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We are getting brainwashed into the lowland culture of worshipping politicians. Perhaps, nothing is bad about that, if it is based on values or basically goodness as a person. Yet what appears to be emerging is more and more Cordillerans are awed by, rather envious, of those who could display money or its manifestations such as flashy clothes, jewelries, cars […]

There will the usual gnashing of teeth. Those who lost loved ones will cry their hearts out. There will the usual investigations on the causes of the floods and the landslides. But nothing much will happen to prevent such from happening again. Not because they are inevitable, but because we are not getting angry enough to demand accountability and sense […]

What is bad in our so called universal suffrage or allowing everybody to vote is the treatment of every vote as the same in value. A stupid vote is the same in value as an intelligent one. A vote that was bought for a few silvers, is the same as that that had been cast after a lot of consideration […]

There would be no need for an anti-terrorism law. What every person or sector criticizing the government wants is social justice. The main obstacle to achieving that is corruption. It had always been swept under the rag, but could not be done anymore with the surfacing of billions of pesos being filched from government coffers. Everybody now knows about how […]

There is now a covid vaccine being tested here in the Philippines. They are using officers of the Philippine National Police as guinea pigs. Many of them, however, are refusing to be experimented on. A popular alibi is that it is against a policeman’s beliefs. No one can argue against cultural or religious beliefs. Probably, this was the vaccine that […]

As the mayor of Baguio City often said, we cannot be held hostage by covid-19. Rightly so. The economy is dying and people have been dying since day one of the pandemic, mostly from physical causes due to the virus. Now it is coming to the attention of the public that so many had also committed suicide. If the economy […]

When the this pandemic was declared nobody in this country took it seriously. The President even said, “Sampalin ko pa ‘yang beerus na ‘yan.” Only a few in the medical world who really studied medical history were aware of its gravity. The Spanish Flu pandemic in 1918 to 1919 resulted in the death of about 50 million people, 12 million […]

That was how poor people can get. Being referred to were lowlander laborers who were working in the mines hereabout during the mining boom in the 70s. As a Cordilleran related, he went down for the burial of a lowlander laborer with whom he shared time underground toiling to find gold for their mining company employer. When they reached the […]

Suicide rates in the country and all around the world are rising. In Baguio City, the recent suicide of a prominent person strongly fueled discussions everywhere, in coffee shops and offices, at Malcolm Square, in jeepneys, etc. The positive side of that sad occurrence might be that the phenomenon will finally get the attention it deserves from government health officials […]

For years we had pointing out the need for technology to aid our farmers, particularly our vegetable farmers. This pandemic delivered the coup de grace on our complacency about this need. A fraction of the produce of Cordilleran vegetable farmers the past months was transported to main lowland markets particularly Metro Manila, but the rest were just thrown or given […]