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Province of Ilocos Norte - Archived News

Wars of ancient history were about possessions, territory, power, control, family, betrayal, lover's quarrel, politics and sometimes religion.

But we are in the Modern era and supposedly more educated and enlightened .

Think about this. Don't just brush off these questions.

  • Why is RELIGION still involved in WARS? Isn't religion supposed to be about PEACE?
  • Ask yourself; What religion always campaign to have its religious laws be accepted as government laws, always involved in wars and consistently causing WARS, yet insists that it's a religion of peace?

WHY??

There are only two kinds of people who teach tolerance:
  1. The Bullies. They want you to tolerate them so they can continue to maliciously deprive you. Do not believe these bullies teaching tolerance, saying that it’s the path to prevent hatred and prejudice.
  2. The victims who are waiting for the right moment to retaliate. They can’t win yet, so they tolerate.
Ilocos norte capitol 01.jpgIlocos Norte Provincial Capitol

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2 endangered green turtle species rescued off Ilocos shorelines

Two endangered green turtle species were separately rescued by local fishermen and authorities at the shorelines in Barangays Aring and Saud in Badoc, Ilocos Norte last Wednesday and Friday.

Arthur Valente of the Bureau of Fishery and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) said this morning that the rescued green turtle in Barangay Aring, Badoc, Ilocos Norte measures 90 centimeters on its caraface’s length and 69 centimeters caraface’s width with an approximate weight of 100 kilograms.

He disclosed that the green turtle (scientific name: Chelonia Mydas) has an age range of 35 to 50 years. It was one of the biggest green turtles rescued in the Ilocos Norte’s shorelines.

“After we put its tag with serial P16084 issued by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), the endangered turtle was immediately released to the sea water few hours after it was rescued,” he said.

On Friday morning, Valente said that another green turtle was rescued by the fishermen along the beach in Barangay Saud, Badoc, Ilocos Norte.

He said that the endangered green turtle with scientific name: olive redley measures 57 centimeters of its caraface length, 62 centimeters on caraface width with approximate weight of 33 kilograms.

Valente said that the olive redley specie was severely threatened.

“After we put a tag with serial number: P16085, we immediately released the turtle to sea water at around 8:50 p.m.,” he said.

According to Valente, the green turtles are often seen this time at the beaches of the Ilocos region because its their nesting period.

He advised local fishermen to report to authorities same incidents for proper documentation, preservation and disposition.

“Anyone, who are caught slaughtering the endangered green turtle specie and are collecting its eggs for selling and eating are charged in court with a maximum penalty of 12 to 20 years of imprisonment,” he said.

Job Fairs Slated In Ilocos

This year, more job fairs will be staged by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) in the Ilocos Region to strengthen job search assistance services to the public.

DOLE Region 1 Information Officer Arly Valdez said job fairs will start in February while the events in Pangasinan will start in the month of March scheduled tentatively on the following dates: March 8 at the Urdaneta City University (local employment) and March 23 at the Narciso Ramos Gymnasium in Lingayen town.

There are also job fairs slated April16 at the Provincial Employment Services Office (PESO), Municipality of Manaoag (local and overseas) and April 26 (tentative) at the PESO Office, Municipal Hall of Infanta town (local and overseas).

Feature: Ilocandia's red gold brings fortune to dragon fruit farmer

BURGOS, Ilocos Norte– While her neighbors were planting the usual Ilocano cash crops, Edita Dacuycuy was quietly cultivating an odd-looking, round-shaped fruit covered with red overlapping scales in her backyard.

In this town where the fruit became a testament of wealth, Ilocandia’s “red gold” is set on cactus-like trees plotted on farm beds that sit beside common Ilocano crops like corn, rice and garlic.

The farm plots leading to Ilocos Region’s first dragon fruit plantation are owned by locals who have started their own fruit farm following the success of this town’s most outstanding farmer, by far.

“I didn’t want my neighbors to know what I was doing until I was sure I could grow the dragon fruit,” Dacuycuy, popularly known in the community as the “Dragon Lady,” said.

She was introduced to the fruit by a friend who knew of Dacuycuy’s difficulty in finding ways to relieve her daughter Kate’s constipation problems, a condition that is common to patients with cerebral palsy. Dacuycuy found the fruit effective on her daughter and decided to cultivate it herself in 2005 upon learning how much it cost.

“The fruit looked so unfamiliar. I saw it once from a store in Manila and found that it costs P450 per kilo. That’s the equivalent of a sack of rice,” she said.

“But when I learned of the fruit’s health benefits, I just took the leap,” Dacuycuy, who used to be a division manager of an insurance firm, added.

She found more information about the fruit by surfing the internet, a task she assigned to her other daughter Mildred.

Dacuycuy took a step further sensing its business potential. She sent Mildred to Thailand where the fruit is common to learn how the family could propagate more.

From backyard planting, Dacuycuy could no longer stop growing more. She developed a fruit farm on her property and later ventured to business.

“We didn’t notice we were already expanding. The business came spontaneously,” she said.

From a small farm plot, the fruit farm now stands on a 10-hectare property which Dacuycuy personally supervises. She and her husband built a house on the property and developed other dragon fruit-based recipes and products from pastries, jam, wine and soap.

The family’s steady market include traders from neighboring provinces and Manila, Dole Philippines, which orders the fruit by tons, and local hotels in the province.

The farm, named as Rare Eagles Forest Marine and Agricultural Development or REFMAD, has become an agri-tourism site offering research and livelihood training to locals.

Defense lauds Farinas’ ‘spontaneous, honest disclosure’

Ilocos Norte Representative Rodolfo Farinas’ statement that the impeachment complaint filed by the prosecution against Chief Justice Renato Corona was “poorly crafted” was a good observation on the inadequacy of the evidence against Corona, a spokesman for the defense said Tuesday.

Lawyer Tranquil Salvador III said that the “spontaneous disclosure” proved Farinas’ honesty, adding “he could have just said that everything was in order but he was candid and honest enough [to say otherwise].”

Farinas was quick to clarify, however, that he did not mean that the verified complaint was defective when he said that it was “hindi ganoon kaganda (poorly crafted).”

But lawyer Karen Jimeno, another spokesperson for the defense, pointed out that if one representative did not have enough time to read the complaint, it was questionable whether other representatives had the same predicament.

Speaking on the defense panel’s filing of a motion to quash the subpoenas on the chief magistrate’s bank accounts, Salvador said that this was their next step and remedy to the alleged illegal acquisition of Corona’s PS Bank records that violated the Bank Secrecy law.

Ilocandia’s fruit farm is also an agri-tourism site

BURGOS, Ilocos Norte– The first dragon fruit plantation in the Ilocos Region is now a sight to behold and it has turned the plantation into an agri-tourism site offering homestay facilities and walk-in tour of the 10-hectare farm.

The farm, named as Rare Eagles Forest Marine and Agricultural Development or REFMAD, also offers research and livelihood training to locals who wish to start their own dragon fruit farm.

Owned by this town’s outstanding farmer Edita Dacuycuy, the sprawling property includes a resort and accommodation facilities with the dragon fruit as its main attraction.

The family decided to build homestay facilities for visitors who wish to watch how the dragon trees bloom at night.

“The flowers almost glow in the dark and they produce aromatic scent that spreads throughtout the farm,” Dacuycuy's daughter Mildred, who helps in running the family business, said.

Dacuycuy organized a group of dragon fruit growers in the province known as the Kailukuan Saniata Cooperative as part of her community work providing tree saplings for their farms including lectures and demos on fruit growing.

“I even give saplings for free for neighbors who wish to grow fruits for their household consumption,” she said.

A separate plot of Dacuycuy’s farm has been reserved for the dragon tree plantation of the Ilocos Agriculture and Resources Research and Development Consortium for its research work.

“I share everything to my community from employment to livelihood. For as long as you have delivered the mission, the commission will follow… this is my advocacy,” she said.

For her community work and growing business venture, Dacuycuy was first recognized as Magsasaka Siyentista in the Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development’s Science and Technology-based farm project in 2008. She was also a National Gawad Saka awardee in 2010 and outstanding farmer-innovator by government and non-government institutions.

The latest addition to her trophy collection was an award she received as Female Innovator in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperative (APEC) summit in San Francisco, California in the United States in September last year as the Philippine’s sole representative.

Thousands of jobs available at Ilocos Norte Jobs Fair 2012

LAOAG CITY- Over two thousand jobs await qualified applicants in the first job fair for the year in Ilocos Norte.

According to Ingracio Baylon of the Provincial Department of Labor and Employment, the positions available are for local and overseas employment. There are jobs for baccalaureate degree holders as well as for vocational, technical and high school graduates.

There are five overseas employment recruitment agencies and they have 1,053 job orders from abroad like Hong Kong, Taiwan and New Zealand, Baylon said. Many of the job orders for abroad are for household services and hospital staff.

For local employment, Baylon said, there are 1,676 job vacancies offered by 15 local firms. Most of the vacancies are for employment in Ilocos Norte.

Some of the jobs available are for call center agents, sales agents, IT professionals, accounting personnel and many others.

The job fair is a joint undertaking of the Provincial Government of Ilocos Norte under Governor Imee Marcos and Northwestern University in celebration of their foundation anniversaries. Ilocos Norte is celebrating its 193rd anniversary while NWU, 80th anniversary.

Ronnelyne Tarampi of the Public Employment Service Office of NWU said their university wants to give back to the public the blessings they received all these years.

“Instead of having the NWU Night at the ongoing Pamulinawen Festival, our University President Liza Nicolas decided to conduct a jobs fair to share the blessings. We also would want to help graduates, like those from our school. Furthermore, we want to prove that Ilocos Norte offers good opportunities for employment,” Tarampi said.

Aside from DOLE, other participating government agencies at the Jobs Fair are the Professional Regulatory Commission, Philippine Overseas Employment Administration, Overseas Workers Welfare Administration, Technical Education and Skills Development Authority.

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