From GMANews.tv:
Relatives and friends of slain Abra Rep. Luis Bersamin Jr are offering a P500,000 bounty for information that would lead to the arrest of an alleged gunman in the December 2006 assassination, authorities on Tuesday said.
Chief Superintendent Eugene Martin, Cordillera police director, said family and friends of the slain politician raised the bounty for the arrest of Gerry Turqueza who is tagged as one of the gunmen in the slay.
The town of Kibungan is conducting a contest to change its current tagline, “The Switzerland of Benguet” into something more appropriate. Apparently some tourist was disappointed when s/he went to Kibungan to ski and found no ice on the mountain slopes. Read the story by Jane Cadalig here.
Duh! I’m not sure whether to sympathize with that disappointed tourist because if s/he’s not smart enough to know that there’s no snow in the tropics then it is her/his problem. Although in fairness to said tourist, I read somewhere that there’s some kind of ice/snow in one of the highest mountains of Malaysia (or Indonesia).
Hopefully this incident will teach us to stop defining ourselves by comparing ourselves to the West.
Thanks to Tina for setting up our blog. We finally have our own domain. Iyaman, Tina 🙂
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Contact me for details when you have the time! I’m going to hire you as my campaign manager for the North when I run for presidential elections. hehehehe!
This calls for a grand canao! Do I hear the gongs from a distance or smell the smoke from the wood fires? Waah! It’s been a long time since I’ve had itag.