Benguet

At least 150 local leaders in the Cordillera Administrative Region led by four governors, two vice governors and two members of the House of Representatives have pledged support for their “adopted son” former defense secretary Gilbert “Gibo” Teodoro Jr. in this year’s presidential contest.

The Cordillera officials join their Northern Alliance counterparts in having declared support for Teodoro, whose maternal grandmother hails from Baguio City, during a Sunday night dinner program at the Hotel Supreme Convention Center.

Typhoon Santi, which was earlier forecast to directly hit Metro Manila and four other provinces in southern Luzon, veered slightly southward on Friday night in the direction of Bicol and Southern Tagalog regions on Saturday even as Metro Manila remains threatened.

According to the 10:45 p.m. weather bulletin by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa), Santi was last spotted 30 kms north of Daet, Camarines Norte, moving west southwest at 20 kph.

Asked if Metro Manila remained along Santi's path, Pagasa administrator Dr. Prisco Nilo said that although there was still that possibility, the more likely scenario is that the center of typhoon Santi would pass south of Manila.

Just saw this in my account and I'm totally dismayed of what I read and saw(photo). As per the write-ups it happened in Benguet.We Igorots are so thankful for the extended help, sa hirap ba namang puntahan yong place…. Unfortunately the received relief clothing were unusable…di ba nila na-sort out muna ‘yong mga items before they distribute……

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The People of Benguet deserves better!
by jonathan bosantog.
The President of the Republic of the Philippines, fulfilling her mandate in serving her constituents brave the unsecured roads , the undetermined weather to show her sympathies to the people of Benguet... It was announced that the President and her team will be distributing relief items which includes used clothes and packed goods.

Candy Pangilinan apologizes to all Igorots

By SHIRLEY MATIAS PIZARRO
May 15, 2009, 1:29pm

In the recent Mothers’ Day weekend, comedienne Candy Pangilinan didn’t feel pampered nor cherished just like most of us mommies felt on that day.

The reason was she had been working, and working real hard. It’s an open secret that Candy is a single mom and has been doing a good job raising her child as such.

Unfortunately, she got embroiled in a “scandalous” situation after she carelessly mouthed the lines “Akala niyo Igorot ako ano? Tao po ako,” attempting to throw a punchline during the show at SM Baguio.

"I am an Igorot. Let me be treated as I deserve—with respect if I am good, with contempt if I am no good, irrespective of the name I carry. Let the term, Igorot, remain, and the world will use it with the correct meaning attached to it." – Jose Dulnuan”

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..I was in the souq last night and having difficulty in getting a cab. A kabayan stopped by and shared a lift, along the way we had a short conversation as to from where each other came from back home. "I said I am from Baguio-Benguet, an Igorot" -he looked back at me in a shocking face and said: "I thought igorots have t**ls**
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