The Supreme Court on Tuesday stopped the Commission on Elections (Comelec) from enforcing its rules limiting political campaign advertisements that are broadcast by television and radio outfits on the run-up to the May 13 elections.
Sometime in the 1990s, Elsie Gawidan Maliones was peddling at her stall cassette tapes of originally recorded songs by Kankanaey and Ibaloy singers from Benguet.
Time was when, in many Igorot villages, children would gather around an evening bonfire to listen to the stories of elders. Listening was then a basic approach to transmit knowledge from the older to the younger generation. But when television arrived, this practice slowly vanished; TV eventually replaced the elders and, in some way, [...]
A Nueva Vizcaya town mayor has a dream—that his fourth-class upland farming town (annual income: P25 million-P35 million) becomes first class (P55 million) in the future. And the way to achieve this, he said, is through mining.
A story was told about a team of city-bred researchers who wanted to know how the Aeta people were coping after Mount Pinatubo erupted in 1991. After an hour of uphill trek, the researchers, along with a tribal elder as guide, chanced upon some wild guava trees with ripe fruits.
BAGUIO CITY—For independent filmmaker Kidlat Tahimik, an Asian award has come at a critical time when indigenous wisdom is much-needed to help heal what he describes as an “out-of-balance planet.” At a time when greed has been and continues to be regarded as a “driver” for economic progress, the world needs a brake system to [...]
One afternoon, 7-year-old Shaira Myr Balasi was so absorbed in a book she was reading at the Baguio City public library that she didn’t mind the rainy, cold weather. She was on Page 16 of “Nature’s Patterns: Plant Life Cycles,” a science book for children, when the Inquirer interrupted her for a chat.
Before an audience composed mostly of academicians, Kalinga elder Alonzo Saclag showed and explained that there is an appropriate song, gong-based music and dance for each festivity or activity in his community.
Between malls and museums, chances are more Filipinos would choose to go shopping than scrutinizing a tattooed Benguet mummy or other artifacts showing how Igorot ancestors caught fish or panned gold along the Agno River.
Carrots, cabbages and potatoes have been growing abundantly in a village in Buguias town, giving Kankanaey people a steady income.
Tingguian elder Magno Dumas has committed himself to guard and protect every species of trees, plants, wild game and fresh water fish in Tubo, a remote upland town in Abra.
Although based in the United States, Andrew Bacdayan, a retired economics professor, had closely monitored the intertribal conflict in the villages of Fidelisan and Dalican in his hometown of Sagada, Mt. Province, in the 1990s.
If the Cordillera’s rich mineral and other resources continue to lure multinational corporations, why can’t homegrown firms tap these for the region’s development? This is very much possible, according to leaders of the Igorot Global Organization (IGO), an organization of Igorot people abroad. This is why during its ninth international conference in Baguio City on [...]
