War on ‘jueteng’ in Pampanga starts
by Tonette Orejas
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO—“E ta na tataya (Let’s stop betting).” Text messages with this call started circulating in Pampanga this week as the Pampanga Against Gambling Council (PAGC) launched a campaign to stop the illegal numbers game jueteng in Pampanga.
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Inquirer Southern Luzon
The old, old woman of Mt. Banahaw
SARIAYA, Quezon – With vegetables she herself grows in the cool climate of Mount Banahaw in Quezon for her daily sustenance, Filomena Remojo Relativo is only three years short of hitting the century mark.
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More village poll violence expected
DAGUPAN CITY—A candidate for village chief was shot dead in front of his furniture shop in Tayug, Pangasinan, on Tuesday even as more areas were placed under police watch in the run up to the barangay and youth elections on Oct. 29.
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Inquirer Northern Luzon
Local carvers learn from Maori artist
BAGUIO CITY -- Guests expected a physique like a member of the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team with spiral tattoos all over his body which he flaunts while doing the haka (Maori dance).
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Papers on overpriced computers missing
by Jolene Bulambot
CEBU CITY—The bidding documents of the controversial P23-million computer units bought by the Lapu-Lapu city government in 2005 were reported missing yesterday, an antigraft official said.
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Saving the youth from risks
by Ma. Cecilia Rodriguez
MISAMIS ORIENTAL--Unlike other teenagers, this group spends weekends and free time not in malls and game hubs but in dusty barangay (village) halls or even under the shade of a tree.
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Party-list exec linked to Palace held for extortion
by Marlon Ramos
CAMP VICENTE LIM, Laguna—Agents of the police Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) arrested an alleged ranking official of a party-list group who conned two police applicants during an entrapment operation in Noveleta, Cavite on Tuesday night, police said Wednesday.
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Inquirer Visayas
Pain lingers a year after bridge tragedy
IGBARAS, Iloilo – They cried as the miniature boats with red and yellow flowers and candles were carried gently by the same waters that took their loved ones a year ago. The healing has been slow for the people of Igbaras, 39 kilometers southwest of Iloilo City.
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