The Ilocos Times

Dua pulo ket maysa a kameng ti barangay ranger officers (BRO) idiay Badoc, Ilocos Norte ti immawat iti insentiboda kabayatan iti pannakaiyuswat Manang Imee’s Capitol Express iti nasao nga ili. Ni Gobernador Imee Marcos ti nangiyawat a mismo  kadagitoy iti  sag-tatallo ribu a pisos iti tunggal maysa. Dagiti BRO ti napusgan a mangkitkita ken mangtagtagiben kadagiti mula ti kabanbantayan ken kabakiran. Manmanteneren ti gobierno probinsial dagiti BROs kas maysa pay laeng kadagiti gagem ti Millennium Development Goals a maipaayan iti pagtrabahuan dagitoy kas asideg nga agindeg iti kabanbantayan. Malaksid iti panangproteherda kadagiti mula, sukatanda pay dagitoy no adda dagiti matay a patubo a mula. Daytoy ket paset metten iti National Greening Program ti gobierno nasional a supsupurtaran ti gobierno probinsial. ( PGIN-CMO )

Partners with POEA in anti-illegal recruitment campaign Ilocos Norte Governor Imee Marcos signs a Memorandum of Understanding on the Convergence on Illegal Recruitment-free Local Government Units Campaign held Nov. 20 at the Ilocos Norte Capitol. The MOU was signed between Gov. Marcos and representatives from the POEA, Department of Labor and Employment, Overseas Workers Welfare Administration and the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority. (PGIN-CMO) By Grazielle Mae A. Sales PGIN-CMO A serious bid to reinforce hands-on employment assistance for Ilocano job-seekers, overseas Ilocanos and returnees was on November 20, 2013 by Ilocos Norte Governor Ma. Imelda “Imee” R. Marcos during a session with the municipal mayors of the province and representatives from the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA). Held at the Sangguniang Panlalawigan Session Hall, Provincial Capitol the call was made in line with the signing of a Memorandum of Understa

Palpalagipan ti Public Employment Service Employment/Ilocos Norte Investment Center (PESO/INvest) iti kapitolio probinsial dagiti nagaplikar iti mobile passporting iti immuna a lawas daytoy a bulan ti Nobiembre. Daytoy ket iti umadanin a pannakaisayangkatna inton Disyembre 7, 2013, aldaw ti Sabado iti mismo a Kalipi Training Center iti Siudad ti Batac. Segun ken ni Eric Pascua iti PESO/INvest, agarup 750 dagiti nagaplikar ken nagipasa kadagiti requirements da para ti mobile passporting iti nasao nga aldaw. Naammuan nga iti dayta nga aldaw ti iyuumay dagiti taga Dept. of Foreign Affairs-Manila a mangiproseso kadagiti dokumento dagiti nanggundaway iti daytoy. Manamnama a maparuk-atan to met dagiti maiproseso a passports inton Enero 10  iti sumaruno a tawen. Ti regular mobile passporting ket iwaywayat ti gobierno probinsiyal ni Gobernador Imee Marcos babaen iti pannakikoordinarna kadagiti taga DFA nga umay ditoy Ilocos Norte iti gagem a saan a magastusan ken matak

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” - George Orwell, Animal Farm Once upon a time there was a wild pig who admired humans so much that he left his pigsty to live with men. The pig even gave himself a human name, Machupa, which means one who enjoys drinking —for he really enjoyed human drinks, especially a foaming cold beer. In his years of stay in the human world, Machupa never let a night pass without shots of booze; he often went home reeking with foul beerhouse odor. Also, in the human community, drinking and talking with men were Machupa’s regular sources of income. He worked as a pulutan consultant —he advised people, for a fee, which food would go best with the drink they love. Thus, in the business of pairing food and wine, people listened to Machupa. When he said that a full-bodied red wine should go with cheese-laden goat meat, red wine

By Jennifer T. Pambid PGIN-CMO The Provincial Government of Ilocos Norte under the leadership of Governor Ma. Imelda “Imee” R. Marcos strengthened its efforts to support the onion production in the province as part of the governor’s initiative to alleviate unemployment in Ilocos Norte as well as to promote the crop to a wider market. According to Wilfredo Valdez, President of the Vegetable Growers Association of Region 1, Marcos immediately granted the request for 70-gram onion seeds and additional fertilizers through the Provincial Agriculture Office (PAO). Valdez explained that 50 percent of the production cost is funded by the provincial government and the remaining 50 percent comes from the farmers. ILOCOS  Norte Governor Imee Marcos shows Senator Cynthia Villar the onion produce from the province at the Batac City public market on October 30. The senator led a public hearing on "Policies and Practices on the Importation and Distribution of Onion and Garlic&

By Dominic B. dela Cruz Staff Reporter Batac City —Political factionalism at Batac’s Sangguniang Panlungsod seems to be on an unending march as four more measures sponsored by Batac councilor Gwyneth Quidang were again disapproved. In the said measures, only Quidang voted in favor of her measures. The rejected four resolutions were requests for the Rep. Imelda R. Marcos (2 nd district, Ilocos Norte), Sens. Antonio F. Trillanes, Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. and the Committee Chairman on Civil Service and Professional Regulation of the House of Representatives Andres D. Salvacion to file a bill in Congress for the granting of civil service eligibility to qualified barangay tanods. Quidang expressed her disappointment similar to her thoughts when her earlier measure requesting the Mariano Marcos State University – College of Arts and Sciences for the conduct of free computer literacy training program for the barangay health workers (BHW), barangay nutrition scholars (BNS)

Filipinos , who’ve ousted two crooked presidents through non-violent “people power” watch with keen interest how Thailand’s version will play out. Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra survived a no-confidence vote—297 against 134—in parliament. Since Sunday, demonstrators marched on ministries in an attempt to shut them down. The protests were peaceful and BBC have described the mood of the rallies as friendly. The Prime Minister took care not to unleash cops flailing batons and tear gas. Filipino People Power took a leaf from Mahatma Ghandi’s 1930 march to protest the then colonial government’s “Salt Tax.” Edsa thereafter spilled over into Czechoslovakia’s "Velvet Uprising”, Ukraine’s "Orange Revolution, then Georgia’s "Rose Rebellion". Underground radio, a samizdat press and tele-women here vaulted Ferdinand Marcos gags on the press. Foreign TV and radio broadcast that peaceful rebellion. First generation cellphones appeared six years after Peopl