July 18, 2026

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EDITORIAL

PDu30’s reluctance to endorse the Paris agreement on climate change Such reluctance is understandable. It was today’s industrialized countries that caused the heating of Planet Earth through the emission of ...

Upcoming Kiangan sites to visit, challenges to face

By Anthony A. Araos Apart from the popular Open Air Museum at barangay Nagacadan in Kiangan and the soon-to-open Museum and Kiangan Cultural Heritage Center are must-see sites for local ...

Making BAPTC roll

By Danilo P. Padua, PhD After its pre-launching October last year, the Benguet Agri-Pinoy Trading Center started to operate lightly giving hope to local vegetable farmers for a better deal ...

TB in Children

By Tedler D. Depaynos, MD Tuberculosis or TB in children below 5 years old is called Primary Complex. During our younger days when we basically practiced as a family physician ...

Do DENR officials believe in the NGP success story?

By Estanislao Albano, Jr. (NOTE: This is my answer to the letter of National Greening Program National Coordinator Ricardo Calderon published in the August 16, 2016 issue of the Philippine ...

EDITORIAL

Why the silence despite the killings The silence of the great majority on the war on drugs just reflects the attitude that “at least the President is achieving good results.” ...

Councilor Olowan wants an appointed Charter body

Anthony A. Araos Do you want to spend billions and billions of pesos for the election of delegates to the Constitutional Convention for the purpose of framing a new Charter? ...

The bustling Davao

By Danilo P. Padua, PhD About two years after my last trip to Davao City, I had a chance to revisit the place. Thanks to an international fruit symposium held ...

Duterte’s harshness has yet to reach Kalinga

By Atty. Antonio P. Pekas The other day I was sitting in court with other lawyers waiting for the judge to come out. One of us was a lawyer who ...

DENR lost P0.5 billion in NGP fires

By Estanislao Albanao, Jr. Deprived by the issuance of the Freedom of Information executive order of any possible justification to further withhold the data, National Greening Program (NGP) National Coordinator ...

EDITORIAL

What price peace? “Peace is the effect of fight.” Thus was the pronouncement of Shrii P. R. Sarkar, the propounder of the Progressive Utilization Theory (PROUT) otherwise known as Progressive ...

Tourism and sports education potentials waiting in for Ifugao’s future

By Anthony A. Araos The determination to attract local and foreign tourists at such noted sites as the Peace Museum and the Kiangan Central School, both in Kiangan town, is ...

Shocked

By Danilo P. Padua, PhD September 2, 2016 was a day of infamy in Davao City. It was a red day, literally. Senseless and mindless person/s made that possible. It ...

Vice Gov. Gullitiw’s investment in good governance is investing in the future

By Anthony A. Araos For several decades or so, the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California has been a major attraction to countless tourists from around the world. It ...

Cold storage and blast freezing

By Danilo P. Padua, PhD A lot of people had been asking what happened to the cold storage in Wangal, La Trinidad, Benguet as part of the vegetable cold chain ...

The city’s parking mess

By Atty. Antonio P. Pekas The recent announcement of City Mayor Mauricio G. Domogan to clear roads of obstructions is laudable but perhaps is a number of years late. Take ...

Scrotal bulges

By Tedler D. Depaynos, MD The patient is just 23 years old and works as a private miner in a nearby municipality which makes him carry heavy sacks of mined ...

More family anecdotes

By Estanislao Albano, Jr. FINDING THE ANSWER AFTER 10 YEARS Since 2006 when Aglaia left for college, Florence and I have been the only people in the house except of ...

EDITORIAL

Illegal drugs mean death If you were a drug addict, you must have considered radical changes in your life. By all means, get off your addiction or you might prematurely ...

What it takes to win the war vs woes in tourism, education, drugs and endo

By Anthony A. Araos Very bright prospects are in store for Banaue under the able and strong leadership of Mayor Jerry Dalipog. Banaue is, of course, the tourism center of ...

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