Ilocos Times - Online

Online Issue Vol. VI No. 2
August 01 - August 07, 2005

LATEST NEWS UPDATEs (8/12/05)
Ilocanos mark Ablan’s 99th birth anniversary
SP disapproves LC budget override
Commentary: Back to Work

HEADLINE

Before complying with rebate order
INEC to wait for ERC decision on its appeal
Coop also makes partial franchise tax payment to PGIN More than two months after the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) order for the Ilocos Norte Electric Cooperative (INEC) to pay back P102 million to its member-consumers the power utility overcharged, INEC General Manager Romillas C. Pascual said they would still wait the ERC’s decision on their motion for reconsideration before they act on the rebate order.
FULL STORY

On LC budget controversy
Prov’l dad urges presentation of 2 committee reports
Says issue “pain in the neck”

The long-drawn controversy on the 2005 Laoag City budget has become a “pain in the neck” for Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) member Da Vinci M. Crisostomo as he urged his colleagues that the two committee reports of the SP’s committee on laws be presented on the board’s next regular session on August 8.
FULL STORY

Sarrat, Maui ink sisterhood ties

Sarrat, Ilocos Norte—Fresh from a trip to the Hawaiian islands, town Mayor Corazon R. Abad reported that her visit to the Aloha State had been to formalize the signing of the sister-town relationship between this town and Maui county.
FULL STORY

NFA: Enough rice for the lean months

The National Food Authority has assured the public of sufficient rice supply in Ilocos Norte for the lean months until the end of the year.
FULL STORY

Other News...
... A third of Ilocanos, Cordillerans want GMA to step down
... PGIN gives cash incentives for IRAA top athletes
... Batac PNP eyes ‘inside job’ in bank robbery
... DLR-PhilHealth program revitalized
... LC BFP deputizes brgy folks for fire prevention
... MVF appoints former LC vice mayor at City Hall
... Paoay loom weavers benefit from SEA-K
... CSU Head lauds emergency response team, expresses dismay with City Hall employees
... LC mobile passport service set in September

SPECIAL FEATURE
(to be published again as requested by several readers)
... Elements or Features of Canadian Society and Their Influence on Immigrants Like Me
by: Ernie T. Lumaoang, Ph. D.

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EDITORIAL
Eight or nine or none

Opinion / Columns :
... IN & OUT - Much ado over nothing
... IN-DEPTH - Misery and hope
... ANALYSIS - When signs begin to ‘speak’
... STRAIGHT FROM MANILA - Rebuilding the career system
... BALITANG BETERANO - Facts about the presidency and the politics of graft

ILUKO articles
... BANDU ILUKO - Ablan Day Celebration set
... MAIKADUA A TALDIAP ITI KASO NI PGMA

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