The Commission on Elections (Comelec) in the Cordillera is preparing a post-election report to help determine who is accountable for the delivery error that cost more than 600 registered voters their right to vote in a village here on May 13.
The Liberal Party’s quest to become the ruling party for the 2016 presidential election is going to be a much longer and harder journey, as far as central and northern Luzon are concerned.
On the week when some of their elementary and high school students graduated, teachers buckled down to design schools for upland communities that suffer erosions due to extreme weather and recruit teachers who are more inclined to adapt to Cordillera culture.
Public Works Secretary Rogelio Singson has doubled the 2013 infrastructure budget for repaving national roads in the Cordillera to help speed up road improvement in the upland region, an official of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) here said.
The Cordillera, which has some of the richest woodlands in the country, has few facilities against fires occurring in the region’s forests and populated areas, according to the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP).
Many households in Abra counted down the minutes to 12:04 p.m. on Thursday when all lights went out—possibly for much longer than usual in the far-flung Cordillera province.
The Regional Peace and Order Council (RPOC) in the Cordillera is studying a plan for local candidates in the 2013 elections to campaign together to help reduce tension or violence during the election period in the region.
Fixing a decades-old waste problem won’t be easy for an upland town in Mountain Province that was slapped with a writ of “kalikasan” on Oct. 17 because neighboring Kalinga province believed the dump had been polluting the Chico River.
The Cordillera police on Friday began an inventory of firearms owned by a militia formed by slain rebel priest Conrado Balweg, in preparation for a gradual disarmament process that is dictated by its July 4, 2011, closure agreement with the government.
The Aquino administration has secured a loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to rehabilitate the Chico River in the Cordillera, which a group seeks to protect through a writ of kalikasan from continuing pollution from neighboring Mountain Province.
The Cordillera’s terrain makes interaction a difficult task for government workers and law enforcers, and occasionally, even for upland villages involved in conflicts.
The more adventurous European backpackers usually relish a ride through the upland provinces of the Cordillera clinging to their luggage on top of the roofs of jeepneys or minibuses.
POWER supply in four provinces in Cagayan Valley and the Cordillera will be cut off for 12 hours on Wednesday to give way to maintenance work of the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP).
