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Police Officer from Cordillera Shot Dead in Sulu

PNP Chief PGen Guillermo Eleazar confirmed the shooting of Sulu PNP Provincial Director PCol Michael Bawayan, Jr. On August 6, Bawayan was reported to be conducting inspection at the quarantine control point Big Bites in Barangay Asturias, Jolo, Sulu when he was allegedly shot by Police Staff Sgt. Imran Jilah, a policeman assigned with the […]

Judicial Notices

NOTICE OF EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE with SIMULTANEOUS WAIVER OF RIGHTS

NOTICE is hereby given that the estate of the late CAMILO A. CANUTO, who died intestate on October 12, 2005 at Buyagan, La Trinidad, Benguet, leaving certain parcels of registered land covered by Transfer of Certificates of Title Nos. T-23473 and T-18626, has been the subject of ExtraJudicial Settlement of Estate with Simultaneous Waiver of […]

FROM OUR READERS Opinion

NAS Daily and Apo Whang-od (A No brainer)

To the editor of this newspaper, I hope that you can give this piece some space in your straight-shooting newspaper. I am a foreigner and by reason of family and business, I have been around for the past 15 years.  I work with a global company and am married to a Filipina a Cordilleran with […]

HATAW NA KAIBIGAN Opinion

NCIP CAR –May Saysay Pa Ba o Dapat ng Buwagin??? (Part 2)

Laglagan sa DENR, ganun-ganon na lang ba yun? – Kailan lang ay may nakarating sa ating info na mukhang mayroong isang dating empleyado ng DENR (sa land titling) na mukhang gagawin nilang fall guy at  siya ay kanilang ilalaglag. Kung sabagay ay retirado na ang mokong na empleyado na surveyor-employee na yuon, ngunit ang amo […]

MAGKASANGGA TAYO Opinion

NAGTATANONG LANG NAMAN! (Part 2)

Nitong nakaraan kong kolum nakatanggap ng several text message inquiries ang aming official contact mobile numbers at mayroon ilang mga texter ang nagtatanong kung sino daw ang Judge na aking tinutukoy (nagtatanong lamang) na nag-same sex marriage. Ang parating standard na sagot ay, “hindi kami aware kung sino ang Judge na tinutukoy ng kolumnista, siguro […]

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Mga Kuwento ng Land Grabbing: Isang Angkan sa Itogon, Inaagawan ng Ancestral Land; ang Kasabwat, Isang Doktora at Isang Military Official

Isang kuwento (Question and Answer Format) patungkol sa hinaing (sama ng loob) ng isang angkan natin na katutubo (Ibaloi) kung saan pilit na inaagaw ang kanilang lupain diumano’y minana nila  (Ancestral Land) mula pa sa kanilang  magulang.   Q- Ano ang inyong pangalan, edad at educational attainment Maggie Amor Antero 73 years old, elementary  graduate  at […]

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NUJP Slams Baguio Ex-mayor Bautista

“Rewarding Olympic winners, keeping media as losers.” The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines Baguio-Benguet Chapter took note of news reports that former Baguio mayor Reinaldo Bautista, Jr. will reward University of Baguio students who participated in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. The former mayor reportedly said their family corporation, NakTayNay, Inc., would give silver […]

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DA Clarifies Potato Dumping in Tublay

Photos of potatoes accordingly dumped along KM. 21, Ambassador, Tublay, Benguet has been circulating in social media particularly on Facebook as of August 3. This was after Mr. Chris Polig, owner of the Polig Farms, took photos of the dumped potatoes which is located near his farm.  One of the reasons that farmers were not […]

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COVID-19 Delta Variant Detected in Apayao

The Municipality of Pudtol, Apayao was placed on lockdown effective August 6. This came about as the Apayao Provincial Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (PIATF-EID received a notification from the Philippine Genome Center (PGC) about the detection of the COVID-19 delta variant in one of the specimens from the Municipality […]

LG Commentary

LG Komentaryo, Isang Palaisipan Agosto 7 – 13, 2021

Nais lang muna naming ibato ang ilang mga katanungan mula sa ilang miyembro namin (non-lawyers) na bumabagabag at gumugulo sa isip at damdamin ng marami, kaya ito ay naging isang palaisipan.  Ayon sa Section 5 ng Rule 18 (Rules of Court) Pre-Trial (Effect of Failure to appear): “ The failure of plaintiff to appear when […]