It's not more fun in the Philippines...Sometimes #2

Where have all the money gone? Sometimes one literally asks this question on certain occassions. Scene 1: You ride a taxi, your  bill is P90.00 you give the driver P500.00 and you will get the reaction: "Naku! Wala ho ba kayong mass maliit diyan? Kakalabas ko pa lang  boss, wala pang pambarya." (Don't you have a smaller bill...

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Door-to-Door Salesman - Budol Budol Style

For your safety, please read. Please be aware of the new scheme door to door sales man do to sell their wares! It is quite long please be patient and it will be worth your time. Like us on Facebook Remember back in the day when a group of people go to a certain barrio (village) shouting "offer!" short for special offer of products like detergent, bath soap, floor wax and milk? There is a new breed of them but this time they...

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Sagada no longer clean, green awardee

SAGADA, Mountain Province -- Once an award winner for being a clean and green municipality, this tourist town of Sagada is not anymore, with the proliferation of waste in the town’s main streets and indiscriminate waste dumped in mountain slope...

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Bishop urges mall to spare the trees

BAGUIO-Benguet Bishop Carlito Cenzo issued his first pastoral letter for 2013 directed against SM Baguio’s mall expansion project and is intended for reading in all churches in the diocese this Sunda...

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Anti-mall rally a year old

EXACTLY a year ago, an online petition against the cutting and earth balling of 182 pine and alnus trees in Luneta Hill went viral and rekindled Baguio’s concern for its remaining forest cove...

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Mayor: More public order personnel needed

THE current members of the Public Order and Safety Division (POSD) are not enough to monitor all areas in the Central Business District, which are slowly being filled up with street vendor...

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Hot logs seized by Benguet environment office

Over P114,855.46 of illegally cut logs were seized from October to November 2011 by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Provincial Environment Regional Office (Penro) for Benguet Provinc...

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P24M training center for farmers to rise

LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – A P25-million worth three-storey Farmer’s Training Center will soon rise here to cater to trainings of local and national irrigators association...

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Itogon gears up for pilgrims

ITOGON Mayor Oscar Camantiles is hoping a pilot pilgrimage will happen at the holy week. The Ave Maria Shrine is set to be completed before the start of the Holy Wee...

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Comelec: Stiff penalties for gun ban violators

THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) reiterated its call for all gun holders to strictly obey the election gun ban from January 13 to June 12, 201...

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Expert critiques SM expansion plans

ANOTHER expert condemned the planned SM expansion as the Project Save 182 continues its fight to save the endangered 133 trees to be uprooted once the expansion plan is approve...

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SSS-Baguio opens clinic

SOCIAL Security System (SSS)-Baguio recently opened its branch clinic last January 7, to ensure effective delivery of medical services to members and employee...

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Mayor scoffs at complaint

“GOD, forgive them,” was the answer of Mayor Mauricio Domogan to his critics after hearing of a second Ombudsman complaint filed against him by one of his opponents in the mayoralty race in 201...

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CSC –CAR now accepting application for April 14, 2013 Career Service written exams

BAGUIO CITY, Jan. 11 (PIA) -–The Civil Service Commission in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CSC-CAR) is now accepting applications for the Career Service Professional and Sub-Professional Paper and Pencil Test (PPT) scheduled on April 14, 201...

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Kalinga Provincial Hospital to open dialysis, alternative medicine clinics

TABUK CITY, Kalinga, Jan. 11 (PIA) -- The Kalinga Provincial Hospital (KPH) will soon be providing additional medical services to cater to the special needs of patients in the provinc...

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DSWD-CAR releases over P58M for indigent senior citizens in 2012

BAGUIO CITY, Jan. 11(PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Cordillera disbursed a total amount of P58,226,000 for the year 2012 for the Social Pension Program (SPP) for 7,206 indigent senior citizens in the regio...

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