmental allergens is important. Asthma remains to be a health concern even among children, she said in a forum here. In BGHMC, it is among the top ten causes of morbidity or illnesses, wherein in 2011 it ranked a...
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11Jun2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, June 11 (PIA) - - The National Statistics Office (NSO) has extended the conduct of the Census on Philippine Business and Industries as survey teams had difficulty collecting data. The survey started April 1 and was expected to finish May 31, Avelino Cadalig of NSO Kalinga and Apayao Field Office said. However, the survey deadline was extended to June 15 because business firm owners were not available when visited by NSO personnel. He said target respondents also have no b...
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11Jun2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, June 11 (PIA) -- The Pag-IBIG Fund is set to bring anew its mobile services in this municipality on June 15 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the municipal government building here. Among the services offered are acceptance of application for membership contribution, multi-purpose loans, and housing loan payments. They will also accept applications for membership, provident claims, multipurpose and housing loans. Pag-IBIG will also conduct verifications of memberships and loan status,...
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11Jun2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, Hunyo 11 (PIA) -– May 453 na mag-aaral ng Ifugao ang nagtapos sa ilalim ng Alternative Learning System (ALS) ng Department of Education (DepEd) na ipinatupad sa pamamagitan ng Bureau of Alternative Learning System o BALS. Ayon sa report ng BALS-Ifugao, ang mga nasabing mag-aaral ay mula sa 11 bayan ng lalawigan. Ang bayan ng Alfonso Lista ang may pinakamaraming bilang ng nagtapos na sinundan ng nayan ng Aguinaldo at Lamut. Sa bilang na 453, ang nagtapos ng elementary level a...
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11Jun2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, June 11 (PIA) -- The Tabuk City government is up soliciting job vacancies from various business establishments here in preparation for the Matagoan jobs bazaar which is one of the highlights of the 12th Matagoan Festival and 6th Founding Anniversary of Tabuk on June 23-25. City Public Employment Service Officer (PESO)-Designate Loyda Saboy informed that organizers of this year’s Matagoan festivities included the jobs bazaar to promote the city’s livelihood support...
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11Jun2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, June 11 (PIA) -- The guidelines for tourism promotion and agro-industrial - fair has been released for better preparation and active participation of the municipalities in the “Ifugao Gotad 2013” celebrations. The fair, which will open on June 17 and lasts for five days, intends to give more emphasis on tourism and promotion of local agro-industrial products of the province. The municipalities will also showcase their respective best tourist attraction sites. The De...
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11Jun2013PASIL, Kalinga, June 11 (PIA) -- A total of 512 community people benefited from temporary jobs generated from the implementation last year of Kapit Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan - Comprehensive Integrated Development of Social Services (Kalahi-CIDSS) in this municipality. Joel Cubit, area project coordinator, said beneficiaries composed of 426 males and 86 females were involved in the construction of 10 sub-projects through paid labor and other services. He said the beneficiaries from the 14 bara...
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11Jun2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, June 11 (PIA ) -- The provincial board will be inviting the Cordillera Hydroelectric Corporation to shed light on technical issues relative to the application of Free Prior and Informed Consent process and other sentiments of the people in the area regarding its project. Vice Governor Crescencio Pacalso said that issues and concerns raised among affected residents would be appropriately responded to by COHECO and other stakeholders . COHECO is proposing for a hydroele...
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08Jun2013LAMUT, Ifugao, June 8 (PIA)--The Provincial Health Office (PHO) here reported 456 cases of Chikungunya fever in the different municipalities here and nearby towns of Nueva Vizcaya who sought medical assistance in health facilities here. Dr. Mary Jo Dulawan, the Provincial Health Officer, said in a radio interview in the program “Humangan with PIA” that most of the victims come from the municipality of Lamut with a total of 395, Banaue-5; Lagawe-4; Asipulo -2; and one each in the towns of ...
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11Jun2013BUGUIAS, Benguet, June 11 (PIA)-- Thirteen people were killed and several more were injured when a Ford Fiera jeepney they were riding fell off an 80-meter ravine in Bayoyo in Buguias, Benguet Saturday afternoon. In the initial report from the Office of Civil Defense – Cordillera, at around 2:30PM on June 8, a Ford Fiera with plate number AAD 874 loaded with at least 20 passengers heading to Abatan in Buguias fell off a ravine along Bayoyo. Ten persons were initially reported to have died ...
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10Jun2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, June 11 (PIA)--The Provincial Peace and Order Council here burned last week marijuana (MJ) plants uprooted in Tinoc town. The ceremonial burning conducted at the Ifugao Provincial Police Office (IPPO) was led by Gov. Eugene Balitang, and IPPO Officer in Charge, Police Superintendent Brent Madjaco. The Municipal Police Station (MPS) of Tinoc town headed by Police Inspector Rodolfo Fateg, was responsible in eradicating a total of about 10,400 fully grown MJ plants at ...
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11Jun2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, June 11 (PIA) - - The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) distributed school supplies on June 7 to 538 pupils of the Nambaran Elementary School this city in support to the “Balik Eskwela” program of the Department of Education. Melma Batario, principal specialist, corporate affairs department of NGCP said the outreach program is part of their corporate social responsibility of sharing the corporation’s gains to the less fortunate particularly on the ...
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08Jun2013BAGUIO CITY, June 8 (PIA) -- The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), in partnership with the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration, the Public Employment Service Office (PESO)-Baguio, ABS-CBN and the University of Cordillera (UC) will be holding a one-day Jobs Fair at the UC Amphitheater on June 12 as part of the Independence Day celebration. DOLE-Cordillera Regional Director Henry John Jalbuena disclosed that 11 local employers with more than 800 job vacancies and nine recr...
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08Jun2013BAGUIO CITY, June 8 (PIA) -– The City Government of Baguio in partnership with the different national government agencies (NGAs), academe, non-government organizations (NGOs) and religious groups will lead the conduct of various activities in celebration of the 115th Philippine Independence on Wednesday, June 12. City Tourism Officer Benedicto Alhambra said the theme for this year's celebration is “Kalayaan 2013: Ambagan Tungo sa Malawakang Kaunlaran” (Independence Day 2013: Pitch...
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LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, June 7 (PIA) -- The Cooperative Development Authority (CDA) launched advocacy campaigns among cooperatives in the Cordillera on new mandatory requirements for cooperatives. CDA Senior Cooperative Development Specialist Martin Manodon said that among the additional mandatory requirements for cooperatives based on Republic Act No. 9520 otherwise known as the Philippine Cooperative Code of 2008 are documents on social audit and performance audit with the list of officers and ...
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07Jun2013BAGUIO CITY, June 7 (PIA) -- Enrolment in various colleges and universities in Cordillera is on-going and with the increasing tuition fees, the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) expects a lower number of enrollees in higher education institutions (HEIs) this year compared to last year. With regular classes in the college level to start by June 10, CHED officials expect a decrease in enrollees particularly in private HEIs. CHED Cordillera Assistant Regional Director Ramon Santiago at...
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07Jun2013BAGUIO CITY, June 7 (PIA) -- The historic Baguio Convention Center (BCC) will be rehabilitated with a budget of P15 million from the city government fund. Vice-Mayor Daniel Fariñas said that the initial budget is a meager amount for the repair of the building but they will source out addition funding. The BCC is the choice venue in this city for conferences, conventions, graduations, concerts, and many other big events. In 1978, the BCC was the venue of the World Chess Championship between ...
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07Jun2013BAGUIO CITY, June 7 (PIA) -- The Hotel and Restaurants Association of Baguio (HRAB), the biggest private sector tourism group here, is pushing for the inclusion of Baguio City as one of the host cities for the Asia Pacific Economic Conference (APEC) Summit that will be held in the country in 2014. HRAB President Anthony De Leon said in a media forum here on June 6 that they called on the city council to take an active role in pushing for the submission of a competitive bid as one of the host ci...
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07Jun2013BAGUIO CITY, June 7 (PIA) -- Re-elected Ifugao Representative Teddy Baguilat, Jr. is calling on his fellow lawmakers to support and pass pending bills that have an impact on food sufficiency and security. As the world marked the World Environment Day on June 5, Baguilat called on his colleagues to support the passage into law of important bills such as the Sustainable Forest Management Bill and the proposed National Land Use Act. “This year’s theme for World Environment Day is ‘Think. Ea...
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07Jun2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, June 7 (PIA) -- The Department of Education (DepEd) here deployed all education supervisors and some employees from the division office to the 11 districts to ensure the smooth flow of the opening of classes. Schools Division Superintendent Felipe Ballitoc said in a radio interview that he issued a directive to all education supervisors and some staff in the division office to stay in their assigned area for at least one week to assist the schools in solving any problem that mig...
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07Jun2013BAGUIO CITY, June 7 (PIA) -- The University of the Cordilleras (UC) is set to map the Bued River using the Geographic Information System (GIS) to help address the problems on pollution. In a Regional Development Council Watershed and Environment Sectoral Committee meeting June 5, the UC Center for Geographic Information Science Research Team presented the Bued River Basin Ecological Profiling project which they have started recently. UC Research Team Leader for Information Technology Engr. Na...
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07Jun2013BONTOC, Mountain Province, June 7 (PIA) -- Re-elected Governor Leonard Mayaen has formed a transition team to prepare a smooth transfer of local governance to the elected officials of this province on June 30. Mayaen issued an executive order creating the Local Governance Transition Team composed himself as chairman, Provincial Administrator Johnny Co as vice-chairman and the heads of the various departments of the provincial government as members. Also members in the transition team are Depa...
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07Jun2013BAGUIO CITY, June 7 (PIA) -- The country celebrates Migrant Workers’ Day today in recognition of the valuable contribution of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) as modern heroes of our nation. For this year’s celebration, the theme is “Migranteng Pilipino: Tayo ay magkasama sa pag-abot sa pangarap mo” (Migrant Filipino: We are with you in the fulfilment of your dreams), to show the government support in providing the needed policies, programs and services for the OFWs. In the region, th...
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07Jun2013BONTOC, Mountain Province, June 7 (PIA) -- Representatives from the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) have met with retailers and service providers in the province regarding the Philippine Energy Standards and Labelling Program for household appliances and lighting systems. The Energy Labelling Program of the DOE aims to eliminate least effective household appliances and lighting systems in local market, reduce monthly electricity bills to end-users, impr...
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07Jun2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, June 7 (PIA) –- The Commission on Election (COMELEC) provincial office has issued a directive urging all registered voters in the province whose biometrics have not been captured yet to take the mandatory voter’s biometric validation. Provincial Election Supervisor (PES) Dexter Bary Cawis disclosed the COMELEC order is pursuant to Republic Act 10367, which mandates all registered voters in the country to undergo voter’s biometric validation. As contained in the...
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06Jun2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, June 6 (PIA) -- Give man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. This popular Chinese proverb satisfactorily exemplifies one government project, which provides opportunities for the marginalized youth sector to improve their socio-economic conditions. The Cash-for-Training Program (C4TP) aims to equip the disadvantaged youth the needed skills to help them find a living. Identified beneficiaries for the C4TP are those bel...
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06Jun2013BAGUIO CITY, June 6 (PIA) -- Baguio City National High School (BCNHS), the largest school in the Cordillera, has opened its doors to at least 9,000 students this week with more expected to enrol until next week. Baguio City National High School Principal Elma Donaal welcomed the thousands of students on Monday during the nationwide opening of classes for the public schools. Donaal said that their main campus at the Governor Pack Road has already accommodated more than 6,000 students while...
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06Jun2013BONTOC, Mountain Province, June 6 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) scheduled this month the distribution of cash grants to more than 5,000 Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) beneficiaries in this province. Provincial Link Johnny Bumakil said that Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries in the municipalities of Barlig, Besao, Natonin, Paracelis, and Sadanga will be receiving their cash grants directly from the representatives of the Philippine Postal Corporation who...
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06Jun2013BAGUIO CITY, June 6 (PIA) -- The Police Regional Office-Cordillera (PRO-COR) has deployed 612 policemen in established 355 Police Assistance Desks (PADS) in the schools for the opening of classes in the Cordillera. PRO-COR Chief Public Information Officer Davy Vicente Malla Limmong said that the PADs were set-up to assist and secure students in traffic hotspot areas and schools premises in the police personnel’s (PP) respective areas of responsibility. Limmong said that Abra tops the deploym...
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06Jun2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, June 6 (PIA) -- The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) here partners with local government units (LGU) in the province in celebrating Arbor Day on June 25. The DENR and the provincial government agreed for a joint celebration to generate greater participation from the public, which will be highlighted by a mass tree-planting activity involving employees of national government and local offices. “Aside from tree planting, we plan to ask the city gover...
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06Jun2013BAGUIO CITY, June 6 (PIA) -- The Office of the Civil Defense (OCD)-Cordillera is reminding the general public to be ready for the rainy season. Engineer Jojo Valera of OCD said that they have instructed all Local Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (LDRRMC) to conduct an inventory of its rescue equipment which may be used in times of emergency and disaster such as strong typhoons, landslides, and heavy flooding. “We encourage regular conduct of drills and exercises in order to further...
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06Jun2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, June 6 (PIA) -- The Philippine National Police (PNP) here will accept applications for Police Officer 1 on June 14-28 in line with their Regular and Attrition Recruitment Program. SPO1 Marjorie Dulnuan, Police Community Relations Officer, said in a radio interview in the program “Humangan with PIA” that interested applicants who are 21-30 years old must submit their applications to Provincial Police Office or to the nearest municipal police station in their area. Dulnuan s...
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06Jun2013HUNGDUAN, Ifugao, Hunyo 6 (PIA) -- Ipinapatupad na ng local government unit (LGU) dito ang paniningil ng environmental fee sa lahat ng mga dayuhan at lokal na turista na bumisita sa lugar. Ang pagsingil ng P10 na environmental fee mula sa mga turista ay alinsunod sa "Hungduan Turismo Code." Sinabi ni Mayor Hilario Bumangabang na ang ang lokal na pamahalaan ay may kapangyarihan na mangasiwa at magsulong ng turismo para sa mga mabisa at epektibong pagpapatakbo ng industriya ng turismo sa kapakan...
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06Jun2013LAMUT, Ifugao, June 6 (PIA) -- The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP), in coordination with the Ifugao Electric Cooperative (IFELCO) and the Department of Education here, will distribute school supplies to about 200 pupils of the Sanafe Elementary School in this town on June 24. Lilibeth Gaydowen of the NGCP said that this is one of the company’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) which aims to help communities hosting their transmission lines and facilities. “We want...
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05Jun2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, June 5 (PIA) -- The National Nutrition Evaluation Team (NNET) has started evaluating the province's performance in nutrition programs this week as the province vies for its second Consistent Regional Outstanding Winner in Nutrition (Crown) Maintenance Award this year. Ifugao bagged the Crown award in 2010 in the Cordillera Administrative Region for its nutrition action plan to curb malnutrition for three consecutive years. Provincial Nutrition Action Officer Dr. Mary Joseph...
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05Jun2013BAGUIO CITY, June 5 (PIA) -- The Department of Education (DepEd) has passed a resolution requesting for the exemption of the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) from the application of Republic Act No. 7880 or the "Fair and Equitable Access to Education Act." DepEd-CAR Assistant Regional Director Sebastian Tayaban said during the recent 2nd Quarter Meeting of the Regional Social Development Committee (RSDC) that the law provides for the fair and equitable allocation of the DepEd budget for ...
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05Jun2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, June 5 (PIA) -- Tabuk City’s revenue collection efforts has yielded P15.6 million in the first five months of the year, January-May. Records of the City Treasurer’s Office show that the top three local revenue sources of Tabuk during the period include taxes on business with P6.7 million, economic enterprise with P2.6 million, and regulatory fees with P1.96 million. Tabuk City Mayor Ferdinand B. Tubban said that the figure has accounted 7.12% of the city’s regular In...
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05Jun2013BAGUIO CITY, June 5 (PIA) -- The Department of Education (DepEd) reported a smooth and orderly opening of classes June 3 in all public elementary and high schools in the Cordillera. DepEd Cordillera Assistant Regional Director Sebastian Tayaban said in a kapihan media forum at the PIA Cordillera Regional Office that classes opened smoothly in the region. Tayaban said that with the enrolment still on-going, they expect to have the same number of public school enrolees of 315,000 last year, if n...
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05Jun2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, June 5 (PIA) -- Local small scale miners of Gaang Mines in Balbalan are now veering away from the use of mercury in mining, and will help efforts to ban the hazardous chemical in the province. The use of mercury as means to extract gold is declared as “paniyaw” (taboo) at Gaang mines, according to Royce Lingbawan, president of the Banao Bodong Association (BBA), during the Provincial Summit on Artisanal Small-scale Gold Mining that . The use of mercury particularly i...
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05Jun2013HINGYON, Ifugao, Hunyo 5 (PIA) -- Pinuri ng mga residente ng barangay Umalbong ang pamahalaang nasyonal dahil sa pagpondo at pagpapatayo ng Barangay Food Terminal (BFT) sa kanilang lugar kamakailan. Ang BFT na nagkakahalaga ng P200,000 ay pormal na binuksan pagkatapos ang pagkakalunsad nito noong May 24 sa pamamagitan ng Department of Agriculture (DA), Provincial Agriculture Environment and Natural Resources Office (PAENRO), at ng barangay local government unit (BLGU). Ayon kay punong barang...
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05Jun2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, June 5 (PIA) -- The Kalinga-Apayao State College’s (KASC) bid to become a fully-operational university is not yet over with the three-year period given under Republic Act 10584 for it to comply with mandatory operational requirements. RA 10584 or an Act creating the Kalinga State University (KSU) in Tabuk City was signed into law by President Benigno C. Aquino on May 24, 2013. KASC President Eduardo T. Bagtang said that KASC is given until January 2016 to comply with the...
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05Jun2013BAGUIO CITY, June 5 (PIA) -- Employees of the Department of Education (DepEd) will now be covered by the expanded Primary Care Benefit 1 (PCB1) package of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth). Noland Sabling of the PhilHealth Cordillera said during the 2nd Quarter Meeting of the Regional Coalition for the Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases (RCPCNC) that the expansion program is in support to the government’s health agenda Kalusugan Pangkalahatan (universa...
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05Jun2013BAGUIO CITY, June 5 (PIA) -- The world’s largest floating book fair, the MV Logos Hope, has been extended up to June 9 in San Fernando, La Union due to engine problem. The ship was originally set to leave for Puerto Princesa in Palawan on June 2. MV Logos Hope Marine Superintendent Elon Alva said that one of the ship’s generators experienced breakdown and some parts have to be purchased in Europe which could take some time to arrive. On the positive side, the Logos Hope crew extended ...
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04Jun2013HUNGDUAN, Ifugao, June 4 (PIA) – This town's Tourism Code imposes a P10 per person environmental fee on local and foreign tourists visiting the area. Mayor Hilario Bumangabang said the fee will be used to promote tourism development, including the restoration and maintenance of the tourism spots in the municipality. He said enjoined tourists to register at the Tourist Assistance and Information Center upon entering the municipality and to engage the services of registered and licensed tour g...
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04Jun2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, June 4 (PIA) -- Employees of the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) here will conduct a synchronized tree planting on June 7 to highlight the agency's 50th anniversary. Engr. Raymundo Apil, Manager of the Kalinga-Ifugao-Mountain Province Irrigation Management Office said that they will plant 8,000 seedlings of various species in identified planting sites with the help of irrigators associations (IAs). He said that the tree planting will be conducted in areas of small...
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04Jun2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, June 4 (PIA) -- The government of Tabuk plans to celebrate the city's 12th founding anniversary and the Matagoan Festival on June 24-26 with “crowd drawer” events. City Tourism Officer Arlene Ethel Odiem said these include cultural street parade, motocross, Matagoan run, Patawid Agro-Industrial Trade Fair, Agri-lympics, Skills Olympics, drum and lyre competition, and Dornat or the rite of re-warming the Bodong. Other activities include a tree planting to commemorate...
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04Jun2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, June 4 (PIA) -- Business establishments, contractors, developers, investors, and similar entities in Sablan town will soon be required to prioritize residents for employment. Vice Mayor Leonardo Lawana has authored Municipal Ordinance Number 13-04 which requires employment of the town’s residents in anticipation of the expanding business activities in the area brought about by the rapidly flourishing businesses. The measure is intended to minimize unemployment, uplift...
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04Jun2013TINOC, Ifugao, June 4 (PIA) -- The local government unit (LGU) here has regulated the operation of motorized tricycle in the municipality. This is pursuant to an ordinance legislated and approved by the municipal mayor to ensure the safety and welfare of the riding public and tricycle operators in Tinoc. Based on the ordinance, no one is allowed to operate without seeking the motorized tricycle operators permit (MTOP) and the required carrier insurance sufficient to answer liabilities to passe...
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04Jun2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, June 4 (PIA) -- Officials of the municipality of Sablan in Benguet has passed a measure to protect the soon-to-be-installed emergency hotlines for reporting crime commission, disasters, calamities and other emergencies that require immediate response. The measure, Municipal Ordinance Number 13-06 which penalizes persons who make prank calls to emergency hotline numbers of government and private entities in the town of Sablan, is forwarded to the Committee on Peace and Orde...
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04Jun2013BAGUIO CITY, June 4 (PIA) -- Around 45 million Filipinos nowadays use social media, and if we can use this effectively in promoting the various tourism destinations and products in the country we can all help make the Philippines the prime destination here in the Asia Pacific region. Thus said Presidential Communication Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Sonny Coloma in a speech delivered by PCOO Assistant Secretary Cathryne Jonne Licudine, during the Amianan Tourism Forum here on May 31. In t...
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04Jun2013AGUINALDO, Ifugao, June 4 (PIA) -- The Ifugao Federation of Barangay Nutrition Scholars Incorporated (IFBNSI) has elected recently its leaders for 2013-2016. The provincial BNS federation officers (PBNSFO) were elected from the officers of the municipal BNS federation of the 11 municipalities of the province. Veronica Adviento and Monica Maimban were elected as president and vice-president, respectively while Monica Malingan and Mary Talosig for secretary and auditor. Treasurer is Cecilia Dul...
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04Jun2013BAGUIO CITY, June 4 (PIA) -- The Safe Motherhood Week is among the health event that the Department of Health (DOH) observes every month of May, an occasion to remind couples, especially mothers, that every pregnancy is a risk pregnancy. Nurse Zenaida Patal-e of the DOH Center for Health and Development-Cordillera said in a kapihan media forum on May 29 that maternal death or cases of mothers dying while giving birth remains high in Cordillera despite government efforts to advocate for health f...
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04Jun2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, June 4 (PIA) -- The Department of Education (DepEd) officials here reported that the start of classes on June 3 in Kalinga went on smoothly. Schools Division Superintendent Carolyn Verano said that classes started right without the usual cleaning of classrooms and grounds, and repair of damaged school facilities since the surroundings were already cleaned and everything was fixed during the week-long “Brigada Eskwela.” “The successful conduct of the Brigada Eskwela s...
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04Jun2013HINGYON, Ifugao, Hunyo 4 (PIA) -- Pormal nang binuksan sa publiko ang Barangay Food Terminal (BFT) na naitatag sa isa sa mga barangay dito. Ang Umalbong BFT ay inilunsad ng Department of Agriculture (DA), Provincial Agriculture Environment and Natural Resources Office (PAENRO), at barangay local government unit (BLGU) noong nakaraang Linggo. Ayon kay Narciso Tuguinay ng PAENRO, ang layon ng BFT ay ang pagkakaroon ng alternatibong merkado ang mga magsasaka na kung saan binibenta ang kanilang ...
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04Jun2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, June 4 (PIA) –- The Kalinga Schools Division offers the Special Education (SPED) Program for school year 2013-2014 in the districts of Balbalan, Pinukpuk and Tabuk City. Schools Division Superintendent Carolyne Verano said Kalinga Division earned its accreditation from the Department of Education (DepEd) as SPED center in 2012. SPED is a special elementary curriculum given to “self-contained” children or children with special gifts and skills, who need extra-clos...
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04Jun2013BAGUIO CITY, June 4 (PIA) -- The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Benguet has reported no price increase of school supplies in its monitoring in the area. DTI monitoring officer Ralf Altiyan said that they will continue to monitor the prices of school materials in the following weeks to ensure that no retailer would take advantage of the school opening to unjustly raise their prices. Altiyan also bared that they advice the consumers especially the parents to buy in legitimate es...
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04Jun2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, June 4 (PIA) -– With the increasing demand for coffee products worldwide, the fresh coffee bean industry has also become a viable business here. To take advantage of the economic potentials of coffee bean production, Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Provincial Director Grace Baluyan, has asked the members of the Kalinga Coffee Council (KCC) to study how to revive the coffee farming activities in the province and encourage farmers to revive their coffee plants. Seve...
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03Jun2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, June 3 (PIA) -- The provincial government of Benguet is fast tracking its disaster preparedness program with the holding of series of capability training for Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (DRRMC) members and concerned groups, the latest of which was on the early warning system and communication system and protocol. The province’s disaster preparedness capability program is a partnership between the provincial government and the World Food Programme f...
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03Jun2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, June 3 (PIA) -- Water irrigation supply from the Upper Chico River Irrigation System (UCRIS) will resume on June 16 after a month-long water cut-off for maintenance work along the main irrigation canal from this city to Quezon town in Isabela. National Irrigation Administration (NIA) Division Head Engr. Raymundo Apil made this assurance as he appealed to farmers to have discipline to avoid water waste through illegal laterals and siphoning irrigation water for household use...
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03Jun2013BAGUIO CITY, June 3(PIA)-- As the heirs of the late President Emilio Aguinaldo are struggling to preserve the oldest Philippine flag which is now 115 years old, they are also reminding Filipinos to instill the values of the flag. During the National Flag Day celebration held at the Emilio Aguinaldo Shrine last week, Emilio Aguinaldo Suntay III, a great grandson of the country’s first president, stressed that the respect of the Philippine flag in this time of incursions in Philippine ter...
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03Jun2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, June 3 (PIA) -- The Police Regional Office – Cordillera chief directed all the police field units in the region to strengthen intelligence activities and enhance collection of information following the recent attack of alleged members of the New Peoples Army on policemen in Allacapan town in Cagayan. “This is a signal that we cannot be very complacent, we need to be alert all the time, ” PRO-Cor Regional Director Chief Superintendent Benjamin Magalong said. ...
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03Jun2013BAGUIO CITY, June 3 (PIA) -- Baguio Country Club (BCC) General Manager Anthony de Leon has urged the elected officials of this city to look into the improvement of the Baguio City Loakan Airport to boost city's tourism industry. De Leon said during the launching of BCC’s latest marketing campaign that one of the reasons why Baguio City was not included in the list of possible venues for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit to be held in the Philippines later this year, was tha...
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03Jun2013DOLORES, Abra, June 3 (PIA) -- The winning candidate in a garbage collection contest was crowned Reyna Elena in the Flores de Mayo sa Barrio in this town’s Barangay Mudiit on May 26. Naisa Kristel T. Talledo won the garbage collection contest of Kalipunan ng Liping Pilipina (KALIPI) in Mudiit dubbed “Basurera Queen” and as a prize, she was selected as Reyna Elena. "Basurera Queen" Talledo, a nurse and a KALIPI member, led the Mudiit Santacruzan as Reyna Elena and paraded with her “Saga...
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03Jun2013BAGUIO CITY, June 3 (PIA) -- The National Statistics Office (NSO) here has implemented a quota of 1,200 clients to be served daily due to the increase of its clients brought about by the enrolment rush for this school year. With parents and students rushing for enrolment this school year, the NSO–Baguio City came up with the quota to address increasing number of clients reaching as high as 1,883 in a day. NSO-Cordillera Regional Director Olivia Gulla said in an interview over the PIA Hour R...
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03Jun2013BANGUED, Abra, June 3 (PIA) -- The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) - Abra Chapter convened all its nominees for the Board of Directors (BOD) in an orientation at the Provincial Capitol on May 29 in preparation for their elections and in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Red Cross. In the orientation, Leonilo Lagasca II, head of the International Humanitarian Law Office of the PRC national headquarters, discussed the services rendered by the PRC. He also highlighted the relevance o...
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03Jun2013HINGYON, Ifugao, June 3 (PIA) -- Residents of Umalbong in this municipality lauded the government for establishing a Barangay Food Terminal (BFT) in the community that will cater to their needs. The P200,000-worth BFT was formally launched last week by Department of Agriculture (DA), the Provincial Agriculture Environment and Natural Resources Office (PAENRO), and the barangay local government unit. Village chief Pedro Magaya said that the opening of the BFT will surely help his constituents i...
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03Jun2013BAGUIO CITY, June 3 (PIA) -- The Department of Health (DOH) reminds motorists to always keep a positive mindset of road safety as a preventive measure against road accidents which remains high in the Cordillera region. Engineer Basilio Munar of the DOH Center for Health and Development-Cordillera (CHD-CAR) said in a media forum that in 2012, Cordillera ranks third among the regions in the country with the most number of road accident victims with 294 injuries and 26 deaths. Munar said that bas...
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03Jun2013MALIBCONG, Abra, June 3 (PIA) -- An automatic voltage regulator (AVR) and a total of 100 units of kilowatt hour meter (kWh meter) were turned-over to the people of this town’s upland Barangay Gacab by the Affiliated Renewable Energy Cernter (AREC) at the Mariano Marcos State University (MMSU) in Batac City, Ilocos Norte on May 27. The devices were formally turned-over by Dr. Miriam Pascua, President of MMSU, and the AREC staff headed by Project Manager Dr. Carmelo Esteban to the people of Mal...
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03Jun2013HINGYON, Ifugao, June 3 (PIA)--The Philippine National Police (PNP) here and in Asipulo joined in the Brigada Eskwela in different schools in their areas of responsibility. Police Inspector Jeffrey Vicente, Hingyon Chief of Police, said that the policemen under his command were able to paint the classrooms and concretize portions of the fence of the O-ong, Namulditan and Piwong elementary schools. “We conducted the said activities the whole week on different dates so as not to hamper our f...
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02Jun2013BONTOC, Mountain Province, June 2 (PIA) -- The provincial government here has alloted funding for cash incentives to athletes who have garnered medals in the regional and national sponsored competitions in recognition of their good performance. As provided in the Provincial Ordinance No. 98, the amount of P220,000.00 is appropriated annually in the general fund of the provincial government for the specific purpose under the Office of the Provincial Sports Coordinator. The ordinance provides ...
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01Jun2013BAGUIO CITY, June 1 (PIA)-- The first Baguio-Benguet Philex Marathon is set to fire off on Sunday with more than 400 runners expected to participate. Race Director Constante Mendoza said that the event is expected to be attended by seasoned and elite runners coming from the country and the international community as well. Mendoza said the marathon is intended to become a signature marathon for Baguio City and Benguet which also aims to promote the sports tourism in these mountain resorts as...
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01Jun2013BONTOC, Mountain Province, June 1 (PIA) -- To help promote the program for quality education and to help decrease illiteracy rate in the province, the provincial government here continues allotting an amount annually for Special Education Fund. The Provincial School Board chaired by Governor Leonard Mayaen approved the 2013 budget for the Special Education Fund (SEF) amounting to P2,644,566,00. Based on the data provided by Nelda Lo, secretariat of the Provincial School Board here, said the bo...
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02Jun2013BAGUIO CITY, June 2 (PIA)-- The only transmission facility in the country donated a water system for students and faculty as part of their advocacy to develop communities hosting its transmission facilities. The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines(NGCP) inaugurated and turned over a water well and elevated water tanks in the Beckel Elementary School in Barangay Beckel, La Trinidad, Benguet. On Thursday, NGCP officials led by its Corporate Affairs Department Manager Nelson Cabangon to...
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30May2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, May 30 (PIA) -– The Cash for Training Project (C4TP) in the province has recently produced 816 new skilled workers who were personally confirmed by Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) Regional Director Yolanda Olano during a mass graduation rite held on May 29 here. From the total number, 133 beneficiaries were from Lubuagan, 140 from Pinukpuk, 74 from Tinglayan, 90 from Tanudan, 40 from Rizal, 92 from Balbalan, 130 were from Pasil and 117 from Ta...
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01Jun2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, June 1 (PIA)--With the school opening on Monday, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) here assured the public that there is no overpricing of school supplies in the province. Speaking in the radio program, “Humangan with PIA,” Johny Dulnuan of the DTI said they monitore key business establishments every Friday for the whole month of May in key municipalities in the province and the prices of school supplies are still stable. “We thank the owners of the business es...
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31May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 31(PIA) -- The Philippine Military Academy condoles with the family and relatives of 2nd Lt. Alfredo Lorin VI as well as the other soldiers who died during a clash in Patikul, Sulu last weekend. "The PMA condoles with the bereaved family of Lt. Lorin. Though untimely, his death is an ultimate sacrifice by a soldier so that he can live up to his mandate of serving and protecting the people,” a statement by PMA Public Information Officer Captain Lynnette Agnes Flores said. L...
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31May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 31(PIA)-- Government agencies and other stakeholders from Regions 1, 2, 3 and the Cordillera will conduct the Benguet-Nueva Vizcaya Cluster stakeholders’ workshop and consultation in preparation on the drafting of the Agno River Management and Development Master Plan at the Baguio Teachers Camp on June 6 and 7, here. Organized by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources – 1 with the assistance of the River Basin Control Office, the Regional Technical Working...
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31May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 31 (PIA)-- Two mining firms in the province of Benguet supported and participated in the annual Brigada Eskwela of schools in their host communities. Employees of Philex Mining Corporation particularly the Padcal Mine Operations last week organized their Brigada Eskwela at the Ampucao National High School and Manganese Elementary School, both in Itogon town, and the Torre Elementary School, in Tuba. Philex mines employees cleaned up, repaired and constructed classrooms and ot...
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31May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 31 (PIA) -– Seven colleges and universities were allowed by the Commission on Higher Education – Cordillera Administrative Region (CHED-CAR) to increase their tuition and other school fees this school opening. CHED-CAR Assistant Regional Director Ramon Santiago in an interview over DZEQ - Radyo ng Bayan announced that CHED has granted 10 percent tuition and miscellaneous hike to Pines City Colleges, Baguio College of Technology (BCT), Baguio Central University (BCU) f...
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31May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 31 (PIA)-- The Civil Service Commission ( CSC) has set August 30, 2013 as the deadline of registration for the second Career Service Examinations Paper-and-Pencil Test (CSE-PPT) for this year in both the Professional and Sub-Professional levels. According to Atty. Marilyn E. Taldo, CSC Regional Director, the CSE-PPT is slated on October 13, 2013 nationwide. She said applicants may file their application of registration to any of the CSC regional or field offices in the re...
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31May2013BONTOC, Mountain Province, May 31 (PIA)-- Weather conditions and tracking real-time weather disturbances in this landlocked province can now be forecast more accurately with the installation of modern weather instruments in strategic areas in the province. Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Provincial Director Norberto Cobaldez said four units of Automatic Rain Gauges (ARG) were installed in the municipalities of Bauko, Bontoc, Besao and Paracelis while one unit Automatic Weather ...
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01Jun2013BAGUIO CITY, June 1 (PIA)-- The only state college in Mountain Province is now a university. President Benigno S. Aquino III signed on May 24 the law converting the Mountain Province State Polytechnic College into the Mountain Province State University. The law is contained in Republic Act 10583 or “An Act Converting the Mountain Province State Polytechnic College in the Municipality of Bontoc, Mountain Province Into a State University to be Known as the Mountain Province State Univers...
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31May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 31(PIA) -- With the classes for elementary and high school to officially start next week, the Health Department (DOH) reminds the parents to keep their children healthy by giving them balanced and nutritious food, vitamins and keep them away from the heat of the sun and protect them from the rain. Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center (BGHMC) pediatrician, Dr. Maria Rosalina Tandoc, during the DOH- led kapihan media forum, aired this advice as she disclosed that with a h...
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31May2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, May 31 (PIA) --The Department of Education here called on all parents to enroll their children before June 7 to ensure that they are included in the list of enrollees to be submitted to the DepEd Central Office. Schools Division Superintendent Felipe Ballitoc made this appeal in the radio program “Humangan with PIA”. He explained that the number of enrollees is the basis of the DepEd in downloading funding to the different schools nationwide. Basing on the records of the ...
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31May2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, May 31 (PIA) -- The National Irrigation Administration (NIA), Kalinga, Ifugao,Mountain Province irrigation management office (KIMPIMO) reported it has completed rehabilitating 78 communal irrigation systems (CIS) in Kalinga province. As of May 26 this year, the weekly status of accomplishment report show that out of the 138 total CIS calamity level II projects planned rehabilitated under the P690 million allocation for all levels, 78 or 62 percent of the target was accomp...
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30May2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, May 30 (PIA) -- The Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (PDRRMC) has required all heads of member-agencies to attend all scheduled meetings for the full and effective functioning of the council. Members' absence in meetings has hindered the council from tackling some important matters, the resolution said. The PDRRMC also directed heads of agencies to designate an alternate to attend and represent them in the event that they cannot personally attend any me...
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30May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 30 (PIA) -- Incumbent officials in the province of Apayao, including almost all municipalities have retained their seats in the May 13 elections. The incumbent officials won with landslide victories in the gubernatorial and congressional race while the vice-governor and most of the municipal mayors were unopposed. Incumbent Governor Elias Bulut Jr. of the Liberal Party won over Mading Almazan of the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) while Congresswoman Eleanor Bulut-Begtang of...
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30May2013BUCAY, Abra, May 30 (PIA) -- The Local Health Board (LHB) of this town has spearheaded the cleaning of surroundings in the barangays following the death of a seven-year old girl on May 17 due to dengue. LHB Chairman Mayor Victorino B. Barona, Jr. led municipal officials and employees in a massive cleaning and education campaign on May 27 in Barangay South Poblacion where the casualty came from and where six other dengue cases have been reported. A report by the Municipal Health Unit shows ...
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30May2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, May 30 (PIA) -- Officials of the town of Tuba, Benguet are seeking the endorsement of a proposal to build health drug, records and laboratory management of its rural health unit (RHU) from funds granted to communities which host power generation facilities. Resolution Number 52 series 2013 authored by Councilor Adora Paus is requesting Hydroelectric Development Corporation, which operates a hydropower generating facility in Irisan, Tuba to endorse the project pro...
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30May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 30 (PIA) -- Risky sexual behavior is a common denominator of acquiring HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) and the Human Pappiloma Virus or HPV, a known link in acquiring cervical cancer. In a Department of Health- led kapihan media forum, Wednesday, Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center (BGHMC) HIV/AIDS Core Team chair Dr. Maria Lorena Santos reported an increasing number of HIV cases in the BGHMC registry. Since 2006 they have already screened 72 cases which include...
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30May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 30 (PIA) -- In preparation for the opening of school year 2013 – 2014, the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration Cordillera Regional Welfare Office (OWWA – CAR), gathered its scholars in a conference that featured life skills and career guidance workshops. The two-day college scholar conference was held last May 24 and 25 at the Sta. Catalina Spirituality Center along Marcos Highway and was attended by 103 incoming college scholars of OWWA from various parts of the Cord...
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29May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 29 (PIA) -- The city government of Baguio led the celebration of the National Flag Day at the Bonifacio Shrine here Tuesday, with a great grandson of General Emilio Aguinaldo as guest. Emilio Aguinaldo Suntay, a great grandson of the President of the first Philippine Republic, talked on how the first Philippine Flag, which is now housed at the museum inside the Aquinaldo Shrine compound here, became a living testament to the patriotism of our heroes 115 years ago, who ...
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29May2013LAMUT, Ifugao Mayo 29 (PIA) -- Mahigit 200 na pampubliko at pribadong guro ang sinanay kamakailan sa pagtuturo ng Filipino na ginanap sa Ifugao State University (IFSU) main campus dito. Ang tatlong araw na pagsasanay na dinaluhan ng mga guro mula sa probinsiya ng Apayao, Aurora, Ifugao, Kalinga at Quezon ay naglalayong mapataas ang kaalaman ng mga guro sa pagtuturo gamit ang wikang Filipino. Ang mga guro ay nagtututuro sa iba’t ibang antas ng paaralan simula sa pre-school hanggang sa kolehiy...
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29May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 29 (PIA) -- The National Youth Commission (NYC) is inviting interested individuals to apply as participants to the Inaugural ASEAN Youth Eco-Leaders Programme which will be held from August 15-September 20, 2013 in Kuala Lumpur. Mr. Jun Angeles, NYC Northern Luzon Area Officer, announced that the ASEAN Youth Volunteer Program Secretariat (AYVP) has organized the Inaugural ASEAN Youth Eco-leaders Programme under the support of the ASEAN Secretariat and the Ministry of You...
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29May2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, May 29 (PIA) -- Public Employment Service Office (PESO) managers and guidance counselors in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) are in Baguio City to attend two regional meetings to improve service. Anthony Luminang of DOLE-Kalinga said that on May 28-29 is scheduled the 1st Quarter PESO federation meeting and the regional advocacy congress for the Philippine Career Guidance Counselors Network (PCGN)- CAR Chapter is scheduled on May 30. Luminang said that the fir...
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29May2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, May 29 (PIA) -- Twenty six trainees from four towns and this city were trained on masonry and carpentry under the Training for Work Scholarship Program (TWSP) of the government. Anthony Luminang of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE)Kalinga provincial office said that this batch of trainees were the first beneficiaries of the TWSP in the province which aims to capacitate enrolees of technical skills for gainful employment. He said that five each from this ...
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29May2013BANGUED, Abra, May 29 (PIA) -- The Philippine Red Cross- Abra Chapter (PRC-Abra) sustains its advocacy on AIDS/HIV (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome/Human Immunodeficiency Virus) prevention program in the province. The 30th Annual International AIDS Prevention and candlelight memorial ceremony held at the Provincial Capitol Atrium last week was highlighted by blood-letting participated by donors from the Philippine National Police (PNP), the Philippine Army and youth groups, and signing ...
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29May2013BONTOC, Mountain Province, May 29 (PIA) -- The Provincial Peace and Order Council (PPOC) here has identified peace and development priority projects for possible inclusion in the 2014 PAMANA or the Payapa at Masaganang Pamayanan program of the government. Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Provincial Director Anthony Ballug, head the PPOC Secretariat, said the proposed projects which are all road improvement projects spread out in the 10 municipalities with an estimate cost ...
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29May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 29 (PIA) - - The Commission on Election-Cordillera (COMELEC-CAR) awarded certificates and plaques of recognition to their election partners in recognition of their active involvement that greatly helped in the successful conduct of the May 13 elections described as the most peaceful and credible election in the region. Comelec Regional Director Jose Nick Mendros was assisted by Assistant Regional Director Reddy Balarbar in awarding the Police Regional Office – Cordillera (...
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29May2013BONTOC, Mt. Province, May 29 (PIA) -- A total of 243 youth in the province passed the 2012 Alternative Learning System Acceleration and Equivalency (ALS A & E) test. Education Program Supervisor for Alternative Learning System Susan Aminor of the Mt. Province Division Office said that of the total passers, only six passed the elementary level who are now qualified to enrol in high school and 237 passed the high school level who are now qualified to enrol in college. Some 921 high school and ...
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29May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 29 (PIA) -- The Department of Education (DepEd)-Cordillera is requesting for allocation of more indigenous peoples (IP)-teachers for the implementation of the IP education programs of the region. The DepEd-Cordillera recently issued DepEd-CAR Resolution No. 06 series of 2013 requesting for the allocation of additional IP-teacher position items to the DepEd-CAR. The resolution was presented by DepEd-CAR Assistant Regional Director Sebastian Tayaban during the second quarter ...
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29May2013BANGUED, Abra, May 29 (PIA) -- The Department of Education (DepEd) here reiterated the implementation of the “no collection fee” policy in the public schools. In an interview with the local media here, Dr. Rosita Castillo-Brillantes, Division Schools Superintendent, warned her ranks in the Division of Abra to strictly abide by the Department policy of “no collection fee” not only during the enrolment period but throughout the school year. Brillantes urged parents to report teac...
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28May2013LAGANGILANG, Abra, May 28 (PIA) -- The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) has awarded Abra farmers and fisherfolk with support services and infrastructure facilities in order to raise their productivity and income-generating capacity. Under the Barangay Fish Terminal Project (BFT), the BFAR awarded the Rural Improvement Club (RIC) of Barangay Duldulao in Malibcong with 120 kilograms of marketable fish; 158 kilogram to Poblacion Tui RIC in Daguioman; 160 kilograms for Lamao...
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28May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 28 (PIA) -- The MV Logos Hope, the world’s largest floating book fair, has sailed to San Fernando City, La Union and formally opened on May 24. “MV Logos Hope is not just a ship of dreams and hope, but it is also a ship that offers knowledge and learning,” said La Union Vice-Governor Aureo Augusto Nisce, who was the guest of honor during the official opening. “How I wish that we turn every battleship, destroyers or carriers, into ships that offer us hope instead of ...
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28May2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, May 28 (PIA) -- Kalinga is now a Tourism Development Area (TDA) with the signing of Republic Act No. 10561 by President Benigno Aquino III. The law titled “An Act Declaring the Province of Kalinga in the Cordillera Region as a Tourism Development Area (TDA)” is authored by Kalinga Congressman Manuel S. Agyao. The law mandates the Department of Tourism (DOT) to incorporate the Tourism Development Plan of Kalinga in its overall National Tourism Development Plan (NTDP) pu...
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28May2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, May 28 (PIA) -- The Global Fund Against Malaria is up with the replacement and re-treatment of bed nets under its anti-malaria and anti-dengue program in Kalinga with the onset of the rainy season. Global Fund Against Malaria Provincial Coordinator May Ann Cosip said that the activity undertaken with the Municipal Health Offices (MHOs), is timed at this period in anticipation of easy proliferation of mosquitoes during the rainy season. Cosip said that the nets distribute...
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28May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 28 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in the Cordillera will launch the National Community-Driven Development Program (NCDDP), a core strategy for poverty reduction, in July. DSWD Regional Director Leonardo Reynoso said that the NCDDP is the expansion into the national scale operations of the community-driven development (CDD) strategy that has been tried and proven effective in the Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan- Comprehensive and Integrated Del...
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28May2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, May 28 (PIA) -- Youth leaders from the provinces of Isabela, Cagayan and this province attended the First Luzon Youth Leaders Workshop held at Camp Melchor Dela Cruz in Upi, Gamu, Isabela. 1Lt. Datu Ara Waleed Alfredo Agcaoili of the 501st Infantry Brigade said that the three-day workshop focused on unifying a diversified culture in order to foster brotherhood and understanding among ethnic youths in Northern Luzon. “Through the youth, we can instill in their minds the i...
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28May2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, May 28 (PIA) -- The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) is providing mechanical equipment to two farmers cooperative in Tanudan municipality to boost production of coffee, corn, and banana. Provincial DOST Officer Alfonso Berto said that the Nalyawan Farmers Cooperative (NAFCO) in Taloctoc in upper Tanudan was provided coffee roaster and grinder while the Dupligan Farmers Cooperative (DUFAMCO) in lower Tanudan will receive corn and banana processing machin...
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27May2013BONTOC, Mountain Province, May 27 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) released P4,629,500 for seed capital of some 512 Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) beneficiaries in this province. This is part of the agency's Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP). Jessie Chilem of the DSWD office here said that P2,652,500 of the total amount was released to some 310 families of the first set of 4Ps which was implemented in the municipalities of Natonin, Paracelis and Sa...
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27May2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, May 27 (PIA) -- Inilabas ng Provincial Local Government Unit (PLGU) ang huling mga aktibidad para sa nalalapit na ika-47 anibersaryo ng lalawigan na tinaguriang "Gotad ad Ifugao 2013" sa Hunyo 16 - 21. Sa temang "Magkakaibang Kultura .. Nagkakaisang mamamayan, Maunlad na Kinabukasan" (Diverse Culture .. Unified People, Progressive future), ang Gotad ad Ifugao (Grand feast) ay magsisimula sa thanksgiving mass at moral recovery rally sa Hunyo 16. Ang selebrasyon ay pormal na bub...
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27May2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, May 27 (PIA) -- The local government of Tuba is pushing for the purchase of communication facilities for its disaster awareness and preparedness program. Resolution Number 53 series 2013, authored by Councilor Adora Paus, requests the Hydroelectric Development Corporation (HEDCOR) to endorse the purchase of communication equipment for the use of the Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office (MDRRMO) to be funded under the Energy Regulation 1- 94 granting financ...
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27May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 27 (PIA) -- The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) in the region has announced the new set of Private Sector Representatives (PSRs) in the Regional Development Council (RDC) for the term 2013-2016. NEDA Supervising Economic Development Specialist Arturo Aro said during the Regional Social Development Committee (RSDC) meeting last week that the 12 chosen PSRs will sit in the different sectoral committees of the RDC. Aro said that Voltaire Acosta from the Counc...
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27May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 27 (PIA) -- The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) continues to strengthen small-scale fishing and the income of small scale farmers with the launch of techno-demonstration projects on tilapia pond culture and the rollover of Barangay Fish Terminal (BFT) in two barangays of Tayum and Peñarrubia in Abra. The local government unit (LGU) of Tineg in Abra was granted one unit outboard motorized wooden banca while the Bangbangcag Bucay Farmers’ Association o...
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27May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 27 (PIA)-- The Baguio City National High School (BCNHS), the biggest public school in the city, is doing everything just to accommodate all the incoming students this coming school year. BCNHS Principal Dr. Elma Donaal, who is also the National Association of Public Secondary School Heads, Inc. (NAPSHI) Luzon Vice President, said that their Brigada Eskwela did not only concentrate on cleaning classrooms, repairing desks and arm chairs and preparing classrooms to be conducive ...
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27May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 27 (PIA) -- The Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) has signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with civil society groups here on May 24 to improve governance and monitoring of government’s peace and development projects and programs in the Cordillera. The MOA signing initiated the setting-up of Monitoring, Evaluation and Transparency (MET) mechanism by the OPAPP, represented by Undersecretary Marie Cleofe Gettie Sandoval, and partner civil society...
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27May2013HINGYON, Ifugao, May 27 (PIA)--The Department of Agriculture, the Provincial Agriculture Environment and Natural Resources Office, and the municipal and barangay local government units here launched last week the Barangay Food Terminal (BFT) in Barangay Umalbong. Narciso Tuguinay, person in charge of the BFT, said that the project will make available and accessible quality food products such as meat, poultry, fish and vegetables at low prices to the marginalized sector of the community. “...
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27May2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, May 27 (PIA) -- Binuo kamakailan ng Local Government Uniti (LGU) dito ang Lagawe Market Coordinating Committee (LMCC) para masiguro ang tamang pangangasiwa ng pampublikong palengke sa munisipalidad. Ito ay alinsunod sa market code ng bayan na layuning mapabuti ang pamamahala ng public market upang mapangalagaan ang kaligtasan at kapakanan ng lahat ng mga stakeholder. Ang LMCC ay pinamununuan ng municipal mayor at ang market administrator bilang executive assistant. Ang mga miy...
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27May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 27 (PIA) -- The Department of Labor and Employment -Cordillera (DOLE-CAR) conducted an orientation on the government’s social protection and livelihood programs to 100 members of 15 informal sector workers groups in Baguio-Benguet area on May 15. Farmers, persons with disability (PWDs), Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs), ambulant vendors, senior citizens, youth and other informal sector workers joined the activity which was held in line with the celebration of this year’s La...
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27May2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, May 27 (PIA) -- The National Irrigation Administration (NIA) provincial office told farmers here that payments for irrigation fees should now only be in cash starting this cropping season. Irrigation Officer for Kalinga Raymond Apil of the Ifugao and Mountain Province Service Area who is based in the province said that the “cash only” payment is pursuant to a NIA Central Office memorandum stating that NIA would no longer accept “in-kind” payments for irrigation fees...
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27May2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, May 27 (PIA) – The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) provincial office has opened the registration for exhibitors to the 2013 Patawid Trade Fair on June 23-25 in this city. The Patawid Trade Fair, a joint-project of DTI-Kalinga and Tabuk City government, has become part of the traditional festivities in celebration of the city’s Matagoan Festival and founding anniversary. Benita Mangadap of DTI-Kalinga said that this year, which is the 12th Matagoan Festival and 6...
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27May2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, May 27 (PIA)-- The Provincial Local Government Unit of Ifugao has established an educational assistance program to poor but deserving Sangguniang Kabataan officials enrolled in state colleges in the province. The PLGU believes that education is a basic right of every citizen and it is a fact that due to the limited budget for education, the government cannot fully provide for all the educational needs of its citizens. Board member Robert Humiwat, the co-author of the ordina...
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27May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 27 (PIA)--The pride of the Cordilleras are set to highlight the largest mix martial arts promotions in the Asia next week in Manila. Five of the best fighters from Team Lakay, the best mixed martial arts (MMA) club in the country, will again be tested in the upcoming “Rise to Power” event of the One Fighting Championship (One FC) to be held at the SM Mall of Asia Arena on May 31. Reigning featherweight champion Honorio “the Rock” Banario will make his title defense ag...
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26May2013BONTOC, Mountain Province, May 26(PIA) -- The Department of Education’s Brigada Eskwela program has encouraged more community members to volunteer and participate in making school facilities ready in time for the school opening this June. This was observed during the week-long Brigada Eskwela held at the Mountain Province General Comprehensive High School (MPGCHS), the biggest secondary school in the province. MPGCHS Brigada Eskwela attendance showed the participation of the members of t...
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26May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 26(PIA) -- Local Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DRRM) officers from Ifugao and Apayao are set to start on May 27 their on-the-job training (OJT) at the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) Regional Officer here. OCD – Cordillera Regional Director Andrew Alex Uy, in an interview over PIA Hour Radio program at DZWT, disclosed that the OJT training will be the first of a series of a seven-day training program, which aims to further enhance the capability of key local DRRM of...
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25May2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, May 25 (PIA)-- The 86th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army based in the province joined the Department of Education’s Brigada Eskwela program in preparing the schools for the opening of classes in June. Lt. Jessie Lopez, the Officer in Charge of the 86th IB, said that this is their way of showing concern for the welfare of the pupils and students studying in the different parts of the province. Lopez disclosed that they painted classrooms and gate, cleaned the surr...
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25May2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga May 25 (PIA) -- The Kalinga Coffee Council (KCC) is prepping up its advocacy to improve coffee bean production and enhance the quality of coffee beans in the province. As a first step the members identified the municipalities of Balbalan, Pasil, Pinukpuk, Tabuk City and Tanudan as the pilot areas in the advocacy to revive the coffee industry in the province. Balbalan was chosen for being covered by the Agrarian Reform Community Connectivity and Economic Support Services (AR...
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25May2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, May 25 (PIA)--The Bureau of Agricultural Research (BAR) funded the Community-based Participatory Action Research on Goat Production here in the amount of P1,000,000 with a counterpart from the Lagawe local government unit of P50,000.00. The research seeks to promote the adoption of recommended production practices in goat production by training 40 farmers to increase their incomes through their adoption of improved production practices on goat production that will increase th...
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25May2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, May 25 (PIA) -- The federation of Sangguniang Kabataan in Kiangan town led a youth leadership summit at the Ifugao State University-Lagawe Campus on May 20-23. About 140 youths from all over the municipality participated in the summit with the theme, “Kabataan, nasa atin ang pagbabago”. Wilbert Umalco, the Municipal Local Government Operations Officer of Kiangan, said the activity was aimed to develop God- fearing, morally upright, disciplined and socially responsible ...
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25May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 25 (PIA) -- The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) Cordillera Regional Welfare Office, for the second consecutive year held a family summer workshop for overseas Filipino workers(OFW) families in the Baguio-Benguet area. The summer program with the theme, “Strengthening Family Values, Stewardship Formation and Economic Reintegration", was held in two batches last May 16 – 17 at the Department of Labor and Employment – National Reintegration Center for ...
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24May2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, May 24 (PIA) -- The Tabuk City Health Office (CHO) has joined the Brigada Eskwela with its anti-dengue efforts in public and private schools here. Dengue Control and Prevention Coordinator Rhea Barcellano said that teams from the CHO have been deployed in various schools in Tabuk working with the Brigada teams. The CHO anti-dengue efforts include massive clearing of canals, elimination of possible mosquito breeding sites, and information-education drive, and larviciding. ...
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24May2013PASIL, Kalinga, May 24 (PIA) -- The municipal government has approved its counterpart budget for the second cycle project implementation of the Kapit-bisig Laban sa Kahirapan Comprehensive Integrated Delivery of Social Services (Kalahi-CIDSS) amounting to P2.016 million. Kalahi-CIDSS Pasil Area Coordinator Engr. Joel Cubit said that with the approval and signing of a Memorandum of Agreement between the local government and Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), the program has for...
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24May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 24 (PIA) -- The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE)-Cordillera reported that they have not received any petition for wage increase this year and this may be attributed to the improving economy. DOLE-Cordillera Regional Director John Henry Jalbuena said in an interview that the improving economy of the country is being felt by the workforce and this may be a factor why no petition on wage increase has been filed yet. “Our economy is doing well and our peso is appr...
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24May2013BANGUED, Abra, May 24 (PIA) -- Better health services will be more accessible to Abrenios with the inauguration of the new Abra Provincial Hospital in barangay Calaba here on May 8. The opening was graced by Department of Health (DOH) Undersecretary Gerardo Bayugo, Governor Eustaquio P. Bersamin and other provincial officials, chief executives of the different municipalities, heads of national government agencies, and the clergy. The two- storey, 170-bed capacity hospital was built throug...
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24May2013BANGUED, Abra, May 24 (PIA) -- Top officials in the province vowed to sustain the generally peaceful and orderly situation in the province during the election period hoping that this may lead to the development of the province. Re-elected Governor Eustaquio Bersamin and Congresswoman Maria Jocelyn Valera-Bernos said that they will strive to ensure that the favorable peace and order situation in the province with the help of their fellow Abrenios and the peace keeping force. Abra is arguably...
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24May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 24 (PIA) -- Votes from a religious sect and the indigenous peoples (IP) have won seats for many of the winning candidates in the May 13 automated polls in this city. Political Analyst Atty. Edgar Avila said that the Iglesia Ni Cristo religious sect in Baguio City endorsed some candidates from the different political parties and even independent candidates several days before the election. Avila said that the Iglesia ni Cristo in Baguio City has a membership of more than 7,00...
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24May2013BONTOC, Mountain Province, May 24 (PIA) -- The people of the province have opted to retain many of their incumbent local officials down to the municipal level during the May 13, 2013 elections. Reelectionist Congressman Maximo Dalog, Sr. and Governor Leonard Mayaen were given fresh mandate as well as incumbent Vice Governor Bonifacio Lacwasan who ran unopposed. Three incumbent Sangguniang Panlalawigan members Alfonso Kia-ong and Raul Lapon for District I, and Randolph Awisan of District II ...
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24May2013BANGUED, Abra, May 24 (PIA) -- Mayor Wilma Saguiyod-Gattud of the remote upland municipality of Tubo reaped a prestigious award before bidding goodbye from being a municipal mayor for three consecutive terms. Gattud was awarded by Superbrand as Most Outstanding Mayor Award (MOMA) for her extraordinary way of doing things within the bounds of the customary and indigenous systems and traditions in the Maeng tribe where she belongs. The Superbrand Marketing International, Inc. is the only inte...
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24May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 24 (PIA) -- The Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) is set to conduct inspection on fire safety compliance of all schools, dormitories, and boarding houses as part of the government’s efforts to ensure a smooth opening of classes for school year 2013-2014. In an interview over PIA Hour radio program at DZWT – Radyo Totoo yesterday, BFP-Cordillera Information Officer Josesito Dollente said that under the annual “Oplan Balik Eskwela”, all BFP Field Offices were directed to co...
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23May2013BONTOC, Mountain Province, May 23 (PIA) -- The reactivation and strengthening of the Local Anti-Drug Abuse Councils (LADAC) will be a priority concern the newly elected municipal officials will work on when they assume office in July. In his memorandum, Department of Interior and Local Government Provincial Director Anthony Ballug directed his 10 Municipal Local Government Operation Officers (MLGOO) to coordinate with their local chief executives to activate or reorganize their respective LAD...
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23May2013TINGLAYAN, Kalinga, May 23 (PIA) -- Eight projects under the the Kapit-bisig Laban sa Kahirapan Comprehensive Integrated Delivery of Social Services (KALAHI-CIDSS) were completed and turned-over to the recipient communities while nine projects are still on-going with most of them nearing completion in this municipality. According to program coordinator Gaston Naimes, Tinglayan was one of the identified municipalities in the province to benefit from the KALAHI-CIDSS in 2011. Seventeen projects w...
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23May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 23 (PIA) --The City Schools Division Office and the Baguio City Police office are gearing up for a smooth, safe and orderly start of school year 2013-2014. In a Philippine Information Agency-led media forum yesterday, Baguio City Divisions Superintendent Estela Cariño said that they are already into the third day of Brigada Eskwela, an annual multi-sectoral activity which aims to prepare the public elementary and high schools for the coming school opening in June. Cariño sai...
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23May2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, May 23 (PIA) -- Scholars of this city will receive higher financial assistance starting this school year from P2,500 to P3,500 per semester for regular academic studies. Scholars undertaking technical vocational (tech-voc) courses are entitled to a maximum of P7,000 or lower depending on the training course. The city has 200 tech-voc scholars annually. Marco Pagtud, person-in-charge of the local government scholarship program, said the city government would be allotting P...
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23May2013ALFONSO LISTA, Ifugao, May 23 (PIA) -- The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) has set power interruption on May 28 in the provinces of Ifugao and Nueva Vizcaya. NGCP North Luzon Operations and Maintenance District 4 Head Alexander G. Alvarez said that the power outage in Ifugao will last from 8 a.m.-4 p.m., while power outage in Nueva Vizcaya will be at 8 a.m.-8:15 am and 3:45 p.m.-4:00 pm. Alvarez said that the power interruption will affect the 11 municipalities of Ifugao an...
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23May2013ALFONSO LISTA, Ifugao, May 23 (PIA) - - Ang buong probinsiya ng Ifugao at limang bayan ng Nueva Vizcaya ay nakatakdang makakaranas ng brown-out sa Martes, Mayo 28, ayon sa National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP). Ipinahayag ni North Luzon Operations and Maintenance district 4 head Alexander G. Alvarez na ang brown-out sa Ifugao ay magsisimula sa ika-8 ng umaga hanggang ika-4 ng hapon samantalang sa Nueva Vizcaya ay 8:00 – 8:15 ng umaga at 3:45 hangang 4:00 ng hapon. Ang maapek...
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23May2013PASIL, Kalinga, May 23 (PIA) - - The area coordinating team (ACT) of Kapit-bisig Laban sa Kahirapan Comprehensive Integrated Delivery of Social Services (KALAHI-CIDSS) program in this municipality is conducting barangay assemblies in preparation for cycle 2 of the anti-poverty program. Joel Cubit, area coordinator of Pasil, said his team composed of local government unit department heads, is now conducting social preparations that include grassroot consultation and planning, community mobil...
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23May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 23 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Cordillera disbursed a total of P13,287,000 under the Social Pension Program (SPP) for 8,941 indigent senior citizens in the region for the first quarter this year. Regional Director Leonardo Reynoso said that the SSP distribution is intended to augment the basic needs of the senior citizens including medicine and other nutritional and health needs. The P500 monthly stipend is given to indigent, frai...
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23May2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, May 23(PIA) -- About 254 elementary teachers are currently undergoing training in handling multi-grade classes in the province. According to Dr. Marylinda Santos of the Department of Education Kalinga, the three-day training is being conducted per batch from May 16 to May 25. The training aims to capacitate and equip teachers the needed skills and knowledge in handling a multi-grade class to manage their curriculum, classes and schedules. A multi-grade class refers to a ...
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22May2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, May 22 (PIA) -- The Provincial Local Government Unit (PLGU) has released the final activities for the 47th founding anniversary of the province dubbed “Gotad ad Ifugao 2013” on June 16-21. With the theme "Diverse Culture . . Unified People, Progressive future", the Gotad ad Ifugao(Grand Feast of the Ifugaos) will start with a thanksgiving mass and moral recovery rally on June 16. The week-long festivity will be opened formally on June 17 with a street dancing and mascot c...
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22May2013PINUKPUK, Kalinga, May 22 (PIA) -- A platoon of Army encountered an undetermined number of New People's Army rebels on May 15 at Sitio Sidog, Limos in Pinukpuk. Three soldiers were reportedly injured. LtCol. Alvin Flores, commanding officer of the 17th Infantry Battalion, said the wounded were identified as Sgt. Eduardo Cabiliza, Cpl. Roldan Viray, and Pfc. Jeffrey Langcay. They were immediately evacuated by the 501st brigade field ambulance from the encounter site to 501st brigade headquar...
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22May2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, May 22 (PIA) -- The province’s Department of Education (DepED) is proposing for two schools division following the political delineation to better address the recurring problems of supervision in the delivery of basic education services in the province. Schools Division Superintendent Nancy Lumbas in a letter to Vice Governor Crescencio Pacalso dated May 6, 2013, sought the provincial board’s assistance in crafting a memorandum of agreement between the provin...
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22May2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, May 22 (PIA)--The National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) here listed a total of 380 scholars for school year 2013-2014. Jan Yuri Kinggingan, the Focal Person for the Educational Assistance Program(EAP) of the NCIP, bared that 285 of the scholars are covered with the P5,000.00 cash assistance per semester while 95 students are listed in the P10,000.00 per semester assistance. The scholars are Ifugaos who are enrolled in different schools nationwide and at th...
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22May2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, May 22 (PIA) – Kalinga Health workers are urged to come up with necessary interventions to address the severe malnutrition cases in this province. The severe malnutrition cases were known upon the release of the 2012 Provincial Nutritional Status Report. The report shows that during the conduct of the Operation Timbang (OPT) in Kalinga, from the 2,188 pre-school children found to be underweight, 301 were severely underweight. Rose Alunday of the Provincial Health Office...
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22May2013AGUINALDO, Ifugao, May 22 (PIA) --The municipal local government unit (MLGU) and the Department of Agriculture (DA) have launched the P1.5 million municipal food terminal here. Nazario Tuguinay of the Provincial Agriculture Environment and Natural Resources Office (PAENRO), who is the person in charge of the project, said that the DA downloaded P1.3M while the MLGU and Barangay Ubao gave P100,000.00 each as their counterpart. The project seeks to enable the farmers to establish a direct and ...
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22May2013BONTOC, Mountain Province, May 22 (PIA) -- Five students from the province are endorsed in the scholarship program for health workers of the University of the Philippines Manila School of Health Sciences (UPM-SHS) in Baler, Aurora for this coming school opening. Endorsed by the Sangguniang Panlalawigan are Lenny Beth Lacaben of Mainit in this municipality, Lesterel Kidit of Data in Sabangan, Andrey Ross Umayat of Payeo in Besao, Jezybelle Bongbong of Tanulong and Walter Capuyan, Jr. in...
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22May2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, May 22 (PIA) -- Members of the Provincial Nutrition Council (PNC) are now preparing for the observance of the 2013 Nutrition Month in July with the theme, “Gutom at Malnutrisyon, Sama-sama Nating Wakasan.” Provincial Nutritionist Frances Sebastian said that this year’s theme aims to raise the public’s awareness on the need for more action in addressing hunger in the country towards the achievement of the country’s commitment to the United Nations Millennium Deve...
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22May2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, Mayo 22 (PIA) –- Tatlong samahan ng mga kababaihan na mula sa tribung Ayangan ang idineklara bilang top performers na organisasyon sa bayan ng Lagawe. Ipinahayag ng Gender and Development Technical Working Group (GAD-TWG) ng Local Government Unit (LGU) ng Lagawe na ang samahan ng mga kababaihan ng barangay Abinuan, Caba at Tupaya ang mga nanalo bilang top three performing women’s organizations (WO). Ang Abinuan Women’s Organization (AWO) ang kumuha ng unang puwesto at a...
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22May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 22 (PIA) -- The retrofitting of the lighting of Baguio City National High School (BCNHS) from incandescent bulbs to Compact Fluorescent Lights (CFL) has helped reduce its power consumption. The retrofitting project is part of the Philippine Energy Efficiency Project (PEEP) of the Department of Energy (DOE). In a PEEP Press Conference for Luzon held at the Le Monet Hotel here, BCNHS Principal Dr. Elma Donaal expressed gratitude to the DOE for having the BCNHS as one of the proj...
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22May2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, May 22 (PIA) -- The Department of Education’s (DepEd) Brigada Eskwela in the province in preparation for the school opening in June kicked-off last Monday in Itogon Central School. Other schools are expected to follow suit this week in undertaking Brigada Eskwela, according to Schools Division Superintendent Nancy Lumbas. Brigada Eskwela, a school maintenance program, is a voluntary endeavor among stakeholders such as parents, community, local officials, government,...
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21May2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, May 21 (PIA) -- Neophyte members of the provincial board here met here to celebrate their victory and discuss their next steps in their new political career. Jack Dulnuan of the popular Jack's Restaurant food chain, finally made it to the provincial board landing third in District 2. Dulnuan said that he is happy as he is now given a chance to help the people of the province. He said that he wants to legislate measures for the less fortunate to engage in livelihood progra...
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21May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 21 (PIA) - - The regional offices of Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) and the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) tell relatives of Overseas Contract Workers (OCWs) in Taiwan not to panic amid reports of discrimination against Filipino nationals working there. OWWA-CAR Regional Director Manuela Peña, in an interview over Radyo ng Bayan – Baguio, said they have not received any report yet of an incident that involves an OCW from Cordillera wor...
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21May2013HUNGDUAN, Ifugao, May 21 (PIA) -- The local government unit (LGU) here has reconstituted the Local Poverty Reduction Action Team (LPRAT) of the municipality to help pursue the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of reducing the poverty. The LPRAT is tasked to organize and facilitate the conduct of local poverty reduction action planning workshop for the formulation of the action plan and identification of poverty reduction projects in the municipality. It is tasked to agree on a list of priorit...
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21May2013BONTOC, Mt. Province, May 21 (PIA) -- The Provincial OFW(Overseas Filipino Workers) Loan Assistance Program of the provincial government here has already benefited some 115 overseas workers and continues to assist more. This program, one of the pet projects of Governor Leonard Mayaen, aims to assist its constituents seeking employment abroad through the provision of financial assistance. According to Laire Ligligen of the Office of the Provincial Governor, the program started in 2011 with...
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21May2013ALFONSO LISTA, Ifugao, Mayo 21 (PIA) -- Nagbigay kamakailan ang Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) ng tulong-pinansyal sa pamahalaang lokal para sa proyektong pangkabuhayan. Ang tseke na nagkakahalaga ng P204,000 ay pormal na tinanggap ni Mayor Glenn Prudenciano sa isang seremonya na dinaluhan ng mga beneficiaries at iba pang lokal na opisyal sa naturang bayan. Ayon sa DOLE, ang halaga ay inilaan para sa pagbili ng mga fishing gears at marketing transport facility ng Namnama Fisher Fol...
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21May2013BONTOC, Mountain Province, May 21(PIA)- - Commuters and motorists are advised to take extra precaution while traveling the main highways going to and from the province this rainy season. The Provincial Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO) advised the public after the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration announced that “the rainy season is just around the corner,” although heavy rains have been experienced in the province in the past days...
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21May2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, May 21 (PIA) - - The local officials of Tuba municipality crafted a measure granting benefits to qualified barangay workers who rendered service to the town’s barangay local government unit. Tuba Ordinance Number 216 spells out the granting of separation, disability and death benefits to all qualified barangay workers with the provision of appropriate funds. Authored by Councilor Garey Behis, the measure covers barangay health workers, barangay nutrition scholars, bara...
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21May2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, May 21 (PIA) -- The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (Philhealth) expands its primary care benefit 1 (PCB1) package to employees of the Department of Education (DepEd) and their dependents under its pilot test. Jean Baawa of Philhealth Kalinga Field Office said they have coordinated with DepEd Schools Division Superintendent Carolyn Verano on Philhealth Circular No. 0010 s. 2013 regarding the inclusion of their department under PCB1 package and that requires its tea...
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21May2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, May 21 (PIA) -- Tabuk City is set to host the 2013 Cordillera Regional Civil Registration Convention from May 22-24 here. With the theme “Strengthening Civil Registration in Cordillera”, the three-day activity aims to further level-up and make civil registration services in the region more responsive as it up-scales the system of automation. Speakers from the National Statistics Office are invited as facilitators in the lectures and workshops during the convention ...
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20May2013BANAUE, Ifugao, May 20 (PIA) -- The municipal mayor here has issued an executive order (AO) declaring every Friday afternoon as sportfest hours of local government unit (LGU). In his AO, Mayor Jerry Dalipog declared the whole afternoon of every Friday for the municipal employees to engage in various sports activities to maintain a sound mind and body. Dalipog said that municipal employees doing paper and field works for days would have been exhausted that could affect their proficiency in...
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20May2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, May 20 (PIA) -- The local government has formed the Lagawe Market Coordinating Committee (LMCC) to ensure the proper administration of the public market in the municipality. This is pursuant to the town’s market code to improve the management of the business establishment to safeguard the safety and welfare of all stakeholders. The LMCC is chaired by the municipal mayor and the market administrator as the executive assistant with members like the market president, representat...
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20May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 20 (PIA) -- Presidential Communication Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Herminio “Sonny” Coloma reminded Rotarians of the ethical virtues that are essential in serving the greater good, in his keynote address during the DITAS (District Assembly) 2013 of Rotary International District 3790 at the Baguio Country Club here last Saturday. Coloma, a former district governor and a Rotarian for 29 years now, was invited as guest speaker by District 3790 under governor Linda Win...
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20May2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, May 20 (PIA) –- The Commission on Election (Comelec) has released the honorarium of public school teachers in the province who served as Board of Election Inspectors (BEIs) in the May 13 automated midterm elections. According to Provincial Election Supervisor Dexter Bary Cawis, Comelec has released as early as May 16, or three days after the election, the honoraria of BEIs in the province. Every BEI is entitled to a P4,000 honorarium. As this developed, Cawis disclosed...
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20May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 20 (PIA) -- In the call for dog wellness, Renderfarm Sports once again held its Shibam Dog Run last May 11 at the Burnham Lake Drive with more than 50 pooches and their owners participating in the event. Shibam Dog Run is named after Renderfarm Manager Philip Pacle’s two dogs, Shimmy and Bambi, which both participated in the run. On its third year, Shibam aims to give dogs a little exercise along with their owners. The run does not only encourage dogs to exercise duri...
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20May2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, May 20 (PIA) -- Teachers, parents, volunteers and other stakeholders here trooped to the Lagawe Central School today to help spruce up the campuses as part of the kick off activity of the Brigada Eskwela 2013 of the Department of Education. The Brigada seeks to prepare the school and classrooms for the opening of classes in June. Education Supervisor Marilou Takinan, in charge of the said program, said that Brigada Eskwela 2013 started with a parade around the town at 8 a.m. ...
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20May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 20 (PIA) -- This summer capital moves one notch higher, from 10th spot in 2011 to ninth spot, on the list of favorite tourism destinations in the country in 2012. Department of Tourism –Cordillera (DOT-CAR) Regional Director Purificacion Molintas bared this in a press conference last week launching the “Sabsabong Ti Mayo”, the culminating event for Summer Vacation 2013. Based on DOT – CAR data, Baguio City remains the top visitor drawer for Cordillera with 617,079 vi...
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20May2013PASIL, Kalinga, May 20 (PIA) -- Ten projects implemented in this municipality under cycle 1 of the Kalahi-CIDSS (Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Service) were completed. Joel Cubit of the Kalahi-CIDSS said the success of their implementation is attributed to the generic ‘badang’ culture of the iKalingas. He said these projects were jointly implemented by the local government unit, the social welfare and development provincial and national offices, and the beneficiary co...
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19May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 19 (PIA) -- Team Lakay proved again that they are the best mix martial arts (MMA) club in the country as another of their pride fighter won a championship crown recently. Dave Galera, a member of the country’s top mix martial arts team based in Baguio City, dominated his opponent and emerged as the interim bantamweight champion in the Colt 45 – Universal Reality Combat Championship (URCC) at the SMX Convention Center in Pasay City last week. The US-grown mix martial artis...
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18May2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, May 18(PIA) -- Majority of the incumbent officials in the province and the municipalities retained their posts in the May 13 midterm elections. Incumbent Congressman Atty. Ronald Cosalan was re-elected garnering a total of 85,534 votes over his opponent Crescencio Pacalso with a total vote of 65,620 and Renan Munar with 582 votes. For the gubernatorial post, it is a landslide victory for re-electionist Nestor Fongwan with a total vote of 108,950 against Jerome Selmo ...
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18May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 18(PIA) -- A lady body builder from Benguet won two titles in Boracay recently. Lilibeth Ampal, a native of Tublay, Benguet won first place in two events -- the Ultimate Bodybuilding Championship (UBC) and the 7th National Amateur Bodybuilding Association (NABBA) South Asia Pacific Championship. Ampal bested several foreign and local competitors in the Women’s Bodybuilding category of both events even if she only worked out for several weeks due to lack of time. This wa...
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17May2013BANGUED, Abra, May 17 (PIA) -- The annual provincial jobs fair was successfully conducted earlier this month gathering a total of 245 applicants with seven of them hired on the spot as skilled workers abroad. The job fair is on its ninth year. Constancia C. Trongco, provincial Public Employment Service Officer designate, said the Abra Provincial Jobs Fair started as an ordinance in 2004 and has been regularly conducted since then. The event is sponsored by the provincial government ...
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17May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 17 (PIA) - - The Department of Energy (DOE) bared the accomplishments under the Philippine Energy Efficiency Project (PEEP) which is now on the homestretch of implementation. In a press conference here Thursday, DOE Undersecretary Loreta Ayson explained that the PEEP is a DOE - initiated project aimed at reducing the demand for electricity and greenhouse gas emissions that lead to climate change. It was conceptualized during an Energy Summit in 2008. The Asian Devel...
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17May2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga May 17 (PIA) – Incumbents position and name recall helped candidates win in the 2013 election in the province. Among those re-elected are Congressman Manuel S. Agyao who received 68,279 votes, almost twice the 35,233 votes garnered by his rival lawyer Macario Duguiang. Incumbent Kalinga Governor Jocel Baac also won with 63,213 votes over candidate Conrado Dieza Jr. who got 33,498 votes. While Vice Governor Allen Jesse Mangaoang is also re-elected with 52,140 votes over F...
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18May2013BONTOC, Mountain Province, May 18(PIA) -- Key officials involved in the just concluded May 13 midterm elections described the latest political exercise in the province as one of the most peaceful polls in the political history of Mountain Province. Philippine National Police (PNP) Provincial Director Senior Superintendent William Viteno said the conduct of the second automated election in the province was relatively peaceful with zero reported election-related violence. Viteno attribu...
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17May2013TADIAN, Mountain Province, May 17 (PIA) -- The medical-dental mission jointly conducted by the Luis Hora Memorial Regional Hospital (LHMRH) in Abatan, Bauko and the Seventh Day Adventist in barangays Lenga and Pandayan in this municipality, has benefited some 470 patients. School nurse Febe Cawilan of Tadian District II said of the total patients, 214 availed of the free medical consultation and free medicines; 166 availed of free dental extraction and prophylaxis; 24 availed of the free eye ...
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17May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 17 (PIA) -- In observance of the 30th International AIDS Candlelight Memorial to remind people of the impact of HIV(human immunodeficiency virus) locally and globally, the City AIDS Watch Council (AWAC) will lead on May 23 a candle lighting ceremony and a program at the People’s Park here. With the theme “In solidarity”, the observance emphasizes the need for the community and the people living with and affected by HIV to join hands to reduce the stigma and...
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17May2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, May 17 (PIA) -- The Provincial Board of Canvassers here finally proclaimed Teddy Baguilat Jr as the winner in the Congressional race at 11:20 a.m. today completing the proclamation of all provincial elected officials in the just concluded midterm elections. Lawyer Elenita Capuyan, Provincial Election Supervisor and Chairman of the Board of Canvassers proclaimed Baguilat who garnered 43,751 votes against his rival, Atty. Solomon Chungalao’s 41,664 votes. Baguilat’s declara...
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17May2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, May 17 (PIA) -- Kalinga Schools Division launched today the “Brigada Eskwela” for School Year 2013-2014 in the province. The activity was opened with 6 a.m. motorcade from the Provincial Library Hub followed by a program at the Kalinga National High School grounds for the launching ceremony. As show of support, groups of parents, local officials, civic organizations and other stakeholders joined in the launching. Schools Division Superintendent Carolyne Verano e...
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17May2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, May 17 (PIA) -- A team of health workers are conducting larval survey in one barangay of this city to determine the mosquitoes that carry malaria and dengue viruses and estimate their number to be able to implement measures to prevent them from growing and increasing. Dr. Bernadette Andaya, head of the Center for Health Development (CHD) this province, said personnel from their field office, the provincial health office, Tabuk III Rural Health Unit, and barangay he...
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17May2013BANGUED, Abra, May 17 (PIA)-- The Municipal Board of Canvassers (MBOC) of this capital town proclaimed early Tuesday morning the newly elected town officials in the May 13 elections. The MBOC, led by its Chairman Election Officer Atty. Reyman Solbita, proclaimed Mayor-elect Dominic Valera, Vice Mayor-elect Allen Seares and the eight municipal councilors namely Mary Anne Bersamin, Danilo Adame, Salvacion Borja, Avelino Bello, Joel Bolante, Christopher Batchilian, Essex Barona, and Walter...
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17May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 17 (PIA) -- With the onset of the rainy season, the City Health Services Office (HSO) is advising the public to be wary of picking and eating wild mushrooms as cases of mushroom poisoning have been recorded in the city. City HSO Medical Officer Dr. Donnabel Tubera, in an interview over PIA Hour radio program, disclosed that seven cases of mushroom poisoning were recorded in city hospitals in the past two weeks. The cases include a family of four, a father and son, and...
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17May2013HUNGDUAN, Ifugao, May 17 (PIA) -- The municipal government here has mandated current and would be tour guides to secure license first before engaging in tour guiding activities. This is in consonance with the tourism code of the municipality approved recently for the protection and welfare of the populace. To secure a tour guide license, an applicant must produced a proof that he or she has undergone the minimum required trainings conducted by the local government unit, Department of Tourism ...
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16May2013ALFONSO LISTA, Ifugao, May 16 (PIA) - - The local government here has received a livelihood assistance from the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) in the province. A check worth P204,000 was turned over to Mayor Glenn Prudenciano in a simple ceremony attended by beneficiaries and other local officials. The DOLE said the said amount will be used for the procurement of fishing gears and marketing transport facility for the Namnama Fisher Folks Association (NFFA). The amount was request...
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16May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 16 (PIA) –- The country's Summer Capital once again proved that it is a haven for rich and diverse culture and arts with the successful staging of the 2nd Baguio Music Festival. In festival was held May 6 to 9 at the Baguio Convention Center. The organizers were the Department of Education (DepEd), the Tourism and Special Events Division of the City Administration’s Office. Some of the country's top performers, among them the Philharmonic Orchestra, and educators offe...
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16May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 16 (PIA) -– Baguio’s top folk and country singers Conrad Marzan and MhiaTibunsay of the 90’s band, Foggy Mountain Band, will once again perform together on May 20 at the Cobalt Building of the Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center (BGHMC) for the “Baguio Reunion,” a concert-for-a-cause. A project of the Association of Government Information Officers-Cordillera (ASGIOCO), the BAGUIO REUNION concert is for the benefit of three people with lingering ailments, to h...
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16May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 16 (PIA) -- The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) Baguio City Chapter joined the celebration of World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day on May 8 with the theme “Let us be together for a more responsive Red Cross Chapter in our own city”. May 8 marks the birth of Father Henry Dunant (May 8, 1828), the founder of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and recipient of the first Nobel Peace Prize. In celebration of this event, the PRC Baguio Chapter held its 10th Biennia...
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16May2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, May 16 (PIA) -- The conduct of the synchronized national and local elections in this province was generally peaceful, based on the assessment of the provincial security command center composed of the Commission on Elections (Comelec), Philippine National Police (PNP), and Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). Provincial PNP Director Froilan Perez said there were incidents of conflicts between supporters of candidates but these did not disrupt the smooth process of voti...
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16May2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, May 16 (PIA) -- Incumbent Mayor Ferdinand B. Tubban won his second term as mayor of Tabuk City in the May 13 elections. The City Board of Canvassers (BOC) Chairperson Bernoulli Binay-an proclaimed Tubban as Mayor of Tabuk City last night before cheering supporters and members of his family at the City Council Session Hall, which served as City Canvassing Center. Tubban mustered 24,707 votes over his lone rival former Kalinga Congressman Lawrence B. Wacnang with 17,807 vote...
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16May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 16 (PIA) -- The Department of Health (DOH-CAR) and partner agencies are preparing for the conduct of an Integrated HIV Behavioural and Serologic Surveillance System (IHBSS) in the city. The IHBSS aims to provide more information about the spread of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in the country. This strategy determines the extent of the epidemic and the virus` medium of dispersal in cities and rural areas. It also caters to HIV prevention, planning, and policy evaluatio...
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16May2013BONTOC, Mountain Province, May 16(PIA) --The Commission on Election (COMELEC) proclaimed before noon yesterday the provincial winners for congressman, governor, vice-governor and the members of the provincial Board in the just concluded midterm elections in the province. COMELEC Provincial Election Supervisor Atty. Nicasio Jacob, who is also the Chairman of the Provincial Board of Canvassers, proclaimed re-electionist Congressman Maximo Dalog, Sr. and re-electionist Governor Leonard Mayaen as...
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15May2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, Mayo 15 (PIA) -- Pormal nang iprinoklama ng municipal board of canvassers (MBOC) ang mga nanalong kandidato sa lokal na halalan dito. Pinangunahan ni MBOC chairman at municipal election officer Atty. Grace Faustino ang proklamasyon ng nanalong mga kandidato sa pagka-alkalde, bise alkalde at kasapi ng sangguniang bayan ng Lagawe. Ang mga nanalong kanditato ay pinangunahan ni incumbent Mayor Ceasario Cabbigat at un-opposed incumbent Vice-mayor na si Martin Habbawel Jr. Kabila...
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15May2013TANUDAN, Kalinga, May 15 (PIA) -- Three sub-tribes in this province denounced revenge as a means of obtaining justice and agreed to settle conflicts amicably among them. The tribes of Mangali this municipality, Balbalasang in Balbalan and Tulgao of Tinglayan agreed in their respective “pagta” (provisions of the Podon or peacepact) to resolve cases including heinous crimes at their level without severing the peacepact. However, it was also carried during the Pagta deliberation to resp...
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15May2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, May 15 (PIA) -- The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) is providing automated rain gauges to four municipalities of this province under project “Emergency Distribution of Hydrometeorological Devices in hard hit areas in the Philippines.” Dexy Catacutan of DOST-Kalinga said they are conducting ocular inspection in the municipalities of Tinglayan, Lubuagan, Pinukpuk and Tanudan to locate strategic places where to install a weather monitoring apparatus particula...
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15May2013TUBA, Benguet, May 15 (PIA) -- The Municipal Board of Canvassers has declared incumbent mayor Florencio V. Bentrez as the official winner of the town’s mayoralty race. Based on the official results submitted by the Board of Canvassers, Bentrez garnered a total of 11,999. He won over Cresencio V. Akia who got 4,378 votes and Floyed Anderson with 139 votes. Incumbent vice mayor Clarita Sal-ongan retained her post with 10,400 votes. Dick P. Balting garnered a total of 5,428 vote...
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15May2013LAGAWE, Ifuga, May 15 (PIA) -- The municipal board of canvassers (MBOC) here proclaimed yesterday afternoon the winning candidates in this capital town of the province. MBOC chairman and municipal election officer lawyer Grace Faustino proclaimed the winning mayor, vice-mayor and the eight members of the Sangguniang Bayan to push for the development of Lagawe for three years. Incumbent Mayor Ceasario Cabbigat won another term as mayor of Lagawe town with his unopposed vice-mayor Martin Hab...
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15May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 15 (PIA) -- The City Board of Canvassers headed by Commission on Election (Comelec) Assistant Regional Director Reddy Balarbar proclaimed the newly elected officials of this city at the Baguio Convention Center around 5:30 p.m. yesterday. Elected as representative for Baguio’s lone Congressional District is Councilor Nicasio Aliping Jr. He garnered 38,762 votes beating the 35,944 votes of Mark Go and the 23,865 votes of incumbent congressman Bernardo Vergara. Baguio v...
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15May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 15 (PIA) -- The Balili River System Revitalization Coalition (BRSRC), a multi-sectoral group organized to harmonize efforts for the rehabilitation of the Balili River System, will soon have its own official website and web-based pollution monitoring system of the river. Developed by the University of the Cordilleras (UC), an academe member of the coalition, the BRSRC website project is expected to have its soft launching by June this year. The Balili River System is locate...
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15May2013BANGUED, Abra, May 15 (PIA) -- The May 13, 2013 midterm election is considered as the most peaceful in recent times in this province which is known for its history of election-related incidents. Cordillera Regional Police Director Chief Superintendent Benjamin Magalong said that except for the reported death of a political candidate supporter in the capital town of Bangued, no other serious election related violence was recorded as of today. Abra is one of the 15 provinces ide...
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11May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 11 (PIA) -– The Police Regional Office Cordillera (PRO-Cor) reported its operational accomplishments from January to present in relation to security preparations for the May 13, 2013 midterm elections. During the 2nd Regional Law Enforcement Coordinating Committee (RLECC) meeting held last week, Police Senior Superintendent Oliver A. Enmodias, Head RLECC Secretariat, reported that under the implementation of COMELEC gun ban, they were able to confiscate the following; 55 ass...
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11May2013BONTOC, Mountain Province, May 11 (PIA)-- No major problems were encountered in the final testing and sealing of the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines to be used in the nine clustered precinct in this town’s center on Monday’s national and local elections. Bontoc Central School Principal Rodolfo Paspas said so far the dry run went smoothly in almost all the nine PCOS except one that encountered paper jamming which was immediately remedied by the teachers who will act as Board ...
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10May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 10 (PIA) - - For the effective implementation of the Kindergarten to Grade 12 or K to 12 program, Cordillera teachers are set to undergo training this May on the Department of Education’s (DepEd) new curriculum for grades 2 and 8. DepEd Regional Director Ellen Donato disclosed that the new curriculum for grades 2 and 8 will be implemented this school year 2013 – 2014 following the implementation of the new curriculum for grades 1 and grade 7 last school year. To re-too...
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10May2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, May 10 (PIA) -- Final testing and sealing (FTS) of Precinct Count Optical Scanner (PCOS) machines in the province were simultaneously conducted yesterday in all 13 municipalities here to test the reliability of the machines for the automated elections on Monday, May 13. Lawyer Ricardo Bulintao, provincial election supervisor, said the FTS generally went well, but there were glitches in the memory card configuration. A polling center in barangay Bulalacao in Mankayan h...
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10May2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, May 10 (PIA) -- Forty eight applicants were immediately hired during the recently conducted Tabuk City Jobs Fair, according to the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE). DOLE Kalinga Chief Dr. Alexander Gumabol reported that from the 263 applicants who registered during the one-day jobs fair last May 6, 203 have qualified after the interview. From these, 48 were hired on the spot for having completed all their requirements during the application- 22 for overseas work...
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10May2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, May 10 (PIA) - - The Pag-IBIG Fund has scheduled to bring its mobile services in this municipality on May 15 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the municipal government building here. Among the services offered are acceptance of application for membership contribution, multi-purpose loans, and housing loan payments. They will also accept applications for membership, provident claims, multipurpose and housing loans. Pag-IBIG will also conduct verifications of memberships and loan status...
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10May2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, May 10 (PIA) -– The final testing and sealing of the 259 Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines in the province is ongoing now as scheduled by the Commission on Election (Comelec). Provincial Election Supervisor (PES) Dexter Bary Cawis said the activity is part of Comelec’s measures to ensure there smooth operations of PCOS machines on the May 13. In Tabuk City, some poll centers have opened earlier than the 9:00 a.m. schedule set by Comelec-Kalinga. Poll Cente...
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BAGUIO CITY, May 9 (PIA) -- A Commission on Elections (Comelec) is reminding voters of “Do’s and Don’ts” on election day. Lawyer Jose Nick A. Mendros, Comelec regional director, said that polling precincts will open at 7 a.m. and he is encouraging voters to go out and vote early. Voters may bring their cellular phone inside the polling precincts, but they are not allowed to take pictures of their ballots, he said. They should not make any unnecessary marks on the ballot. Bringi...
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10May2013BANGUED, Abra, May 9 (PIA) – The Office of the Provincial Election Supervisor here reiterated that Voters' Information Sheet (VIS) is free of charge and is available in all election offices in the municipalities where the voters are registered. The information sheet includes the voter's name, address, the precinct and the place where he is registered, and simplified instructions as to the casting of votes.This is important for voters as they will be easily guided which polling precin...
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10May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 10 (PIA) -- This city of Pines is all set for the midterm elections on Monday, May 13 election with the Final Testing and Sealing (FTS) of the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines in the 215 clustered precincts in the city done successfully on Thursday, May 9. Commission on Election (Comelec) Assistant Regional Director Reddy Balarbar, the designated City Election Officer, disclosed in an interview that it's all systems go for the May 13 midterm national and local ...
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10May2013BANAUE, Ifugao, May10 (PIA) -- The local government unit (LGU) here has created the Local Poverty Reduction Action Team (LPRAT) that will help formulate policies in reducing poverty in the municipality. Mayor Jerry Dalipog said the Local Government Code of 1991 mandated community to participate in the local development councils and various organized local special bodies for the improvement of the community. The LPRAT is chaired by the municipal mayor and a representative from the Non-governme...
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10May2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, May 10(PIA)-- Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief Director General Allan Purisima lauded the improved election climate in Abra although it remains a hotspot due to its history of election-related violence. “Sa ngayon tahimik na so far at ipinapanalangin natin na it will remain that way,” he said referring to the situation in Abra. But despite the improved situation in Abra, Purisima explained that the province remains as a COMELEC controlled area for it to ...
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10May2013BANGUED, Abra, May 10 (PIA) -- Youth and student leaders of the different organizations in Abra have joined other sectors in calling for a clean, honest, meaningful, and peaceful elections in the province. About 22 youth representatives of the different unions and religious sects gathered at the Audio Visual Room of Abra State Institute of Sciences and Technology (ASIST)to sign a manifesto on anti-election fraud last May 9. The manifesto reads: “We, the Youth and Student Leaders of ...
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10May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 10 (PIA) -- Cordillera heritage, culture and traditions will once again be on center stage as the Chanum Foundation, in partnership with the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), hold the 4th Tam-Awan International Arts Festival (TIAF) this May 15 to 19. The festival with its theme, “Jewels of the Cordillera”, will feature Cordillera heirloom jewelries, accessories and traditional tattoo artistry.This is in line with the celebration of National Heritage Mon...
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10May2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, May 10 (PIA) -- Three women’s organization belonging to the Ayangan tribe here were declared as the top three performing women’s organizations (WO) in the municipality. The Gender and Development Technical Working Group (GAD-TWG) of Local Government Unit (LGU) of Lagawe has declared the Abinuan Women’s Organization (AWO) as first placer with the women’s associations of Caba and Tupaya as second and third placers, respectively. Report from municipal social welfare o...
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09May2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, May 9 (PIA) – Tabuk City Rural Health Unit (RHU) 1 puts up an animal bite center to level-up its facilities under the program on control and prevention of rabies in the city. In line with the move, City Health Officer (CHO) Henrietta Bagayao and CHO Nurse Joy Alunday had their training on anti-rabies to prepare capable health staff to support the program. According to Bagayao, the intensified anti-rabies program of the city government, this year, is geared towards zero d...
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09May2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, May 9 (PIA) – Children or the immediate beneficiaries of former rebel returnees are encouraged to avail of the scholarship under the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process – Commission on Higher Education (OPAPP-CHED). According to Eusebia Haddac, Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office (PSWDO) OPAPP-CHED Study Grant Program for Rebel Returnees program Point Person, the scholarships are available for enrollment to baccalaureate degrees offer...
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09May2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, May 9 (PIA)--Officials here commended health frontliners, volunteers, women’s group for their efforts in trying to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). Speaking to about 200 participants coming from the municipalities of Kiangan, Lagawe, Hingon and Lamut, Arnel Bilibli of the Provincial Planning and Development Office said that their office noted a good performance of the province in trying to achieve MDG 3, 4, 5, and 6 namely Promoting gender equality and empowerin...
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09May2013ALFONSO LISTA, Mayo 9 (PIA) -- Mahigit sa kalahating milyong piso ang pinagkaloob ng SN Aboitiz Power (Snap) Magat kamakailan sa lokal na pamahalaan ng Lagawe upang pondohan ang implementasyon ng Solid Waste project Management (SWMP) ng naturang bayan. Ang P.555 milyon ay inilaan sa ilalim ng Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) fund ng SNAP para sa pagpapatupad ng mga pang-kumunidad na proyekto sa mga ‘host communities.’ Ang nasabing pondo ay gagamitin sa pagtatatag ng mga material reco...
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09May2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, May 9 (PIA) - - The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) is conducting a validation on PAyapa at MAsaganang PamayaNAn(PAMANA)-DILG projects in the province. According to DILG Provincial Director Francisco Gamatero, a team headed by Carmen Moyaen, PAMANA Focal Person of the Office of the Presidential Assistant on the Peace Process (OPAPP), is making the rounds in the municipalities of Tanudan, Tinglayan, Pasil, Lubuagan, Balbalan and Pinukpuk. The team is joi...
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09May2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, May 9 (PIA) -- The Department of Science and Technology (DOST), in its thrust of strengthening the metal and engineering industry of the region, is set to establish a common service facility in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR). DOST Regional Director Julius Caesar Sicat, in a recent media forum here, disclosed that in recognition of the region’s large potential in the metal industry especially in the aircraft or airplane parts production which is currently in...
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09May2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, May 9 (PIA) -- The Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office (PSWDO) Kalinga is urging Persons with Disability (PWDs) in the province to avail of their educational assistance program. PWD Point Person Eusebia Haddac of the Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office (PSWDO) said that the project is being funded under the PWD fund from the Internal Revenue Allotment of the province. The educational assistance project was conceptualized after finding out tha...
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09May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 9(PIA) - - The Department of Science in Technology (DOST) continuously develops the country’s Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) competitiveness through its Small Enterprise Technology Upgrading Program (SETUP) in preparation for the ASEAN community 2015 wherein free-trade of products among member countries will be in place. DOST – Cordillera Assistant Regional Director Nancy Bantog disclosed that SETUP mainly aims to boost the competitiveness and productivity...
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09May2013BONTOC, Mountain Province, May 9(PIA) - - For their honesty and exemplary conduct, four employees of the provincial government here were conferred the Gantimpala Agad Award (GAA) under the Mamayan Muna Program of the Civil Service Commission (CSC). Bestowed the GAA are Engineer Theodore Dalog and mechanical shop foreman Dante Fasongit, both from the Provincial Engineering Office, and security guards Tyrone Emiliano Peleo and Oliver Sacgaca from the Security Service Division of the Provinci...
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09May2013ASIPULO, Ifugao, May 9 (PIA)-- President Benigno S. Aquino III recently signed into law the creation of a national high school in barangay Camandag, a far flung barangay here. Ifugao Schools Division Superintendent Felipe Ballitoc said that this is a new development in the education program of the government. “This shows the sincerity of the government to bring quality education in this part of the province where access to education is difficult due to the terrain. Ballitoc disclosed that ...
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09May2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, May 9 (PIA) - - The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is giving P100,000 each to identified barangays in the province to implement the Barangay Forest Program (BFP) of the Aquino administration. Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Officer (PENRO) Severino Dalutag said 29 barangays in Kalinga will be included this year under the program. Fifteen barangays will be covered in the area of Tabuk while 14 for Pinukpuk CENRO area. “This is in sup...
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09May2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, May 9 (PIA)-- Tourism, poverty reduction, sustainable urban development and environmental protection are among the issues tackled by the candidates for the mayoralty race during a forum sponsored by the Sangguniang Kabataan Federation of the municipality of La Trinidad last weekend at the municipal gym. Local folks who witnessed the forum said it could be anybody’s ballgame at this point between the three mayoralty candidates- incumbent Mayor Greg Abalos Jr., former ...
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09May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 9 (PIA) -– The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) reported that the number of illegal recruitment cases in the region is decreasing. During the Regional Law Enforcement Coordinating Committee (RLECC) meeting held last week, DOLE Assistant Regional Director Teodoro T. Delson said that only 52 cases were reported in 2012 down from 73 in 2011. From 200 filed in 2008, it went down to 85 in 2009 then 90 in 2010. He said that the DOLE is hopeful that for this year the n...
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08May2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, May 8 (PIA) -- The final testing and sealing of Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines in the province will be simultaneously held on May 9, 2013. Provincial Election Supervising Officer Atty. Ricardo Bulintao said it will be conducted in the respective polling centers except for Kapangan and and some distant polling areas in Kibungan which will be held in the municipal hall. But as a general rule, PCOS final testing and sealing should take place at the polling ce...
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07May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 7 (PIA) -- Aside from labor and employment concerns, providing Community Enterprise Development (CED) assistance is among the main thrusts of Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) in pushing for community and people development in the countryside. Last May 1, in the celebration of Labor Day at the Baguio Convention Center, DOLE Cordillera Regional Director Henry John Jalbuena spearheaded the distribution of CED assistance checques with a total amount of P1,886,680 to nine ...
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07May2013BANAUE, Ifugao, May 7 (PIA) -- The local government unit (LGU) here has created a technical working group (TWG) to oversee the establishment of a bio-gas utilization technology in the municipality. The TWG is headed by the municipal mayor with the different municipal heads of office as members. The group is tasked to formulate policies and guidelines for the proper implementation of the project and to monitor and evaluate level of project’s impact and sustainability. It will also conduct q...
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07May2013LAGAWE, Ifugao,May 7 (PIA)-- The Department of Social Welfare and Development and the local governments here have signed a memorandum of agreement to curb malnutrition in children. Elena Otgalon, a social worker in charge of the said program, said the DSWD provides funds to feed day care pupils in the 337 day care centers while the provincial LGU monitors the implementation of the said program and the municipal and barangay levels implement it. “The Day Care worker will prepare the menu con...
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07May2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, May 7 (PIA) -- The Commission on Elections (Comelec) will deploy the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines in Kalinga on May 8, five days before election day. According to Provincial Election Supervisor (PES) Dexter Bary Cawis, the final testing and sealing of the PCOS machines will be held on May 10. Delivery of the machines to Municipal Election Registrars in the province is on May 9. A total of 259 PCOS machines will be deployed in Kalinga, Cawis said. Cawis and ...
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07May2013LA TRINIDAD Benguet, May 7(PIA) -- The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) has again helped deserving students in the Cordillera to have a college degree as 68 of their scholars graduated from their respective courses this end of school year 2012 - 2013 , 21 of them with honors. Of the 68 graduates, five are from Abra, two from Apayao, 11 from Baguio City, 14 from Benguet, five from Mountain Province and 31 from outside the Cordillera who opt to have their studies in the DOST’s partn...
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07May2013PINUKPUK, Kalinga, May 7(PIA) – Eight out of the ten community-driven Kapit Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive Integrated Delivery of Social Services (Kalahi-CIDSS) Makamasang Tugon Projects in Pinukpuk are now completed. JCommunity Facilitator Editha Dalapnas reported that said projects cover the first 10 of the 23 barangays of Pinukpuk funded as a grant through the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) with counterpart from the local government of Pinukpuk and the concerned barangays....
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07May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 7(PIA) -– With less than a week to go before the midterm elections, the Police Regional Office Cordillera (PRO-COR) has laid out its security preparations for the May 13, 2013 elections. During the 2nd Regional Law Enforcement Coordinating Committee (RLECC) meeting, Police Senior Superintendent Oliver A. Enmodias, RLECC Head Secretariat reported that the PRO-COR will be deploying a total of 3,746 police men and women to provide security in the polling centers.2,644 personnel ...
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06May2013ITOGON, Benguet, May 6 (PIA) - - The Department of Education’s Alternative Learning System (DepED-ALS), in partnership with the municipal government here, is conducting a beauty care and hair dressing training for ALS learner and local community women. The 30-days training initiated by ALS- Itogon District 1 division headed by mobile teacher Elvira Tuba, started last April 10 at barangay Tuding ALS Learning Center, and ends on May 10. The activity aims to provide out-of-school-youths (OS...
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06May2013ALFONSO LISTA, Ifugao May 6 (PIA) -- The SN Aboitiz Power (SNAP) Magat has provided more than half million pesos to fund the implementation of the Lagawe Solid Waste Management Project (LSWMP). The P.555 million was allocated under the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) fund of SNAP to pursue community projects consistent with the company’s key result areas for its host communities. It was requested by the LGU through a project proposal which SNAP has evaluated and found the stated LSWM...
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06May2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, May 6 (PIA) -- The Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) along with several private sector and non government organizations have intensified its fight against malaria. The Center for Health and Development (CHD-CAR), Pilipinas Shell Foundation Inc. (PSFI) /Global Fund Movement Against Malaria (GFMAM) and the provincial governments of Ifugao and Mountain Province have strengthened the inter-provincial scheme to eliminate malaria with the inclusion of the province of Kali...
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06May2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, May 5 (PIA) -- The establishment of an early warning system (EWS) is crucial in emerging dangerous situations to reduce the possibility of harm or losses. Carlo U. Racelis, a consultant who served as resource speaker on EWS said that such a need which involves the provision of information of an imminent danger enables prior action to reduce risk. The seminar workshop on EWS is under the disaster preparedness program of the provincial government sponsored by the World...
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05May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 5 (PIA)-- The Department of Science and Technology- Cordillera has certified more than 3,000 teachers who will work as Board of Election Inspectors (BEIs) during the conduct of the May 13 elections. DOST-Cordillera Regional Director Julius Sicat said the teachers were trained by the Commission on Election on the use of the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines and after the training the DOST gave one on one examination and technical operations to check on the capability...
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04May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 4 (PIA) -- More than 2,300 out of school youths and adults from the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) have now the opportunity to continue their secondary education or even pursue a college degree after they passed the Department of Education’s Alternative Learning System (DepED-ALS) Accreditation and Equivalency (A&E) Examination. Based on the December 2012 ALS A&E examination result released by the Bureau of Alternative Learning System, there are 2,317 school drop-ou...
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04May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 4 (PIA) -- The Cordillera Administrative Region improved its standing at the end of the 2013 Palarong Pambansa last week at the Gov. Mariano Perdices Memorial Stadium in Dumaguete City with its over-all finish at 10th place. This is a notch higher that its overall ranking in last year’s Palarong Pambansa held Lingayen, Pangasinan. The Cordillera athletes had a total medal haul of 16 gold medals, eight silvers and 19 bronze medals, for a total of 104.17 points wh...
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04May2013RIZAL, Kalinga, May 4 (PIA) -- The campaign tension between mayoralty rivals incumbent Rizal Mayor Marcelo dela Cruz Sr. and opponent Carl Bogao Baac, son of Kalinga Governor Jocel C. Baac, in this town has sizzled down. The two campst me last week at the Kalinga Police Provincial Office and agreed to rid the election in Rizal from any form of violence. Both dela Cruz and Baac vowed to go by the an earlier agreement of candidates in the May 13 election in Kalinga that pushes for secure an...
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04May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 4 (PIA) --The University of the Philippines Baguio (UPB) will holc a free forum on voters’ education particularly for first time voters today, May 4. The ‘Unang Balota: A Round table Discussion on First Time Voter’s Education’ at the UPB College of Social Sciences Audio Visual Room starts at 9AM. This is organized by the UPB-University Student Council (UPB-USC), UPB Politically Inclined Students, UPB Economics Society and UP Kalipunan ng mga Mag-aaral sa Kasaysay...
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03May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 3 (PIA) -- The recently-concluded Baguio Leaders Forum has been successful in fulfilling its objective of educating and helping the public know better the candidates vying for various positions in the city. Hotel and Restaurant Association of Baguio (HRAB) Baguio Country Club General Manager Anthony De Leon reported that based on the feedback from the public, the BLF was successful in helping them choose the right candidates who will be leaders of the city. “...
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03May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 3 (PIA) - - The two-day Labor Day job fair under the auspices of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) at this Summer Capital was successful with 1,932 applicants hired-on-the-spot (HOTS). On May 1, which was the scheduled job fair for local employment at the Baguio Convention Center and at the SM City Baguio, 1,545 were hired-on-the-spot out of the 4,716 applicants who qualified for interview from the almost 6,000 registrants. For the May 2 jobs fair for...
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03May2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, May 3 (PIA) - - A study on the effect of vegetable enrichment to noodles showed significant results based on a research conducted by the Benguet Vegetable Processing Center of the Benguet State University (BVPC-BSU). BVPC-BSU Center Manager Violeta Salda said they conducted a research on the vegetable-enriched noodles to determine the nutritional contents of the products sold in the center. The study was focused on the macro element contents or the mineral, crude protein, ...
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03May2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, May 3 (PIA) -- The province of Benguet once again is hosting the national volleyball tilt of the Philippine Volleyball Federation (PVF). On Tuesday, top colleges and universities across the country opened their bid for the 2013 National Intercollegiate Volleyball Championships at the Cordillera Career Development College Gymnasium in this capital town. This is the 11th staging of the national volleyball competition and the third time Benguet is hosting. The games set f...
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03May2013PASIL, Kalinga, May 3 (PIA) -- Chevron-Kalinga Limited, the contract explorer of the geothermal power plant project in the province, continues to comply with pre-operation conditions for community development projects in host towns Lubuagan, Pasil, and Tinglayan. Lope Buen, Kalinga Apayao State College (KASC) KASC Special Project chairman and in-charge of the Chevron community project implementation, reported of various completed and on-going projects in the barangays of Lower and Upper Uma...
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03May2013LA TRINIDAD Benguet, May 3 (PIA) -- The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) is continuing with its disaster mitigation efforts and currently installing more automatic rain gauges (ARGS) and Water Level Monitoring System (WLMS) in the country time for the rainy season. DOST–Cordillera Regional Director Julius Caesar Sicat, in a kapihan media forum, Thursday, disclosed that 27 new ARGs and six WLMS are set for installation in the different parts of the region and will be operational b...
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03May2013KIANGAN, Ifugao, May 3 (PIA) -- The celebration of the town fiesta called “Gotad Ad Kiangan 2013” from April 28 to May 3 here included new features highlighting the rich cultural heritage of the Ifugao people. With the theme “Building on the Past in Keeping the Torch of Development and Progress Aflame thru our Cultural Identity”, the festival introduced this year woodcarving and loom weaving competitions to give visitors a glimpse of the unique culture of the town. Local off...
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03May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 3 (PIA) -- A cancer survivor who recently graduated from the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) is among the Ten Outstanding Students in the Cordillera Administrative Region (OSCAR) 2013 recognized in awarding ceremonies last week here. Cancer did not stop PMA cadet and now 2nd Lieutenant Prolen Bonacua from pursuing his dream to become a soldier and a public servant. In 2011, while he was a cadet at the premiere military school, Bonacua was detected of lymphoma that forc...
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03May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 3(PIA) -- Barely a week to the midterm elections, the Commission on Elections (Comelec)- Cordillera announced that the liquor ban will take effect from May 9 until May 13, Election Day, while the campaign period will end on May 11. Regional director Jose Nick A. Mendros said that the liquor ban is issued to address the evils and problems related to the taking of intoxicating drinks during the election period. Comelec Resolution 9582 states that any person incl...
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03May2013BONTOC, Mountain Province, May 3(PIA) -- The Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office here is encouraging parent groups to participate in the government’s risk reduction programs and activities. In his talk before members and youth of the Cordillera Parents Federation, Inc. (CPFI) during their assembly meeting at the Ridge Brooke Hotel here, PDRRM Officer Anacleto Tangilag emphasized the vital role of the private sectors in disaster preparedness and disaster management i...
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02May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 2 (PIA) -- To give more awareness on Cordillera culture, artistry and indigenous practices, a three-day Indigenous People (IP) Education Workshop was held at the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) Hall at the Baguio Museum which was attended by teachers and students here. Organized by the LIN-AWA Center for Culture and the Arts, in partnership with the Department of Education (DepEd), the workshop held last April 25 to 27, is the 16th of a series of workshop...
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02May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 2 (PIA) -- The Department of Education’s Alternative Learning System (DepEd-ALS), in partnership with the city government of Baguio, held commencement exercises for livelihood training graduates and ALS Accreditation and Equivalency (A&E) Examination passers at the PFVR Gym along Upper Session Road last Friday. The handing of diploma was spearheaded by DepED-Baguio School Division Superintendent Estela Leon-Cariño and city officials headed by Congressman Bernardo Vergara and...
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02May2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, May 2 (PIA) -- In an effort to promote the adoption of improved corn production techniques, the Provincial Agriculture Environment and Natural Resources Office (Paenro) is implementing a community-based participatory action research on organic corn project in this capital town in the amount of P1,110,000. Cathrine Buenaventura, supervising Agriculturist of Paenro and the project leader, said that their office trained 40 farmers using the Farmers Filed School (FFS) approach t...
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02May2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, May 2 (PIA) --The Department of Labor and Employment here informed employees of the private sector of their wages for May 13, the midterm election day for national and local officials, a special public (non working) holiday nationwide. President Benigno S. Aquino III issued Proclamation No 571 on April 23, 2013, declaring Monday, May 13, a public holiday to enable people to properly exercise their right of suffrage. DOLE provincial head Avelina Manganip, explained in the...
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01May2013BAGUIO CITY, May 1 (PIA) -- More than 31,000 criminology and education graduates join the ranks of the country’s professional workforce as the Professional Regulatory Commission (PRC) released the result of their recent board examinations. PRC-Baguio Regional Office Director Teofilo Gaius Sison Jr. disclosed that for the March 10 Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET), 10,310 out of the 37,117 examinees nationwide passed the elementary level while 15,223 out of the 38,433 examinees pa...
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01May2013LAMUT, May 1 (PIA)-- Animal technicians (ATs) from the eleven municipalities of this province were recently convened by the Provincial Veterinary Office (PVET) for updates in Agri-Pinoy livestock program. Joseph Aclibon of the Bureau of Agricultural Statistics explained the Data System in Livestock for the province classified as Backyard Livestock and Poultry Supply or BLPS and the Commercial Livestock and Poultry Supply or CLPS. He said that data collection involves the listing of ...
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30Apr2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, April 30 (PIA) -- Farmers with existing coffee plantation in the province are being encouraged to revive and improve their coffee plantations and if possible, expand them considering the possible economic gains they could acquire from their harvest. Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Provincial Director Grace Baluyan emphasized this during a meeting with the coffee industry stakeholders as she called on the frontline agencies of the industry to look into this matter....
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30Apr2013MAYOYAO, Ifugao, April 30 (PIA) -- Four towns of the province are set to experience a four-hour power interruption on Wednesday, May 1, the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) announced. Lilibeth P. Gaydowen, Regional Corporate Communications and Public Affairs Officer for NGCP North Luzon, said the power interruption on May 1 from 8 a.m. to 12 noon will affect the municipalities of Banaue, Hingyon, Hunduan and Mayaoyao, The power outage is to give way for the replacement of ...
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30Apr2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, April 30 (PIA) – The city Public Employment Service Office (PESO) has set a jobs fair on May 6 to highlight the distribution of passports under the joint mobile passport project of the Department of Foreign Affairs – Region 2 and the city government. DFA personnel will come over to Tabuk on May 6 for the releasing of passports to more than 200 applicants who earlier filed their applications here under the mobile passporting project. Tabuk City PESO-Designate Lo...
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30Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 30 (PIA)-- The Commission on Elections (Comelec) Cordillera said that the delivery of election paraphernalia in the region will be completed within the time frame. Lawyer Jose Nick A. Mendros, Comelec regional director, said all official ballots in Baguio, Benguet and the municipalities of Tineg and Lacub in Abra will be delivered on May 9, while the rest of the municipalities in the Cordillera will receive the official ballots on May 10. The Precinct Count Optical Scan(...
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30Apr2013DOLORES, Abra, April 30 (PIA) -- Mayor Robert Victor Seares, Jr. has been chosen as Most Outstanding Mayor for the Year 2013 by the Superbrand Marketing International, Inc. (SMI), a multinational and the only international award-giving body in Marketing/Branding in the Philippines and is recognized as Global Brand Arbiter with 88 member-nations. Seares was nominated to the Most Outstanding Mayor Award (MOMA) 2013 in the Philippines in recognition of his many and sustained development efforts a...
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30Apr2013MAYOYAO, Ifugao, April 30 (PIA) -- Apat na bayan ng Ifugao ang nakatakdang makakaranas ng apat na oras na brown-out sa Martes, Mayo 1, ayon sa National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP). Ipinahayag ni Lilibeth P. Gaydowen, Regional Corporate Communications and Public Affairs Officer ng NGCP North Luzon, na ang mga bayan ng Banaue, Hingyon, Hungduan at Mayaoyao ay mawawalan ng suplay ng kuryente bukas mula ika-8 ng umaga hanggang ika-12 ng tanghali. Aayusing ang Lagawe Subst...
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30Apr2013DOLORES, Abra, Abril 29 (PIA) -- Pinadayawan ti Superbrand Marketing International, Inc. (SMI) ni Mayor Robert Victor Seares, Jr. ti Dolores kas maysa a Most Outstanding Mayor iti tawen 2013. Ni Seares ti napili kas maysa a Most Outstanding Mayorsof 2013 iti entero a Pilipinas gapu kadagiti adu ken naisangsangayan a gapuananna ken wagas ti panangpatarayna iti gobierno-lokal nga idauloanna iti umuna a termino ti panagtakemna. Ti SMI, maysa a multinational ken kakaisuna nga International Award-G...
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30Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 30 (PIA) -- Developing information partners in every barangay. This is one of the thrusts that Philippine Information Agency (PIA) Director General Jose Mari Oquiñena wants to pursue which he shared in a recent meeting here with the agency’s personnel in the Cordillera. Oquiñena pointed out that PIA, with its limited staff can only reach so much, but with volunteer info partner in every barangay, relevant information can reach down to the grassroots level. ...
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30Apr2013BANGUED, Abra, April 30 (PIA) -- The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has given the participating employers in Abra the signal to start the Special Program for Employment of Students (SPES) this summer 2013. The SPES is one of DOLE’s flagship programs on poverty alleviation that provides employment to poor but deserving students who wish to pursue their education. Apollo Luspian, the provincial director of DOLE-Abra explained that the new process in the implementation of the SP...
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29Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 29 (PIA) -- The University of the Cordilleras proved anew that it is the number one criminology school in the country after all of its 113 examinees in the April 2013 Criminologist licensure exam passed, with nine in Top 10. On Friday, University of the Cordilleras President Dr. Ricardo Pama, Vice President for Administration Dr. Leonarda Aguinalde and Criminal Justice Education (CJE) College Dean Ariel Pumecha presented to the media the topnotchers of the recent examinati...
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29Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 29 (PIA) - - Eight children of Cordillera overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who are beneficiaries of the scholarship program, join this year’s batch of college graduates, two of them with honors. Gerome Ace Calicdan Dado of Baguio City, a Bachelor of Science in Management Accounting from St. Louis University (SLU) and Celine Cabauatan Matunda also of Baguio City, a BS Biology from the University of the Philippines, graduated cum laude. They are two of five graduates wh...
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29Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 29 (PIA) -- About 600 boy scouts from the Cagayan Valley and the Cordilleras are participating in the 6th Northeastern Luzon Boy Scouts of the Philippines (BSP) Jamboree at the Melvin Jones Grandstand here which opened Thursday and ends tomorrow. With the theme “Scouting— Education for life”, the five-day event aims to immerse the Northeastern Luzon division of BSP in the communities and to teach the scouts skills that will help them in the advancement of their r...
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29Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 29 (PIA)-- The Mines and Geosciences Bureau – Cordillera is set to close down small scale mining operations in Benguet which are illegally operating and with no permit from the local government following the series of accidents in the different mining communities in the province. MGB Regional Director Faye Apil said that they will issue stoppage order to the mining activities within the areas which have not secured the necessary permits to operate. Apil said that t...
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29Apr2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, April 29 (PIA) -– Kalinga province has formally joined the provinces of Ifugao and Mountain Province in the Inter-Provincial Partnership for Malaria Elimination with the signing of the memorandum of agreement (MOA). Named as the “Gawis Haggiyo Lin-awa Partnership for Malaria Elimination” ,this first of its kind collaboration done in the country to eliminate said disease was formally inked last April 25, 2013 highlighting the World Malaria Day celebration in Kalinga w...
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29Apr2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, April 29 (PIA) -- Dalawang preso ng Ifugao District Jail (IDJ) ang nakapasa sa nakaraang Accreditation and Equivalency (A&E) test. Ang nasabing mga preso ay kabilang sa 418 na pumasa mula sa 831 na kumuha ng pagsusulit na pinangasiwaan ng Department of Education (DepEd) sa ilalim ng Bureau of Alternative Learning System (BALS) program nito. Ayon kay Ifugao BALS Provincial Coordinator Arsenio Yongoyong, siyam na preso ng IDJ ang kumuha ng A&E at dalawa ang mapalad na nakapasa. ...
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26Apr2013BONTOC, Mountain Province, April 26 (PIA) -- The Cash for Training Program (C4TP) of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has already trained 188 beneficiaries in the province. Provincial Director Gabriel Cayacay of the Technical Education, Skills and Development Authority (TESDA) said the 188 are part of the 665 slots of skills training alloted for the province. Of the 188 trained beneficiaries, 80 were trained in automotive in the municipality of Paracelis which was ...
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28Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 28 (PIA) -- The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) data shows an increasing trend in the number Cordillerans who opt to work abroad despite reports of instability and civil unrest in some countries. POEA-CAR Regional Director Delfina Camarillo, in a kapihan media forum Wednesday, disclosed that from the 13,365 Cordillera OFW documents they processed in 2010, it increased to 13,912 OFWs in 2011 and to 15,478 in 2012. Such data only shows the “Balik Ma...
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27Apr2013BONTOC, Mountain Province, April 27 (PIA) --The Philippine Army and the Philippine National Police will join forces to provide security and safeguard the Precinct Count Optical Scan(PCOS) machines for the May 13 elections in the province. Provincial Election Supervisor Atty. Nicasio Jacob, in a press conference initiated by the Montanosa Press Club, Inc., said the military particularly personnel of the 54th IB, who are based in the province, will augment the available policemen to be ass...
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26Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 26 (PIA) -- The 10 Outstanding Students of Cordillera Administrative Region (OSCAR) 2013 were feted in an awarding ceremony at the Multi-purpose Hall of the Baguio City Hall, Thursday. The 10 OSCAR awardees are: Nick Sibaen - Bachelor of Secondary Education, Benguet State University; Raymond Sakiwat – Bachelor of Arts in Communication, University of Baguio; Julienne Fortunato – BA Communications, University of Cordilleras; Prolen Bonacua, Bachelor of Science – Militar...
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26Apr2013LA TINIDAD, Benguet, April 26 (PIA) -- The 6th Ecotourism and Bindiyan Festival of the municipality of Kabayan, Benguet will be celebrated on April 27-30, 2013. Adventure packages are available for adventurists for them to discover the town’s mystical peculiarities. Visitors will also be able to appreciate the rich culture and economic activities of the people during the three-day festival. Kabayan, famous for its centuries-old mummies and Mt. Pulag, the highest peak in Luzon, will be...
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26Apr2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, April 26 (PIA) -- The city government has tapped barangay-based women groups in a bid to save the city’s watersheds under its forest protection program for 2013. Reports from the Tabuk City Mayor’s Office said there is massive clearing of forest areas along the watershed barangays near the Chico River in Tabuk, which threatens the city’s watersheds. People in the place are reportedly converting the lands for corn production, now a booming industry in this city. T...
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26Apr2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, April 26 (PIA) -- Town officials of Sablan, Benguet are pushing for the regulation of the use of non-biodegradable bagging and packaging receptacles which pose danger to the environment and cause pollution. Authored by Councilor Rogelio Sito, Sablan Ordinance No. 13-02 (also called Anti-Plastic Ordinance), is anchored on the Solid Waste Management Act or Republic Act 9003. The measure regulates the use of non-biodegradable materials such as plastic cellophanes or ...
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26Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 26 (PIA) -- The Cordillera Administrative Region is ready for the conduct of the May 13 midterm election, assured Commission on Election (Comelec) Cordillera Regional Director Jose Nick Mendros during the final command conference of the Regional Joint Security Control Center here, Thursday. Mendros’ statement was supported by Police Regional Office – Cordillera (PRO-Cor) Regional Director, Chief Superintendent Benjamin Magalong and B/Gen. Arnulfo Marcos of the 5th I...
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26Apr2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, April 26 (PIA) -– The professional sector in the province is showing strong support to the province’s new tax code. Provincial Treasurer Geriebeth dela Torre said there is high number of professionals in the province who positively responded to the local tax code by paying their Annual Professional Tax in the first quarter of 2013. Provincial Ordinance 2005-013 or the New Revenue Code of Kalinga Province recently approved by the Sangguniang Panlalawigan obliges pr...
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26Apr2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, April 26 (PIA) -- The indiscriminate spitting of ‘momma’ is a practice which the town of Sablan would like to regulate. Momma refers to the collective mixture of betel nut, gaw-wed or betel leaf pepper, lime, tobacco and other ingredients, which when blended and chewed produces reddish spittle. Indiscriminate spitting of momma which is unsanitary and environmentally unfriendly is observed in public places. Penned by Councilor Manuel Munar, the municipal counci...
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26Apr2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, April 26 (PIA) -- The provincial government has reorganized its anti-poverty task force into a council. Governor Jocel Baac issued Executive Order (EO) 11-2013 re-organizing the Pumiyaan Task Force into a regular council called the “Pumiyaan Council.” 'Pumiyaan', a local term for improvement is the name of the provincial government's anti-poverty project aimed at uplifting the socio-economic condition of the barangays in the province starting with the most ...
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25Apr2013TINOC, Ifugao, April 25 (PIA) -- Inatasan ng lokal na pamahalaan ang lahat ng non-government organizations (NGO) at mga hindi residente dito na kumuha muna ng permit bago magsagawa ng anumang aktibidad para sa kaligtasan ng lahat. Ayon kay Mayor Lopez Pugong, Sr, lahat ng NGO na gustong magsagawa ng information activity o anumang kaugnay nito alinman sa mga barangays ay dapat kumuha muna ng mayor’s permit. Ang mayor’s permit ay maibibigay sa sandaling makumpleto ang mga kinakailangan requi...
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25Apr2013TINOC, Ifugao, Abril 25 (PIA) -- Tinaasan ng Ifugao Provincial School Board (PSB) ang monthly stipend ng mga Special Education Fund (SEF) teachers na itatalaga sa iba't ibang bayan ng lalawigan para sa school-year 2013-2014. Ang 50 porsiyentong pagtaas ay inaprubahan ni Governor Eugene Balitang, chairman ng PSB. Mula sa P10,000 ang mga SEF teachers ay nakatakdang tumanggap ng P15,000 na buwanang suweldo sa susunod na pasukan. Ayon kay Governor Balitang, tama lang na taasan ang suweldo ...
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25Apr2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, April 25 (PIA) – Selected youth leaders from the province are set to attend the First Luzon Youth Leadership Conference Workshop at Camp Melchor dela Cruz in Upi, Isabela on April 27-28. The workshop aims to develop youth leaders as support to Youth for Peace – Philippines under the National Program for Filipino Youth, Capt. Richard dela Cruz of the 501st Brigade said. De la Cruz said participants will train on inter-active and experiential learning program that is de...
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25Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 25(PIA)-- Inmates of the Baguio City Jail and militant groups celebrated the annual International Earth Day with various activities last Monday. The Baguio City Jail inmates celebrated the Earth Day for the fifth year with activities they have planned themselves together with officers of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology. The inmates conducted several contests that promoted the concern for the environment such as slogan writing, poster making and painting. Inmate...
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25Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 25 (PIA) -- More than 9,500 job vacancies are offered in a two-day jobs fair at the Baguio Convention Center on May 1 and 2 sponsored by the City Government of Baguio through its Public Employment Service Office and in partnership with the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE-CAR) in celebration of Labor Day 2013. The May 1 jobs fair is set for local employment while May 2 is for overseas employment. On Labor Day, 29 local companies will be offering 1,782 job vacanc...
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25Apr2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, April 25 (PIA) -- Civil Service Commission (CSC) Regional Office Assistant Regional Director Cornelia Rillera was recently in the province to lead the compliance inspection of Land Bank Tabuk City Branch and the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) on the implementation of Republic Act 9485 known as the Anti-Red Tape Act (ARTA) of 2007. The Act seeks to improve the efficiency in the delivery of government service by reducing the bureaucratic red tape and prevent graft and corru...
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25Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 25 (PIA) -- The Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP), in its continuing effort to bring in better service to their clients, has recently transferred its Baguio Harrison branch to the Heritage Mansion along Kisad road, here to pave way for the construction of a new LPB building. Corporate Relationship Officer for LBP Northern and Central Luzon Nomer Juatchon, in a Philippine Information Agency-led meeting of Cordillera Association of Government Information Officers Tuesday,...
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25Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 25 (PIA) -- Twenty six inmates of the Baguio City Jail have something to look forward to after they serve their sentences as they have just received their certification for completing a 15-day baking and pastry-making skills training. The inmates were beneficiaries of community based training program led by the Rotary Club of Baguio Summer Capital, in partnership with Baguio City Schools of Arts and Trade (BCSAT), a TESDA (Technical Education and Skills Development A...
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25Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 25(PIA) -- The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS), has adopted Civil Service Commission-recommended anti-fixing measures to protect its members and pensioners from falling prey to fixing. Isagani E. Del Rosario of GSIS Baguio Branch stressed this during the recent re-orientation of GSIS Liaison Officers (LOs) of the different agencies, where the Anti-Red Tape Act of 2007 or ARTA was discussed. He said that since 2007 when the ARTA was passed into law, the GSI...
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25Apr2013BONTOC, Mountain Province, April 25 (PIA)--The Regional Nutrition Evaluation Team (RNET) is encouraging the different municipalities in the province to formulate their municipal Nutrition Action Plans and document their nutrition programs as basis for evaluation for the yearly Green Banner Award (GBA). Cordillera RNET members Wendy Mana-a of the National Nutrition Council and Emily Lumpio of the Department of Budget and Management noted that for the past years, the ten towns of Mountain Provin...
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25Apr2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, April 25 (PIA) -– Demand for organic agriculture products like those sold at Benguet State University (BSU) Internal Guarantee System or BIGS is continously growing. BIGS, now on its fourth year of operation, is composed of organic practitioners producing organically grown agriculture commodities from the various towns of the province. Launched on May 27, 2009 through the initiative of BSU Director of Extension and Research Dr. Julia Solimen, majority of its membe...
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25Apr2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, April 25 (PIA) -- The Commission On Elections led the command conference at the Ifugao Provincial Police Office (IPPO) here recently to discuss preparations for the May 2013 elections particularly on the delivery and deployment of election paraphernalia. Provincial Election Officer Atty. Elenita Capuyan told the group composed of police officers from the IPOO, the 11 chiefs of police in the entire province and the Armed Forces of the Philippines, that Air 21, the courier...
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24Apr2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, April 24 (PIA) -- The towns of is Tinoc and Kiangan has received certificates of completion from the Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board (HLURB) under its Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP) Zero-Backlog Project. They are among the 105 local government in Northern Luzon that received the award from Vice President Jejomar Binay, chairman of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council and the HLURB, during the awarding ceremony in Baguio City, for finishing the...
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24Apr2013TINOC, Ifugao, April 24 (PIA) -- The local government unit (LGU) here has required all non-government organizations (NGO) and non-residents of the municipality to secure the necessary permits before conducting any activity here for the safety of everyone. Mayor Lopez Pugong, Sr., said all NGOs who wish to conduct information activity or any related activities in any of the barangays should seek first a mayor’s permit . The mayor’s permit will be issued upon completion of all accreditati...
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24Apr2013BAGUIO CITY,April 24 (PIA) -- “It makes us really proud in the Cordillera that a new participant, on its first try, has landed in fifth place in the only nationwide event and competition of festivals.” Thus said Department of Tourism -Cordillera Regional Director Purificacion Molintas in describing the recent win of the Kabayan street dancers in the annual gathering of the different festivals in the country. The Ibaloi performers from the mystic town of Kabayan in Benguet shined in the ...
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24Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 24 (PIA) -- The Department of Tourism (DOT) reports a very successful staging of “The North Face (TNF) 100” in Baguio-Benguet area last April 20 to 21 with local runners dominating both the male and female categories of the 100K (kilometer) race. DOT Cordillera Regional Director Purificacion Molintas, in an interview, proudly reported that it was a very successful event which proves once again that Cordillera is a fortress of great adventure. The TNF 100, which was c...
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24Apr2013BANAUE, Ifugao, April 24 (PIA) -- About 47 volunteers from several organizations helped villagers in restoring rice fields at barangay View Point in this municipality through the indigenous way of helping each other called “Bachang” (bayanihan) recently. The one-day activity was led by the community in coordination with provincial government through the Provincial Planning and Development Office (PPDO) and the Ifugao Culture and Heritage Office (ICHO). Volunteers were from the Banaue Mu...
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24Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 24 (PIA)-- The Commission on Elections (Comelec)- Cordillera advised the voters not to “overvote” when they fill up their ballots come election day on May 13, 2013. Comelec regional director Jose Nick A. Mendros said that in the senatorial slate they must at most shade 12 among the list of 32 candidates. Overvoting means a voter shaded more candidates than the number of candidates you are permitted to vote for in a particular office. Overvoting occurs when a vote...
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23Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 23 (PIA) -- The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) advises unemployed graduates to add technical-vocational (tech-voc) skills, especially those being required by in-demand industries, to boost their job qualifications. TESDA-Cordillera Regional Director Yolanda Olano, in an interview, disclosed that more and more college graduates are enrolling in tech-voc training institutions for a second course that will boost their employability, especially ...
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23Apr2013LAGAWE, Ifugao April 23(PIA) -- This capital town is set to formally open its three-day annual town fiesta dubbed “Kulpi ad Lagawe” tomorrow. With the theme “ Maphod an Kultura, Gopnad di Kiphodan” (preservation of our positive cultural values for progress), the three-day festivity will start with an ecumenical service on the eve of April 23. The festivity will be formally opened in the morning of April 24 with a cultural parade, Ifugao native dance competition and agro-industrial fair...
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23Apr2013LAMUT, Ifugao, April 23 (PIA)— Fifty participants composed of Sangguniang Kabataan chairpersons, student body organization officers and facilitators from the municipality of Kiangan held their 2013 Youth Congress at the Ifugao State University (IFSU) campus here last April 4 and 5. According to Rogeline Binsay of the Municipal Social Welfare and Development Office, the activity was intended to empower the youth through self-enhancement and relevant information education consistent with th...
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23Apr2013BONTOC, Mountain Province, April 23 (PIA) -- The whole province of Mountain Province will have no electricity on Wednesday, April 24, from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. This was announced by Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Management Officer Anacleto Tangilag to government employees and disseminated the same to concerned officials and individuals through the Short Messaging System for them to make the necessary adjustments and for their information. Affected areas in the scheduled brown out are the w...
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23Apr2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, April 23 (PIA) -- The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Kalinga recently called the Kalinga Coffee Task Force to convene in preparation for its re-organization as a regular council in the province. DTI Kalinga Coffee Industry Development Point Person Jeffrey Pasikan said there is a need to re-organize the task force as a regular council to give focus to the development of the coffee industry and address its concerns. Pakisan explained that the task force was crea...
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23Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 23 (PIA) -- The regional search is on for the Gawad KALASAG Award, an honor given to best government office (GO), non-government organization (NGO) and individuals who have shown heroic acts in time of disasters and calamities and in working on disaster risk management (DRM). According to Alex Uy, chairman of the Cordillera Region Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (CRDRRMC), they are presenting the award as a recognition scheme in its search for excellence on ...
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23Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 23 (PIA)-- About 300 riders will traverse a 65-kilometer trail in the Cordillera mountain range during the 4th Globe Cordillera Challenge on May 4. The trail will pass though historic Ambuklao dam, providing bikers a view of Agno River and Binga dam. The biking challenge was organized to help preserve the Cordillera mountain ecosystem. It is is a way for Globe and Cordillera Conservation Trust (CCT), a non government organization headed by JP Alipio to raise awareness t...
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22Apr2013TINOC, Ifugao, April 22 (PIA) -- Special Education Fund (SEF) teachers to be assigned in the different municipalities province wide for school year 2013 - 2014 are set to receive a P15,000 monthly stipend. The 50 percent increase was approved by Governor Eugene Balitang, chairman of the Ifugao Provincial School Board, for the benefits of SEF teachers. Last school year, SEF teachers received a monthly stipend of P10,000. According to Balitang, it is proper to increase the stipend of te...
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22Apr2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, April 22 (PIA) -- Officials of Bakun, Benguet passed a measure regulating the extraction of hidden treasures with historical, scientific or significant values in the town. Penned by Bakun Councilor Marshal Tamid-ay, Municipal Ordinance No. 06-2013 ensures the preservation and enrichment of culture, enhance the right to balance ecology, maintain peace and order among others. The ordinance covers all hunting, exploration, excavation of hidden treasures and other objects ...
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22Apr2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, April 22 (PIA) -– The city rural health center offers free New Born Screening (NBS) test to newborns of Pantawid mothers and those with sponsored PhilHealth coverage. Rhea Barcellano of Tabuk City Health Office (CHO) said the free NBS is part of the city’s program on early detection and prevention of congenital diseases. In line with the program, the CHO is up with its advocacy urging newly delivered mothers including those giving birth at home, to bring their infants ...
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22Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 22 (PIA) -- Original Filipino animated films including winning works from the 2012 “Sineng Pambansa Film Festival” and the “Animahenasyon Festival” are now screening at Cinematheque Baguio in a five-day “Grand Animation Fest” that opened last Friday. On Tuesday, April 23, screening at Cinematheque at 3:30 pm is Urduja, a fictionalized tale created by an all Filipino group of animators that dwells on the story of the legendary warrior princess of Pangasinan. It ...
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22Apr2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, April 22 (PIA) -– The International Association for Transformation (IAT) in partnership with the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) has conducted livelihood trainings for some 200 beneficiaries of the Modified Conditional Cash Transfer (MCCT) program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). IAT head Sison Paut said the two-day training was conducted for the first 100 recipients in the municipality of Rizal, Kalinga from April 15-16 and 100 recipients...
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22Apr2013SABANGAN, Mountain Province, April 22 (PIA) -- Alfredo Ramon of this municipality was selected as the Indigenous Peoples (IPs) mandatory representative in the Sangguniang Panlalawigan. Provincial National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) Officer Tomas Tawagen said Ramon was selected from among the IPs mandatory representatives of the ten municipalities. The other selected IPs representatives include Ferdinand Charaychay in Barlig, Tomas Tanggacaan in Bauko, Ben Marrero in Besao, Es...
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20Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 20 (PIA) -- More than 70 pets particularly cats and dogs were given free anti-rabies vaccines and other services while pet owners had workshops during the 2nd Askal Day at the People’s Park Malcolm Square last week. According to Animal Kingdom Foundation Education Officer Kristine Bien, the event aims to promote equal importance among animals especially “asong kalye” or the askals and now being popularly known as the Aspin or Asong Pinoy. “We want to impose equal im...
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21Apr2013BANGUED, Abra, April 21 (PIA) -- Secretary Corazon J. Soliman of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) inaugurated here the first Bahay Pag-asa established in the Cordillera Region during her visit to the province last week. The Bahay Pag-asa located at Brgy. Calaba, Bangued is a 24-hour residential facility that provides temporary care and serves as a rehabilitation center for male disadvantaged children aged 15 years old and below, particularly those regarded as Children...
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21Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 21(PIA) -- Players in the power industry assured that there will be adequate power supply during the automated May 13 national and local elections here. Benguet Electric Cooperative (BENECO) General Manager Gerardo Versoza, in a kapihan forum, assured that power supply is adequate and that the different voting or polling precincts in the city of Baguio and the municipalities of Benguet will be supplied with electricity during the elections. BENECO legal officer Del...
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21Apr2013TINOC, Ifugao, April 21 (PIA) -- The Provincial Nutrition Evaluation Team (PNET) is now conducting municipal evaluation of local program initiatives (MELPI) for Green Banner Award (GBA) for the the most outstanding nutrition program implementer. Led by the Provincial Nutrition Office (PNO), the PNET has already finished evaluating the municipalities of Asipulo, Kiangan, Lamut and Tinoc. Dr. Mary Josephine Dulawan, Provincial Nutrition Action Officer (PNAO), said the MELPI evaluation i...
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20Apr2013BONTOC, Mountain Province, April 20 (PIA) --The Civil Service Commission (CSC) in the Cordillera region called on government agencies to fully comply with the provisions of Republic Act No. 9485 or the Anti-Red Tape Act of 2007 (ARTA) to provide quality government service to the public. Cordillera – CSC Regional Director Atty. Marilyn Taldo, said the ARTA of 2007 is a complementary law to the other programs of the CSC which promotes prompt, efficient, transparent and adequate government...
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20Apr2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, April 20 (PIA) -- The Benguet police is enhancing preparations for the May 13 automated polls even as the province has always been peaceful during elections. During the recent Provincial Command Conference for Baguio City and Benguet, the Benguet Provincial Police Office presented the deployment and security plan which puts into priority the vital installations and infrastructures in the province including the Binga and Ambuklao Dams. BPPO Director PSSupt. Rodolfo Azuri...
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20Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 20 (PIA) -- The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) here conducted a re-orientation meeting with its liaison officers (LOs) from the different agencies last Wednesday. This is to express the importance of their role in their agencies’ duty to its employees to provide proper and timely social insurance coverage and its corresponding benefits. GSIS Baguio Branch head Isagani Del Rosario said that activity aims to standardize the deliverables between GSIS and the LOs i...
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21Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 20 (PIA) -- The legalization of small scale mining operation in Benguet province is again sought following the death of three small scale miners in two separate incidents in Itogon last week. The Mines and Geosciences Bureau – Cordillera has been expressing its position for the legalization of the 60 small scale gold mining operations in so that thru the Benguet Provincial Mining Regulatory Board their production, safety and as well as environmental protection wil...
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19Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 19 (PIA) - - The search for the Outstanding Students of Cordillera Administrative Region (OSCAR) 2013 is now on its final stage with the final selection and judging of the 20 selected finalists set this April 25. From the 20 finalists, 10 will be selected by the Regional Executive Screening Committee to represent the region in the national search for the Ten Outstanding Students of the Philippines (TOSP) 2013. The 20 OSCAR 2013 finalists include Ronalie Guzman of Cordillera ...
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19Apr2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, April 19 (PIA) -- The Kalinga Provincial Health Office (PHO) recently disclosed its targets for the 2013 Garantisadong Pambata Program this April. Provincial Nutritionist Officer Frances Sebastian said the targets are 28,455 children from six to 59 months for the Vitamin A supplementation and 60,069 children from six to 71 months for deworming dosage. Health workers in the province are now implementing the mandatory immunization, deworming, and Vitamin A supplementation ...
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19Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 19 (PIA) -- Campaign materials that did not follow the guidelines set by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) were taken down and removed during the "Operation Baklas (remove)" in Baguio City this week. Three major highways leading to Baguio City - Kennon Road, Naguillan Road, and Marcos Highway - including several barangays along the said areas were “cleaned” of political campaign materials during the Operation Baklas led by the Comelec, April 17 and 18. Comelec – ...
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19Apr2013BANAUE, Ifugao, April 19 (PIA) -– About 34 paddies of the famous Ifugao Rice Terraces here damaged by previous typhoons were fixed recently with the help of the provincial local government unit (PLGU). The collapsed rice paddies in Barangay Kinakin with a total volume of 158.71 cubic meters were restored through a P100,000 funding from the PLGU. According to Veronica Ngipol, project coordinator of the Ifugao Cultural Heritage Office (ICHO), the said amount was given as assistance to the ...
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19Apr2013KIANGAN, Ifugao, April 19 (PIA) -- A two-day “Disaster Risk Reduction Management and Environmental Kids’ Camp" was held April 10 and 11 at the Kiangan Central School compound here that will teach children how to protect the environment, and even how to manage and preserve it. The activity was participated by 500 Kiphodan Child Fund (KCF) members and staff, program support partners, parents, facilitators, Municipal Social Welfare and Development Office (MSWDO) personnel, and barangay and mu...
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19Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 19 (PIA) - - The Department of Health, in line with President Aquino’s health agenda of Kalusugan Pangkalahatan (KP), is implementing more health care improvement projects in the Cordillera Region this year. Dr.Nicolas Gordo of Department of Health-Cordillera disclosed that P35.7 million under the Health Facility Enhancement Projects (HFEP) is earmarked for the improvement of nine hospitals, 21 rural health units, and one barangay health station in the region this year. T...
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19Apr2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, April 19 (PIA) -- Cave exploration or spelunking around a cluster of caves is up for enthusiasts to experience in a cave festival to take place last week of April in barangay Ansagan in Tuba, Benguet. The festival is in line with the celebration of barangay fiesta with the theme, “Empowering our community on environmental awareness, cultural preservation and tourism promotion towards economic growth.” Jenny Vi Piguro, president of the Ansagan Barangay Tourism Counc...
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19Apr2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, April 18 (PIA) -- More than half of the examinees who took the Accreditation and Equivalency (A&E) test last December 2, 2012 passed the examination administered by the Department of Education (DEPED) under its Bureau of Alternative Learning System (BALS) program. Ifugao BALS Provincial Coordinator Arsenio Yongoyong said that 418 out of 831 or 50.30% of the examinees successfully hurdled the exam. He added that the result which was released earlier this month shows that 20...
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19Apr2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, April 19 (PIA) -- Thirty seven barangays in the provinces of Apayao and Kalinga are up for electrification until 2015, the target year of the Aquino administration to complete the electrification of all barangays in the country. Leonardo Egcatan, Corporate Plan Chief of the Kalinga-Apayao Electric Cooperative (Kaelco), said 17 barangays in Apayao while 20 in Kalinga are targetted for energization. “The barangay of Laco in Apayao is targeted this year, another 5 in 2...
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19Apr2013KIANGAN, Ifugao, April 19 (PIA) -- The Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office in coordination with the local government of this town scheduled a two-day “Seminar Workshop on Creative Writing and Wellness Grooming” for day care workers (DCWs), barangay nutrition scholars (BNS), barangay health workers (BHWs), parent leaders and parent support partners here. Municipal Social Welfare and Development Office Head Celestina Talosig said the training set on April 17 and 18, was conc...
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19Apr2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, April 19 (PIA) -- The Commission on Elections (Comelec) provincial office here directed all its municipal election officers to conduct weekly inspection on campaign posters in their respective areas and check compliance of candidates to fair election laws. Atty. Dexter Barry Cawis, Provincial Election Supervisor, admitted there are several reported violations particularly on campaign posters that are oversized, posted or hanged not in designated common poster areas. ...
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18Apr2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, April 18 (PIA) -- The Commission on Election (Comelec) in Kalinga gave candidates in the province time to voluntarily remove all posters outside Comelec-designated areas, including oversized campaign materials posted. Provincial Election Supervisor (PES) Dexter Bary Cawis said Comelec-Cordillera has issued the advisory before its region-wide simultaneous “Operation Baklas” set April 17-18. Cawis explained the move is part of Comelec steps to assure orderly and fai...
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18Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 18 (PIA) -- Running enthusiasts are all invited to a fun run for a clean, honest and orderly election this May 4 at the Lake Drive of Burnham Park. Dubbed “Fun Run para sa Malinis at Mapayapang Halalan,” the event is organized by the E-Carta Media Productions and Promotions, in coordination with the Commission on Election-Cordillera (COMELEC-CAR) and Philippine Red Cross Baguio chapter. Proceeds from the run will go to the Philippine Red Cross, event organizer Eddie C...
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18Apr2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, April 18 (PIA) –- Two low-income barangays in Kalinga received livelihood support through the Food Terminal Project provided by the Department of Agriculture (DA). Barangays San Pedro in Rizal town and Lacnog of Tabuk City are beneficiaries of the P200,000 seed capital from DA to acquire equipments to enhance the operation of the project in their areas. Under Agrikulturang Pinoy (Agri-Pinoy) Program, DA assists small farmers develop extra sources of income at the same t...
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18Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 18 (PIA)--Unopposed candidates running for the May 13 midterm elections need a least one vote to be declared winner, said Commission on Elections (COMELEC) Cordillera regional director Jose Nick Mendros. Candidates without an opponent should not be complacent, they must at least vote for themselves or ensure that they get voted by their supporters, Mendros said. Even though they are unopposed candidates, the Comelec still need to have a record of votes for these unchalle...
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18Apr2013CAMP DANGWA, Benguet, April 18 (PIA) -- The police force's “Oplan Katok” has yielded positive results in the Cordillera region. The operation involves police personnel visiting gun holders in their homes to remind them to renew firearm licenses or surrender their firearms for safekeeping. Police Chief Superintendent Benjamin B. Magalong, head of the Cordillera Police Regional Office(PRO-Cor) reported that their office has recorded a total of 9,279 expired and un-renewed firearms ...
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18Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 18 (PIA) -- The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) offered technical-vocational (tech-voc) graduates with a job skills matching and career forum in a pre-labor day activity here today. . More than 300 tech-voc graduates lined-up for the morning session wherein a pre-registration activity for the scheduled Labor Day 2013 Grand Jobs Fair was also conducted. For the forum divided in two sessions (morning...
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18Apr2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, April 18 (PIA) -- Kalinga Provincial Governor Jocel C. Baac is the winner in the nationwide search for 2012 Huwarang Lingkod Bayan Award, provincial governance category. According to a press statement by Febe Anuebo, Secretary Chancellor of the Philippine Public Safety and Order Support Group (PPSOSG), Baac won the prestigious award as chief local executive for his notable programs that addressed poverty and peace and order in Kalinga for the period. When elected provin...
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18Apr2013BONTOC, Mountain Province, April 18 (PIA) -- Some 35 patients benefitted from the free surgical mission conducted by a surgical team from the Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center (BGHMC) at the Bontoc General Hospital. The BGHMC surgical mission headed by Dr. Jimmy Cabfit was held last April 4 to 6 in line with the celebration of the 46th Foundation Day of Mt. Province and the 9th Cultural and Lang-ay Festival. Of the total patients operated, 22 were minor surgeries and 13 were medium ...
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18Apr2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, April 18 (PIA) - - Employment of students under the Special Program for the Employment of Students (SPES) will start as soon as the Commission on Elections (Comelec) issues an exemption order from the election hiring ban. Alexander Gumabol, provincial officer of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) provincial office, here said they are awaiting the exemption order from Comelec. “We hope Comelec would issue the order before May so that students could work fo...
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17Apr2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, April 17 (PIA) -- A Tabuk City council member has proposed that the city provide monthly financial aid to indigent members of the city's federation of senior citizens who did not qualify to receive pension from the Department of Social Welfare and Development. The move by Councilor Sandra Uyam is based on statistics gathered by the City Council that shows only about 500 of the registered 8,000 senior citizens in Tabuk have qualified as beneficiaries of the Social Pension P...
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17Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 17 (PIA) -- There is a need to change people's mindset with regards to maternal health--that is, from giving birth at home to using health facility to protect mother and baby from potential dangers. Department of Health – Cordillera (DOH-CAR) Medical Officer IV Dr. Nicolas Gordo. said this shift in mindset is needed in the Cordillera region to achieve the Millennium Development Goal on maternal health. Gordo said maternal mortality in the Cordillera is continuously...
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17Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 17(PIA) -- The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines announced that the entire province of Abra will have no electricity this Saturday, April 20, from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. NGCP North Luzon Corporate Communications and Public Affairs Officer Lilibeth Gaydowen said that the scheduled brown out will affect the the Abra Electric Cooperative (ABRECO). Said power interruption is for the regular line maintenance along San Esteban – Bangued 69kV line. Gaydowen added that th...
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17Apr2013LUBUAGAN, Kalinga, April 17 (PIA) -- The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) provincial office here is conducting skills training on small enterprises here. Alfonso Berto, provincial DOST officer, said participants are 25 meat processors and other individuals from Balbalan and Lubuagan engaged in or are planning to engage in other food processing business. The four-day training which started Tuesday and ends Friday, also includes productivity and quality control to teach micro ...
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17Apr2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, April 17 (PIA)-- Fifty three (53) beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) completed a training courses at the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) Training Center in Barangay Awao, this municipality. The 53 who received their certificates and diplomas last April 12 during their graduation ceremony, constitute the first batch of 4Ps beneficiaries trained by TESDA. Thirty-six finished the Carpentry course while 17 complete...
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17Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, Apr. 17 (PIA) -- Foreign cyclists dominated the 2013 Le Tour de Pilipinas that ended at the Lake Drive of Burnham Park here yesterday. The team from Iran bested 14 other teams including nine other foreign teams, in the only annual cycling event here in the Philippines that is part of the UCI (Union Cycliste International) Asia tour. The race, which was set up here in Northern Luzon went through four stages for a total of 615.7 kilometers endurance test from the Philippin...
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17Apr2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, April 17 (PIA) -- Efforts to build up the agri-eco tourism farms in the town of Sablan is gaining headway. There is already existing road towards the agri-eco-tourism farms located in Bulala, Sablan. Improvement and widening of roads within the 9.3 hectare-agri-eco tourism farms for easy access is ongoing, according to Lolita Bentres, head of the Office of the Provincial Agriculturist. Already established in the area is an orchard while slope protection measures ...
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17Apr2013BANGUED, Abra, April 17 (PIA) -- The province has finally a big, multipurpose gymnasium that could accommodate most of the activities in the area. The new gymnasium built in the Oval Grounds of the Provincial Grandstand in the capital town of Bangued was finished in time for the celebration of the Abrenian Kawayan Festival 2013. The structure has a floor area of 1,075 square meters and has a basketball court with bleachers. It has distinct features such as a VIP room, a backstage an...
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17Apr2013BONTOC, Mountain Province, April 17 (PIA) -- Trade fairs promoting local products continue to gain patronage as shown by the huge sales generated during the recent 46th Foundation Day of Mountain Province and the 9th cultural and Lang-ay Festival Agro-Industrial Trade Fair held here from April 1-7. Based on the data of the Office of the Provincial Agriculturist, this year’s sales which is P4,565,789.50 is higher than last year's total sales of P4,141,620.75. There were 109 exhibitors i...
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17Apr2013VILLAVICIOSA, Abra, April 16 (PIA) -- The importance of the tobacco industry to the local people of this town was highlighted in the recent town fiesta here. Costumes worn by the candidates to the Search for Miss Dollimaman and Mr. Wadagan 2013 were made with the touch of tobacco. Questions asked in the question and answer portion of the search named after the legendary Tingguians were all in line with the tobacco industry. Members of the Sangguniang Kabataan from all the eight ...
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17Apr2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, April 17 (PIA) -– The Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office (PSWDO) has opened scholarship application to dependents of former rebels for school year 2013-2014. The educational support to children of rebels who returned to the fold of the law is jointly sponsored by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) and Office of Presidential Adviser on Peace Process (OPAPP) under President Benigno C. Aquino’s Enhanced Re-integration Program. The scholarship provide...
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17Apr2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, Abril 17 (PIA) -- Pinuri ng lokal na pamahalaan ng Alfonso Lista ang Ifugao Electric Cooperative (Ifelco) dahil sa itatayong bagong substation office para sa kapakanan ng mga electric consumers ng nasabing lugar. Ang Ifelco ay magpapapatayo ng 5 MVA-substation at 69 KV line na popondohan ng the Department of Energy sa halagang P19.405 million. Sinabi ni Mayor Glenn Prudenciano na ang nasabing proyekto ay makakatulong sa pang ekonomiyang gawain at mag-aambag rin sa pag-unlad n...
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16Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 16 (PIA) - - The Commission on Election (Comelec)-Cordillera in partnership with the Philippine National Police and the Philippine Army, are all set in the delivery, testing, and sealing of the Precinct Count Optical System(PCOS) machines in various parts of the region. Comelec-Cordillera Regional Director Jose Nick Mendros, in a media forum here, disclosed they have already finished the PCOS trainings for election officers, Board of Election Inspectors (BEIs), and teacher...
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16Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 16 (PIA) -- The Optical Media Board confiscated at least 100 sacks of pirated and illegal discs in separate operations in Baguio City and La Trinidad, Benguet last week. OMB Chairman Ronnie Rickets led the raid at different stores and stalls of pirated DVD and CDs at the central business district in Baguio. Among the establishments in the central business district raided were the Maharlika Livelihood Building, the Mabini Commercial building, and stalls along the Upper and Lo...
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16Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 16 (PIA) - - The Philippine Health Insurance Corp or PhilHealth, in line with the government’s goal of Universal Health Care which aims to provide access to quality health care to every Filipino family especially to the poor, calls on cooperatives and other organized groups to register their members under its iGroup program. PhilHealth Cordillera Regional Information Officer Magnolia Del Rosario, in a media forum here last week, disclosed that iGroup is an enhanced group...
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16Apr2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, April 16 (PIA) -- Kalinga Apayao State College (KASC) is luring farmers in the province to venture in soy beans production assuring there is ready market for the product. Under its president, Eduardo T. Bagtang, KASC has existing tie-up with Korean-based Dagam Corp that offers potential market for soya beans. Under the project, Dagam Corp has provided KASC Research Department with soy bean mother seeds for its experimental farming. Based on its study findings, the resea...
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16Apr2013BANGUED, Abra, April 16 (PIA) -- Department of Social Welfare and Development Secretary Corazon J. Soliman emphasized anew that politics must not meddle with the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps). “Ang tumutukoy sa beneficiary ng 4ps ay hindi si mayor, si governor, o si congressman. Nanggagaling ang criteria sa NHTSPR. Hindi napo-politika ang Pantawid.” (The beneficiaries of 4Ps are not recommended by the mayor, the governor, or the congressman. The NHTSPR (National Household fo...
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16Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 16 (PIA) - - The Department of Agriculture- Cordillera Region (DA-CAR) will be applying learnings from an international food expo to explore possibilities and make innovations to improve local products and its marketability. Representatives from DA–CAR; Association of Benguet Pinoy Barangay Food Terminal Centers; local government units of Kabayan, Sablan, Buguias, Tuba, Tublay, and Kapangan, all in Benguet province attended the 23rd Hongkong Food Expo last year. During ...
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16Apr2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, April 16 (PIA) -- Three one-phase tapping points connecting the Kalinga Apayao Electric Cooperative (Kaelco) grid to the municipalities Lubuagan, Pasil, and Balbalan in this province are now being upgraded and targeted for completion by June 30 this year. Kaelco Manager Corazon Thomas said the project on upgrading the electricity lines from one-phase to three-phase aims to ensure the delivery of quality, reliable, and continuous or 24-hour service of electricity. T...
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16Apr2013TABUK, Kalinga, April 16 (PIA) -- Out of the 194 schools identified to serve as precincts in the May 2013 automated national elections in the province, 56 need electricity to deliver a credible voting process. Commission on Election (Comelec) Kalinga Provincial Technician George Laed IV revealed this saying that the Kalinga Apayao Electric Cooperative (Kaelco) has certified that 138 schools are powered by the Kaelco Grid. Based on the list, only the 13 schools in Rizal are completely powere...
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16Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 16 (PIA) -- The Commission on Elections (Comelec) Cordillera has scheduled an “Operation Baklas (remove, take out)” on April 17 and 18, in three key areas in the city, namely, Kennon Road, Marcos Highway, and Naguilian Road. Atty. Jose Nick Mendros, Comelec CAR regional director, said that pursuant to Comelec Resolution Number 9617, a task force has been created to tear down and remove all unlawful election materials. This is composed of the election officer as chairm...
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14Apr2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, April 14 (PIA) -- Land preparations for the four-hectare state-of-the-art Agri-Pinoy Trading Center for temperate vegetables in this capital town is underway. Department of Agriculture - Agribusiness and Marketing Assistance Service (DA-AMAS) Central Office Director Engr. Leandro Gazmin said land filling of the trading center site already started while appropriate drainage system design is currently being studied. Gazmin visited the site of the trading center within the...
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13Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 13 (PIA) -- The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PHIC) or PhilHealth’s No Balance Billing (NBB) policy for sponsored members benefitted 2,136 indigent patients at the Baguio General Hospital Medical Center (BGHMC) in 2012. This was reported by BGHMC PhilHealth and Billing Section head Lilia Abalos, in a Department of Health -led kapihan media forum, Thursday. Abalos disclosed that under the NBB, Philhealth’s sponsored members which include the government subsidiz...
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14Apr2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, April 14 (PIA) -- Bakun officials has passed the town’s tourism ordinance to govern the efficient and effective operation and maintenance of all tourism-oriented and related establishments and activities while preserving and protecting the environment. Ordinance Number 05-2013 aims to regulate, develop and promote the town’s tourism industry which they believe needs to be harnessed as an engine of socio-economic growth. The town is also endowed with rich cultural h...
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14Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 14 (PIA) -- Election officers from the different municipalities of Benguet including the city of Baguio met last Tuesday with Commission on Elections (Comelec), the Philippine National Police and the Armed Forces of the Philippines to discuss issues and concerns for the upcoming May 13 elections. One major issue raised during the first for the province of Benguet and Baguio City, is the transport and delivery and the retrieval of the precinct count optical scan (PCO...
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13Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 13 (PIA) - - The Police Regional Office – Cordillera (PRO-Cor ) reported zero election related incidence in the region to date with programs continuously being implemented to ensure a peaceful and orderly May 13 election in the region. PRO – Cor Regional Director Chief Superintendent Benjamin Magalong reported that things are moving favorably as he assured that works and efforts including the peacekeeping strategy in Abra and the pro-active measures set in Kaling...
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13Apr2013PINUKPUK, Kalinga, April 13 (PIA) -- Operatives of the 51st Division Reconnaissance Company (DRC) encountered a group of New people’s Army (NPA) at sitio Kubog, barangay Limos this municipality early morning of April 7. 1Lt. Sandaree Macaiba, Acting Information Officer of the 501st ‘Valiant’ brigade, in a belated report said a platoon of the 51st DRC under 2Lt. McGyver Ricardel were on their routinary patrol at the vicinity when they encountered about 14 NPAs. She said the soldiers we...
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13Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 13 (PIA)-- The surviving World War II veterans who led the observance of the Araw ng Kagitingan in the city, Tuesday, hope that their heroic acts will still be recognized and remembered especially by the younger generation. WWII veteran Alberto Bugtong, a member of the USAFIP-NL and the 66th Infantry Regiment, remembered his struggles together with the other war veterans who fought against the Japanese forces in the country more than 71 years ago. He told members of the...
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13Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 13 (PIA) - - With the summer heat now being felt all over the country, the Department of Health (DOH) is advising the public not to stay under the sun, protect themselves and boost their immune system. DOH – Cordillera Medical Specialist IV Dr. Nicolas Gordo, in a kapihan media forum, disclosed that staying directly under the sun, particularly between 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., could trigger stroke especially those with heart ailment, hypertension and other severe medical con...
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13Apr2013FORT DEL PILAR, Baguio City, April 13 (PIA) -- The premiere military school in Southeast Asia welcomed Thursday its new superintendent, Vice Admiral Edgar Abogado replacing Lt. Gen. Ireneo Espino who is set to retire on April 16, this year. Armed Forces of the Philippines Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Emmanuel T. Bautista presided over the turnover and change of command ceremony of the Philippine Military Academy at Fort Del Pilar here after the traditional military honors at the Sundial Area by t...
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13Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 13 (PIA) -- Another Igorot fighter scored victory and advanced to the largest mixed martial arts event in Asia recently. Igorot mix martial arts fighter from Team Lakay Kevin “the Silencer” Belingon scored a historic win with his striking power against Vietnamese-Australian Thanh Vu via a referee stoppage contest in the second round of their match during the One Fighting Championship’s (One FC) ‘Kings and Champions’ at the jam-packed Singapore Indoor Stadium last we...
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12Apr2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, April 12 (PIA) --Members of the Provincial Action Team (PAT) and the Municipal Action Teams (MAT) in the province have completed their training on the ”Enhanced Social Welfare Indicators (SWI) and Capability Building' to make operational their convergence strategy in the implementation of the various projects of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). Minda Romero, Provincial Link of the DSWD programs and projects in Ifugao, said that the training aims t...
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12Apr2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, April 12 (PIA)--The Philippine Red Cross Ifugao is set to conduct a mass blood donation on April 15 at the Atrium of the Provincial Capitol Building here. Randy Blanco, officer-in-charge of PRC-Ifugao, said that this activity initiated by the provincial capitol employees will show to the public the responsibility of everybody to donate blood in support to the voluntary blood donation program. “We are encouraging each PLGU department to have at least three donors from amo...
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12Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 12 (PIA) -- The National Statistical Coordination Board-Cordillera Administrative Region (NSCB-CAR) reported that more women earn bachelor’s degrees than men in the region. Data from the NSCB-CAR revealed that women made up 63 percent of all the college graduates in the region for Academic Year (AY) 2010-2011 as reported by the Commission on Higher Education Cordillera Administrative Region (CHED-CAR). Women dominated the following courses; Home economics (95%); Mass Com...
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12Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 12 (PIA) -- The provinces of Kalinga, Ifugao and Mountain Province are set to sign a memorandum of agreement (MOA) to intensify the campaign against malaria, a dreadful but preventable parasite-caused disease. The MOA which is set to be signed this April 25 during the observance of World Malaria Day, will include strengthening of border operations among the provinces and the sharing of resources and manpower in the quest for a malaria- free Cordillera. Department of Hea...
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12Apr2013BANAUE, Ifugao, April 12 (PIA) –- Fifty teachers from the different municipalities of the province were trained on photography here recently by seasoned photographers from the Federation of Philippine Photographers Foundation, Inc. (FPPF). The two-day photography workshop dubbed “Photoeskwela” is part of the 'Bachang' program that aims to revive the spirit of bayanihan among Ifugao and the rest of the Filipino communities through the restoration of the Ifugao Rice terraces. “We do ...
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12Apr2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, April 11 (PIA) -- The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) field office here scheduled on April 17 a “town hall” type of consultation and meeting with various national government agencies, non-government organizations and barangay officials on the proposed implementing rules and regulations (IRR) of Republic Act Number 10361 also known as “Batas Kasambahay”. Isabelita Codamon, DOLE Ifugao Field Office Officer-in Charge, said the consultation meeting will be an...
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12Apr2013LUNGSOD NG TABUK, Kalinga, April 12 (PIA) -- May 200 na mag-aaral ang tutulungan ng pamahalaang lungsod ng Tabuk ngayong bakasyon sa pamamagitan ng Special Program for Employment of Students (SPES) program ng Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE). Ayon kay Tabuk City Public Employment Service Office (PESO) Manager Loyda Saboy, may ibinigay na 102 slots ang DOLE sa lungsod ng Tabuk para sa kanilang counterpart scheme. Upang mas makatulong pa ng masmaraming mag-aaral, nagdagdag aniya ang lu...
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12Apr2013LAMUT, Ifugao, April 13 (PIA) -- The Local Government Unit (LGU) here has started implementing an ordinance regulating the operation and maintenance of dormitories, cottages and boarding houses in the municipality for the safety of occupants and owners. The Sangguniang Panalalawigan declared operative in November last year the ordinance titled "An ordinance prescribing rules and regulations for the operation and maintenance of dormitories, cottages and boarding houses" to address the concern...
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12Apr2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, April 12 (PIA) -- The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) Kalinga Chapter recently inaugurated the first floor of its new office here where its new blood bank center is established. Lucia M. Beltran, the PRC Director for Chapter Development Manager, who was the guest of honor and speaker during the inauguration, commended Kalinga Chapter Administrator Glorina Diaz and the Board of Directors chaired by Atty. Macario Duguiang for making the “dream of Red Cross Kalinga a r...
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11Apr2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, April 11 (PIA) –- The city government of Tabuk is hiring 200 poor but deserving students this summer under the Special Program for Employment of Students (SPES) program of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE). The DOLE has allotted 102 slots for Tabuk City under the counterpart scheme, but the city government decided to add 98 more that it will fully sponsor, to accommodate more students for summer work, Tabuk City Public Employment Service Office (PE...
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11Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 11 (PIA) - - The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) reiterated its call to taxpayers to file their 2012 income tax returns (ITRs) before the April 15 deadline to avoid the inconvenience of long queue and to avoid penalties. BIR-Cordillera Regional Director Eduardo Bajador, in an interview, disclosed that the revenue district offices (RDOs) in every province in the region will be opened this Saturday, April 13, to accommodate the filing of ITRs, as well as income tax payments....
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11Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 11 (PIA) -- “I hope that our commemoration today of Araw ng Kagitingan will not only be a one day celebration but will be a continuous reminder of our duty as Filipinos to serve God, our country and the people, above personal concern.” Thus reminded outgoing Philippine Military Academy (PMA) Superintendent Lt. Gen Ireneo Espino in his message during the commemoration of “Araw ng Kagitingan (Day of Valor)" at the Veteran’s Park along Harrison Road here,Tuesday. In giv...
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11Apr2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, April 11 (PIA) -– Twenty three school teachers from the Lanna Elementary School of this city have undergone training on basic computer literacy. Tabuk City Public Employment Service Office (PESO) Manager Loyda Saboy said this is part of the city government’s initiative to improve the delivery of education services in the city. Many elementary teachers she said need to know the basic operations of computer to be able to cope with the trend of using information tec...
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11Apr2013LAMUT, Ifugao, April 11 (PIA) -- The Provincial Agriculture, Environment and Natural Resources Office (PAENRO) here trained 40 fishers using the Fisherfolks Field School (FFS) to promote the adoption of improved fish production technology on production, processing, and marketing. Catherine Buenaventura, PAENRO supervising agriculturist, said that the Bureau of Aquatic Resources (BAR) had allocated P1 million and the local government unit (LGU) shelled out P60,000 as counterpart for the im...
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11Apr2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, April 11 (PIA) –- Tabuk Multi-purpose Cooperative (TAMPCO), the largest grassroots cooperative in the Cordillera Region, distributes P18,464,262 in dividends share to its members for 2012. TAMPCO Chief Operations Officer Petra Baguiwen reported the figure is higher than that of the previous year’s P16,738,646. Baguiwen attributed the increase in dividends performance to the improved operations of the cooperative for the period. Based on its latest membership book, TA...
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11Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 11 (PIA) -- More attractions await locals and tourists inside Camp John Hay, a former rest and recreation facility for American and a popular tourist destination in this city. With pine tree-lined roads, wide open spaces, vibrant flowers, lots of restaurants, shopping center and first rate facilities, Camp John Hay is a preferred leisure and recreation destination in the Philippines. John Hay Management Corporation (JHMC) president Jamie Eloise Agbayani infor...
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11Apr2013LAMUT, Ifugao, April 11 (PIA) -- This municipality recently celebrated its annual town fiesta called “Rambakan(Festivity/Merrymaking) 2013” last April 4-6 with the theme “Celebrating Peace and Unity Towards Environment-Friendly and Healthful Lamut”, coinciding with its 54th foundation day. Led by Mayor Francis Tenenan Sr., the event was well attended with several events and activities marking the celebration. On the first day was the parade around the center town barangay of Pobla...
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11Apr2013RIZAL, Kalinga, April 11 (PIA) -- Public school teachers who are serving on the May 13 polls were told to be impartial to ensure fair elections. Carolyn Verano, Kalinga Schools Division Superintendent, acknowledged the role of teachers during the conduct of election as she called on the teachers adhere to the principle of impartiality being the front liners during the conduct of elections in the precinct level and to ensure a safe and fair political exercise. A total of 777 teachers...
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10Apr2013LAGAWE, Ifugao April 10 (PIA)-The local government unit here is busy preparing for its annual town fiesta dubbed “Kulpi ad Lagawe” (time to rest) which is scheduled on April 24-26, 2013. Cheryl Bumanghat, the Municipal Planning and Development Officer of this capital town, said this is an opportunity for folks from the 20 barangays here to come to the town center and celebrate together as they thank the Almighty for all the blessings bestowed upon this town for the past months. This event ...
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10Apr2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga April 10 (PIA) – All chief of police (COP) in the province were directed to identify possible threats and election watch list areas in their respective jurisdiction to help the Kalinga Provincial Police Office (KPPO) in its plan of action to ensure secured and honest midterm elections in the area. According to KPPO Deputy Operations Office Police Senior Inspector Wilson Lagan, said preparatory schemes will provide the needed data for the KPPO to anticipate possi...
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10Apr2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, April 10 (PIA) – Village folks in the mountain barangay of Guilayon in Tabuk find market access with the newly completed Barangay Food Terminal Project provided by the Department of Agriculture (DA). The project under Agrikulturang Pinoy (Agri-Pinoy) is designed as a trading post, an answer to farmers' need for a center to sell their farm produce right at the barangay. Guilayon farmers can now bring their organic farm products like coffee, vegetables and fruits to th...
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10Apr2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, April 10 (PIA) -- Tabuk Filipino overseas workers (OFW) from at least 30 host countries gathered in this city for the first Tabukenians Overseas Grand Homecoming 2013 with the theme “Keeping our roots alive.” The event’s organizer and founder Emma Madriaga said the activity aims to inspire Tabukeños away from home, to lift each other up in times of trouble, to give views and opinions for the betterment of Tabuk City, and to cooperate and respect the leaders. Local...
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10Apr2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, April 10 (PIA) -- The National Food Authority (NFA) in the province oriented more than 100 state workers here last week on the 2013 National Year of Rice (NYR) program with the theme, “Sapat na Bigas, Kaya ng Pinas,”. Jane Wangiwang, NFA-Ifugao Licensing officer, said NYR is part of the national government’s bid to achieve rice-sufficiency beginning 2013. It is an advocacy campaign that aims to boost farmers' morale and motivate them to adopt technologies to furt...
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10Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 10 (PIA) -- The Commission on Elections in the Cordillera Administrative Region assured the public that contingency measures are in place should there be power interruptions this coming May 13 elections. Comelec-Cordillera Assistant Regional Director Reddy Balarbar, in a radio interview, said the Comelec en banc has passed a resolution deputizing all government energy corporations to provide and maintain a stable and continuous electric power requirement in the whole...
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10Apr2013LUNGSOD NG TABUK, Kalinga, Abril 10 (PIA) -– Nagsanay kamakailan ang may 59 Barangay Health Workers (BHWs) ng Tabuk City sa tulong ng Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) at Tabuk City Municipal Health Office na pinangungunahan ni Dr. Henrietta Bagayao. Ayon kay Tabuk City Public Employment Service Office (PESO) Manager Loyda Saboy, sa pamamagitan ng pagbibigay ng pagsasanay para sa pangkabuhayan, nais matulungan ng pamahalaang lungsod ang kanilang mga BHWs na magkaroo...
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10Apr2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, April 10 (PIA) – Guests and visitors to the 3rd Inandela Festival of the Naneng tribe in Kalinga were fascinated by the 70-meter long Kalinga indigenous tongue-shape glutinous cake called “inandela” by the locals here. The Inandela Festival has become an anticipated event not only among the barangays of Naneng, Dupag and Bagumbayan in Tabuk City that comprise the Naneng tribe but to the whole province. Naneng barangay chairman Rommel Balunggay said the tribe me...
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10Apr2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, Abril 10 (PIA) -- Mahigit 100 kawani ng gobyerno dito ang nakiisa sa pagbigkas ng “Panatang Makapalay” kamakailan bilang tanda ng suporta sa adhikaing pagkamit ng sapat na bigas sa bansa. Ang nasabing aktibidad ay pinangunahan ng National Food Authority (NFA) dito sa probinsiya na dinaluhan ng iba't ibang nasyunal at lokal na opisina sa capitol compound ng Lagawe, Ifugao. Ayon sa panatang makapalay, bilang isang mamamayang Pilipino ay nakikiisa na huwag magsayang ng kanin a...
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10Apr2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, April 10 (PIA) -- A village level strawberry processing center will soon be established to showcase quality and competitive strawberry products that would meet customer increasing demand. Felicidad Ticbaen, head of the Office of the Municipal Agriculturist(OMAG) here, said the center to be located at the La Trinidad Strawberry Hotel and Restaurant will cater to marginalized farmer sector who will be trained for improved production practices and value added to produce q...
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10Apr2013FORT DEL PILAR, Baguio City, April 10 (PIA) -- The premiere military school in the country is set to welcome its new superintendent on Thursday, April 11. Vice Admiral Edgar Abogado will replace Philippine Military Academy Superintendent Lt. Gen. Ireneo Espino who will retire on April 16, 2013. Espino assumed his post as PMA Superintendent on November 23, 2012 serving less than five months in the academy. Armed Forces of the Philippines Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Emmanuel T. Bautista wil...
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09Apr2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, April 8 (PIA) -- May 55 na mag-aaral ang binigyan ng provincial local government unit (PLGU) ng pagkakataon na magtrabaho ngayong bakasyon sa ilalim ng Special Program for Employment of Students (SPES) ng Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE). Ang mga nasabing mag-aaral ay mga napili sa 357 na aplikante sa buong lalawigan kung saan sila ay dumaan sa interbyu at pagsusulit upang matukoy kung sino ang karapat-dapat na SPES beneficiaries. Ayon kay Claire Calingayan ng Provinci...
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09Apr2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, April 9 (PIA) -- With Araw ng Kagitingan celebrated today, April 9 the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) here has informed the public of the payment of wages for employees for the regular holidays, special non-working days, and special holiday for 2013. Avelina Manganip, the head of the DOLE here, said in a radio interview over “Humangan with PIA” that aside from April 9, regular holidays this year are January 1, March 28, March 29, May 1, June 12, August 2...
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09Apr2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, April 9 (PIA) -- The Philippine National Police in this capital town and nearby Kiangan implemented recently “operation baklas” on all campaign materals illegally posted in non- designated posting areas. Police Senior Inspector Kenneth Pugong, Lagawe Police Station chief of police and Police Inspector Christian Salonga, the COP of Kiangan town said, they removed posters of national and local candidates posted in tricycles, public utility vehicles, trees and other a...
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09Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 9 (PIA) -- The 4th Miners’ Cup, a basketball tournament for boys 16 years old and below, which aims not only for physical activity and sports development to youth but also offers scholarships to deserving youths, opened here Saturday. The Miners’ Cup, being held at the Baguio City National High School (BCNHS) Gymnasium, is led by the Philippine Mine Safety Environment Association (PMSEA) and Philippine Safety of Mining Engineers (PSME), Team Minero and Ang Minero Party...
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09Apr2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, April 9 (PIA) -- Agencies and offices of government will hold a special kapehan at Anggacan, Tanudan on April 17 to show to the communities how government engages itself on development issues and needs of the people. Governor Jocel Baac, presiding chairman of the Provincial Development Council (PDC), enjoined all heads of offices to be present during the scheduled kapehan which coincides with the Mangali fiesta to take advantage of the presence of many people. He dir...
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08Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 8 (PIA) -- Start getting your birth certificate or of your children now and avoid the rush and long lines during the enrollment period. This was the reminder of National Statistics Office -Cordillera(NSO CAR) Regional Director Olivia Gulla to graduates and parents as birth certificate is among the school requirement for new students, transferees for school year year 2013 – 2014. Gulla disclosed that every month of May is when the NSO gets the most number of dai...
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08Apr2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, April 8 (PIA) - The Land Transportation Office (LTO) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) were ordered to strictly enforce traffic rules and regulations to help prevent road accidents. Heads of of agencies and offices here told the two institutions to implement the “no plate, no license, no travel’ policy and to prohibit drunk drivers from driving. They were ordered to impound vehicles without plate numbers, stop drunk drivers and minors from driving, and for t...
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08Apr2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, April 8 (PIA) – The Department of Labor and Employment Office (DOLE) Kalinga is encouraging skilled workers in the province to enroll in the Skills Registry System (SRS) through their Public Employment Service Office (PESO). The enrollment to the SRS would provide an individual a chance to be included in the manpower poll of the province giving them better opportunity to get a job either locally or abroad, Vincent Galura of DOLE Kalinga SRS said. Galura said enrollment...
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08Apr2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, April 8 (PIA)-The Philippine National Police awarded medals to four wounded policemen in the encounter in Asipulo town this province last week which killed three policemen. Police Chief Superintendent Benjamin Magalong, regional director of PNP Cordillera awarded recently the 'Medalya ng Sugatang Magiting' to four policemen namely, P02 Marshal Angayon, PO2 Solomon Pao-iton, P02 Marshal Aganga and P02 Victor Dawon who was who was earlier reported as missing. They also rec...
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08Apr2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, Abril 8 (PIA) -- Walong pampublikong paaralan sa Ifugao ang tumanggap ng computer sets dahil sa mahusay na pagpapatupad ng Gulayan sa Paaralan program ng Department of Education (DepEd). Ang mga nabatid na pampublikong paaralan ay tinanghal bilang “best implementors” ng proyektong Gulayan sa Paaralan sa ilalim ng plot at container categories na ipinatupad ng DepEd sa lalawigan. Sa plot category, ang Baguinge at Bolog elementary schools ng Kiangan; Ngileb Elementary School ...
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08Apr2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, April 8 (PIA) – The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR)-Cordillera is offering slots to high school new graduates in the province under its Fisheries Scholarship Program Joyce Ducyugen, provincial fishery officer, said the program aims to provide educational assistance to deserving high school graduates of class 2012-2013, who lack financial resource for college education. The scholarship is open to incoming college students coming from the top-ten of the...
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08Apr2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, April 8 (PIA) – The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Kalinga will conduct a public consultation on the implementing rules and regulation (IRR) of the Kasambahay Act, a new law benefiting household workers, on April 15 here. Republic Act 10361 known as Kasambahay Law is an Act instituting policies for the protection and welfare of domestic helpers. Section 4 of the general provisions describes a domestic worker or “kasambahay” as “any person engaged in do...
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08Apr2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, April 8 (PIA) -- The Professional Regulatory Commission (PRC) based in Baguio City is set to conduct mobile licensing in the province on May 7 and June 19. This was disclosed by Claire Calingayan, the Public Employment Services Officer of the provincial local government unit here, in an interview in the program “Humangan with PIA”. The activity to be conducted from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on said dates seeks to bring government services closer to the people and cutting exp...
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08Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 8 (PIA) -- Most parts of Baguio City and some municipalities of Benguet are experiencing another power outage from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. today, April 8, as announced by the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines. NGCP North Luzon Corporate Communication and Public Affairs Officer Lilibeth Gaydowen said that the power interruption is for the reconfiguration of a transmission line structure along La Trinidad – Lamut 69kV line which affects the feeder of the Benguet Elect...
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08Apr2013TANUDAN, Kalinga, April 8 (PIA) -- Five barangays composed of 577 households in the provinces of Apayao and Kalinga are up for electrification with the on-going construction of power lines tapping electricity from the main grid. Marites Dumagas, Institutional Service Department manager of the Kalinga-Apayao Electric Cooperative (Kaelco), said electrification of the barangays is expected to be completed middle of this year. The covered barangays are Karagawan (90 households) and Nagbalayan (12...
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06Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 6 (PIA) -- The aspiring vice mayors of the city faced off and presented their platforms of governance during the first leg of the Baguio Leaders' Forum held at the Baguio Country Club Wednesday afternoon. Three of the four vice mayoralty candidates, incumbent vice mayor Daniel Fariñas, businessman Dwight Nicolas Bello III and law student Jeffrey Balisong Pinic, laid down their platforms and programs for the city of Baguio in a town hall setting forum organized by t...
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07Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 7 (PIA) -- Felynne Angelie Mangune, 22, a bank accountant in Makati and her boyfriend, recent visitors to Baguio City, never thought that the series of 'seemingly unfortunate incidents' they had to go through to take a vacation in the summer capital would give them the best vacation ever. Mangune is among the six Lucky Summer Visitors(LSV) in Baguio during the Holy Week chosen by the Baguio Correspondents and Broadcasters Club (BCBC) last Maundy Thursday. Mangune, ...
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07Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, Apr. 7 (PIA) -- The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has brought its integrated livelihood program – Community Enterprise Development (CED) in the province of Apayao with six community groups as beneficiaries. The program, which is in line with President Benigno Aquino III’s 22-Point Labor and Employment agenda, aims to alleviate poverty in the countryside by generating community livelihood and employment and gears towards to overall goal of nation building. Last M...
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06Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 6-- Baguio area-based public and private organizations needing technical assistance in the planning and implementation of poverty reduction and sustainable development programs and projects may request from the Australian Volunteers for International Development (AVID) volunteers for deployment in the city and its neighboring towns. This was announced by Mr. Ga Rick Lee during the Cordillera Volunteers Symposium held last March 20 in the City. Lee is an AVID volunteer ...
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06Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 6 (PIA) - - Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Corazon “Dinky” Soliman is set to visit Tineg, one of the remotest town in Abra, this April 8 to personally monitor the implementation of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) and other government social protection program in the area. Soliman will be visiting an Alternative Family Development Sessions of 4Ps beneficiaries at Caganayan Primary school in Tineg and is expected to have an in...
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06Apr2013SADANGA, Mountain Province, April 6 (PIA) -- The members of the Sangguniang Bayan here have passed a resolution recommending to the municipal mayor to hire abled tax delinquents as laborers in the different approved projects in the municipality under the so-called Employment for a Tax program. The SB presided by vice mayor Joseph Apopot came up with this measure after they were presented the total real property delinquencies in the eight barangays of this municipalit...
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06Apr2013BONTOC, Mountain Province, April 6 (PIA) -- The provincial government has awarded its outstanding farmers during the Farmers’ Techno Demo Cum Marketing Exhibition, Wednesday as part of the week- long in celebration of the 46th Foundation Day of Mt. Province and the 9th Cultural and Lang-ay Festival. Abaraham Akilit of barangay Bila, Bauko was adjudged as the outstanding farmer in the search for provincial outstanding farmers for 2013. Governor Leonard G. Mayaen assisted by Patricio An...
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06Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 6 (PIA) --Tourism and government officials say that the city of Baguio and the province of Benguet are solemn places during the observance of the Holy Week compared to other places in the country. Luzon Tourism Congress Vice President and Baguio Country Club General Manager Anthony De Leon said that the city of Baguio is one of the “holiest” places during Holy Week despite the influx of visitors. De Leon said that in other places, they have parties, concerts, bikini...
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05Apr2013ALFONSO Lista, Ifugao April 5 (PIA)-The Ifugao Electric Cooperative (IFELCO) conducted recently the groundbreaking of a new substation here. IFELCO General Manager Engr. Jaime Pe Benito Jr, Board president Antonino Padduyao, and Mayor Glenn Prudenciano led the groundbreaking of the project funded by the Department of Energy funded in the amount of P19.405 million. Jovita Allaga of IFELCO said the proposed construction of a 5 MVA-substation and 69 KV line is one of the major projects ...
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05Apr2013BONTOC, Mountain Province, April 5 (PIA) -- The Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office (PSWDO) has come out with guidelines and policies in the provision of financial assistance by the provincial government to persons or families in crisis situations as a form of intervention. The guidelines aim to to provide equal and fair treatment to all these financially incapacitated in the province. This was approved by Governor Leonard G. Mayaen. Target beneficiaries of this financia...
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05Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 5 (PIA) -- The Commission on Elections reminded candidates for the May 13, 2013 polls to follow the policies of the agency on the posting of campaign materials. Atty. Reddy Balarbar, COMELEC-Cordillera Assistant Regional Director in a radio interview reminded all candidates of a provision on COMELEC Resolution No. 9615 which laid down the implementing rules and regulations of Republic Act 9006, otherwise known as the “Fair Election Act”, in connection with the May 13...
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05Apr2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, April 5 (PIA) - - An eco-tourism farm in the municipality of Tublay is fast becoming a popular destination among foreign and local visitors. Located in Acop, Caponga, Tublay, the ENCA farm, coined after spouses Enrique and Carmen Cosalan, was established in 2006 and is managed by their daughter Marlyn. Adventurists and nature lovers can go trekking, camping, and be coached on organic farming. The place is also ideal for retreats due to its natural ecology. The place is...
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05Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 5 (PIA) -- Members of the Regional Coalition for the Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases (RCPCNCD) aim to institutionalize seven healthy habits and practices in their respective offices by 2015. During the first quarter meeting of the Coalition held recently, the members agreed that each member agency or institution will facilitate the implementation and institutionalization of the said healthy lifestyle practices in their offices and to submit progress repor...
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05Apr2013LAMUT, Ifugao, April 5 (PIA) - - The Municipal School Board (MSB) here has allotted the amount of P550,000 as help to elementary and secondary schools in this municipality. The said amount was approved by the MSB through Ordinance 2013-1 to fund the 2013 education priority program of the municipality in the different public schools. According to the MSB, the appropriation was sourced-out from the additional one percent real property of fiscal year 2012 as certified by the municipal treasu...
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05Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 5 (PIA) -- The Diocese of Baguio through its Social Action Center and in partnership with radio stations DZWT-AM and DZWR- FM 99.9 Country, started Wednesday the voters’ information campaign. For the initial airing of the election forum with a theme, “Botante Namnama ti Umili” (Voters are the hope of the nation), the invited panelists were candidates for the lone district of Baguio namely incumbent Baguio Congressman Bernardo Vergara, Nicasio Aliping Jr. and ...
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05Apr2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, April 5 (PIA) -- The municipality of Tublay has enacted an ordinance on Gender and Development (GAD) Code championing the rights of women to be equal with men in all aspects of development. Tublay Ordinance Number 2012-04 or the Gender and Development (GAD) Code also mandates the implementation of comprehensive and sustainable GAD program of the municipality. The legal basis in adopting the measure are the 1987 Constitution which recognizes the role of women in ...
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05Apr2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, April 5 (PIA) – The Armed Forces of the Philippines' 17th Infantry Battalion (IB) is now assigned in the province replacing the 21st IB. Col. Roger Salvador, Commander of the 501st Brigade whose units include the 17th and 21st IB , said the switching of assignment is part of the Army’s regular reshuffle. The 501st Brigade area of operations includes the province of Kalinga. Before its assignment to Kalinga, the 17th IB was deployed in Gattaran, Cagayan. As st...
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05Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 5 (PIA) -- The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration – Cordillera (OWWA-CAR) will have 23 new college scholars for school year 2013 – 2014 who have successfully hurdled the scholarship qualifying examinations. For OWWA’s Education for Development Scholarship Program or EDSP, Kayhe Dumalili Mañebog of the Baguio City National High School passed the qualifying exam and is qualified to enroll in any four or five year baccalaureate course of her choice. For the ...
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04Apr2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, April 4 (PIA) - - The Benguet provincial board passed a measure commending athletes for their exemplary performance placing the province at second place behind powerhouse Baguio City in the recently concluded Cordillera Administrative Region Athletic Association (CARAA) in Luna, Apayao. Resolution No. 13 commends athletes who brought home gold, silver and bronze medals from the event. Seventy-six individual athletes in the elementary level and 89 individual athle...
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04Apr2013TUBA, Benguet, April 4 (PIA) -- The mining community of this province and of the country is mourning the loss of a hero. Joel Son, 59, engineer and manager of the Philex Mining Corporation, unexpectedly passed away on Good Friday after suffering from a stroke. Son was a well known mining engineer, a recipient of various awards for rendering selfless service in the field of rescue operations all over the country. Son, who served for 37 years in Philex, was often called to lead rescue and re...
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04Apr2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, April 4 (PIA) -- The provincial local government unit here hired 55 students under the Special Program for Employment of Students (SPES) of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE). Claire Calingayan of the provincial Public Employment Service Office (PESO) said 357 students in the 11 municipalities took the examinations administered by their office and the top five per town were hired. The students underwent preliminary interview and screening at the PESO and their qual...
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04Apr2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, April 4 (PIA) -- The Pag-IBIG Fund has scheduled to bring its mobile services in this municipality on April 10 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the municipal government building here. Among the services offered are acceptance of application for membership contribution, multi-purpose loans, and housing loan payments. They will also accept applications for membership, provident claims, multipurpose and housing loans. Pag-IBIG will also conduct verifications of memberships and loan statu...
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04Apr2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, April 4 (PIA) – Foreign Affairs Region 2 Office has set April 13 as special processing day solely for mobile passport applicants from this city. According to Loyda Saboy, Tabuk Public Employment Service Officer (PESO)-Designate, the DFA will only process applications for new passports and renewals from Tabuk during the day. Saboy, who has arranged with DFA about this mobile passporting, announced that submission of application is extended until April 8 at their off...
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04Apr2013KIANGAN, Ifugao April 4 (PIA)-- The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) informed candidates of their obligation to withhold five percent creditable withholding tax on their income payments made on all their campaign expenditures. Dubbed as “Project Iboto Mo”, it implements provisions of Revenue Memorandum Circular No. 15-2013 entitled “Rules and Regulations Governing Campaign Finance and Disclosure in Connection with the May 2013 national and local elections and subsequent elections th...
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04Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 4 (PIA) -- Sports and adventure events are fast becoming a trend in Baguio-Benguet area and the rest of Cordillera. After the Philippine Skyrunning Association held the second staging of the Pilipinas Akyathlon, a 33-km mountain trail race up and down the 2,150 meters above sea level peak of Mt. Ugo in Itogon, Benguet last February, comes the “The North Face 100” (TNF 100), an ultra trail marathon on April 20 in the Baguio and Benguet area. The TNF 100, now on its ...
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04Apr2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, April 4 (PIA) -- The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) provincial office here issued certification to 514 Board of Election Inspectors (BEIs) in Kalinga as Information Technology -capable and are competent to operate the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines after passing written and actual tests. This after the DOST and the Commission on Elections (Comelec) conducted a two-week joint orientation and training from March 13-26 to develop the skills of B...
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04Apr2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, April 4 (PIA) -- The provincial government is considering naming the Purok Uno, Bulanao to Capitol junction provincial road here as Jesse Robredo boulevard. Members of the Provincial Development Council in moved for naming the road after the late Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary in recognition of the fight for good governance. Governor Jocel Baac directed DILG provincial officer Francisco Gamatero and the provincial engineering office to...
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04Apr2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, April 4 (PIA) –- Sixty accredited barangay health workers (BHW) of Tabuk City are undergoing a five-day body massage and beauty care training, here. The project is jointly sponsored by the City Government, City Health Office (CHO), Public Employment Service Office, Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) and Kalinga Party List. CHO Henrietta Bagayao, who supervises the Tabuk City BHWs, said the training is part of the city government’s program to...
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03Apr2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, April 3 (PIA) --The Board of Election Inspectors (BEIs), Board of Canvassers (BOCs), Random Manual Audit Team (RMAT), and technicians who will operate the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines in the different municipalities of the province have completed their various trainings in preparation for the May 13 elections. Meliken Tayaban of the Commission on Election (Comelec) here said that 464 BEIs, 36 members of the BOCs, six RMAT, and 205 PCOS technicians have completed...
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03Apr2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, April 3 (PIA) -– Employers are now recruiting student-workers for temporary employment under the Special Program for Employment of Students (SPES) of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE). This year the DOLE has opened 974 SPES slots in Kalinga for qualified college students, Lourdes Canseco of DOLE-Kalinga said. The program on temporary employment for students is covered under Republic Act 7323, where government provides financial assistance as education suppo...
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03Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 3 (PIA) - - With the campaign period at the local level already started, vice mayoralty candidates will have a face-off today to air their platforms and commitment to actions on issues and concerns confronting the city of Baguio. Dubbed as Baguio Leaders' Forum with the theme, “Nasa Kamay mo ang Pagbabago (Change is in your hand)”, this private-public partnership on voters education for a meaningful and democratic electoral exercise, will be held at 2:30PM at the Multi-...
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03Apr2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, April3(PIA) - - The use and sale of plastic bags and styrofoam will soon be regulated in the town of Tublay in Benguet. The provincial board approved on second and final reading Tublay Ordinance No. 2012-06 which regulates the use and sale of polysterene (plastic bags and styrofoam) materials. It also mandates the shift and use of biodegradable containers and packing materials instead of polysterene within the town. The primary goal of the ordinance is to achieve eco...
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03Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 3 (PIA) -- Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) Chair Eugenio “Toto” Villareal calls on parents and responsible adults to work with children on good judgment in the use of media. Villareal was among the key resource speakers during a four-day summer workshop by the National Council for Children’s Television (NCCT) which opened at the Baguio Museum here, Tuesday. Speaking to an audience of children, parents, and media practitioners, Villareal poi...
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03Apr2013BANGUED, Abra, April 2(PIA) -- The AbraCadua (AC), a group of Abrenios who have developed special friendship on the social networking site and decided to embark on its own outreach programs continues reaching out to more disadvantaged Abreños with about 300 families in three towns as the latest beneficiaries. AC recently distributed sets of sleeping mats and blankets to more than 150 poor families in Brgy. San Isidro in Lagangilang, and another 150 needy families in Brgy. Namit-ingan, ...
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03Apr2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, April 3 (PIA)-- The provincial local government unit(PLGU) here conducted recently a training on gender sensitivity for its almost 500 employees who were divided into seven batches. Juliet Taguiling, the PLGU Acting Supervising Administrative Officer, said the provincial leadership believes that proper education of people on gender will help them determine which assumptions are valid and which are stereotyped generalization since gender awareness and sensitivity requires ...
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03Apr2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, April 3 (PIA)-- The Philippine Army under the 501st Brigade has foiled the transport of 3,000 board feet of illegal lumber at its detachment based in Barangay Cudal, Tabuk. In a report, Lt. Col. Francisco Millari Jr, Commander of the Army’s 54th Infantry Battalion (IB) under the 501st Brigade, said his troops stationed at the Cudal detachment flagged down a truck at about 12:30 a.m. last April 1 and discovered its illegal load. Further investigation conducted by the ...
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03Apr2013BAGUIO CITY,April 3 (PIA) -- An additional funding of P20 million was released for the rehabilitation of Marcos Highway to ensure that it is an all-weather road. Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH)- Cordillera regional director Edilberto Carabbacan said the P20-million funding last year had been implemented but was not enough for the repair of Marcos highway which is part of the priority projects of President Benigno S Aquino III. The additional financial support is being spe...
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02Apr2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, April 2 (PIA) - - The provincial government formed a committee to deal on road right-of-way (RROW) problems that cause delay on road improvement projects. Governor Jocel Baac, during the recent "kapehan," said a corresponding executive order will be issued composed of the Department of Public Works and Highways, Provincial Engineering Office, National Irrigation Administration, Provincial Legal office, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Department of I...
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02Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 2 (PIA) - - With the implementation of the Sin Tax Reform law this year, alcoholic beverages and tobacco products jumped at the top of the consumer price index (CPI) as shown in a National Statistics Office (NSO) data. Based on the NSO-Cordillera - released February 2013 Regional Price Situationer, Cordillera’s CPI stands at 131.1, higher by 5.9 compared to the 125.2 CPI last February 2012. CPI is defined as a general measure of the change in the retail prices of a marke...
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02Apr2013BANGUED, Abra, April 3 (PIA) -- The Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) Road Show by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) was successfully carried out in all the 27 municipalities of Abra last week. The road show which was participated by the members of the Board of Election Inspectors (BEIs), the candidates as well as the voting public, was a venue for the COMELEC to demonstrate the proper operation of the PCOS machine to ensure a safe and free elections (SAFE) on May 13, 2013. The eve...
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02Apr2013KIANGAN, Ifugao, April 3 (PIA) -- The Commission on Elections, Department of Interior and Local Government, and a religious organization led the presentation of candidates here last March 30 at the Kiangan open gymnasium. Two candidates vying for the position of mayor and 22 for councilors took turn in introducing themselves and presented their platforms. Candidates Angelito Dulinayan and Joselito Guyguyon who are running for mayor were given 10 minutes each while the 22 candidates for council...
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02Apr20131,300 runners, 15 nations expected to join North Face 100 Ultra trail marathon 2013 By Carlito C. Dar and Joel Rigonan BAGUIO CITY, Apr. 2 (PIA) - - For the third consecutive year, the North Face 100 or TNF 100, the first Ultra trail running marathon series in the Asia-Pacific region will be held at the Baguio-Benguet area this April 20 to 21. To launch the event, the Department of Tourism (DOT-Cordillera) headed by Pura Molintas hosted a kapihan media forum here Monday with City Adminis...
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02Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 2 (PIA) -- The Regional Development Council- Cordillera is calling on all private sector organizations (PSOs) based in the region to submit and file their applications which is an initial step in the selection of a private sector representative (PSR) to the council. Florida Faculo, National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) Officer-in-Charge assistant regional director and the RDC-CAR Secretary, said the RDC-CAR is on the process of accepting applications for PSOs ...
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02Apr2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, April 2 (PIA) - - The National Statistics Office (NSO) provincial office here started on Monday, April 1, the conduct of the 2012 census on Philippine Business and Industry in the provinces of Apayao and Kalinga. Avelino Cadalig of NSO, in an interview said, two field men and one supervisor were hired to conduct the survey until May 31 on 74 households in Kalinga and 10 in Apayao. He said the census is aimed to collect and generate detailed information on employment,...
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02Apr2013ITOGON, Benguet,April 2 (PIA) -- About 27 community members within the Binga Hydroelectric Power Plant in barangay Binga this town attended the livelihood training program on the production of environmental charcoal briquettes using agro-waste materials Atty. Mike Hosillos, SN Aboitiz Power (SNAP) vice president for Corporate Services and spokesperson, said that participants composed of current and former employees, and community members successfully completed the two-day training. ...
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02Apr2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, Abril 2 (PIA) --Ang Ifugao Provincial Disaster and Risk Reduction Management Council (PDRRMC) ay magsasagawa bukas ng ibat-ibang aktibidad bilang kulminasyon ng Fire Prevention Month. Ang mga aktibidad gaya ng assessment forum, demonstrations at return demonstrations sa paglaban sa sunog, volleyball at basketball ay isasagawa sa capitol plaza na dadaluhan ng ibat-ibang member agencies ng PDRRMC. Ayon kay Governor Eugene Balitang, chairman ng PDRRMC, ang layunin ng assessment...
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02Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 2 (PIA) - - The intensified efforts of the Philippine Drug Enforcement- Agency Cordillera Regional Office (PDEA-CAR) against illegal drugs recently resulted in the arrest of five drug dealers and confiscation of over P200,000 worth of shabu and drug paraphernalia. PDEA operatives in coordination with the local municipal police office arrested last March 26 in a buy-bust operation in Samara, Aringay, La Union, three suspects - two male and one female. Confiscated ...
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02Apr2013TINOC, Ifugao, April 2 (PIA)--The provincial local government unit here released P325,493 to the Kalanguya Cultural Community Multi-Purpose Cooperative (KCCMC) in an effort to increase its capital for its agricultural input services for the farmers and gardeners in the area. Franklin Galeon, the Project Development Officer of the Provincial Agriculture Environment and Natural Resources Office, said the dowloaded fund will be used to purchase seeds, herbicides, fungicides and foliar ...
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02Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 2 (PIA) - - Improving road infrastructure leading to key tourism destinations is a priority thrust of the Department of Tourism (DOT) in line with the government’s goal of bringing in 10 million foreign tourists in the country by 2016. DOT Cordillera Regional Director Pura Molintas, in a kapihan forum Monday, reported that in 2012 P197 million from the P5 billion savings of the national government, was allocated for tourism road projects in Baguio-Benguet area which we...
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02Apr2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, April 2 (PIA) -- Aimed to preserve and protect the city’s watershed areas, the city government has released P2 million to push forward its agro-forest program this year. City Mayor Ferdinand B. Tubban explained the move is a product of the barangay visit program of the city government, which gathers people’s pulse on pressing issues in their respective localities. Efforts to preserve Tabuk’s watersheds is also included in the city’s urban plan, which gives prior...
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02Apr2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, April 2 (PIA) -- More than 100 young children from Tabuk benefited from the free circumcision project over the weekend. The project was part of the free inter-agency medical outreach sponsored by the provincial government, the Philippine Army, medical groups, rural health units, Rotary and Lion’s Clubs. Cadets from the Kalinga Apayao State College (KASC) were also tapped to provide assistance to the patients. The sponsoring groups also distributed free medicines to ...
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01Apr2013KIANGAN, Ifugao, April 1 (PIA)-- More exciting events are in store for the public in the upcoming town fiesta celebration dubbed as “Gotad Ad Kiyangan 2013”. According to Eulalie Dulnuan, Executive Assistant to Mayor Joselito Guyguyon, the events for this year’s town fiesta celebration are interesting and exciting in efforts to develop Kiangan as an eco-tourism destination. The “Gotad Ad Kiyangan” with the theme “Building on the Past and Keeping the Torch of Development a...
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01Apr2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, April 1 (PIA) - - Agencies and offices of government were urged during today's 'Kapehan' program to help in local taxation by leading their employees in paying their real property taxes. Kalinga Governor Jocel Baac called on heads of offices to strongly urge their employees to pay their real property taxes. He told them that public service is not only to deliver the needs of constituents but also to share with the burden of taxation since taxes are also the source ...
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01Apr2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, April 1 (PIA) -- Ifugao province is set to culminate the month-long observance of the Fire Prevention Month on April 3 at the capitol plaza with various activities to be participated by member agencies of the Provincial Disaster and Risk Reduction Management Council (PDRRMC). Activities include an assessment forum, demonstrations and return demonstrations on fire fighting and games such as volleyball and basketball. The culminating activity is a venue to evaluate the partici...
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01Apr2013ALFONSO LISTA, Ifugao, April 1 (PIA)--The Ifugao Provincial Agriculture Environment and Natural Resources Office (PAENRO) has allocated P1 million for the community-based participatory action research on tilapia fishcage at Magat Dam reservoir here. Catherine Buenaventura, PENRO Supervising Agriculturist, said that the project is in partnership with SN Aboitiz, National Power Corporation (NPC), National Irrigation Administration (NIA), the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) and...
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01Apr2013BAGUIO CITY, April 1 (PIA) -- The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) – Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) said "drug-affectations" in the Summer Capital is still minimal. During the first quarter meeting of the City Peace and Order Council (CPOC) held recently, PDEA-CAR Deputy Regional Director Ernesto Lee Marzo reported that compared to other cities in the country, the drug-affectation in the city is still minimal. He identified 9 drug affected barangays in the city namely...
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01Apr2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, April 1 (PIA) -- A presentation paper on improvised low-cost water, sanitation and hygiene project in Kapangan municipality in Benguet was adjudged as “Best Presentation Prize” in an international conference in Thailand. Kapangan Municipal Agrarian Reform Officer Dr. Jane Toribio garnered the “Best Presentation Prize” on the paper she presented entitled, “Barangay Integrated Development Action in Kapangan towards Water, Sanitation and Hygiene” (BIDA KA WASH!) ...
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31Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, March 31(PIA) -- Inmates and jail guards of the Baguio City Jail joined the worldwide call for action on climate change by switching off their lights and other electronic devices during the Earth Hour event last March 23. Baguio City Jail Warden Chief Inspector Wilson Banasen said the lights were put off for two hours and 25 minutes last Saturday night at the city jail. The putting off of lights is an annual event the jail inmates started five years ago. He said that this...
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30Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, March 30 (PIA) - - Bachelor of Science in Criminology remains the top three in terms of the number of board examinees each year, data from the Professional Regulation Commission - Baguio (PRC) shows. To give criminology students as well as graduates a view of their employment opportunities in law enforcement and other career options, Masters in Developmental Management students, in partnership with the University of Cordilleras (UC) conducted here, Sunday, a lecture-forum titl...
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29Mar2013BAGUIO CITY,March 29 (PIA) -- The Baguio Correspondents and Broadcasters Club (BCBC) and the Mines and Geosciences Bureau – Cordillera conducted a media lecture seminar as part of the BCBC media camp here last Holy Tuesday. BCBC President Roderick Osis said the media lecture is conducted with the MGB’s Synchronized Information Communication and Education(SICE) Team composed of information officers of the different mining companies and the Mass Communication and Development Communicat...
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28Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, Mar. 28 (PIA) -- "Be an instrument of God to be bearers of truthful and good news to the people to boost their confidence in building up a better Baguio City." This was the message of Baguio-Benguet Vicariate Bishop Cenzon to the members of local media in his homily during the Holy Wednesday Mass sponsored by the Baguio Correspondents and Broadcasters Club (BCBC) at the media camp along Burnham Park,here. Cenzon, in his homily, offered his prayer and support for the BCBC office...
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28Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, March 28 (PIA) -- The Baguio City Police Office (BCPO) assures peaceful Holy Week or the Semana Santa with the expected influx of tourists in the city. BCPO City Director Senior Superintendent Jesus Cambay said the standing order of the city officials is to ensure a peaceful and orderly city for a fruitful celebration of the Semana Santa in Baguio City. Cambay said that to ensure this, the police will deploy more than 300 personnel in the different parts of the city including ...
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28Mar2013BONTOC, Mountain Province, March 28 (PIA) -- A provincial youth summit is scheduled on April 3 and 4 as one of the activities in celebration of the 46th Foundation Day of Mt. Province and the 9th Cultural and Lang-ay Festival. Participants to this summit to be held at the Multi-Purpose Building here are the Sangguniang Kabataan officials and in-school youth province wide. Provincial Population Officer Shirley Chiyawan said that on the first day, April 3, will be the presentation of Young A...
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28Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, March 28 (PIA) -- Diocese of Baguio-Benguet Bishop Carlito Cenzon called on the public to reflect on the life of Jesus Christ this Holy Week and make a change in their lives. Cenzon, in an interview, said that the Holy Week is a time for the people to dwell and reflect on the life, the sufferings and sacrifices of the Lord this Holy Week and make conversion of their old ways. “Malaking biyaya kung mayroon tayong kahit maikling panahon para pag-isip isipan ang ginawa ng panginoo...
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27Mar2013TINOC, Ifugao, Marso 27 (PIA) -- Ang Provincial Nutrition Council (PNC) ay nakatakdang magsasagawa ng search for Green Banner Award (GBA) simula sa ikalawang Linggo ng Abril. Ayon kay Dr. Mary Josephine Dulawan, Provincial Nutrition Action Officer (PNAO), ang kasapi ng PNC technical working group (TWG) ay mag-umpisang maglibot sa ibat- ibang bayan ng Ifugao sa Abril 12 para sa 2012 municipal evaluation of local program initiatives (MELPI) o Green Banner Award (GBA). Ang MELPI ay isinasa...
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28Mar2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, Mar. 28 (PIA) -- The Benguet Police Provincial Office together with the Baguio City Police Office will launch an activity that seeks to unify political candidates and other stakeholders in line with the forthcoming May 2013 elections. Provincial Director Police Senior Superintendent Rodolfo Azurin, Jr. said the event dubbed, “Takbo, Lakad, Tanim,” (Run, Walk, Plant) calls for a peaceful, safe and fair elections while helping protect the environment. Azurin said all ...
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27Mar2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, March 27 (PIA) -- Governor Eugene Balitang ordered the activation of the Provincial Disaster and Risk Reduction Management operation center (PDRRMCO) in view of the expected increase of visitors and traffic in the province during the Holy Week. The PDRRMOC which is activated effective March 26 to March 31, is manned 24 hours to coordinate preparedness and prevention/mitigation measures on hazards and risk, Balitang stated. He enjoined all focal persons of the Provincial ...
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27Mar2013BANAUE, Ifugao, March 27 (PIA) -- Members of two people’s organizations (POs) in the province who are beneficiaries of livelihood projects under the Office of the Presidential Affair for the Peace Process (OPAPP) recently finished a three-day training workshop on Community Driven Enterprise Development (CDED). Chester Bahatan, president of the Hibla People’s Organization (HPO) based in this municipality and Velasco Cruzaldo, president of the Kabunyan People’s Organization (KPO) in Hingy...
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27Mar2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, March 27 (PIA)--The Provincial Local Government Unit (PLGU) conducted recently a training on Strategic Performance Management System to its employees. Juliet Taguiling, Supervising Administrative Officer of the PLGU, said that the seminar seeks to impart the proper knowledge to the participants on the basics of SPMS, its elements and objectives. Officers from the Civil Service-Field Office here and the Cordillera regional office served as speakers. They also rendered tech...
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27Mar2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, March 27 (PIA) - - The Kalinga-Apayao Career Service Provider Network visited 33 secondary schools provincewide conducting career guidance counseling among high school graduates. Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Provincial Officer Alexander Gumabol said the network covered 33 secondary schools and reached 3,751 graduating students during the caravan from January to March this year. Out of the 33 total schools visited, 23 were government schools while 10 are priv...
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27Mar2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, Marso 27 (PIA) -- Ipinag-utos kahapon ang activation ng Ifugao Provincial Disaster and Risk Reduction Management Operation Center (PDRRMOC) ngayong Semana Santa. Sa kanyang memorandum, sinabi ni Governor Eugene Balitang na ang PDRRMOC ay magbubukas mula Marso 26 hanggang Marso 31 para matulungan ang mga bisita na mamamasyal sa Ifugao. "The operation center will be manned 24 hours to coordinate preparedness and prevention/mitigation measures on hazards and risk,” sabi ni Bal...
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27Mar2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, March 27 (PIA)--In an effort to help address Children In Conflict with the Law (CICL) cases in this capital town, the Municipal Social Welfare and Development Office (MSWDO) here partnered with a religious group and the community. Carmen Pantalen of the MSWDO said that their office coordinated with Christ is the Answer Church (CITAC) and the community who assisted them in coming up with plans to rehabilitate about 27 children. The CITAC provided food and gave t-shirts to ...
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27Mar2013RIZAL, Kalinga, March 27 (PIA) -- Eleven of 80 job seekers mostly male applicants from this municipality who applied for overseas employment in a recen job fair here were hired on the spot. The job fair was held as part of the celebration of the Pinikpikan festival. Alexander Gumabol, Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) provincial officer, said the activity was organized by the Public Employment Service Office (PESO) of Rizal in coordination with DOLE.He said five recruitment agenci...
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27Mar2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, March 27 (PIA) -- The Philippine National Police-Cordillera (PRO-COR) has so far confiscated a total of 372 firearms as part of its campaign for a Secure and Safe Elections (SAFE) 2013 . firms. Benguet accounted for the highest number of firearms with 145 followed by Abra with 98, then Apayao 45, Ifugao 31, Baguio City 25, Kalinga- 21 and Mt. Province - 7 firearms. The implementation of the 120-day gun ban being imposed by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) relati...
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27Mar2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, March 27 (PIA) -- The Benguet Police Provincial Office is using Geographical Information System (GIS) to enhance its operations in giving interventions to crime analysis and solution. Provincial Director Police Senior Superintendent Rodolfo Azurin, Jr. said the GIS is effective in the crime analysis of an area. It captures, manages, analyzes data and displays relevant information which accordingly allows the viewing, visualization and interpretation of a data. Az...
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27Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, March 27 (PIA) -- The Baguio City Police Office (BCPO) reported its accomplishments from January to March 2013 under its anti-crime strategies and interventions to address the crime situation in the city. During the 1st Quarter meeting of the City Peace and Order Council (CPOC) held Monday, March 25, 2013 at the Baguio City Multi-purpose hall, PSupt Evelio Degay BCPO Deputy City Director for operations reported that under its Oplan “Cross Rider” ,the BCPO has confiscated a tot...
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26Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, March 26 (PIA) - - Poverty, physical incapacity and even serving penalty behind bars are no longer hindrance for a child, out-of-school youths or even adults to finish basic education and continue a higher degree of learning with the Department of Education’s (DEPED) Alternative Learning System. The recently released result of the December 2012 ALS Accreditation and Equivalency (A&E) examination showed that a total of 449 Baguio City - ALS Division learners passed their exami...
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26Mar2013KIANGAN, Ifugao, March 26 (PIA)-- Some best practices learned during the implementation of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) in the municipality in 2012 can be strengthened to better program execution this year. Victoria P. Dines, the Municipal Link (ML) assigned by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) here, said that among the best practices include the monitoring of children’s attendances in school which is made easier in coordination with the De...
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26Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, March 26 (PIA) - - Convergence of programs and services of several government agencies is among the key poverty reduction strategies of the national government to ensure inclusive growth to every Filipino. One successful beneficiary of a convergence program in the Summer Capital is the baking livelihood project at Barangay Sto. Tomas, which is now owned and being managed by the community people themselves. For Sto Tomas’ baking community enterprise, the barangay local governm...
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26Mar2013BFP-Ifugao regularly inspects business establishments, public buildings By Vency D. Bulayungan LAGAWE, Ifugao, March 26 (PIA)-- The Bureau Of Fire Protection(BFP) here regularly inspects establishments and public buildings to ensure fire safety in the community. SFO1 Federico Nayan, BFP Officer In Charge here, reported in an interview in the daily radio program “Humangan With PIA” that this helped a lot in the prevention of fire in the municipality. No case of fire was reported si...
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26Mar2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, March 26(PIA) - - The Benguet Environment and Natural Resources Council approved the draft communal forest management plans of some towns in the province as a step towards saving what is left of the communal forests. The forest management plans serve as roadmap in sustaining the forest and watershed resources of the different municipalities. The BENRC in a meeting held March 13, approved the six communal forest management plans of Salingew in Atok, Loo in Buguias, P...
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26Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, March 26 (PIA) - - The Baguio Correspondents and Broadcasters Club (BCBC), the biggest media club in the Summer Capital, in coordination with the city government of Baguio, officially opened the club’s annual Holy Week Camp at the Burnham Park here, Monday. The media camp called “Camp Peppot” which is part of the city’s SUMVAC (Summer Vacation) activities opened with a native ritual, an offering of native chickens officiated by Ramon Dacawi, BCBC past president. A ...
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26Mar2013RIZAL, Kalinga, March 26 (PIA) -- The Department of Education (DepEd) Division Office here directed school heads to focus on using the mother tongue for Grades 2 and 3 in classroom instruction. Kalinga Schools Division Superintendent Carolyn Verano in her message during the recent 'Pinikpikan' festival here said pupils have to master the mother tongue while in their early grades so that they can understand and relate themselves to their environment and the things they learn in the classroom. Wi...
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26Mar2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, March 26 (PIA) -- The resorts in the vegetable producing town of Buguias in the province of Benguet are emerging destinations that lure local and foreign tourists alike. Provincial Tourism Operations Officer Clarita Prudencio said their office is on the process of promoting the resorts in Buguias. Tourists flock the resorts during its peak season from November to December with arrivals ranging from 600 to 700 every month. Prudencio said after all the processes involv...
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26Mar2013RIZAL, Kalinga, March 26 (PIA) -- The local government unit of this municipality received recognition from development stakeholders for good governance but at the same time bestowed its own awards to its partners for their cooperation and achievements. During the opening day of the Pinikpikan Festival, Rizal LGU through the leadership of Mayor Marcelo Dela Cruz Jr. received from the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) a plaque of recognition for completing its Comprehensive Land...
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26Mar2013RIZAL, Kalinga, March 26 (PIA) - - The local government unit (LGU) of Rizal inaugurated during the opening day of the Pinikpikan Festival, Tuesday, its P28- million municipal building. Mayor Marcelo Dela Cruz Jr. said the construction of a permanent municipal hall to house all the departments and other devolved offices, centralizes all operations of the LGU and solves the problem of having office in different locations which is disadvantageous for the public clientele when transacting ...
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26Mar2013TINOC, Ifugao, March 26 (PIA) - - The Provincial Nutrition Council (PNC) is set to conduct the provincial search for Green Banner Award (GBA) starting next month. Dr. Mary Josephine Dulawan, Provincial Nutrition Action Officer (PNAO), said members of the PNC technical working group will be going to the different towns for the municipal evaluation of local program initiatives (MELPI) for 2012. The MELPI evaluation is conducted every year to evaluate the nutrition programs being implemented...
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26Mar2013LAGAWE, Ifugao , March 26 (PIA) -- In an effort to bring services closer to the people here, the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS)-Nueva Vizcaya branch has established a service desk at the provincial capitol here. Maybelle Chommog, the branch manager of GSIS-Bayombong earlier wrote Governor Eugene Balitang about the establishment of a service desk at the capitol said they will be serving the province twice a month. The schedules for the whole year are as follows: April 1...
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25Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, March 25 (PIA) - - Mountain Province is set to celebrate its 46th founding anniversary in the Lang-ay festival on April 1-9 showcasing the province's rich cultural heritage , and for the first time will feature a “Moto-Cause” event - a double fun and adventure bike race with a humanitarian cause. Provincial Information Officer Angel Baybay, in a Department of Tourism (DOT) -led kapihan forum here, disclosed that aside from the cultural presentations, street dancing and...
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25Mar2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, March 25 (PIA) - - This province has been allotted a share of P54 million from the Pamana-Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Fund for the implementation of 28 various projects in six former conflict areas including this city, according to DILG provincial director Francisco Gamatero. The municipality of Pinukpuk gets the biggest share of P23 million for five projects. The amount of P20M is allotted for the concreting of the Allaguia road while the rema...
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25Mar2013HINGYON, Ifugao, March 25 (PIA) - - Investors here will soon enjoy privileges with the approval of the municipal incentive and investment code. Mayor Mario Buyuccan recently approved the said ordinance giving incentives to investors that will provide equal opportunities for income and employment for the people in the municipality. The incentive and investment code authored by Sangguniang Bayan (SB) member Romando Hewe aims to lay down the framework and mechanism for integrating the inv...
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25Mar2013LICUAN-BAAY, Abra,March 25 (PIA) -- The 41st Infantry (Partner for Peace) Battalion based in Sitio Baquero, in this town, is adjudged the 5th Infantry Division’s(5ID) Best Battalion for Calendar 2012 in the evaluation conducted by the 5th Infantry Division, Philippine Army, based in Upi Gamu, Isabela last March 4. Lt.Col. Danilo R. Domingo, the Commanding Officer of 41st IB, received the plaque of recognition from Maj. Gen. Joel P. Ibanez, Commander of 5th ID, during the Monday flag raisi...
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25Mar2013Tagalog News: DENR naglaan ng P5M para sa rehab ng 12 heritage sites sa Ifugao By Marcelo B. Lihgawon MAYOYAO, Ifugao, March 25 (PIA) - - Naglaan ng limang milyong piso ang Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) para sa rehabilitasyon ng labindalawang heritage sites sa lalawigan ng Ifugao. Ang pondo na idinaan sa pamamagitan ng United Nations Educational, Scientific at Cultural Organization (UNESCO), National Commission (NatCom) sa Manila ay naglalayong maisaayos ang 8,42...
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25Mar2013DPWH hires Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries By Juliet B. Saley BONTOC, Mt. Province, March 25 (PIA) --The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) are jointly implementing the Trabahong Lansangan to help alleviate the living condition of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) beneficiaries here. According to Jessie Chelim of the Social Welfare and Development (SWAD) Team office here, the DPWH started the implementation...
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25Mar2013TINGLAYAN, Kalinga, March 25 (PIA) -- People in this hinter town of Kalinga would soon benefit from the services of a better health facility after the municipal government has approved the use of its P700,000 cash incentive to improve its existing municipal health center. Municipal Mayor Fernando Abay, in a statement said, the money is a cash award given by the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) to the local government unit for being awarded the Seal of Good Housekeepin...
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25Mar2013KIANGAN, Ifugao, March 25 (PIA) -- A progressive community cooperative here is expanding its services to now include the putting up of a dormitory building to cater to students studying at the province's state university in Lamut municipality. The Kiangan Community Multi-Purpose and Development Cooperative (KCMDC) here will soon start the construction of a four-storey dormitory building near the Ifugao State University (IFSU) in barangay Nayon in Lamut. This was bared by Board of Dir...
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25Mar2013ALFONSO LISTA, Ifugao, March 25 (PIA) -- The government's Payapa at Masaganang Pamayanan (PAMANA) project will establish a seedling nursery at the Ifugao State University (IFSU) here as climate change adaptation intervention. The provincial government, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and the Cordillera Forum For Peace and Development Inc. (CFPD) and IFSU signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) for the project on March 8. The establishment of a seedling nursery ...
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25Mar2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, March 25 (PIA) -- The provincial local government unit (PLGU) has recently issued the guidelines on the usage of some of its unspent funds in the previous years. Governor Eugene Balitang said that the guidelines covered the re-programming or re-appropriation of the calendar year 2012 and prior years unexpended balances of the development fund and statutory and contractual obligations. “Unexpended balances of the development fund from CY 2009 and below whether infrastructu...
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25Mar2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, March 25 (PIA) -– The Kalinga Provincial Tourism Council (PTC) is proposing to hold a grand homecoming for all Kalinga expatriates by 2014. During a meeting, Kalinga PTC President Natividad Sugguiyao said this event dubbed “grand Kalinga among” is tentatively proposed to be held in July 2014 considering that this is the vacation time in the United States and in Europe. “The event would be anchored on the over-all goal of showing that there’s more fun in Kalinga...
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24Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, March 24 (PIA) - - The Baguio City Health Services Office (HSO) in coordination with the Department of Health (DOH) is pushing for a new strategy against the dreadful dengue virus, now a year-round concern. Last week, the City HSO invited representatives from government line agencies, civic organizations, and barangay leaders attended a “Sector Wide Approach (SWAP) to Dengue" briefing and consultation. Assistant City Health Officer Dr. Rowena Galpo called on a multi-sectoral ...
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24Mar2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, March 24 (PIA) –- Women groups here have organized and elected the first officers of the Provincial Local Council of Women (PLCW) to serve as a vehicle to empower the women and mainstream gender and development (GAD) in the province. The PLCW, said Digna Dalutag, PLCW provincial coordinator and Provincial Social Welfare and Development Officer (PSWDO), will serve as the umbrella organization of all women’s group and as a policy-making body for all women development pro...
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24Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, March 24 (PIA) -- The Department of Public Works and Highways is busy implementing measures to ensure safe and efficient travel of the public especially this Holy Week. DPWH-Cordillera Regional Director Edilberto Carrabacan said they are proactive in maintaining safe and convenient road travel to Baguio as well as to different areas and tourist sites in the city. Carrabacan said they have started placing proper signage along the different major roads to guide foreign and local t...
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23Mar2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, Marso 23 (PIA) -- Pormal nang binuo ng provincial government ang 2013 Gotad working committees upang mapaghandaan ang nalalapit na anibersaryo ng probinsiya. Ito ay alinsunod sa kautusan ni Governor Eugene Balitang bilang maagang paghahanda para sa ikapagtatagumpay ng selebrasyon ng ika-47 na anibersaryo ng Ifugao. Ayon kay Governor Balitang, ang mga working committees ang tuwirang magsasagawa ng plano at magsasagawa sa ibat-ibang aktibidad at iba pang gawain na may kaugnayan s...
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23Mar2013SABANGAN, Mt. Province, March 23 (PIA) -- Awarding of the cleanest and greenest barangays is one of the highlights of the 7th Gagayam Festival of this municipality on March 20 – 23. Barangay Namatec was adjudged as the cleanest and greenest barangay and received a cash prize of P20,000 and a plaque of recognition. First runner up in the search for the cleanest and greenest barangay is barangay Supay which received a cash prize of P15,000; second runner up is Bao-angan with a cash prize of...
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23Mar2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, March 23 (PIA) -- Six municipalities and this component city will benefit from a P105 million anti-poverty programs and projects this year pooled from a menu of poverty reduction intervention activities of the different national government agencies. Francisco Gamatero, Provincial Director of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), said the funds were channeled through the DILG to be directly released to the local government units for their implementation....
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23Mar2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, March 23 (PIA) -- The public is strongly urged to refrain from going for the “tandok”' as a post exposure treatment for rabies from dog bites. Provincial Epidemiologist Jose Pardito Jr. warned that undergoing the 'tandok' can possibly expose dog bite victims to tetanus. Tandok is a traditional method using part of a horn or stone on the belief that rabies can be sucked out of the wounds. Pardito said there is no medical proof tandok can prevent or cure rabies....
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23Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, Mar. 23 (PIA) -- Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Ramon Paje has approved last January the designation of the Balili River system as Water Quality Management Area (WQMA) to protect and improve water quality of the river system. DENR Administrative Order No. 2013-05 designated the Balili River as WQMA covering the areas of La Trinidad and Sablan in Benguet and the city, pursuant to the Philippine Clean Water Act of 2004 With the designation, ...
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22Mar2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, March 22 (PIA) -- The Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Academy brought to this town its advocacy of teaching entrepreneurs on how to keep their business grow and to have successful family business. Around 70 entrepreneurs of this town attended the event held last March 15 at the La Trinidad municipal gym. The activity was in cooperation with the Department of Trade and Industry and the town’s local government unit as part of the Strawberry Festival celebratio...
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22Mar2013ALFONSO Lista, Ifugao, March 22 (PIA)-- Twenty five goat raisers of Barangay Sto. Domingo in this municipality have participated in a Farmer Livestock School on Integrated Goat Management (FLS-IGM) conducted in 28 weeks. Gilbert Caclini, the Agri-Pinoy coordinator, said the activity seeks to promote the adoption of recommended production practices in goat production through the FLS-IGM to increase the income of the farm households and improve resource management capabilities of rural commun...
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22Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, March 22 (PIA) -- The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) is calling all active members to start submitting their nominees for the GSIS Scholarship Program (GSP) for academic year 2013-2014. Application period is from March 12-April 30, 2013. Pursuant to the revised GSP Policy and Procedural Guidelines (PPG) No. 224-13, all active GSIS members with premium payments for the last six months may nominate scholars. The GSIS revised its College Scholarship Program to allow-low...
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22Mar2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, March 22 (PIA)-- The Commission on Higher Education – Cordillera is encouraging students who are financially- constrained to approach their school officials and ask for special permits to be able to take the examinations. CHED-CAR Assistant Regional Director Ramon Santiago said that students can make arrangements with their schools on how they can avail of special permits for them to take their examinations. Santiago said CHED is strictly obligating schools not to den...
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22Mar2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, March 22 (PIA) - - The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) provincial office here is conducting orientation seminars to civil society organizations (CSOs) and non-government organizations (NGOs) on their role in community development. Francisco Gamatero, DILG provincial director, said the series of seminars aim to enable CSOs and NGOs participate actively in bottoms-up planning and budgeting in order to help local government units address the needs of thei...
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22Mar2013RIZAL, Kalinga, March 22 (PIA) -– This municipality is set to stage the 2013 Pinikpikan Festival from March 24 to 25 with the theme, “Kannawidan Salimetmetan, Panagrang-ay Pagkaykaysaan” (Preserve Traditions, Unite for Progress). 'Pinikpikan' is a traditional way of cooking duck or chicken among the Cordillerans. The leadership of Rizal made this cultural practice as an attraction to boost the local agro-industrial and tourism industry. This dish derives its flavor from the coagulate...
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22Mar2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, March 22(PIA) -- The Department of Science and Technology turned over digital libraries to three provinces in the Cordillera Region last week. DOST-CAR Assistant Regional Director Maria Rowena Madarang and Science and Technology Information Institute representative Annie Lyn Bacani signed a memorandum of agreement and turned over three Science and Technology Academic and Research-Based Openly Operated Kiosk Stations, or STARBOOKS to the provinces of Kalinga, Apayao and ...
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22Mar2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, March 22 (PIA) -- The Ifugao Association of Social Workers, Inc. (IFASWI) will monitor all Payapa at Masaganang Pamayanan Program (Pamana) projects implemented in the province under the Office of Presidential Affairs for the Peace Process (OPAPP). According to IFASWI Board of Director Mario Indopia, OPAPP had approved recently the group's proposal for the community-based monitoring of Pamana projects for the Cordillera Bodong Administration-Cordillera People’s Liberation Arm...
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22Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, March 22 (PIA) - - Marathon, fun run and family walk is fast becoming a trend here in the Summer Capital with the cool breeze and cozy mountain terrain. Aside from being beneficial, such activities are also helping various causes. On April 6, local community church New Covenant Bible Fellowship (NCBF), in partnership with Philippine Red Cross (PRC)- Baguio will lead a marathon for a cause dubbed, “Make Your Mark,” with four run categories – 3K (kilometer), 5K, 10K and a chi...
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22Mar2013AGUINALDO, Ifugao Marso 22 (PIA) -- Nakatanggap kamakailan ang lokal na pamahalaan dito ng P400,000 bilang tulong pangkabuhayan mula sa SN Aboitiz Power Magat, Inc (SNAP-Magat Inc.) Ang nasabing halaga na magsisilbing pondo ng para sa produksyon ng tubo ng munisipalidad ay pormal na ipinagkaloob sa lokal na pamahalaan sa pamamagitan ni Mayor Clemente Talusig. Ayon kay Talusig, ang ibinigay na halaga ay karagdagan pondo ng Comprehensive Livelihood Enterprise and Marketing Development Program (...
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21Mar2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, March 21 (PIA) -- Two out of the three labor cases filed at the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Kalinga this year had been settled non-judicially through the Single Entry Approach (SEnA) of the agency. This was gathered from Anthony Luminang of DOLE Kalinga, saying that both cases were settled in one hearing. The first case he said was filed on January 21 by a worker against his employer for illegal dismissal and non-payment of wages. During the hearing on Jan...
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21Mar2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, March 21(PIA) - - The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) provincial office here is identifying sites for its reforestation projects this year under the National Greening Program (NGP) of government. Tammy Baggay of the DENR provincial environment and natural resources office (PENRO) said sites to be identified have to be within forest zone classified areas. “After sites are identified, will be the preparation of seedling nurseries, site clearing, and ...
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21Mar2013MAYOYAO, Ifugao, March 21 (PIA) -- The Provincial Nutrition Council (PNC) has awarded yesterday certificates of recognition and cash prizes to winners of the 2012 search for nutrition-friendly school. Provincial Nutrition Action Officer (PNAO) Dra. Mary Josephine Dulawan lauded the winners and encouraged them to work for the betterment of schoolchildren by promoting nutritious snacks in their respective schools. Mayoyao Central School and the Hapid Elementary School were declared champions i...
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21Mar2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, March 21 (PIA) –- Women groups in the province are encouraged to promote and affirm their rights. Provincial Legal Officer Atty. Kristian Wandag, in a message during the 2013 Women’s Month celebration here, challenged participants to look into the implementation and observation of the special laws advocating the advancement of women. He said women play an important role in the community since improving the women sector could also lead to the growth of community, for ...
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21Mar2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, March 21 (PIA) - - The Civil Service Commission (CSC) urges public servants to file their statement of assets and liabilities and net worth (SALN) before the April 30 deadline. Ruthgail Balagso of CSC Kalinga Field Office said officials and employees have to fill up their SALN using the new form provided by their respective office or can be downloaded from the CSC website. She said the SALN must contain a true and complete declaration of assets, liabilities and net worth, ...
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21Mar2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, March 21 (PIA) -– The city government has released this week the first quarter cash incentive of barangay tanods and lupong tagapamayapa amounting to P1.26 million. From the city’s 42 barangays, the number of beneficiaries reached 1,680 with 20 tanods and 20 lupon from every barangay. They received P750 each as first quarter incentive with a monthly additional allowance of P250. City Interior and Local Government Officer Julio Barcellano said the city government allo...
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21Mar2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, March 21 (PIA) -- The Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) Cordillera Administrative Region has convened the steering committee to prepare activities for the second staging of the Cordillera ethnic food festival. Organized by the PCCI and the Farmers Federation of Benguet (FFB), the festival’s theme is “Celebrating a diverse cultural heritage through ethnic delicacies,” scheduled tentatively on May 1 to 7 at the Farmers’ Commodities and SME Center, ...
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21Mar2013PINUKPUK, Kalinga, March 21 (PIA) -- For the second time this quarter, police of this highland municipality in the province confiscated illegal flitches of lumber this week. According to the report of Pinukpuk Chief of Police Senior Inspector Gemma Braganza, police confiscated the contraband measuring 518 board feet after receiving a message from a civilian informant about flitches of lumber floating in the river. Nobody claimed the illegal lumber while police were in the area. Braganza r...
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21Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, March 21(PIA) -– President Benigno S. Aquino on Sunday outlined some of the major accomplishments of his administration in Baguio - Benguet under his “Tuwid na daan” campaign. In his speech before local leaders and community in Baguio City, the President said that in Benguet, there are now on-going works on the more than 65 kilometers Gurel-Bokod-kabayan-Buguias road that would cut travel time from Bokod to Buguias to one hour from the current two hours. The said road i...
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21Mar2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, March 21 (PIA) -– Gearing towards the achievement of the national rice sufficiency, the Department of Agriculture (DA) is enjoining the public to avoid wasting rice and for key players to increase rice productivity. In a message during the Regional Staple Food Producers Convention and 2013 National Year of Rice (NYR) launching in the region, DA Cordillera Director Marilyn Sta. Catalina said the call is for everyone. Based on studies conducted by the International Rice ...
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20Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, March 20 (PIA) - - The Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board - Northern Luzon Region (HLURB-NLR) headed by Regional Officer Teresita Galacgac, on Sunday hosted in this city the awarding ceremony for the Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP) Zero Backlog Project in Northern Luzon with Vice President Jejomar Binay as the guest of honor. Binay, chairman of the HLURB and the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC), in his keynote address reiterated to the different ...
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20Mar2013LAMUT, Ifugao, March 20 (PIA)--Personnel of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Ifugao Field Office recently conducted a Labor Education for Graduating Students (LEGS) to 800 students from the four campuses of the Ifugao State University (IFSU) at the Luis Hora gymnasium here. According to Senior Labor and Employment Officer of DOLE-Ifugao Isabelita Codamon, the activity is an annual program to support the placement and career development services of the Guidance and Counseling Center...
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20Mar2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, March 20 (PIA)--The Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office here recommended the continuous conduct of information education campaign(IEC) on child abuse laws including the popularization of the Children’s Code to deter the cases of child abuse in the province. Provincial Social Welfare and Development Officer Joyce Niwane said 13 cases of child abuse were reported from January-February 2013 of which out of these cases, eight cases were physical abuse, four ca...
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20Mar2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, March 20 (PIA) - - The Provincial Epidemiology Surveillance Unit (PESU) here reported an increase in dengue suspects in the province last year but with no recorded death. According to Jose Pardito Jr., provincial epidemiologist, dengue cases increased to 2,177 in 2012 compared to 1,986 in 2011. “Though there were 196 suspects added last year, I am happy to report that there was no recorded death compared to 7 deaths in 2011,” he said. The zero death last year ...
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20Mar2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, March 20 (PIA) - - The Bureau of Internal Revenue, Kalinga-Apayao Revenue District office (BIR Kalinga-Apayao RDO) points to completed and on-going projects as reason why taxpayers are inspired to pay their dues. “Because they now see where their taxes go,” Jocelyn Sabban, Administrative Officer of BIR Kalinga-Apayao RDO said in an interview. She said BIR Kalinga-Apayao RDO surpassed its target collection in 2012 by 5.54 percent during the time of OIC Dominga Bangao. D...
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20Mar2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, March 20 (PIA) -- The Philippine National Police here recorded a decrease in crimes committed from January 1 to February 28, 2013 as compared to the same period in 2012. The Ifugao Police Provincial Office (IPPO) is proud of its accomplishments and continues to be of service to ensure peace and order in the province as it recorded a 20 percent decrease of crime incidents in the province said PNP Provincial Director, Senior Superintendent Angelito Casimiro. “There was a decr...
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20Mar2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, March 20 (PIA) - - Trained community health teams (CHTs) in this province are closely monitoring on a monthly basis health risk household members identified under the National Household Targeting System (NHTS). The CHTs which were organized last year have finished profiling households identified under the NHTS where data on health risk household members was established for treatment and regular monitoring. Bernadette Andaya, CHD team head for Kalinga, said the approach is ...
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20Mar2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, March 20 (PIA) -– More than 400 volunteer barangay health workers (BHW) and barangay nutrition scholars (BNS) attended this year’s Tabuk City Barangay Health Congress held Monday at the People’s Gym, here. The participation of health workers from all 42 barangays affirmed that Tabuk City’s rural health service is on the right track, said Henrietta Bagayao, City Health Officer. Kalinga Congressman Manuel S. Agyao noted this year’s theme “Serving our cl...
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20Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, March 20 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), as part of its core poverty reduction program, is set to implement P49.05 million worth of KALAHI-CIDSS (Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan – Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services) projects in nine towns of Abra. DSWD-CAR KALAHI-CIDSS Social Marketing Officer Nerriza Faye Villanueva, in an interview, disclosed that the KALAHI-CIDSS projects is set to benefit 101 barangays in the Abra towns...
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19Mar2013ASIPULO, Ifugao, March 19 (PIA) -- Women from all over the province convened in this municipality to celebrate Women’s Month last March 14 and 15. Jane Fortich, president of the Ifugao Women’s Organization, said that aside from the different activities that showcased the different talents or skills of the women, they listened to talks on the reproductive health (RH) law RH programs of the government and on the male involvement on RH during the forum. Congressman Teddy Baguilat ...
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19Mar2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, March 19 (PIA) -- Three heritage conservation experts from New York, United States of America, recently met with the Kalinga Provincial Tourism Council (PTC) and the various stakeholders of the tourism industry here to talk on the importance of preserving the intangible cultural heritage and heritage sites in the province. Discussions started with Architect Roz Li, a historical sites preservationist, who talked on historic preservation and conservation and preservation...
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19Mar2013LAMUT, Ifugao, March 19 (PIA) -- A tourist community police assistance center will soon rise near the main gate of the Ifugao State University at barangay Nayon, this town. “Today is the fulfillment of a long dream which is the establishment of a police outpost in the university,” said IFSU president Dr. Serafin Ngohayon, who together with Police Provincial Director Senior Superintendent Angelito Casimiro and Provincial Social Welfare and Development Officer Joyce Niwane representin...
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19Mar2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, March 19 (PIA)- – The Army based in the province claims that its youth leadership training has effectively shielded the sector from falling into the trap of the communist movement in the area. Army 501st Brigade Commander Col. Roger Salvador explained that through leadership trainings, the youth are provided proper values and outlook on community involvement making them productive and reliable sector. "This way, our youth could discern what teachings are positive and w...
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19Mar2013BANAUE, Ifugao, March 19 (PIA) -- Members of the Banaue Federation of Women Organization (BFWO) here are beneficiaries of a women canteen project as part of efforts to better their living conditions. Juliet Apilis, vice president of the BFWO, said that the Office of Congressman Teddy Baguilat Jr provided P32,000 for the project which was established at the Municipal Social Welfare and Development Office (MSWDO) building. She said the group decided to manage a canteen as a viable income...
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18Mar2013FORT DEL PILAR, Baguio City, March 18 (PIA) - - The 124-strong Philippine Military Academy (PMA) Pudang Kalis (Puso’t Dangal ng Lahing Nagkakaisa) Class of 2013 officially joined the ranks of the Armed Forces of the Philippines with Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin declaring their commission as second lieutenants and ensigns during their graduation rites here, Sunday. President Benigno Aquino III in his keynote address said he is honored to be with the graduates to witness and congratu...
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18Mar2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, March 18 (PIA) -- The Kalinga Apayao State College (KASC) has partnered with the Dagam Corporation of South Korea for soya beans production in the province. The project is handled by KASC’s Research Department that is now conducting a study on soya beans farming in prospect farm sites in the province. As initial step, KASC President Eduardo Bagtang said that while the state college has developed its own experimental area, the project was offered to the different municip...
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18Mar2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, March 18 (PIA) - -In line with the celebration of National Crime Prevention Week this September, the National Police Commission (Napolcom) here announced today the search for Model PNP Families in the solo parent category or family category. Speaking in the daily radio program “Humangan with PIA,” Atty. Belen Tayaban, the provincial chief of Naplocom, said the search aims to emphasize the importance of strong ties of police officers to their families. It is open to all unif...
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18Mar2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, March 18 (PIA) -- The local chief executives (LCEs) in the province are very supportive of the institutionalization of the Public Employment Services Offices (PESOs) in their respective areas. The pledge of support and commitment was made by the LCEs during their meeting and orientation on PESOs Institutionalization recently at the Highlander Hotel and Resort in Solano, Nueva Vizcaya convened by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Ifugao Field Office led by its Direct...
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18Mar2013MAYOYAO, Ifugao, March 18 (PIA) -- Twelve heritage sites in the province are set to be rehabilitated through a P5 million funding from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR). The rehabilitation will include the restoration of damaged and collapsed walls of the rice terraces in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Sites in the province. The fund coursed through the UNESCO National Commission(NatCom) in Manila aims t...
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18Mar2013TINGLAYAN, Kalinga, March 18 (PIA) -– This town just celebrated its 50th founding anniversary and Unoy Festival from March 15 to 16 with the theme “Nurturing Culture of Excellence through Quality Leadership.” This year’s theme advocates President Aquino’s “tuwid na daan” with the principles of good governance manifested by excellent performance through people participation, transparency through full disclosure of government transactions, and accountable and responsible management...
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18Mar2013HUNGDUAN, Ifugao, Marso 18 (PIA) -- Walong bayan ng Ifugao ang nakatakdang makararanas ng apat na oras na brown-out sa Martes, Marso 19, pahayag ng National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP). Ayon kay Lilibeth P. Gaydowen, Regional Corporate Communications and Public Affairs Officer ng NGCP North Luzon, ang mga bayan ng Asipulo Banaue, Hingyon, Hunduan, Kiangan, Lagawe, Lamut at Mayoyao ay maaapektuhan ng pagkawala ng suplay ng kuryente bukas mula ika-1 ng hapon hanggang ika-5 ng hapon...
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18Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, Marso 18 (PIA) -– Pinaalalahanan ni Pangulong Benigno S. Aquino III ang mga nagsipagtapos sa Philippine Military Academy (PMA) na ang hinahon at katwiran ang sukat nang tunay na tapang at paninindigan. Sa kanyang talumpati sa pagtatapos ng 124 na miyembro ng Pudang-Kalis or Puso’t Dangal ng mga Kawal ng Lahing Nagkakaisa Class 2013, binigyang diin ng Pangulo na huwag daanin sa puwersa o dahas ang pagresolba sa mga kinakaharap na problemang panseguridad ng bansa. Kanya rin in...
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18Mar2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, March 18 (PIA) -- The Kalinga Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office (PSWDO) is currently conducting training for selected disadvantaged women including identified Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program or 4Ps beneficiaries in the province. Assistant PSWD Officer Esperita Gamatero said that from the 17 trainees, 11 are 4Ps beneficiaries being trained for free under the cash for training program (C4TP), an anti-poverty convergence project of the Department of Social...
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17Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, March 17 (PIA) -- President Benigno S. Aquino III urged the members of the Philippine Military Academy ‘Pudang Kalis” Class of 2013 to face the challenges as new officers of the Armed Forces of the Philippines with courage and consideration putting themselves in the situation of those who will be mostly affected by the situation. In his commencement message to the 124 –strong ‘Pudang Kalis’ Class who were commissioned as second lieutenants and ensigns of the A...
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17Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, March 17 (PIA) -- President Benigno S. Aquino III will be the guest of honor and speaker during the Philippine Military Academy’s 108th commencement exercises, March 17 at the Borromeo Field at Fort del Pilar, here. The President is expected to arrive at PMA at around 9 a.m. and will welcomed by Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin, Armed Forces of the Philippines Chief of Staff General Immanuel Bautista and PMA Superintendent Lt. Gen. Ireneo Espino. He will then be given the...
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17Mar2013BONTOC, Mt. Province, March 17 (PIA) -- The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the Office of the Provincial Agriculturist are busy setting up an agro-industrial trade fair to provide opportunity for local entrepreneurs to sell and promote their products during the 46th Mt. Province Foundation Day and the 9th Lang-ay Festival set on April 1-7. Products to be featured on this event are furniture, garments, gift and home decors, fresh and processed food, fashion accessories, novelt...
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17Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, March 17(PIA)-- Focal persons of the different government agencies including some representatives from the private sector became “persons with disability for a day” as part of the capacity building conducted by the Regional Council on Disability Affairs (RCDA). The participants were blindfolded before they walked up and down the stairs and into a crowd and while eating. Some participants had their one hand tied at their back as they ate with only one hand while others ...
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17Mar2013BONTOC, Mt. Province, March 17 (PIA) -– The third Tuesday of February is declared as the Mt. Province Federation of Parents-Teachers Association (MPFPTA) Day in recognition of the role of parents-teachers groups in school development. The Provincial School Board chaired by Governor Leonard Mayaen posed no objection to the resolution of the new set of officers of the MPFPTA Day headed by its president, Eric Fulangen, requesting the declaration of the third Tuesday of the month of Feb...
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16Mar2013HUNGDUAN, Ifugao, March 16 (PIA) -- Eight towns of the province are set to experience a four-hour power interruption on Tuesday, March 19, the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) announced. Lilibeth P. Gaydowen, Regional Corporate Communications and Public Affairs Officer for NGCP North Luzon, said the power interruption on March 19 from 1p.m. to 5 p.m. will affect the municipalities of Asipulo Banaue, Hingyon, Hunduan, Kiangan, Lagawe, Lamut and Mayoyao. The power outage is...
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16Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, March 16 (PIA)-- Bishop Carlito Cenzon of the Diocese of Baguio and Benguet expressed his faith and admiration in the leadership and simple lifestyle of Pope Francis, the chosen successor of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in the recently concluded Papal conclave in Vatican City on Wednesday. Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, Argentina or now known as Pope Francis is a humble pontiff and an advocate in the alleviation of poverty in the world, the Bishop describes. ...
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16Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, March 16 (PIA)-- A seasoned Ilocano runner is this year’s Athletic Saber awardee of the Philippine Military Academy(PMA). Cadet First Class Mark Rolly Bacani bested the 123 other graduating cadets of PMA Puso’t Dangal ng mga Kawal ng Lahing Nagkakaisa or Pudang Kalis Class of 2013 to receive the athletic saber award. On Thursday, prior to the graduation ceremonies, Bacani received the Athletic Saber from Mayor Mauricio Domogan during the Athletic Parade Honors at the Borro...
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16Mar2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, March 15 (PIA) -- Three members of the New People’s Army (NPA) operating in the Mountain Province and Kalinga areas laid down their arms before the government, recently. The Army identified the three as alias Ka Mena, alias Ka Abe/Max and alias Ka Junjun. They were presented, Wednesday, before the Army’s 5th Infantry Division Headquarters in Upi, Gamu, Isabela. Ka Mena and Ka Abe who were from Mt. Province, surrendered two M16 rifles while Ka Junjun from Kal...
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16Mar2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, March 16 (PIA) -- A multi-cultural theatrical show which depicts the origin of this capital town will be staged by local talented actors on March 25 at the municipal gym in line with the month-long celebration of the Strawberry Festival. Dubbed “La Trinidad shi Bunguit tan Kafagway,” meaning La Trinidad in Benguet and Baguio City, the show presents the history of the Valley in music and drama productions. Based on research, the town was established before the cr...
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15Mar2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, March 15 (PIA) -- Believing that early planning and preparation makes an activity successful, Governor Eugene Balitang issued Executive Order No. 111 creating the 2013 Gotad ad Ifugao working committees. The provincial chief executive believes there is a need to create working committees to determine and recommend to him the activities to be undertaken, and committees to be created and tasked to oversee such activities. The province will celebrate its 47th anniversary dubbed,...
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15Mar2013BANGUED, Abra, March 15 (PIA) -- The Cascaron Festival was celebrated for the second time last weekend through the initiative of the local members of the Abra Cascaron de Dadapilan International (ACDI) led by the Agtangao Chapter in Bangued. The Cascaron Festival 2013 aimed to promote the sugarcane-based industries such as the production of wine locally known as “basi,” vinegar, and the famous muscovado or molasses which the Abrenios call "tagapulot" with variations of finished products...
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15Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, March 15 (PIA) - - The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), in recognizing the importance of parents in guiding their children on the career path to take, is enjoining them to join in career coaching and employment and labor market information campaign. DOLE Regional Director Henry John Jalbuena disclosed that encouraging the participation of parents during the conduct of Career and Employment Coaching (CEC) is essential for them to properly guide their children in decidi...
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15Mar2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, March 15 (PIA) -– Tabuk City expects to fully set its computerized real property assessment system before the end of this month. This is in line with the Computerization of Real property Tax Adjustment System (RPTAS) being established by the Bureau of Local Government Finance under the Department of Finance (DOF). City Assessor Jimmy Paclay said the system is mandated on local government units as part of the steps to enhance local tax efforts through efficient real prop...
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15Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, Mar. 15 (PIA) - - Colorectal (colon and rectal) cancer is a deadly disease but preventable and highly curable if detected early early, the Department of Health – Cordillera (DOH-CAR) said this in a kapihan media forum, Thursday. Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center (BGHMC) Department of Surgery head Dr. Romeo Concepcion disclosed that colorectal cancer remains to be among the top 10 cancer cases in the country. For BGHMC alone, Concepcion reported that colorectal cases are...
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15Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, March 15 (PIA) - - Nine rural health units (RHUs) and eight hospitals in Apayao and Abra had been upgraded to be certified Basic Emergency Obstetrics and Newborn Care (BEmONC) facilities through the provision of the needed equipment under a Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) project. The Cordillera-wide Strengthening of the Local health System for Effective and Efficient Delivery of Maternal and Child Care Services, the JICA project, a five-year program in partners...
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15Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, March 15 (PIA) -- Various activities will spice-up summer in this mountain resort through this year’s Summer Vacation (Sumvac) in Baguio. Benedicto Alhambra, City Supervising Tourism Operations Officer, announced during the Sumvac 2013 meeting last week that various activities have been prepared for the annual summer calendar of events to entertain residents and tourists expected to flock to the city. Among traditional events lined up include the Philippine Military Academy (...
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15Mar2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, March 15 (PIA) -- More than 3,000, fourth year high school students in the province took the National Achievement Test (NAT) administered by the Department of Education (DepEd) in their respective schools last March 9. Division Supervisor Arsenio Yongoyong who helped administer the examination said there were 37 national high schools and seven private secondary schools who participated in the NAT this year. The private secondary schools have the most number of examinees led ...
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15Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, March 15 (PIA) -- With the campaign period for local candidates for the May elections about to start, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is appealing to all elective officials not to take advantage of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) in their campaign strategies. DSWD Cordillera Regional Office launched the department’s “Bawal ang Epal Dito” campaign in a kapihan media forum, Wednesday, to empower the beneficiaries to know their rights a...
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15Mar2013ASIPULO, Ifugao, March 15 (PIA) -- As part of its continuing effort to make Ifugao rabies-free by 2016, the Provincial Veterinary Office (PVET) here recently conducted an information, education and communication drive to the villagers of Barangay Panubtuban, here. PVET Animal Health Services Head, Dr. Roland Pila, explained to the people gathered composed of young people, barangay officials, women, and farmers what rabies is, how to detect it, preventive measures, and the things to be done whe...
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15Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, Mar. 15 (PIA) -- The city government of Baguio, in celebration of Women’s Month, gave recognition to eight outstanding women leaders, who in their respective field of endeavor, have made a significant contribution to the development of Baguio or to the welfare of its people. The women leaders, honored during Baguio City’s “Kababaihan festival main program at the Baguio Convention Center last March 8 were Dr. Elma Donaal, Dr. Zorayda Clavio, Perlita Panganiban, Catherine Qui...
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15Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, March 15 (PIA) -- The 22-year old female cadet from the Kankaney tribe of Lamut, Beckel, La Trinidad, Benguet and Tabuk, Kalinga, is number two in the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) Pudang-Kalis (Puso’t Dangal ng mga Kawal ng Lahing Nagkakaisa) Class 2013. Cadet First Class Maryam Dinamling Balais leads three other female cadets in the Top 10 of the 124-strong Pudang Kalis Class who will graduate this Sunday, March 17. Balais who is set to join the Philippine Navy (PN...
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14Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, March 14 (PIA) - - Four out of every 10 young Filipino students plan to work abroad after graduation, the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) Policy Center’s Pinoy Youth Barometer project reveals. The Pinoy Youth Barometer, a project of AIM in partnership with the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) and in networking with key high schools, colleges, and universities nationwide, is a functional survey which is done periodically and specifically designed to collect informati...
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14Mar2013KIANGAN, Ifugao, March 14 (PIA) -- Employees of this municipality recently attended a two-day orientation and workshop on the Strategic Performance Management System (SPMS) at the Kiangan Youth Hostel as required by the Civil Service Commission (CSC). Mayor Joselito Guyguyon enjoined all department heads and their staff to undergo the orientation since this new system is very crucial in evaluating the performance of employees before any incentive is given them. He told the participants to ta...
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14Mar2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, March 14 (PIA) -- Government efforts to develop grassroots cooperatives in the province had reached remarkable level with 28 people’s cooperatives breaking the “millionaire” mark here. Two of these, the Tabuk Multi-purpose Cooperative (Tampco) and Tabuk Farmer’s Multi-purpose Cooperative (Tafamulco), have surpassed the P100-million rank in total assets. Abel Dawey, Cooperative Development Authority (CDA) Kalinga field officer, attributed the rapid growth of cooper...
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14Mar2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, March 14 (PIA) - - The Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) this province is conducting various activities in observance of Fire Prevention Month. The month-celebration with the theme “Sunog At Sakuna Paghandaan, Kalikasan Ay Pangalagaan Nang Matamasa Ang Pag-unlad Ng Bayan” was started last week with hanging of streamers and motorcade around the Poblacion of this municipality. According to Provincial Fire Marshall Ramel Borja, the BFP in coordination with other partner agen...
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14Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, March 14 (PIA) -- The National Statistics Office (NSO) will conduct the 2012 Census on Philippine Business and Industry (CPBI) in April to get a more detailed benchmark data on the businesses and industries nationwide. The 2012 CPBI goal is to measure and compare the national, regional and provincial economic growth, in terms of businesses and industries, for government planning and policy making, according to Josephine Albino of the NSO Industry and Trade Statistics Division...
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14Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, March 14 (PIA) -- The Department of Agriculture – Cordillera reported the region is self-sufficient in rice. Despite low rice production in the provinces of Benguet and Mountain Province, the Cordillera Region is still rice self-sufficient, said Danilo Daguio DA-CAR Regional Technical Director for Operations. In 2012, the DA recorded 453,461 metric tons (MT) of rice produced in the region for a 119 percent rice sufficiency level for the region. Benguet had the lowest rice prod...
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14Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, March 14 (PIA) -- Beneficiaries of Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), otherwise known as Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT), set to graduate from the program after five years of enrollment will still be aided by the national government for the education of their children, as well as livelihood and employment. Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Corazon “Dinky” Soliman t assured that the government will continue to help the 4Ps beneficiari...
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14Mar2013KIANGAN, Ifugao, March 14 (PIA) -- Women from 14 barangays in this town celebrated Women’s Month focusing on their being entrepreneurs that contribute to the economic welfare of their families and communities. After the parade and short program, a bazaar was opened where foods, dry goods, fruits, vegetables, beauty products, carved products, soft brooms, and native wine were sold. Celestina Talosig of the Municipal Social Welfare and Development Office said that the bazaar aims to mark...
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14Mar2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, Marso 14 (PIA) -- Hinimok ang samahan ng mga kababaihan dito na supportahan ang pangkapaligirang programa ng lokal na pamahalaan. Ayon kay Mayor Ceasario Cabbigat, ang mga samahan ng kababaihan ay hindi lamang kasama sa tagumpay ng pamilya kundi kasama rin sa pagpapa-unlad ng pamayanan lalo na sa pagpapatupad ng “clean and green program” (CGP) ng lokal na pamahalaan ng Lagawe. “Ang inyong mga samahan ay may malaking gampanin sa ikatatagumpay ng CGP ng ating munisipyo par...
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14Mar2013SABANGAN, Mt. Province, March 14 (PIA) -- The municipal government here will hold a “Walk-for-a-Cause” on March 23 as part of this town’s 7th Gagayam Festival which will be celebrated March 20 to 23. Municipal Health Officer Zaida Chel Danag here said this “walk- for- a- cause” which will start at 6 a.m., aims to promote health and wellness and to raise funds for five patients from this municipality undergoing medication in Baguio City. Of the five patients, three are suffering f...
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13Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, March 13 (PIA) -- The state pension fund Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) conducted re-orientation meeting with Agency Authorized Officers (AAOs) and Electronic Remittance File (ERF) handlers last March 12 at the Pines View hotel here. GSIS Luzon Operations Office Membership Manager Armenia N. Salvanera said the activity aims to re-introduce the streamline process in the maintenance of the membership database, to know the importance of updated database and to lessen or e...
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13Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, March 13 (PIA) -- The Balikatan Sa Kaunlaran, Inc., a long-running city women’s organization, in partnership with the city government of Baguio, gave recognition to the city barangays best performing women’s group. Winning the top plum is the Samahang Kaakibat sa Kabuhayang Kaunlaran (SKKP) of barangay Irisan, which is engaged in waste and tarpaulin recycling, herbal and vegetable backyard gardening, mushroom production, botika sa barangay and other women entrepreneurship p...
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13Mar2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, March 13 (PIA) -– The province is currently setting up a techno demo project as it initially engages in organic agriculture on livestock and poultry integration through the Office of Agricultural Services (OAS). In a statement, OAS Organic Agriculture Point Person Jose Casibang said the demo farms are located in Tabuk City and Rizal. Production, he said, would center on native chicken and native pig livestock propagation through the utilization of indigenous products as ...
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13Mar2013LAGAWE, Ifugao March 12 (PIA) -- The town mayor here has enjoined members of the different women’s organization in the municipality to support the clean and green program of the local government. Mayor Ceasario Cabbigat said that women’s organizations can be partners in the successful implementation of the clean and green program and other projects of the local government unit (LGU) particularly in the grass root level. “Your organizations have a big role in nation building. Let us h...
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13Mar2013ALFONSO LISTA, Ifugao, March 13 (PIA) -- The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) held a two-day product clinic at the agency’s provincial office with 14 entrepreneurs in the province. Lecturer Froilan Dy of Naga City taught participants on product packaging, including labeling and designing. According to Judy Christie Bunnol of DTI, with the assistance provided to the entrepreneurs, more pasalubong (gifts) products with appropriate labels and packaging will come out in the market. “P...
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13Mar2013AGUINALDO, Ifugao, Mar. 13 (PIA) -- The local government unit (LGU) here received P400,000 from the SN Aboitiz Power Magat, Inc (SNAP-Magat Inc.) as livelihood assistance. The amount was formally turned-over to the LGU through Mayor Clemente Talusig to fund the sugarcane production of the municipality. Talusig said the amount will augment the funding of the Comprehensive Livelihood Enterprise and Marketing Development Program (CLEMDP) of the municipal government. He said that the CLEMDP is ...
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12Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, March 12 (PIA) -- The celebration of the International Women’s Month this month is made more relevant with 19 women joining the Philippine Military Academy's Pudang Kalis or Puso’t Dangal ng mga Kawal ng Lahing Nagkakaisa Class of 2013 with four joining the top 10 on Sunday, March 17. PMA Superintendent Maj. Gen. Ireneo Espino said this is the largest number of women cadets who will graduate from the military institution since 2007 when the first women cadets graduated f...
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12Mar2013BANGUED, Abra, March 12 (PIA) -- The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration – Cordillera Administrative Region (OWWA-CAR) has awarded livelihood funds support to groups and individual Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) who have returned to the country for good. Last March 8, OWWA Director Manuela Peña awarded three groups of P100,000 grant each for their livelihood activities. These are the Mayabo Overseas Returnees’ Dependents Multi-Purpose Cooperative for their Agriculture Input...
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12Mar2013LUBUAGAN, Kalinga, March 12 (PIA) -- With the theme “Weaving our diversity towards a sustainable, cultural and economic progress,” this municipality celebrated its Laga Festival from March 8 to 9. Laga is the Kalinga term for weave, a particular ethnic handicraft that this town is becoming famous with. Lubuagan is known for producing various Kalinga-inspired woven clothes which are now gaining popularity as these are being turned into fashion clothes, bags, shoes, accessories, home decors...
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12Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, Mar. 12 (PIA) -- Do you know someone or some group that have made a significant contribution to the development of Baguio and its citizen? Send in your nominations as the 2013 Search for the Outstanding Citizens of Baguio is now officially open. The search, which is an annual project of the City Government of Baguio and led by the Society of Outstanding Citizens of Baguio (SOCOB), is open to individuals 18 years old and above or a group, in various fields of endeavor whose ...
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12Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, Mar. 12 (PIA) –- The two top graduating cadets of the Philippine Military Academy Class 2013 come from very humble families - they are children of farmers from Davao Del Sur and Benguet. Cadet First Class Jestony Arman Lanaja of Hagonoy, Davao Del Sur and Cadet First Class Maryam Dinamling Balais of La Trinidad, Benguet lead this year's 124- strong graduating cadets belonging to the Pudang Kalis or Puso’t Dangal ng mga Kawal ng Lahing Nagkakaisa Class of 2013 who will be gradu...
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12Mar2013BONTOC, Mt. Province, Mar. 12 (PIA) -- About 710 students and out of school youth in the province will be employed this summer under the Special Program for the Employment of Students (SPES) of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE). DOLE provincial head Samuel Lasdacan said the various Public Employment Service Officers in the different municipalities are now screening student applicants based on their submitted pre-employment documents in time for their employment this April. Lasda...
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10Mar2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, Mar. 10 (PIA) -- The town of Kapangan in Benguet will be celebrating its 4th Anitap Festival showcasing cultural parade and presentations, agro trade fair and a wholesome participation of the community. Councilor Manny Fermin, committee chair on Tourism and Environment, said the town has set various activities for the week-long celebration of the Anitap Festival from March 13 – 19, 20013 with the theme “One Community Bound on Culture for One Destiny.” An ...
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09Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, Mar. 9 (PIA) -- The Jaime V. Ongpin Foundation Inc.(JVOFI) inaugurated and turned over the rehabilitated water system to the local government and to the community water users association of Barangay Banangan in Sablan, Benguet, Tuesday. Foundation President Dr. Reynaldo Bautista led the turn over and inauguration together with Benguet Governor Nestor Fongwan, Sablan Mayor Arthur Baldo, other local government officials, and representatives from the Department of Interior and Local...
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09Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, Mar. 9 (PIA) - - Around 100 identified Filipino families affected by the standoff in Lahad Datu, Sabah, Malaysia get humanitarian assistance from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). Social Welfare Secretary Corazon ‘Dinky’ Soliman, in a media interview here Friday, confirmed that the government through DSWD, has already opened a humanitarian corridor for the affected Filipino families in the Sabah conflict. Soliman disclosed that through their regional ...
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08Mar2013BAGUIO CITY,Mar. 9 (PIA) -- No rabies incident was recorded in this summer capital during the past year. This could be attributed to the continuous vaccination and education, information and campaign on dog and pet owners. City veterinarian Dr. Brigit Piok reported this as she assured that the city remains committed to its advocacy on animal welfare and public health and safety by continuously building public awareness on the prevention and control of rabies through education and vaccination...
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08Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, March 8 (PIA) -- Gearing up for the 2013 Summer Vacation (SUMVAC) in Baguio, Mayor Mauricio Domogan last week re-organized the SUMVAC working committees to begin the ground works for the three -months activities. The SUMVAC in Baguio is an institutionalized annual endeavor undertaken by the City Government in partnership with different government agencies, non-government organization (NGOs), the private sector and People’s Organization (POs). In Administrative Order No. 012, t...
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08Mar2013KIANGAN, Ifugao, March 8 (PIA)--The Municipal Advisory Committee (MAC) and Municipal Action Team (MAT) of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) of this municipality was recently reorganized to make it more effective and responsive to the goals and objectives of the program. The action to re-organize was arrived at by Mayor Joselito Guyguyon following the decision of the MAC and MAT during their meeting last year to include other offices and agencies so they can play their roles and...
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08Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, Mar. 8 (PIA) - - With the onset of the summer season, the Department of Health (DOH) is reminding the public to take precautionary measures on the possible rise of various diseases. Dr. Luisa Paran, DOH-Cordillera Disease Prevention Cluster head, disclosed in an interview that skin lesions, heat stroke, diarrhea, and sore eyes are among the common diseases that the public should be wary of during hot summer days. She advised the public not to be under the sun especially from 10 ...
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08Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, March 8 (PIA) -- The Department of Health (DOH) in the Cordillera is conducting a Dengue Vector Surveillance Training for health care workers in the region in line with its goal of strengthening the campaign against dengue. Among the attendees to the training held March 5 to 8 are municipal health officers, nurses and sanitary inspectors from the different provinces of Cordillera. DOH-CAR Dengue Program Coordinator Dr. Alexei Marrero, in an interview, said the training aims...
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08Mar2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, Mar. 8 (PIA) - - Officials of Tuba municipality have crafted the town's Poverty Alleviation Ordinance anchored on the local government’s role in the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger in the town. This is also in line with the millennium development goals. Penned by Councilors Adora Paus-Gabino, Maria Carantes, and Rebecca Apil, Municipal Ordinance 210 series 2013 covers the bona fide residents of Tuba who are poor and who belong to the marginalized sectors suc...
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08Mar2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, March 8 (PIA) -- The processing of strawberry wine here will soon be perfected. A new packaging is also being developed and will have a soft launched during the Strawberry Festival on March 22. Mayor Gregorio Abalos, Jr said a group of wine producers in Manila is helping the local government in perfecting the technology through training which started a few months ago.The process of production adapts a new technology of aging using manufacturing level standards. Abalos s...
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08Mar2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, Mar.8 (PIA) - - A United States-based organization dedicated to the preservation of historic architecture and sites in the Philippines will hold on March 13 a dialogue with indigenous peoples of Kalinga on cultural heritage preservation. Bakaspilipinas represented by photojournalist and historic photographer Trix Rosen and two others will be here for the dialogue to present photographic documentation of Kalinga culture and architecture gathered long ago. The one-day dia...
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08Mar2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, Mar. 8 (PIA) - - Tublay officials see the need to preserve and protect the environment while maximizing its tourism potential prompting them to pass a measure which regulates and governs the tourism industry of the town. Authored by Councilor Marvin Mayos and co-sponsored by Councilors Daniel Sabino, Gabriel Toribio, and Shalo Sabado, Tublay, Ordinance No. 2012-01 encompasses the administration, promotion and development including penalty provisions of tourism facilities...
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08Mar2013KIANGAN, Ifugao, Mar. 8 (PIA) -- An open air museum will soon rise at the rice terraces cluster of Barangay Nagacadan here which is a World Heritage Site inscribed as a living cultural landscape. According to Municipal Tourism Officer Eulalie Dulnuan, the project funded by the Ford Foundation will start this April. The museum will be developed to establish a sustainable community-based eco-cultural tourism industry in the heritage site of Barangay Nagacadan. This, hopefully, will contribute...
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08Mar2013BONTOC, Mt. Province, Mar. 8 (PIA) -- The Bureau of Internal Revenue district office here has surpassed its tax collection target for last year. The 2012 Cumulative Collection Report revealed that the local revenue generating office has collected P170,485,130.94 taxes exceeding its collection goal of P169, 650,000 or an increase of P835,130.94. The same report shows the P170,485,130.94 tax collection last year increased by 16.16 percent or P23,720,058.89 as compared to its total collection in...
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08Mar2013KIANGAN, Ifugao, Mar.8 (PIA) -- Solo parents or the Mama/Papa Organization of this municipality recently held its general meeting to discuss about advancing the welfare of its members. Tackled in the meeting were the registration and membership to the organization, renewal of ID cards of members, survey of all solo parents in the municipality, and election of officers. The members also discussed policies of their livelihood projects for the year. The group was able to source P40,000 from the ...
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08Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, Mar. 8 (PIA) -- The City Environment and Parks Management Office (CEPMO) appeals to the public to cooperate and observe discipline for the maintenance of the city parks. CEPMO Evaluation Officer Joseph Hermogeno said that even as the city government spends for the maintenance of the parks, but, "It is not easy to handle a park, if park goers and the people are not disciplined,” he pointed out. Hermogeno disclosed the city government of Baguio allots P35 million annually i...
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08Mar2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, Mar 9 (PIA) -- A sick overseas Filipino worker (OFW) in Brunei is being assisted by government through the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and Overseas Workers Welfare Administration(OWWA). According to Lourdes Canseco, OFW Josue Segundo Canias Jr. was reported by the Philippine Embassy in Brunei has difficulty of breathing and is undergoing anti-seizure drugs and needs to undergo tracheotomy. Canseco said that government is now processing the papers of the pa...
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07Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, Mar 7 (PIA) - - In a Stat News released by the National Statistical Coordination Board, it stated that due to the general rise in the prices of goods and services, the buying power of the peso in the region stands at 78 centavos, meaning the value of goods and services worth 78 centavos in 2006 are bought at one peso in 2012. The peso had the highest value in Apayao at 84 centavos followed by both Kalinga and Abra at 81 centavos, Benguet 77 centavos, Ifugao 76 centavos while Mt. Pr...
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07Mar2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, Mar. 7 (PIA) - - The Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) this province has lined up various activities in observance Fire Prevention Month. The month-long observance kicked off with through a motorcade last Friday for a “fire free and fire safe nation 2013” around the Poblacion of this city. According to Provincial Fire Marshall Eduardo Lumiwan, before the kick-off, they had put up streamers in strategic places and distributed information, education and communication m...
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07Mar2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, Mar.7 (PIA) - - The Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) this province has lined up various activities in observance of Fire Prevention Month. The observance kicked off with a motorcade last Friday for a “Fire free and fire safe nation 2013” around the Poblacion of this city. According to Provincial Fire Marshall Eduardo Lumiwan, before the kick-off, they put up streamers in strategic places and distributed information, education and communication materials to remind the pu...
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07Mar2013BONTOC, Mt. Province, Mar.7 (PIA) -– The provincial chapter of Philippine Obstetrical and Gynecological Society (POGS) in coordination with the Provincial Health Office here will have a gathering of pregnant women on Tuesday, March 12, for the celebration of this year’s national "Buntis Day (day for the pregnant)" with the theme, “Kalinga ni Nanay, Karugtong ng Buhay.” Dr. Imelda A. Sabog of the Bontoc General Hospital and also the coordinator of POGS-Mt. Province Chapter, said ther...
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07Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, Mar 7 (PIA) - - With the onset of the summer season, the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) is calling on the public to help protect the remaining forest reserves in the region against fire. Bureau of Fire Protection – Cordillera (BFP-CAR) Public Information Officer SFO 2 Josesito Dollete, in a press conference launching the observance of Fire prevention Month this March, disclosed that forest fires remain a concern in the region as in 2012 alone, 47 grass, rubbish and forest fire ...
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07Mar2013MALOLOS CITY, Bulacan, Mar. 7 (PIA) -- President Benigno S. Aquino III inaugurated, Friday two infrastructure projects in Bulacan. Upon arrival at the newly completed Plaridel Bypass road, the President, together with Public Works Undersecretary Alfredo G. Tolentino boarded the open-type pick up for the inaugural drive-through after which they proceeded to the newly rehabilitated Bocaue bridge along the Manila North Road (MNR) in Bulacan. The P700 million Plaridel Bypass Road Project, as envi...
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07Mar2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, Mar. 7 (PIA) - - The Department of Science and Technology – Cordillera is promoting the tapping of oleoresin in pine trees as source of livelihood among the locals. Initial steps in promoting the income-generating project was through a training in Kabayan, according to DOST Provincial Science and Technology Chief Arnold Inumpa. The participants underwent a hands-on training on oleoresin extraction in pine trees including its processing. The oleoresin is processed to rem...
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07Mar2013LAMUT, Ifugao, Mar. 7 (PIA) -- The Sangguniang Bayan here has passed an ordinance providing a separate lane for senior citizens, persons with disability, and pregnant women during community activities where foods or goods are served. Authored by SB members Ferdinand Dulinayan and Adryan Chaguile, the ordinance known as, “Special lane for senior citizens, persons with disability and pregnant women," aims to help the said sectors by giving them priority service. The councilors explained that i...
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07Mar2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, Mar. 7 (PIA) -- Various women’s group in the province will be gathered here on March 3 to 14 to celebrate 2013 Women’s Month. With the theme “Kababaihan: Gabay sa Pagtahak sa Tuwid na Daan”, the two-day activity will be highlighted with a forum on the Reproductive Law and Violence Against Women and their Children (VAWC) with Atty. Jose Poliwos Jr. of the Integrated Bar of The Philippines Kalinga Chapter as resource speaker. Kalinga Provincial Election Supervis...
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07Mar2013MAYOYAO, Ifugao, Marso 7 (PIA) -- Inihayag ng provincial population sustainable and development division (PPSDD) ang mga nagwagi sa 2013 population quiz na idinaos sa bayan Lagawe kahapon. Ang nasabing okasyon ay dinaluhan ng labing-isang pampublikong paaralan mula sa iba't ibang bayan ng lalawigan na may temang “Populasyon at Kapaligiran at Lokal na Pamamahalaan” (Population and Environment and Local Governance). Ayon sa PPSDD, ang Southern Hingyon National High School, sa pamamagitan ni ...
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06Mar2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, Mar. 6 (PIA) -– The provincial government has programmed its P4-million cash incentive for the improvement of the access road to the province’s three-hectare demo-farm near the provincial nursery. The P4 million from the Department of Agriculture (DA), was cash incentive to Kalinga for being one of the 10 provinces adjudged as 2012 National Rice Achiever Awardees. Joe Casibang of the Office of Provincial Agriculturist (OPAG) said the project to be funded is in support...
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06Mar2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, Mar.6 (PIA) - - The Home Development Mutual Fund (HDMF) or Pag-IBIG Fund Management disclosed the schedule of its mobile servicing for 2013 here. The Pag-IBIG fund will be conducting servicing at the lobby of the Lagawe municipal hall on the following dates : March 13, April 10, May 15 , June 19, July 10, August 14, September 11, October 9, November 13, and December 11, 2013 at 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Among the services offered are acceptance of application for membership contribution...
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06Mar2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, March 6 (PIA) -- To enable all members of the Malunggay Women’s Organization in Barangay Poblacion East here increase their meager income and provide works for their families and to promote a healthful, and peaceful families and members of the community, the Provincial Veterinary Office downloaded P40,050 for their backyard-duck raising project. Gilbert Caclini, agriculturist of PVET, said that the amount from the Priority Development Assistance Fund of Congressman Teddy Bagu...
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06Mar2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, Mar. 6 (PIA) - - Everybody loves strawberries and visitors make a bee line to La Trinidad to buy these plump red berries straight from the fields. After the successful staging of Baguio City’s Panagbenga 2013, this capital town welcomes visitors and residents to its Strawberry Festival which will run the whole month of March until April 5. La Trinidad officials headed by Mayor Greg Abalos hosted a kapihan media forum, Tuesday, to launch the festival which adopts the th...
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06Mar2013BONTOC, Mt. Province, Mar. 6 (PIA)-- Women workers in government as well as in private agencies and non-governmental organizations in the province will join the celebration of International and National Women’s Day on March 8. Governor Leonard Mayaen issued a memorandum order to all women officials and employees in the province to join and participate in all fitting activities for the provincial Women’s Day observance. The governor also issued Executive Order No. 05, S. 2013 excusing wome...
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06Mar2013BANGUED, Abra, Mar. 6 (PIA) -- The provincial government gets support from agencies in its effort to bring development in the upland communities of the province and strengthen peace initiatives. The efforts involve the implementation of infrastructure development projects to connect the hinterlands especially those of the municipalities of Lacub and Tineg which had been neglected for a long time. Governor Eustaquio P. Bersamin reported road building projects in the municipalities of Lacu...
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06Mar2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, Mar. 6 (PIA) -- All too soon, summer is here and enterprising students look towards being hired to have spending money or for tuition this coming school year. In Ifugao, 579 students will be hired by the local government units (LGUs) here with the support of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) this summer under the Special Program for the Employment of Students (SPES). DOLE Ifugao Field Office data show that nine municipalities out of the 11 towns of the province alr...
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06Mar2013TINOC, Ifugao, Mar. 6 (PIA) -- A municipal ordinance regulating the sale of liquor helped the town achieved a zero crime rate since January this year. Police Inspector Rodolfo Fateg, the Chief of Police here, said there was no crime committed since January 1 up to the present and he attributed this to the local ordinance. “Most of the crimes in the past were caused by drunkenness but with the strict implementation of the ordinance, crimes were minimized and eventually eradicated,” he s...
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06Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, Mar. 6(PIA) -- The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines has scheduled power interruption in Mountain Province including nearby towns of Ilocos Sur and major parts of Baguio City and Benguet on March 7 for annual preventive maintenance. The scheduled power interruption from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Thursday, will affect the area coverage of the Mountain Province Electric Cooperative- the whole of Mountain Province including parts of Tinglayan in Kalinga; Cervantes and Qui...
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06Mar2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, Mar.6 (PIA) -- The Provincial Treasurer‘s Office here reported a high actual revenue collection for 2012 as compared to its target for the year. According to Provincial Treasurer Samuel Marinay, they were able to collect P493,761,404.46 compared to its target of P468,667,000 for a collection efficiency of 105%. For local taxes involving professional tax, franchise tax, real property tax and other local taxes, generated was P23,080,136.28 compared to the target of P9,107...
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06Mar2013LAMUT, Ifugao, Mar. 6 (PIA) -- The school administration of the Ifugao State University(IFSU) has conducted a career development and job induction program to about 850 participants from its various campuses. Janice Bandoc, IFSU Guidance Counselor, said the activity aims for an intensive career information and education program to provide the graduating students with the basic facts and realities that they should know and learn as they are about to enter the field of work and to orient st...
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06Mar2013HINGYON, Ifugao, Mar. 6 (PIA) -- Barangay folks, policemen and volunteers planted recently 300 ipil ipil trees in Mount Atugo here. Joma Umingli, a volunteer, said the tree planting which is in support to President Aquino’s National Greening Program (NGP), was led by Vice Mayor Marcos Bantiyan and barangay captain Johnny Binwag. Umingli said Hingyon is considered as one of the landslide prone areas in the province and the activity also aims to help prevent soil erosion and at the same...
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06Mar2013MAYOYAO, Ifugao, Mar. 6 (PIA) - - The Provincial Population Sustainable and Development Ddivision (PPSDD) released the winners of the 2013 population quiz held in Lagawe town yesterday. The said event with the theme, “Population and Environment and Local Governance," was participated by 11 high schools from different municipalities of the province. According to the PPSDD, the Southern Hingyon National High School (SHNHS) represented by Millicent Dimangna was declared the winner of said co...
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05Mar2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, Mar. 5 (PIA) -- The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) here recently conducted an inventory of ordinances in the province and its 11 municipalities relative to efforts in assessing local initiatives. Municipal Local Government Operation Officer Wilbert Umalco of the municipality of Kiangan said that this is part of the efforts to see what ordinances they have or can come up with in support of various national laws and issuances. The national laws that need corre...
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05Mar2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, Mar. 5 (PIA) - - The health and veterinary offices here are joining forces in the campaign against rabies in celebration of Rabies Awareness Month this March. Governor Jocel Baac directed the Provincial Health Office (PHO) and the Office of the Provincial Veterinarian (OPVet) to jointly implement activities lined up for the Rabies Awareness month. He particularly pushed for the conduct of immunization on dogs and urged the two offices to coordinate with their munic...
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05Mar2013LUNGSOD NG TABUK, Kalinga, Marso 5 (PIA) -- Inaanyayahan ni Provincial Social Welfare and Development Officer Digna Dalutag ang mga kababaihan sa lalawigan na makilahok sa pagdiriwang ng "Women’s Month” ngayong Marso na may temang “Kababaihan: Gabay sa Pagtahak sa Tuwid na Daan.” Ang pagtitipon aniya ay gaganapin sa Marso 14 sa provincial gym kung saan magkakaroon ng orientation at pagbibigay impormasyon o information education campaign ukol sa mga batas at programang pangkababaihan. ...
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05Mar2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, Mar. 5 (PIA) -- The Tabuk city government has established barangay counterparts of its Matagoan Bodong Consultative Council Office (MBCCO), a tribal body that assists the city government in its peace and order advocacy. Mayor Ferdinand B. Tubban explained the move aims to bring to the grassroots the office and services of the body instead of folks going to the city hall. Since its organization, the MBCCO has effectively contributed in the amicable settlement of disp...
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05Mar2013TINOC, Ifugao, Mar. 5 (PIA)--The Office of the Civil Defense (OCD) in the Cordillera region visited the province recently to inspect the ongoing rehabilitation of the Tinoc-Kiangan farm to market road damaged by typhoons Juaning, Pedring and Queil. Led by OCD Director Andrew Alex Uy, the team was accompanied by the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO) Operation and Warning Officer Ambrosio Dulnuan, Tinoc vice mayor Agustin Calya-en, Ceasario Bahiwag of the Munic...
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05Mar2013HINGYON, Ifugao, Mar. 5 (PIA)-- Women in this town are urged to actively participate in all activities in their barangays to actualize their potential for leadership and action and enhance their capacity to work for and promote their rights and welfare. Mayor Mario Buyuccan made the call during the annual general assembly and celebration of the Hingyon Federation of Women’s Organization, Inc. (HFWOI) of Women’s Day with the theme “Kababaihan: Gabay sa Pagtahak sa Tuwi...
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05Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, Mar. 5 (PIA) - - The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration Cordillera Regional Welfare (OWWA-CAR) recently released P465,000 worth of livelihood grants to OFW groups, returnees, and dependents in the Cordillera region. Two OFW Family Circles – the Bagong Bayani Family Association of La Trinidad Benguet and Simbaey Circle of Mt. Province got P100,000 grant each. Twenty-two OFW returnees, 20 from Baguio-Benguet and one each from Conner, Apayao and Lamut, Ifugao, also received...
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05Mar2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, March 5 (PIA) -- The Provincial Epidemiology Surveillance Unit (PESU) is intensifying its campaign against dengue with integrated vector control management(IVCM) that involves regular vector surveillance and through chemical and environmental control means that are safe and cost effective. On March 11-15, municipal health officers will be called for a seminar on surveillance system for its integration to municipal health offices’ programs particularly on the prevent...
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05Mar2013AGUINALDO, Ifugao, Mar. 5 (PIA) -- Kins of active Overseas Foreign Workers (OFWs) in the province are enjoined to avail the scholarship program of the government through the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA). In her letter to Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) – Ifugao provincial director Avelina Manganip, OWWA-CAR Regional Director Manuela Pena said that OWWA is currently accepting applicants for the OFW dependents scholarship program (OFWDSP)leading to a baccalaureate o...
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05Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, Mar. 5 (PIA) -- The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) management has announced that effective March 15, 2013, all retiring employees shall submit Ombudsman’s clearance. Pursuant to Memo Circular No. 001-2013 issued January 10, 2013 by the Commission on Audit (COA), all heads of departments, bureaus, offices, and agencies and instrumentalities of national government, heads of Government Owned and Controlled Corporations (GOCCs) and Local Government Units (LGUs) are ad...
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05Mar2013DOLORES, Abra, Mar. 5 (PIA) -- The municipal local government here is determined to give all out support to the operation of the rural health unit and early child development program in this town. Mayor Robert Victor G. Seares Jr believes that the RHU is useless unless adequately manned by competent health personnel and equipped with facilities needed to carry out its operation. Thus, he committed to sustain the health personnel of the RHU headed by Dr. Vince Castelo who are dedicate...
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05Mar2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, Mar. 5 (PIA) - - Governor Eugene Balitang has issued an executive order for the creation of the Human Resource Development Management Team (HRD-MT) and Human Resources Development Technical Working Group (HRD-TWG) to strengthen the policies, guidelines, and other rules for human resources development in the provincial government. “There is a need to review the present policies and guidelines in the Human Resource Division to ensure that they are still applicable, updated, an...
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05Mar2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, Mar. 5 (PIA) -– The Red Cross Kalinga Chapter has collected a net proceed of P85,560 during the recent Million Volunteer Run 2 with the theme “Run to Save Lives” in the province. Kalinga Red Cross Administrator Glorina Diaz said that as of press time, gross collections has reached P133,200 where P55,990 was utilized for incidental expenses. There were 512 who registered while 490 came for the actual run, which she said composed mostly of sponsored students. The coll...
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05Mar2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, Mar. 5 (PIA) –- This city is currently concluding its barangay revisits for the updating of the 2014-2016 Barangay Development Plans (BDPs) for its integration in the City Development Plan. In a memorandum, Tabuk City Mayor Ferdinand Tubban has directed the Expanded Barangay Development Council (EBDC) of Tabuk City to conduct the revisits from February 19 to March 26 to finalize the BDPs in time for the city planning and identification of priority programs for the 2014 An...
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04Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, Mar. 4 (PIA) -- The recently concluded Panagbenga 2013 or the 18th Baguio Flower Festival celebrations in this summer capital has drawn the attention of the public on the importance of rice and the National Year of Rice 2013. Department of Agriculture-Cordillera Regional Technical Director for Operations Danilo Daguio said the DA joined the festivities of the Panagbenga to promote the advocacy campaign of 2013 as the National Year of Rice which was declared by President Aquino u...
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04Mar2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, Mar. 4 (PIA) -– Department of Interior & Local Government (DILG) in the Cordillera Region honored four councilors from Kalinga for unbroken three-term public service. DILG-CAR Regional Director John Castaneda bestowed the honors to Councilors Reamcymar Adong and Glen Wansi of Tabuk City, Randy Barroga of Rizal municipality and Lolito Edduba of Pinukpuk. The four were among the honorees during the recent Philippine Councilors League (PCL) Cordillera Regional Conference i...
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04Mar2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, Mar. 4 (PIA) - - The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) assured it will integrate additional former members of the Cordillera People’s Liberation Army (CPLA) to the military and train more civilian auxiliary forces in order to sustain the improving peace and order situation in the region. MGen. Joel Ibañez, commanding general of the 5th Infantry Division, said they will offer additional recruitment quota for the CPLA provided they undergo the disarmament, disposition ...
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04Mar2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, Mar. 4 (PIA)—Two people’s organizations in the province will soon receive livelihood projects and entrepreneurial development assistance under the Closure Agreement of the Government of the Philippines (GPH) and the Cordillera Bodong Administration (CBA)- Cordillera People’s Liberation Army (CBA-CPLA), now the Cordillera Forum for Peace and Development (CFPD). This is based on the provisions of the Closure Agreement signed on July 4, 2011 for the gradual disposition of ...
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04Mar2013BANGUED, Abra, Mar. 4 (PIA) -- The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PHILHEALTH) – Abra Local Health Insurance Office had successfully completed the training program for the 366 Philhealth advocate and knowledge officers (AKO) in the province. The Philhealth AKO training was carried out as a strategy to push the advocacy to attain the thrust of Philhealth for the Universal Coverage by 2013 by conducting a massive information education campaign for more membership in the Philhealth. ...
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04Mar2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, Mar. 4 (PIA)- – The Kalinga-Apayao Career Service Providers Network (KACSPN) is now concluding its career and employment coaching caravan in the province with about 2,600 participants from more than 30 of the targeted 39 schools in Kalinga already covered. According to Lourdes Canseco of Department of Labor and Employment in Kalinga, the activity started January 29 at the Tabuk National High School with 539 participants with the recent covered schools to include ...
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04Mar2013BONTOC, Mt. Province, Mar. 4(PIA) -- The National Statistics Office Provincial Office here hired some 219 people for the conduct of the 2012 Census of Agriculture and Fisheries (CAF) in the province which started last February 25. Based on the data of the NSO here, of the total hired people, 146 are enumerators and 73 are team supervisors who are deployed in their own respective municipality after they were oriented to conduct the CAF for a maximum of 40 days. Provincial Statistics Officer...
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04Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, Mar. 4 (PIA) -- The Professional Regulations Commission (PRC) is encouraging registered nurses to continue upgrading their skills and qualifications ready face the challenges in a globally competitive employment market. PRC Chairperson Teresita Manzala stressed this in her keynote address during the oath taking ceremony of 600 new nurses at the Saint Louis University Prince Bernhard Hall, here Sunday. Manzala pointed out that becoming professional is just a start but...
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04Mar2013BANAUE, Ifugao, Mar.4 (PIA)-—Fifty hog raisers and farmers of this municipality who were trained on bio-gas production and swine management provided by the Provincial Veterinary Office (PVO) and the Provincial Agriculture Office (PAO) are pioneering bio gas production in Ifugao According to Banaue Animal Technician Marivic Navan, the municipal government was able to access funds for the pioneering of bio-gas utilization from the wastes of the pigs to augment the use of liquefied petroleu...
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04Mar2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga Mar. 4 (PIA) -– Kalinga is set to host the regional convention of Food Staple Producers and the launching of the National Year of Rice in the Cordillera Region on March 20-21, 2013. In an interview, Kalinga Office on Agricultural Services (OAS) Rice Program Coordinator Jose Casibang said the event is expected to be attended by about 500 ‘food soldiers’ from all over the region with Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala as the guest and speaker. Food soldiers he sa...
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04Mar2013BANGUED, Abra, Mar. 4(PIA) -- The Civil Service Commission field office here is reminding the public on the March 5 extended deadline of the application for career service examination – paper-pencil test scheduled on April 14, 2013. The deadline was originally set the last day of filing of application last February 28 but extended it until March 5 to give more time to applicants. Director Perfecto B. Cardenas of the Civil Service Commission (CSC) – Abra Field Office informed that th...
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03Mar2013BAGUO CITY, March 3 (PIA) -- As hotels, inns and other accommodation in the city were fully booked, some tourists reportedly opted to have themselves admitted in hospitals in the city just to have a glimpse of the highlight of the Panagbenga festivities, now on its 18th year, during the weekend. “May mga turista na nag check in sa mga ospital pero pagdating ng parade days magaling na sila,” said Baguio Flower Festival Executive Committee co-chairman Anthony De Leon De Leon. (There were to...
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03Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, Mar. 3 (PIA) -- The Bureau of Fire Protection – Cordillera (BFP-CAR) launched the observance of Fire Prevention Month Friday with a Unity Walk for a Fire Free and Fire Safe Nation and a press conference at the BFP-Baguio Fire Station. BFP-CAR Assistant Regional Director for Operations Fire Chief Inspector Angelico Albert Buyayo said this year’s Fire Prevention Month, takes the theme, “Sunog at Sakuna Paghandaan, Kalikasan ay Pangalagaan nang Matamasa ang Pag-unlad ng Bay...
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03Mar2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, Mar. 3 (PIA) -- An eco-tourism venture is being eyed in an abandoned property of a mining company in the town of Bokod, Benguet. Bokod Mayor Mauricio Mackay said the area called Bobok Saw Mill of the Benguet Corporation,Inc is strategic for the development of an eco-tourism park. The property covers 35 hectares but the area with improvements is about 20 hectares, according to Mackay. Bobok is strategically located near the Baguio-Ambucklao-Nueva Viscaya road which ...
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02Mar2013LUNA, Apayao, March 2(PIA) -- This capital town opened the battle field but this time it is not for the hostilities of conflict but for the CARAA meet being hosted by the province for the first time. Apayao Vice Governor Hecto Reuel Pascua said this in his opening address during the opening ceremony of the Cordillera Administrative Region Athletic Association(CARAA) meet 2013 being held at the newly inaugurated Apayao Eco-Tourism and Sports Complex in Barangay Payanan here. “The municipali...
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02Mar2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, Mar. 2 (PIA) -- The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) has approved eight project proposals for implementation this year in the province. NCCA’s thrusts is preservation of heritage, culture and traditions in aid of grants that could be accessed by artists, arts organizations, non-government organizations, private organizations, and national government agencies. According to Brian Camhit, member of the Committee of Northern Cultural Communities–NCC...
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02Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, Mar. 2 (PIA) -- The five week celebration of Panagbenga 2013 ends on Sunday, March 3, with spectators up for more surprises. Baguio Flower Festival co-chair Freddie Alquiroz, in a kapihan forum, Wednesday, at Session Road said that a lot of raffle prizes will be given including appliances such as television and refrigerators. Raffle coupons will be distributed to the first 1,500 persons that will come to watch. Panagbenga 2013 will be capped by simultaneous fireworks dis...
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02Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, March 2(PIA) -- The Mines and Geosciences Bureau has lifted the suspension order of the Philex Mining Corporation operations in Padcal, Tuba in Benguet but on two conditions. The MGB, stated that “… Philex Mining Corporation is hereby authorized to resume operation in order to undertake remediation measures for Tailings Facility Storage No. 3, under its proposed Rehabilitation and Clean-Up Plan but subject to two conditions.” First is that the resumption of operation of th...
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02Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, March 2 (PIA) -- The municipal government of Tadian, Mountain Province is pushing for the protection of its cultural sites to further boost its tourism industry. This was disclosed by Tadian Mayor Anthony Wooden Sr., in a Department of Tourism- sponsored kapihan forum to promote the town’s festival, “Ayyoweng Di Lambak Ed Tadian: A Celebration and Thanksgiving” set on March 1 to 4. Wooden disclosed that based on their assessment, there is a need to bring in the n...
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01Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, March 1 (PIA) - - The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration-Cordillera Regional Office (OWWA-CAR) is inviting children and dependents of overseas Filipino workers in the region to apply for scholarships and training programs being offered by the agency. OWWA-CAR Regional Director Manuela Peña, in an interview, disclosed that under their OFW Dependent Scholarship Program (OFWDSP), there are 80 scholarship slots for Cordillera this coming school year 2013-2014. Peña explaine...
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01Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, March 1 (PIA)-- The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) headed by Deputy Commissioner Lilia Guillermo started its tax campaign 2013 in the Cordillera Administrative Region through a motorcade and a simple program at the SM City Baguio, Wednesday. Guillermo said that with the tax campaign which they do annually, they are able to meet the taxpayers, the associations and other government agencies that are helping the Bureau meet its tax collection target. It also serves as a...
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01Mar2013BALBALAN, Kalinga, March 1 (PIA) -– This upland Kalinga town will soon be opening for rental stalls at Balbalan Public Market at Sitio Cadamayan, Poblacion here after its inauguration today. According to Balbalan Municipal Information Officer Gerry Oribello, said facility is the first government structure in the municipality to be built purposely for commercial use by the public through lease. The P20-million “three-story mall-like” building he said was initially constructed in 2008 d...
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01Mar2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, March 1 (PIA) -- The Ambuklao Adventure of Bokod local government takes its second wave of thrill and fun for enthusiasts to delight on what nature has to offer coupled with the town’s man-made landmark sites. Ambuklao Adventure II set on March 2-3, 2013 in sitio Ambuklao is a combination of jeepney ride, trekking and boat riding. The trekking adventure takes off on March 2 at the Provincial Capitol through Labey, Tublay all the way to Mt. Patoktok until mid mo...
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01Mar2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, March 1 (PIA) - - For working together for peace, public officials, civic leaders and non-government organizations (NGOs) hailed the improving peace and order situation in the province and appreciated the good performance of the police and the military. Governor Jocel Baac, during the first quarter provincial peace and order council (PPOC) meeting, reported that aside from the assessment of the police and the military, NGOs and church organizations also claimed of an improv...
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01Mar2013BANGUED, Abra, March 1 (PIA) -- The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has approved the proposal of the Department of Health – Center for Health Development (DOH-CHD) – Cordillera to strengthen service delivery framework for Maternal and Child Health Care project in the region on its second year of implementation come May 2013. The Cordillera-wide Strengthening of the Local Health System for Effective and Efficient Delivery of Maternal and Child Health Services is a five yea...
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01Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, March 1(PIA) -– The city government through the City Social Welfare office is set to conduct an orientation on child protection laws to personnel manning the women and children desk in the barangays on March 20, 2013 at the Baguio City Multi-Purpose hall. This is in line with efforts to strengthen the women and children’s desk in the city’s 129 barangays, whose main function is to implement child protection laws and to address concerns related to children and women’s...
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01Mar2013BAGUIO CITY, Mar. 1(PIA) -–The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has launched the Mobile Revenue Collection System (MRCOS) in line with its thrust to improve tax collection schemes especially in municipalities that are without banking establishments or accredited tax collection agents. Lilia Guillermo, BIR Deputy Commissioner - Information Systems Group during the BIR’s tax campaign in Cordillera at the SM City Baguio, Wednesday, disclosed that the MRCOS is geared towards a more effici...
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01Mar2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, March 1 (PIA) -- The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) here encourages the public to continue supporting the National Greening Program (NGP) of government. In an announcement aired in the radio program “PIA hour” the DENR said that their office is accepting interested participants for NGP implementation within its area of jurisdiction. The program aims to address poverty, food security, protection and resource conservation, productivity enhancement, c...
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01Mar2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, March 1 (PIA) -- The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) here recently convened an emergency meeting of all Public Employment Services Officers (PESOs) in the province to discuss the new guidelines of DOLE’s Special Program for the Employment of Students (SPES). The new guidelines for the 2013 SPES involve the submission of pre-employment documents 15 days before the employment period which will begin on April 1, 2013; three copies registration form; two copies each of...
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01Mar2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, March (PIA) -- Tabuk City Public Employment Service Office (PESO) has warned the public of fake recruiters who sneaked in the city luring applicants for work abroad. City PESO Loyda Saboy issued the warning after their office had received report from applicants who allegedly were offered direct hiring by certain job agents of work in other countries. This “modus operandi” is likely the work of illegal recruiters since accredited agencies always coordinate with proper g...
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28Feb2013BANGUED, Abra, Feb. 28 (PIA) -- The Abra Electric Cooperative (Abreco) management had been given three months to implement their rehabilitation plan to put things in order under specific arrangements and conditions. In a top-level inter-agency meeting convened and presided by Secretary Carlos Jericho Petilla of the Department of Energy (DOE) held in Taguig City on February 4, they had arrived at some arrangements as interim solution to the problem of Abreco which has been threatened of po...
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28Feb2013BONTOC, Mt. Province, Feb. 28 (PIA) -- The Mainit barangay health station (BHS) of this municipality is now accredited by the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation to render Maternity Care Package (MCP) services. This was reported by Municipal Health Officer, Dr. Diga Kay Gomez, during the Provincial Health Board meeting held last week. According to Jose Safawil of PhilHealth Provincial Office, this is the fourth barangay health station in the province accredited as MCP facility. The other ...
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28Feb2013BAGUIO CITY,Feb. 28 (PIA) -- Police officers, social workers and district coordinators of Barangay Councils for the Protection of Children (BCPC) in the city were oriented on the Anti-Bullying Act of 2012. Atty. Ruth B. Bawayan, Clerk of Court V, Family Court of Baguio City who served as speaker during the orientation on child protection laws held February 26 at the Baguio City Multi-Purpose hall, informed that the House of Representatives has approved House Bill 5496 or the Anti-Bullying...
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28Feb2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, Feb. 28 (PIA)--The Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) will conduct a unity walk on March 1, 2013 to kick off the observance of Fire Prevention Month with the theme, “A Walk for Fire Free and Fire Safe Nation 2013”. Provincial Fire Marshal Ramel Borja said in a radio interview in the program “Humangan with PIA” said that the activity will start at the Ibulao Bridge at 6:30 AM after the ecumenical mass at 6:00 AM and will end infront of the Capitol Compound with a hataw. ...
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28Feb2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, Feb. 28 (PIA) - - The Provincial Peace and Order Council (PPOC) of Kalinga is requesting funding allocation from the Office of the Presidential Assistant on the Peace Process (OPAPP) for the the construction of the Wagod bridge to connect the western barangays of Balbalan via Pinukpuk. Governor Jocel Baac, PPOC chairman, said the bridge is a vital connection to said barangays to make transport easy for the people in the area and to discourage armed dissidents from maki...
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28Feb2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, Feb.28 (PIA) -- The National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP)is implementing the merit-based scholarship (MBS) and Educational Assistance Program (EAP) that will benefit poor students in the province. Esther Licnachan, the head of NCIP here, said the program aims to invest in human capital through the grant of scholarships to deserving indigenous cultural communities/indigenous peoples who seek the opportunity and qualify for educational advancement and/or skills developm...
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28Feb2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, Feb. 28 (PIA) -– Tabuk City Mayor Ferdinand Tubban officiated today a mass wedding for 57 couples in the city highlighting this year’s celebration of the Civil Service Month with the theme “Bringing public service to the people.” In his message, Tubban underscored the need to establish a strong family foundation to build a successful family and for marriage to last. Said foundation, he said, should start not only with the good relationship of husband and wife but m...
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28Feb2013TABUK CITY Kalinga, Feb. 28 (PIA) -- This city will receive the 2012 Agripinoy Rice Achiever Award on March 15, 2013 at the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC). Also awarded along with Tabuk City is the provincial government of Kalinga. City Agriculturist Gilbert Cawis said the city was declared as one of the top 48 best performing cities/municipalities in the country on rice production in 2012. Twelve Agricultural Extension Workers (AEWs) to include the city agriculturist he...
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28Feb2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, Feb.28 (PIA) -- The provincial local government here received recently P3 million to fund different livelihood projects of the province. Gilbert Caclini, senior agriculturist of the Provincial Veterinary Office, said that the amount was downloaded by the Office of Congressman Teddy Baguilat Jr. from his Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) soft component. Of the said amount, P500,000 is for the purchase of animal dispersal (cow) for distribution to various barangays. ...
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28Feb2013BAGUIO CITY, Feb. 28 (PIA) -- A sports writer of the Sunstar Baguio, the only daily newspaper in Northern Luzon, is the new president of the Baguio Correspondents and Broadcasters Club (BCBC), the longest running media club in the Cordillera. Elected president is Roderick Osis who won over Edong Carta of DWIZ in an election held at the Philippine Information Agency regional office here, Tuesday. He will take over from incumbent president Harley Palangchao of the Baguio Midland Courier....
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28Feb2013KIANGAN, Ifugao, Feb. 28 (PIA)--Government workers and some private practitioners here shared the nature of their professions to 117 graduating students of the St. Joseph’s School here during a Career Guidance Forum to assist them in choosing the course to take after graduation. Students listened carefully and asked questions to different speakers among them Dr. Meriam Uyan, the Municipal Dentist here who talked about the course Dentistry; Jacqueline Dulinayan, an auditor of t...
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27Feb2013LAMUT, Ifugao, Feb.27 (PIA) -- The 32 members of newly organized Nunhabatan Upland Farmers and Livelihood Association (NUFLA) of Barangay Hapid this municipality underwent training on chicken and duck raising by the Provincial Veterinary Office (PVO), recently. NUFLA President Renato Umingli requested the PVO to help and assist the individual farmers to hone or acquire skills and knowledge, educate them on chicken and duck raising, and introduce new technology on poultry genetic upgrade. Acco...
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27Feb2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, Feb. 27 (PIA) -- Four rebel returnees here were recently given livelihood assistance of P50,000 each through the Comprehensive Local Integration Plan (CLIP) of the province. According to Eusebia Haddac, CLIP coordinator of the Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office (PSWDO), said fund assistance came from the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPPAP) as part of the closure agreement between the Cordillera People’s Liberation Army (CPLA) and ...
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27Feb2013BAGUIO CITY, Feb.27 (PIA) -- Direct service providers and member agencies of the Anti-Child Abuse Network (ACAN) were oriented on child protection laws to equip them in identifying and understanding pertinent laws that will protect the young against all sorts of child rights violations. Social Worker Liza Bulayungan of the City Social Welfare and Development Office (CSWADO) said the activity aims to enhance the skills, knowledge and attitude of service providers which include Philippine Nationa...
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27Feb2013BONTOC, Mt. Province, Feb. 27 (PIA) -- To help improve access to quality hospitals and health care facilities for better health services in Mt. Province, the Department of Health (DOH) has allotted this year P10.5 million for the province. In his report during the Provincial Health Board meeting held last week, Claudio Pancho, provincial health team leader, said P8-million worth of health care facilities will be implemented by the Department of Public Works and Highways which include the con...
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27Feb2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, Feb. 27 (PIA) -- The Provincial Peace and Order Council (PPOC) here approved the holding of a summit for the members of the five pillars of the criminal justice system in order to facilitate closer coordination and enhance good working relationship. The holding of a summit this March was prompted by what the PPOC described as “slow progress” of cases filed in court and the setbacks on dismissal of cases just on mere reasons of technicality. Atty. Francis Calsiy...
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27Feb2013BAGUIO CITY, Feb. 27 (PIA) - - The Environmental Management Bureau of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (EMB- DENR) Cordillera Regional Office, headed by OIC Regional Director Oscar Cabanayan, reiterated their call to the public to properly segregate their waste and help address our growing concern on garbage which pose dangers to the environment and the health of the people. Over 12 years since the passage of Republic Act 9003 or the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of ...
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27Feb2013AGUINALDO, Ifugao, Feb. 27 (PIA) - - In continuing efforts to address malnutrition among children in the province, the Provincial Nutrition Council (PNC) is pursuing its project dubbed, “Barya mo Para sa Kalusugan ko.” Corazon Dawong of the Provincial Nutrition Office said they were able to generate P20,897.50 from various member agencies of the nutrition councils province wide. The amount will be used for the supplemental feeding of underweight children. The top three agencies who do...
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27Feb2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, Feb. 27 (PIA) -- Eight schools in the province received one computer set each for being the best in the implementation of the Gulayan sa Paaralan program of the Department of Education (DepEd) here. Records obtained from the DepEd-Division Office here show that the winning elementary schools are: Baguinge Elementary School in Kiangan; Bolog Elementary School also in Kiangan; Ngileb Elementary School in Alfonso Lista; Hapid Elementary School in Lamut and Tam-an Elementar...
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27Feb2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, Feb. 27 (PIA) - - Dog owners in the province may avail of free anti-rabies vaccination the whole month of March. Dr. Miriam Tiongan of the Office of the Provincial Veterinarian said free vaccination will be available in line with the celebration of Anti-Rabies Awareness Month in March. The Department of Agriculture Regional Field Unit (DA RFU) will be giving free anti-rabies vaccines to be administered at the provincial level and the various municipal local governments. ...
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27Feb2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, Feb. 27 (PIA) -- Village people of Barangay Cudal in this city expect to boost their farming industry with the completion of the spring development project provided by the Department of Agriculture (DA). DA- Cordillera Region allotted P100,000 fund for the project, a component under the irrigation support facility of the agency to the Program on High Value Crops Development. Teresa Desay of the Office of Provincial Agriculturist (OPAG) said the funding support was inten...
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27Feb2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, Feb. 27 (PIA)--The provincial and municipal offices of the Department of Social Welfare and Development here heightened their information campaign on adoption in celebration of the 15th Adoption Consciousness Week on February 18 to 24. With the theme “Love Sees Beyond Differences,” the DSWD staff explained that adoption is a socio-legal process of giving a permanent home to a child whose parents have voluntarily or involuntarily given up their parental rights. ...
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27Feb2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga Feb. 27 (PIA) -- The Kalinga Provincial Health Office (PHO) is set to conduct regular community blood letting activities around the province through the local government units to ensure the supply of blood of the Provincial Blood Station. PHO Blood Program Coordinator Lilibeth Dimas said that since its operation last year, the Provincial Blood Station (PBS) had been providing blood needed by patients in the different district hospital in the province. She said that from...
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27Feb2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, Feb. 25 (PIA) -- The cacao seedling distribution of the Department of Agriculture (DA)- Cordillera Region to farmers in the province is like “shooting two birds with one stone.” DA distributed 5,000 hybrid cacao seedlings to barangay-based farmer organizations here under its High Value Crops Development Program (HVCDP) to develop and expand the cacao industry in the province. These seedlings, at the same time, are planting materials under the government’s National ...
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27Feb2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, Feb. 27 (PIA) -- Tabuk City celebrates the Civil Registration Month through the mass wedding of 59 couples, tomorrow, February 28, here. The couples come from various barangays of the city and have complied with all requirements from the City Civil Registration Office. Tabuk City Mayor Ferdinand B. Tubban, who will officiate the mass wedding, said the activity has become a yearly program of the city government to highlight the observance every February. Tubban admitted t...
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26Feb2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, Feb. 26 (PIA) -- The Kalinga Apayao State College (KASC) Research Development and Extension (RD and E) Department has conducted an orientation workshop for the KASC senior faculty and research-extension staff on Capability Enhancement on Project Development and Resource Generation. Marciano Paroy Jr., Information Officer of the KASC-RD and E Department, said the activity aims to hone the knowledge and skills of the college’s senior staff on project conceptualization and ...
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26Feb2013BAGUIO CITY, Feb. 26 (PIA) –- The Saint Louis University (SLU) Sunflower Halfway Home for Boys currently caters to eight boys in difficult situations aged 7 to 16 years old, by assisting each boy to reach his full potential by providing temporary shelter and psychosocial services. During the weekly Talakayan Forum on Adoption Consciousness Week, Ronan Marquez, social worker in charge of the Halfway Home, said the home provides programs and services for boys, 5 to 17 years old, who ha...
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26Feb2013BONTOC, Mt. Province, Feb. 26 (PIA) -- Seventy-eight children of the Pantawid Pamilya Pilipino Program (4Ps) of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in the province are qualified under the Extended Age Coverage (EAC) of the Modified Conditional Cash Transfer (MCCT). According to Johnny Bumakil of DSWD, there are 4Ps beneficiaries whose children were delisted from the program when they turned 15 years old but they are now qualified under the EAC program. Bumakil said of the ...
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26Feb2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, Feb. 26 (PIA) - - The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) has implemented its Specialista Technopreneurship Program (TSTP) helping unemployed clients in four municipalities of the province in 2012. TSTP was launched in 2011 in support to the government’s stimulus program to push economic growth and help provide employment to graduates of Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) especially in the rural areas. According to TESDA-Ifugao Provi...
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26Feb2013Kabayan town passes ordinance regulating “moma” spitting by Susan Aro LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, Feb. 26 (PIA) - - The disposal of “moma” spittle, a by product of betel nut, lime or tobacco chewing, will be regulated in the town of Kabayan in order to avoid indiscriminate spitting in public places. Kabayan officials passed Ordinance No. 55-13 regulating the disposal of “moma” spittle or “moma” refuse which provides penalties for violators. As defined, “moma” refers to the coll...
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26Feb2013BANGUED, Abra, Feb. 26(PIA) -- The Paredes Ancestral Home in this capital town was inaugurated last February 23 as a national historical site on the occasion of the 3rd Miki Festival of the Bangued Town Fiesta. Deputy Director Carminda R. Arevalo of the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) installed the landmark of the Paredes Ancestral Home as historical site. The house located along Santiago Street, Bangued, Abra was the birthplace of the popular Don Quintin Parede...
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26Feb2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, Feb. 26 (PIA) - - The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (Philhealth) announced it has a new benefit package rates for members suffering from case type Z illnesses. Jean Baawa of Philhealth-Kalinga said the Z benefit package rates covers coronary artery bypass graft surgery, surgery for tetralogy of Fallot, surgery for ventricular septal defect, and cervical cancer. She said these conditions were chosen based on current evidence that quality treatment significantly in...
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26Feb2013BAGUIO CITY, Feb. 26 (PIA) - - The city government is committed to planting more trees under the National Greening Program (NGP) and is serious in bringing back the pine trees of Baguio. In a recent Ugnayan at the City Hall, Mayor Mauricio Domogan said that they are serious in increasing the existing volume of pine trees in the city in efforts to bring back the scent of pine trees that used to be an indication while travelling along Kennon Road or Marcos Highway that one ha...
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26Feb2013BANGUED, Abra, Feb. 26(PIA) -- The Philippine Rice Research Institute (Philrice) based in Batac City, Ilocos Norte has brought the Palayamanan technology to the upland communities in this province through real learning experience. Palayamanan, a highly successful model of generation and dissemination of location-specific technologies promotes a highly diversified but fully integrated rice-based farming system through active partnership with the local government units and the farmers. It trans...
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26Feb2013BAGUIO CITY, Feb. 26(PIA) -- The entire province of Abra and some parts of Ilocos Sur are experiencing a 9-hour brownout today, February 26. The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines has scheduled a power interruption from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM in the entire province of Abra and some parts of Ilocos Sur for the annual preventive maintenance and testing of power transformer 3 and its associated equipment. NGCP North Luzon Corporate Communications and Public Affairs Officer Lilibeth Gaydo...
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26Feb2013SAGADA, Mt. Province, Feb. 26 (PIA)-- Barangay officials here who may face judicial proceedings as a result of their performance of their official duties will be provided legal assistance by the municipal government. This is provided for in Municipal Ordinance No. 10-2012 ‘providing legal assistance to barangay officials who in the performance of their official duties or on the occasion thereof, have to initiate judicial proceedings or defend themselves against legal action and therefore...
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26Feb2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, Feb. 26 (PIA) -- Governor Eugene Balitang recently issued an executive order reorganizing the composition of the Task Force Ifugao General Hospital (IGH) and Panopdopan District Hospital (PDH) to ensure the smooth implementation of hospital projects. Balitang said there is a need to reorganize the membership of the existing taskforce with the retirement of the provincial engineer, resignation of the provincial administrator and the presence of circumstances requiring the m...
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26Feb2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, Peb 26 (PIA) -- Tatlumput pitong kabahayan ng barangay Abinuan sa bayan ng Lagawe ang ganap ng nagkailaw sa pamamagitan ng grid lines sa tulong ng Ifugao Electric Cooperative (Ifelco). Ang barangay Abinuan ay mararating sa apat hanggang limang oras na paglalakad mula sa sentro ng bayan at kabilang sa mga beneficiaries ng Barangay Line Enhancement Project (BLEP) ng pamahalaan na ipinatupad sa pamamagitan ng Ifelco. Ayon kay Jovita Allaga ng Ifelco, ang dating solar panel na gin...
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26Feb2013BALBALAN, Kalinga, Feb. 26 (PIA)- – This municipality is set to celebrate its 105th founding anniversary from March 1 to 3 with the theme, “Good governance and excellent services towards a progressive Balbalan.” The municipality is highlighting and advocating good governance under the leadership of Mayor Kenneth Dale Mangaoang to sustain the local government’s excellent performance as manifested with their conferment of the 2012 Regional Gawad Pamana ng Lahi Award. Day One of the thr...
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26Feb2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, Feb. 26 (PIA) -- The Provincial School Board (PSB) has approved P12.5-million for Special Education Fund (SEF) annual budget for 2013 to help in achieving quality education in the province. The amount was constituted from the share in the additional one percent real property tax of the province available for expenditures of the PSB as certified by the provincial treasurer and accountant. Of the SEF annual budget, the amount of P6.67-million is appropriated to finance the ...
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25Feb2013BAGUIO CITY, Feb. 25 (PIA) -- SM City Baguio officials joined by city government heads and celebrity guests, marked the planting of the 30,000th tree in support of the National Greening Program (NGP) within the mall premises in the heart of Baguio last Wednesday. The “Green Road to 50,000” photo exhibit was also opened inside the mall featuring photos during their tree planting activities in the city and surrounding communities. As they marked the 30,000th tree they have pla...
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25Feb2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, Feb 25 (PIA) -- Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) provincial office had chosen 14 best exhibitors as winners of Special Awards in the recent Ullalim agro-industrial trade fair here. Eighty seven of the more than 100 exhibitors in this year’s Ullalim Fair vied for the special awards. Benita Mangadap of DTI-Kalinga said the award is part of the “come-on” given to participating micro-small and medium entrepreneurs (MSME) in the province to the annual Ullalim fa...
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25Feb2013BAGUIO CITY, Feb. 25 (PIA) - - “Shaping up a better future for yourself and your family now lie in your hands”. This is the challenge of Secretary Joel Villanueva, Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) Director General, to the beneficiaries of the TESDA-Department of Social Welfare and Development Cash for Training Project (C4TP) in the Baguio-Benguet area. Villanueva launched on Tuesday the C4TP at the University of Cordilleras (UC) Theater here which was atte...
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25Feb2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, Feb. 25 (PIA) -– The Department of Tourism Cordillera Regional Office (DOT-CAR) and the City Government of Tabuk recently met with the various tourism sectors here to review and finalize the proposed Tabuk Tourism Development Plans for 2013 to 2016. Said development plan was the result of the tourism planning workshop participated by the key sectors in the tourism industry to include non-government organizations, industry sectors, provincial city and barangay officials, ...
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25Feb2013BARLIG, Mt. Province, Feb. 25 (PIA) -- In support to the Registered Nurses for Health Enhancement and Local Services (RNHEALS) program of the Department of Health (DOH), the municipal government here has provided its counterpart of P2,000 as additional allowance to RNHEALS nurses assigned in the municipality. This was reported by Municipal Health Officer Dr. Arlene Ottao during the Provincial Health Board meeting held last February 19. Ottao said there are five nurses and two midwives deplo...
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25Feb2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, Feb. 25 (PIA)-- In its continuing effort to make the province rabies-free by the year 2016, the Provincial Veterinary Office (PVET) strengthened its information, education and communication (IEC) campaign against rabies by distributing information materials to the people for them to register their dogs and have them vaccinated against the disease. PVET Agriculturist II Ferdinand Dunuan said that as they continue vaccinating as many dogs as they can in the 11 municipalities...
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25Feb2013FORT DEL PILAR, Baguio City, Feb. 25(PIA) -- Vice President Jejomar Binay assured housing programs for members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. Binay, in his keynote address during the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) Alumni Homecoming celebration last week, said that the housing program for Filipino soldiers is just part of the efforts of the Aquino government to improve their lives for their invaluable contribution to the country. "Ang programang pabahay para sa ating mga ka...
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25Feb2013BAGUIO City, Feb. 25 (PIA) - - The Department of Interior and Local Government – Cordillera Regional Office (DILG – CAR), in partnership with several local government units (LGUs), will be implementing P211.8-million worth of peace and development projects in the region this year. The projects, under the Pamana (Payapa at Masaganang Pamayanan), a priority program of the administration of President Benigno Aquino III, aim to strengthen peace and development efforts in conflict-affected area...
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25Feb2013LICUAN-BAAY, Abra, Feb. 25` (PIA) -- The 41st Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army based in Sitio Baquero, Nalbuan, Licuan-Baay co-sponsored the mass wedding and christening here conducted by the Parish of St. Lourdes on February 17, 2013 as part of its communiy immersion. Father Louie Tungpalan, parish priest of the local community, solemnized the mass wedding of six couples and the baptism of 29 including six adults. The officers and men of the Bravo Company under the command of 1Lt....
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25Feb2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, Feb. 25 (PIA) -- The 2012 census on agriculture and fisheries starts today with 350 enumerators dispatched to the provinces of Kalinga and Apayao to do the survey from February 25 to April 13. OIC Provincial Statistics officer John Tungod said the census is done every 10 years to establish basic data on number of operators, production area in hectarage and production volume on agriculture and fisheries. He said the survey covers 100% of all households in the two provinces...
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25Feb2013ALFONSO Lista, Ifugao, Feb. 25 (PIA)--The Ifugao provincial government recently conducted an interface among grantees of the Tertiary Education Assistance Program(TEAP) and officials of the Ifugao State University (IFSU) to hear from them and allow interaction for the smooth implementation of the scholarship program. Provincial Administrator Felipe Lacbawan said they called for the a dialogue among all the concerned parties to share and to thresh out concerns in order th...
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24Feb2013BAGUIO CITY, Feb. 24 (PIA) -- As national candidates has started campaigning in the provinces, the Commission on Election continues to reiterate its advisory to strictly follow campaign rules. Comelec Cordillera Regional Director Jose Nick Mendros, in an interview, is calling on candidates, their leaders and supporters to follow and respect existing ordinances of election related policies of local government units (LGUs) they are visiting. In the case of Baguio which is cur...
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24Feb2013BONTOC, Mt. Province, Feb. 24(PIA) -- Political candidates in the May 13 midterm elections are urged to start doing their civic duty by collecting the five percent withholding tax on their payments on political contributions and campaign expenditures. Esteban Acapen, the Acting Assistant Revenue District Officer here, said that under the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) Regulation 8-2009, all political candidates, political parties and contributors are required to register with the Re...
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24Feb2013BAGUIO CITY, Feb. 24 (PIA)-- The province of Apayao is all set for the hosting of the the Cordillera Administrative Region Athletic Association (CARAA) sports meet scheduled on February 27 to March 3. The week-long sports event will be attended by more than a thousand athletes and officials from the different provinces of the Cordillera Region namely Abra, Baguio City, Benguet, Ifugao, Kalinga, Mountain Province and the host province of Apayao. The Apayao Eco-Tourism and Sports Complex...
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23Feb2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, Feb. 23 (PIA) -- As the nation observes National Skin Disease Awareness Month, the Provincial Health Office (PHO) here is conducting information campaign on leprosy, that this disease is curable if detected and treated early. According to Nicanor Tayaban, provincial leprosy coordinator, national Leprosy Control Program aims to eliminate or reduce the incidence of leprosy in the country. He said that seven patients from the different towns here who are undergoing treatment on l...
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23Feb2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, Feb. 23 (PIA) -- Two non-government organizations (NGO) are coordinating with four national government agencies for possible tie-up projects that would help address poverty, empower the poor, and care for the environment. Heifer International Philippines (HIP) and the International Association for Transformation (IAT) are working with the offices of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) for livelihood projects, the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) fo...
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23Feb2013BAGUIO CITY, Feb. 23 (PIA) -- Cordillera is looking at establishing an Indigenous Peoples (IP) Governance Resource Center, one peculiar to its culture, in answer to the government’s call for the establishment of knowledge resource centers for local governance across regions. Local Government Academy Executive Director Marivel Sacendoncillo presented this idea during the first quarter meeting of the Multi-Sectoral Advisory Committee (MSAC) spearheaded by the Department of Interior and Lo...
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23Feb2013BAGUIO CITY, Feb. 23 (PIA)-- Baguio is set to showcase the city’s tourist spots on the city-sponsored float for the Grand Float Parade of the Panagbenga Festival 2013 on Sunday. Personnel of the City Building and Architect Office (CBAO) are now finalizing the float which will be joining 18 other floats of different companies, organizations, and other sectors in the much anticipated parade of flower-laden floats. CBAO Draftsman Architect Cliff Richard Ham said the city government has decided...
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23Feb2013BONTOC, Mt. Province, Feb. 23(PIA) -- At least 23 inmates at the Bilibid Provincial Jail here will cast their votes on the May 2013 midterm elections. Bureau of Jail Management and Penology Provincial Administrator Jail Chief Inspector Severino Khita said this will be the first time that a big number of detainees at the provincial jail will exercise their right of suffrage. Commission on Election(Comelec) Bontoc Assistant Election Officer Fillag said that originally, there are 32 inmates ...
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23Feb2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, Feb. 23 (PIA) -- School authorities here are busy preparing for the 2013 National Achievement Test (NAT) next month with an orientation on test administration guidelines already conducted. Division Testing Coordinator Marciana Aydinan and assisted by Private Schools Coordinator Nora Lim briefed the testing staff and representatives of all the schools in Ifugao in the coming NAT administration for fourth year students, Grades 3 and 6 pupils. Aydinan said the testing staf...
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22Feb2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, Feb 22 (PIA) -- Paiigtingin ng pamahalaang lungsod ang pangongolekta ng basura sa mga barangay lalo na sa matataong lugar. Ayon kay City Environment and Natural Resources Officer Patsy Abibico, magdadagdag ngayong taon ng mga garbage trucks at mga garbage collectors upang pag-ibayuhin pa ang naturang serbisyo. Sa kasalukuyan tanging ang barangay Bulanao at Dagupan pa lamang ang kayang maserbisyuhan kaya inaasahan na sa pagbili ng karagadagang mga trak ay makakarating na r...
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22Feb2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, Feb. 22 (PIA) -- The Research Development and Extension (RD and E) programs of the Kalinga Apayao State College (KASC) should set their goals on studies preserving food and natural resources to mitigate the effects of climate change especially in the food chain. Rex Navarro, Communication Director of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-AridTropics (ICRISAT), stressed during the Capability Enhancement on Project Development and Resource Generation sem...
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22Feb2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, Feb. 22 (PIA)--The Municipal Social Welfare and Development Office (MSWDO) here tapped the services of a religious sect in assisting Children In Conflict with the Law (CICL). Susan Galangi the MSWDO said that the program seeks to discuss duties and responsibilities of parents to their children regarding their attitude and behavior. With the theme “Sharing God’s Love”, Pastor Jimmy Lachaona of the Christ is the Answer Church lectured to five CICL and their parents. ...
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22Feb2013BONTOC, Mt. Province, Feb. 22 (PIA) -- The Provincial Health Office announces the conduct of free medical, dental, and surgical missions on April 2-6 but screening and listing of patients for the surgical mission is from March 1 - 31 at the Bontoc General Hospital (BoGH) here. The medical, dental, and surgical missions and endoscopy examination are part of the core activities lined-up to celebrate the 46th foundation anniversary of Mountain Province this April. Provincial Health Officer and ...
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22Feb2013LUNGSOD NG TABUK, Kalinga, Peb 22 (PIA) -- Pinarangalan ngayong araw ang Sangguniang Panlungsod ng Tabuk na pinangungunahan ni Vice Mayor Darwin Estrañero bilang 2012 Most Outstanding Sangguniang Panlungsod -Component City Category sa Cordillera Region sa isang programa sa La Trinidad, Benguet. Ayon kay Julio Barcellano Sr, Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Kalinga Provincial Assistant at Tabuk City Local Government Operations Officer (CLGOO), ang naturang parangal ay ibinibig...
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22Feb2013BAGUIO CITY, Feb. 22 (PIA) - - Forty inmates of the Baguio City Jail joined the February 17 PhilHealth-Department of Health nationwide foot race for a cause. City Jail Warden Jail Chief Inspector Wilson Banasen said the 40 inmates joined the three-kilometer category by running equivalent to 50 rectangular laps of the basketball court. Each runner paid a registration fee of P250 each contributing for a total of around P10,000 to the event, Banasen said. Banasen said the inmates underwent ...
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22Feb2013BAGUIO CITY, Feb. 22 (PIA) -- In celebration of Women’s Month in March, the city government of Baguio through the City Social Welfare and Development Office (CSWDO) and the City Council Committee on Women, Children and Urban Poor launched this week the “Kababaihan” Festival 2013 in a kapihan media forum. The Kababaihan Festival adopts the theme, “Kababaihan: Gabay sa Pagtahak sa Tuwid na Daan” (Women: Guide in moving towards the straight path) to highlight the important role of...
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22Feb2013BAGUIO CITY, Feb. 22(PIA)-- The Baguio City Police Office assured safety and security of visitors and the residents alike during the major events of the Panagbenga 2013 this weekend. In a press briefing Thursday, BCPO officials led by City Director Senior Superintendent Jesus Cambay Jr. presented the final security and traffic plans to be undertaken during the Panagbenga grand street dancing and float parade on Saturday and Sunday, February 23 and 24, respectively. “We are pretty ...
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22Feb2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, Feb. 22 (PIA) -- The Provincial Reintegration Committee is set to award on February 26 livelihood assistance to former rebels who decided to surrender and be reintegrated to mainstream society. Gov. Jocel Baac who chairs the committee, said four checks amounting to P50,000 each will be turned-over to the beneficiaries during the flag ceremony at Capitol. He will be assisted by provincial social welfare and development officer Digna Dalutag and 501st infantry brigade ...
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22Feb2013MAYOYAO, Ifugao, Peb 22 (PIA) -- Upang mapaghandaan ang nalalapit na 2013 Cordillera Regional Athletic Association (CARAA) meet, ang probinsiya ng Ifugao ay bumuo ng isang ad hoc committee at technical working group (TWG). Ang ad hoc CARAA 2013 oversight committee ay pinamunuan ni Governor Eugene Balitang at Officer–in–Charge Schools Division Superintendent (OIC-SDS) Felipe Ballitoc bilang vice chairperson. Miyembro naman ang Sangguniang Panlalawigan secretary at provincial administrator. ...
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22Feb2013LUNGSOD NG TABUK, Peb 22 (PIA) -- Aktibong makikilahok muli ang lungsod ng Tabuk sa Panagbenga Festival ng lungsod ng Baguio ngayong buwan. Ayon kay Tabuk City Tourism Officer Arlene Ethem Odiem, naimbitahang sumali ang St. Theresita’s High School ng Tabuk City sa "enhanced cultural street dancing" at ang pamahalaang lungsod naman sa pamamagitan ng Naneng Cultural Performers na lalahok sa street dancing sa naturang okasyon ngayong Sabado, Pebrero 23. Ang Naneng Cultural Performers ang nanalo...
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21Feb2013BAGUIO CITY, Feb. 21 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in the region urged childless couples and those who are planning to adopt a child to legally adopt children to provide stable homes for orphaned, abandoned and neglected children. Adoption is very important because it gives new hope and a better future for abandoned or neglected children, stressed Mary Ann Buclao, DSWD’s focal person on Adoption Resource and Referral section. She said that there are at pre...
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21Feb2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, Feb. 21 (PIA) – The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Kalinga will be conducting a special recruitment activity tomorrow for skilled workers in the province aspiring to work abroad. Lourdes Canseco of DOLE Kalinga said the vacancies being offered are for carpenters, masons, tile setters, plasterers and bar benders for Malaysia. Applicants should be male aged 25 to 43 with at least five year and above related experience. The recruitment agency she said will als...
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21Feb2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, Feb. 21 (PIA)--The Civil Service Commission (CSC) will conduct a two-day seminar workshop on strategic performance management system (SPMS) to 50 employees of the provincial government on March 5-6, 2013. Juliet Taguiling, the Supervising Administrative Officer of the Provincial Local Government Unit (PLGU), said that the seminar-workshop is aimed at imparting the proper knowledge to participants on the basics of SPMS; its elements and objectives as an accurate and strategic m...
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21Feb2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, Feb. 21 (PIA) -– The City Tourism Office (CTO) in partnership with the various organized tourism sectors here are now offering new city tour packages. Tabuk City Tourism Officer Arlene Ethel Odiem said that with the recent accreditation of the 36 members of the Eco-Guides Association of Tabuk or EGAT, the city is now offering various city tour packages depending on the preference and time of the visitors. Upon request, visitors could avail of the city packages which are...
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21Feb2013BAGUIO CITY,Feb. 21(PIA)-- The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PHIC) or PhilHealth started implementing last January the new monthly premium contribution rates for their members, in line with its thrust to provide affordable and quality health care to all Filipino people. Philhealth Regional Office Cordillera (PhRO-CAR) Field Division chief Lily Linggon, in a media forum, disclosed that for Individually Paying Philhealth members there are two contribution rates – P1,800 per y...
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21Feb2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, Feb. 21 (PIA) -- Recognizing that a healthy workforce delivers more efficient services, the provincial government here is providing free basic medical check up to all local officials and employees. Juliet Taguiling, supervising administrative officer here, said that the said activity scheduled on on February 18-22; 27, 28 and March 5, 2013 is in compliance to a provincial ordinance that provides that all officials and employees of the provincial government shall be enti...
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21Feb2013PASIL, Kalinga, Feb 21 (PIA) -- For garnering tops awards during the 18th Kalinga Founding Anniversary and Ullalim Festival, this municipality celebrated its thanksgiving through free medical service and blood donation. Mayor James Edduba led other municipal officials and residents in the voluntary blood donation that yielded 103 assorted blood units. Meanwhile, volunteer medical practitioners from the Kalinga Lion’s Club, Philippine Army, Provincial Health Office and Pasil Municipal Healt...
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21Feb2013BAGUIO CITY, Feb. 21 (PIA) -- Media practitioners are now officially allowed to vote earlier than May 13 with the release of the implementing rules on local absentee voting for media practitioners through Comelec Resolution no. 9637 promulgated on February 13. Comelec Cordillera Regional Election Director Jose Nick Mendros affirmed in an interview that media practitioners are now officially included in the local absentee voting which was previously only offered to government employees and membe...
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21Feb2013LAGAWE, Ifugao Feb. 21 (PIA) -- The provincial local government unit (PLGU) here signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with the Department of Energy (DOE) for the implementation of the Likud Mini-hydro Power Plant project located at Barangay Haliap in Asipulo town. The project seeks to contribute to diversifying energy and reducing gas emissions by using domestic renewable energy by developing untapped hydropower potentials in the province. It also aims to maintain and improve the quality of l...
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21Feb2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, Feb. 21 (PIA) -- Civil Service Commission (CSC) Commissioner Robert Martinez called on all agencies of government to adhere to the tenets of good governance asking them to comply with the provisions of the Anti-Red Tape Act (ARTA) in order to attain the administration's reform agenda. “Your CSC has initiated the awarding of the Seal of Excellence as a form of incentive to government agencies which have the heart to compete and prove that they are better than others,” he...
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21Feb2013LAMUT, Ifugao, Peb. 21 (PIA) -- Umabot sa 119 motorcycle riders ang hinuli ng Land Transportation Office (LTO) sa isinagawang operasyon sa bayan ng Lagawe at Kiangan, kamakailan. Ang nasabing operasyon ay isinagawa ng mga empleyado ng LTO na mula sa Ifugao at sa rehiyong Cordillera sa tulong ng Philippine National Police o PNP. Ayon kay Frederick Kimayong, hepe ng LTO-Ifugao, ang panghuhuli sa mga violators ay bahagi ng kanilang kampanya para disiplinahin ang tumataas na bilang ng mga drive...
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21Feb2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, Feb. 21 (PIA) -– Exhibitors hauled an initial P1,741,364 sales in the 4-day Ullalim agro-industrial trade fair during the 18th Kalinga Founding Anniversary and Ullalim Festival last week here. The figure can go still up since some exhibitors have not yet submitted their sales reports, according to the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) provincial office. The top-five sellers were wearables, fashion accessories, gifts, housewares and decors sector with P484...
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21Feb2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, Feb. 21 (PIA) -- Sixteen enumerators and eight supervisors from the different barangays here participated in the seminar on the Census on Agriculture and Fisheries (CAF) conducted by the National Statistics Office (NSO). The said census is a nationwide undertaking geared towards the collection and compilation of basic information on agriculture and fisheries sector of the country which is done every after 10 years to determine the structural characteristics of agriculture and f...
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21Feb2013KIANGAN, Ifugao, Feb. 21 (PIA) -- Members of the Tourism Council here and several stakeholders of the tourism industry in the province were recently trained on Customer Relations and Customer Service Management by the Department of Tourism (DOT) Central Office. The participants, composed of policemen, homestay providers, selected local government employees and officials and tour guides who are considered as tourism frontliners attended the seminar workshop at the Kiangan Youth Hostel. Municip...
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20Feb2013LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, Feb. 20 (PIA) -- Itogon town officials are seeking the institutionalization of the inclusion of an affected barangay in the Social Development Management Program (SDMP) of the Philex Mining Corporation. Itogon officials passed Resolution Number 034 series 2013 strongly requesting the company to institutionalize the inclusion of Barangay Dalupirip in its SDMP and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The SDMP is guided by the company’s creed or CSR in consultation ...
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20Feb2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, Feb 20 -- The Commission on Election (Comelec) in this city has started dismantling election campaign materials placed outside designated common poster areas. This move by Comelec-Tabuk City started on the opening of the campaign period for national positions on February 12. Tabuk City Election Registrar Reyman Solbita said that the Comelec-designated common poster areas in Tabuk City are located at the Provincial Road from the “White Carabao” monument in Barangay Bula...
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20Feb2013HINGYON, Ifugao, Feb. 20 (PIA) -- In an effort to provide opportunities to poor families and enable them to earn incomes enough to live a decent life, the Provincial Veterinary Office distributed recently 50 piglets here. Gilbert Caclini, the senior agriculturist of PVET, said providing alternative sources of income is the responsibility of the government, and this is one way of meeting the first Mid-Term Development Goal (MDG) of halving the poverty rate by 2015. Under this project funded...
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20Feb2013BONTOC, Mt. Province, Feb. 20 (PIA) -- The Sangguniang Panlalawigan here is strongly supporting Senate Bill No. 2879 introduced by Senator Ralph G. Recto that provides for increasing the ceiling of 13th month pay, Christmas bonus, and other benefits of government employees excluded from gross income taxation. Senate Bill No. 2879 entitled, “An Act Increasing the Ceiling of the 13th Month Pay, Christmas Bonus and Other Benefits excluded from the Computation of Gross Income for the Purposes ...
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20Feb2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, Feb. 20 (PIA)-- Top officials of the province are one in pushing Kalinga to “shine even brighter” during the four-day festivities of the 18th Kalinga Founding Anniversary and Ullalim Festival last week. Governor Jocel C. Baac and Congressman Manuel S. Agyao, in their talks, enjoined all people of the province to stand behind the celebration’s theme: Kalinga Shines. Baac said beyond the lure of politics, 'let us think how we can level-up Kalinga’s state an...
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20Feb2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, Feb.21 (PIA) –- The provincial government of Kalinga through its Provincial Nutrition Council (PNC) has awarded this year’s winners of the Healthy Barangay search during the 18th Ullalim Festival last week. The winners based on the PNC technical Working Group monitoring and evaluation assessment are Barangay Cawagayan of Pinukpuk (1st Place), Barangay Tawang of Balbalan (2nd Place) and Barangay Romualdez of Rizal (3rd Place). According to Provincial Nutritionist France...
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20Feb2013ni Geraldine B. Gacuya TABUK CITY, Kalinga, Feb 20 (PIA) -- Limang accommodation facilities sa lungsod na ito ang inakredit kamakailan ng Department of Tourism (DOT). Ito ang ibinalita ni City Tourism Officer Arlene Ethel Odiem pagkatapos inaprubahan ng DOT ang akreditasyon ng Maseypan Lodge sa Dagupan bilang isang pension house. Ang mga ibang naakredit ay ang Davidson Hotel (standard hotel), Grand Zion (Class A resort), Golden Berries (economy hotel) at ang TAMPCO Inn and Restaurant (Touris...
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20Feb2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, Feb. 20 (PIA) --The two-storey multi-purpose building of the Department of Education-Ifugao (DEPED-Ifugao) Schools Division Office here is expected to be completed this month. According to Honorio Pumihic of the Physical Facilities and Engineering Division of DEPED-Ifugao, the project which is being implemented by administration through their office started November last year. It is expected to be finished by the end of February with the downloading of P1.250 million ...
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20Feb2013BANGUED, Abra, Feb. 20 (PIA) -- A total of 117 cataract patients in the province were recently operated at the Abra Provincial Hospital here by the ophthalmologists of the Surgi-Med Volunteers Association of Sacramento, California, USA. The surgical mission was successfully brought to Abra to serve the poor Abrenios through the sponsorship of two Abrenian Associations here and abroad. These are the Abrenian Association of America, Inc., in San Jose, California, led by Atty. Gloria Acena...
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20Feb2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, Feb. 20 (PIA) - - Four hundred thirty-four poor families from three towns of this province received their first payout under the Modified Conditional Cash Transfer (MCCT) program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in partnership with the International Association for Transformation (IAT). Sison Paut, Chief Executive Officer of IAT, said the MCCT amounting to more than P1 million was sent through the Philippine Postal Corporation and delivered to IA...
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20Feb2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, Feb. 20 (PIA) -- Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) provincial office has intensified its monitoring and inspection of retail outlets following the reported sale of illegal liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) products here. According to Ma. Cecile Baral of DTI-Kalinga, unscrupulous dealers have sneaked in unmarked LPG tanks to Tabuk, which she said is gross violation of the Product Standard Law that requires all LPG cylinders to bear markings. Under this law, LPG manufactur...
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20Feb2013MAYOYAO, Ifugao, Feb. 20(PIA) - - The province has created an ad hoc committee and technical working group in preparation for the upcoming 2013 Cordillera Regional Athletic Association (CARAA) meet. The ad hoc CARAA 2013 oversight committee is chaired by Governor Eugene Balitang and Officer – in – Charge Schools Division Superintendent (OIC-SDS) Felipe Ballitoc as vice chairperson with the Sangguniang Panlalawigan secretary and provincial administrator as members. This will oversee the fu...
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20Feb2013Ifugao town create values formation and chaplaincy office By Marcelo B. Lihgawon HINGYON, Ifugao, Feb. 20 (PIA) - - The Local Government Unit (LGU) here has created the values formation and chaplaincy office (VFCO) for the effective implementation of the moral recovery program (MRP) in the municipality. According to Mayor Mario Buyuccan, the VFCO will be under the office of the mayor to work hand-in-hand with concerned stakeholders in the establishment of a strong foundation for spiritual a...
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20Feb2013KIANGAN, Ifugao, Feb 20 (PIA) -- The Commission on Elections gave a briefing to military personnel on the role of the Armed Forces of the Philippines(AFP) and Philippine National Police (PNP) in the midterm elections. Provincial Election Supervisor Ricardo Bulintao said the duties of the AFP alongside the PNP are mandated under Comelec Resolution No. 9570 that seeks to ensure free, orderly, honest, peaceful and credible elections. He told members of the 86th Infantry Battalion that their rol...
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20Feb2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, Feb. 20 (PIA) -- The province has produced 167,293 metric tons of rice in 2012 maintaining the title as “Cordillera’s Rice Granary”. With this production level in rice, Kalinga accounts about 1.04% of the country’s national rice requirement for the period. Joe Casibang, Kalinga’s Rice Program Coordinator, attributed the province’s high performance in rice to the strong partnership between the Department of Agriculture (DA) and the provincial government in ca...
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20Feb2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, Feb. 20 (PIA)--About 50 policemen here participated in a two-day seminar on effective customer management seminar at the Ifugao Provincial Police Office (IPPO). Senior Police Superintendent Angelito Casimiro, the PNP Provincial Director here, said that the seminar was designed to abreast the PNP personnel from the different municipal police stations in the province and the IPPO on the basic protocol in handling tourists taking into consideration the diversity of cult...
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20Feb2013LAGAWE, Ifugao, Feb. 20 (PIA) --The provincial local government unit here created recently the task force Gotad ad Ifugao 2013 to plan out the activities for the Gotad or the foundation day of the province in June. Chaired by Engr. Carmelita Buyuccan, the Provincial Planning and Development Coordinator, the task force created under Executive Order 104 series of 2013 issued by Governor Eugene Balitang will recommend the various committees needed to be created to take care and oversee...
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20Feb2013Ifugao police scores anew in campaign against wanted persons By Vency D. Bulayungan LAGAWE, Ifugao, Feb. 21(PIA)-- Ifugao Police force scored anew in the campaign against most wanted persons in the province. PI Christian Salonga, Lagawe Chief of Police, led the arrest of a 54 years old man for violation of Republic Act 9262 or the Anti-violence Against Women and their Children Act. The same team arrested another wanted person also for violation of RA 9262. The arrests were made...
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20Feb2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, Feb. 20 (PIA) -- Heifer International Philippines (HIP) had distributed 401 animal dispersal to four peoples’ organizations (POs) in two provinces of the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) under its Pro-Active and Resilient Organization for Economic Sustainability and Self Reliance or PROGRESS project. Mihan Buliyat, HIP North Luzon Manager, said the animals consisted of 376 pigs and 25 cows dispersed in Kalinga and Mountain Province. Fifty gilth pigs, 24 h...
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19Feb2013BAGUIO CITY, Feb. 19 (PIA) - - The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in the Cordillera Administrative Region (PDEA-CAR) headed the disposal of over P100,000 worth of drug-related case evidences filed in this Summer Capital on orders of Regional Trial Court (RTC – Baguio) Branch 61 Judge Antonio Reyes. The evidences, which include hashish, marijuana, shabu, and assorted illegal drug paraphernalia with a total Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB) valued P101,142.25, were used as evidences in 43 case...
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19Feb2013BAGUIO CITY, Feb. 19 (PIA)--- A total of 742 family-beneficiaries in this city and neighboring municipality of Tuba, Benguet received their Certificates of Lot Award and Certificates of Eligibility for Lot Allocation (CELAs) from Vice President and Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC) Chairman Jejomar C. Binay on Saturday, February 16. Located in three different sites, the housing projects are funded and administered by the National Housing Authority (NHA), Social Ho...
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19Feb2013BAGUIO CITY, Feb. 19 (PIA) - - The Department of Labor and Employment – Cordillera Regional Office (DOLE-CAR) recently granted a P300,000 livelihood assistance for a bee-keeping community livelihood development project of a cooperative in Kabayan, Benguet. The livelihood assistance under DOLE’s Community Enterprise Development Program will benefit the Lusod Agrarian Reform Community Multi-Purpose Cooperative (LARCMPC). The livelihood assistance was turned-over by DOLE-CAR Baguio/Beng...
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19Feb2013KIANGAN, Ifugao, Feb. 19 (PIA) -- With the advent of the summer season, the mayor here is pushing for the creation of Task Force "Danum”(water) in anticipation of water shortage problem. Mayor Joselito Guyguyon recently issued an executive order creating the task force to rationalize water distribution to households with the approaching summer months expected to greatly reduce the volume of water. Many festivals are celebrated during summer and tourist arrivals peak. The Task Force will ensu...
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19Feb2013BONTOC, Mt. Province, Feb. 19 (PIA) -- The province is sending a 546 membersdelegation to the 2013 Cordillera Administrative Region Athletic Association(CARAA) on February 27 to March 3 in the province of Apayao. Of the total, 343 are athletes. In the elementary level, there are 149 athletes to participate in the 15 different events, and 194 high school athletes to participate in the 17 different events. According to Rosendo Cacap of the Department of Education Mt. Province Division Office,...
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19Feb2013JHMC clarifies issue of tree cutting inside Camp John Hay BAGUIO CITY, Feb. 20(PIA) -- John Hay Management Corporation (JHMC) President Jamie Agbayani assured that the corporation is pro-environment and is committed to forest preservation as she clarified that the harvesting of 60 trees inside the former American rest and recreation facility is pursuant to existing rules. Agbayani, in a press conference here last Friday, attested that the trees were dead as classified by the JHMC Multipar...
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19Feb2013BAGUIO CITY, Feb. 20 (PIA) -- The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration – Cordillera (OWWA-CAR) Regional Director Manuela Peña led her staff and more than 100 Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) in the Baguio-Benguet area in joining the February 14 - One Billion Rising, a worldwide campaign to end Violence Against Women and Children (VAWC). The Innabuyog Gabriela, in partnership with the city government of Baguio, national government agencies and other local women’s organization, spe...
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19Feb2013BALBALAN, Kalinga, Feb. 20(PIA) -– In observance of the 17th National Awareness Week for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation, the Municipal Police Station (MPS) personnel of Balbalan conducted orientation on anti pornography to students in the locality. According to Senior Police Officer 1 Terence Joy Gacuya, the Police Community Relations Officer of Balbalan, the activity was conducted simultaneously with the career guidance counseling and symposium activity at the Sain...
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19Feb2013ALFONSO LISTA, Ifugao, Feb. 19 (PIA) -- The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in coordination with the local government unit (LGU) has conducted an orientation on Business Permits and Licensing System (BPLS) here recently with heads of municipal offices led by Mayor Glen Prudenciano, non-government organizations and the academe as participants. DTI- Ifugao Senior Staff Lilia B. Umanhan said that the BPLS streamlining advocacy is in line with Republic Act 9485 or the Anti-Red Tape Act (...
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19Feb2013ASIPULO, Ifugao, Feb. 19 (PIA)--Personnel of the Provincial Veterinary Office (PVET) here conducted lectures on organic duck raising and upgraded native pig production to farmers and members of women organizations of the remote community of Natkak in barangay Camandag this municipality recently. Led by Dr. Roland Pila and assisted by Agriculturists Antonio Taguilingon and Ferdinand Dunuan and Animal Technician Michael Bulahao, all of the PVET conducted the lectures on February 14 and 15 to ed...
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19Feb2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, Feb. 19 (PIA) -- Twenty-three job seekers were hired on the spot during the 2013 Ullalim Jobs Fair held last February 14 to 15, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Kalinga reported. Lourdes Canseco of DOLE Kalinga said four were hired for overseas work, 17 to work in Baguio City as call center agents, and one as backhoe operator and the other as a book keeper for a local construction firm in Tabuk City. Despite the early public advisory, there is still a low tu...
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19Feb2013TABUK CITY, Kalinga, Feb. 19 (PIA) -- Only 36 out of the 5,857 government agencies nationwide have been granted the Citizen’s Satisfaction Center Seal of Excellence as of December 2012. Commissioner Robert Martinez of the Civil Service Commission (CSC) bared this in his message during the celebration of Kalinga foundation day on February 16 where he also awarded the Department of Trade and Industry –Kalinga headed by provincial director Grace Baluyan the seal of excellence for good ...