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More health personnel undergo training to improve Ilocos Norte’s testing...
Laoag City—Medical technologists and nurses assigned in several local government units in Ilocos Norte underwent a capacity-building training on September 24, 2020 to scale-up the province's testing...
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Smart GIGA Study expands e-Learning offers with Canvas and NEO LMS
Manila—PLDT Enterprise, together with Smart Communications, Inc., has recently expanded the Smart Giga Study data pack by offering access to both Canvas and NEO Learning Management Systems (LMS) to...
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Imee: Why are we import-crazy?
Senator Ma. Imelda Josefa “Imee” R. Marcos said the government must help local livestock raisers become more price-competitive to survive the surge of imports that make up more than half of the poultry...
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‘Smart kids’ in Ilocos Norte get cash award
By Leilanie G. Adriano (Staff Reporter)LAOAG CITY—Young achievers in the province of Ilocos Norte received their cash stipend in a simple ceremony held at the Ilocos Norte Centennial Arena. Running for...
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Imee: Rescue local rice farmers struggling with imports
By Bernardo B. Ver II (Contributor)Senator Ma. Imelda Josefa “Imee” R. Marcos is urging the government to put off rice importation until after the peak of the wet season harvest this October, so that...
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Chinese consul visits Ilocos Norte border personnel
Pagudpud, Ilocos Norte—Officials of the Chinese Consulate in Ilocos Norte, headed by consul Zhou Youbin, visited the northern provincial border in this town and gave border personnel meals and face...
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Ilocos Norte adopts ‘SafePass’ app to manage Covid-19
By Leilanie G. Adriano (Staff Reporter)LAOAG CITY—As the province of Ilocos Norte relaxes its borders to tourists and returning residents, the provincial government of Ilocos Norte is urging all its...
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PGIN, ‘Arkila’ to hire displaced PUV drivers
Laoag City—The provincial government of Ilocos Norte (PGIN) and "Arkila," a local delivery service provider, have collaborated to employ displaced public utility vehicle (PUV) drivers as delivery...
View ArticleLGUs reduce market stall rentals
By Dominic B. dela Cruz (Staff Reporter)Laoag City—As the novel coronavirus pandemic rages on, local government units in Laoag, Batac and San Nicolas offered discounts to their respective public market...
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Strong and Free at 63
The Ilocos Timesmarks this month its 63rd Anniversary as a bastion of the free press in Northern Philippines. Community newspapers here and elsewhere have come and gone but this paper has endured the...
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Laoag dad proposes CCTV coverage expansion
By Dominic B. dela Cruz (Staff Reporter)Laoag City—To ensure the safety, security and well-being of every citizen, Laoag councilor Jason Bader Perera authored a measure amending city ordinance No. 019...
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Pagudpud opens resort for drug reformists
By Leilanie G. Adriano (Staff Reporter)Pagudpud, Ilocos Norte—A beach resort at Brgy. Burayoc in this town was officially opened on Sept. 30, 2020 to temporary house former drug dependents. In a...
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Sounding the alarm on suicide
Raising the alarm on the rising incidence of suicide in the province, a rise that is also observed almost everywhere in the planet, Ilocos Norte Governor Matthew M. Manotoc made an appeal for everyone...
View ArticleLaoag council OKs priority lanes
By Dominic B. dela Cruz (Staff Reporter)Laoag City—As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic rages on, the Sangguniang Panlungsod here approved an ordinance providing priority lanes for...
View ArticleLaoag SK prexy to face raps at the Office of the President?
By Dominic B. dela Cruz (Staff Reporter)Laoag City—The city’s Sangguniang Kabataan federation president and Sangguniang Panlungsod ex-officio member Anzhelyka Faye Lao expressed surprise on the issue...
View ArticleBatac asks PCIC to include mango growers in insurance
By Dominic B. dela Cruz (Staff Reporter)City of Batac—The city government here has requested the Philippine Crop Insurance Corporation (PCIC) for the inclusion of mango growers in their insurance...
View ArticleNo fiesta in Batac this December
By Dominic B. dela Cruz (Staff Reporter)City of Batac—Mayor Albert D. Chua announced that the city of Batac will not celebrate this year’s annual fiesta due to the continuing coronavirus disease 2019...
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Ilocos Norte PDLs adopt composting, grow own food
By Leilanie G. Adriano (Staff Reporter)LAOAG CITY—Persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) at the Ilocos Norte Provincial Jail will soon have a stable source of fresh vegetables grown on a healthy soil...
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New Batac police OIC
P/Lt. Col. Roger Digmayo pays a courtesy call at the SP session hall during a regular session on October 5, 2020 as the newly detailed OIC police chief of the city effective October 1, 2020. Mr....
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Father of the Philippine Army
The officialdom of the City of Batac, headed by mayor Albert D. Chua commemorates the 154th birth anniversary of the “Father of the Philippine Army”, Gen. Artemio Ricarte. General Ricarte was born in...
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