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A Farmer’s Daughter, TCC Scholar, finishes degree with cum laude

A proud farmer’s daughter and hardworking student, Karryle P. Piaga, 23, from Buguias, Benguet, a scholar of sponsors at The Cordillera Connection (TCC), attains her degree in Bachelor of Science in Development Communication at Benguet State University with an award of distinction or cum laude.

Financial difficulties did not stop Karylle to pursue her dream of getting a degree in the university, with a hope that her education can help her family to get out of poverty, not having to forever endure the hardships working in the farm and the ever changing prices of crops that gives them uncertainties when it comes to their livelihood.

Karylle reached out to The Cordillera Connection community to ask for help with her financial needs at school. A generous sponsor, an overseas worker, even agreed to provide her a laptop.

“Ti challenges a napadasak ket ti pinansiyal gapu ta kasapulan nga agbayad para iti boarding ken kasapulan nga aggatang ti materyales para iti pagadalan kas ti laptop. Gapu iti Cordillera Connection, adda ti nagsponsors kadagiti usarek kas ti laptop agingga second year college.” “English: The challenges I faced was financial difficulties as I needed to pay my accommodation and I needed to buy materials for school such as laptop. Because of The Cordillera Connection, some people sponsored my needs such as the laptop.

Karylle worked as student assistant at the university and as a bagger at a Korean shop to augment her needs. She struggled during the pandemic online classes but was able to turn the tides and performed well when classroom education resumed.

The Cordillera Connection Congratulates Karylle, her parents and her kindhearted sponsors.

Cebu Pacific dominates Philippine Airlines with its 152-aircraft purchase order worth $24B with Airbus

Low-cost carrier Cebu Pacific continues to dominate the Philippine air travel industry and overtakes the country’s flag carrier, Philippine Airlines, with its purchase order of about 152 new aircrafts from Airbus amounting to $24-billion (P1.4 trillion), so far the biggest deal in Philippine aviation history.

The low-cost airlines company, owned and controlled by tycoon Lance Gokongwei and his family’s conglomerate JG Summit Holdings, holds a fleet of about 85 Airbus and some smaller ATR turboprop aircraft, and an existing order book of more than 30 planes from the European manufacturer. It plans to expand operations to maintain domination in the domestic aviation market and keep its healthy share position against the resurgent Philippine Airlines.

Airbus thanks Cebu Pacific for its ongoing confidence in Airbus and its products, and is looking forward to finalising the contract. According to Cebu Pacific’s CEO Mike Szucs, when finalised, the deal will be a significant milestone for the local airline industry.

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Baguio and Cordillera’s Iconic Newspaper Comes to an End

Baguio Midland Courier, the iconic newspaper of Baguio City and the whole Cordillera region has announced today that it will be ceasing its operations effective July 22, 2024. It is now expected that there are only has 3 remaining publications before it stops operation.

The people’s favourite newspaper operated for 77 good years with its first publication on April 28, 1947, just a couple of years from the end of World War II, when it was founded by Atty Sinai Hamada. It released a 4-page newspaper with 200 copies on its first publication until it became the pioneer in printed journalism in Baguio City and the whole Cordillera region. Baguio Midland Courier remained a strong medium of information with is Sunday publications even the arrival of the internet and online age where news articles and published materials are easily accessible on smartphones and other devices.

It has become the favourite newspaper due to its wide coverage of the culture, business and economy, politics and governance and others aspects and issues that matters to the lives of Baguio City people and the Cordilleras. Not only because of it’s wide reach to information but also by involving the contribution of people’s thoughts and opinion and thru catering the literary contribution of its readers. I for one, made a contribution on its one of its weekly mail column.

Most especially, it was a favourite medium of information as it has always maintained impartiality on issues that divides the people, something that most journalists and broadcasters fail to abide by in the name of journalism. Thank you Baguio Midland Courier!

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Cebu City: The Oldest City and The First Capital of The Philippines

Cebu City is the oldest city and first capital of the Philippines. Being the first Spanish settlement in the country, the city became the birthplace of Christianity in the Far East. During the 300- year Spanish rule , Cebu built the country’s oldest university, San Carlos University, as well as the oldest street, Colon Street.

Today, Cebu City, is the capital of Cebu Province, an island 365 miles south of Manila and the home of the Cebuanos. Based on 2020 census, Cebu City has a population of 964, 169.

Cebu City is now a commercial center for different industries such as being one of the major hub for business process outsourcing (BPO), banking, finance, IT, tourism, copper mining, fishing and aquaculture, farming and agriculture, shipbuilding, steel and cement. The harbor of Cebu City serves both international ocean-going vessels and domestic ships and five inter-island shipping companies, hence the prime centre of trade of Southern Philippines.

Photos by Project Lupad and Wikipedia.

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Why Baguio will be more expensive than London.

P250 per entry congestion charge will make Baguio more expensive than London. How?

The plan of Baguio City to implement P250 congestion charge each time a vehicle enters the City Business District will make the city more expensive than London.

To elaborate the comparison, London congestion charge is just £15 per day. This means a driver will pay the charge only once a day, no matter how many times the car will enter the congestion charge zone. £15 is also just over an hour pay of an ordinary worker. The minimum pay in London or UK is £11.44 per hour. Residents within the Congestion charge are also exempted.

In Baguio, the proposed congestion charge is P250 per entry. P250 is more than half of the daily minimum wage which is P430/ roughly P60 per hour. P250 is more than 4 hours pay of a minimum wage worker. If the driver enters the City Business District 10x in a day, the driver will be charged P2,500.00. If a driver needs to go inside the City Business district once a day, everyday, it means he needs to pay P7,500.00 per month or P90,000.00 per year.

Roughly speaking, 5,000 vehicles entering the city each day, guarantees P1,250,000.00 income for the city per day or P37,500,000 a month or nearly half billion pesos a year. More than enough fund for a candidate to campaign for a national position.

If this is implemented, Baguio City will be more expensive and more stressful than London. It is a very lucrative income-generating scheme that will be masked as a solution to traffic.

If a solution to the traffic condition is the only reason, why not try banning all private vehicles entering the City Business district and only allow PUJ/ PUV as a common transport to all residents, tourists, rich and poor just like London? Not a very expensive cruel P250 Congestion Charge.