The Ilocos Times

Pssst: Do you know how a man can hit his girlfriend without being charged with domestic violence? Read this. A Filipino police officer in Honolulu was recently shown in a videotape distributed to television stations apparently hitting with his fists his attractive Caucasian girlfriend in a restaurant kitchen. Police officers who responded to a 911 call did not file a police report.   The police department did not file charges against the Filipino thus raising an uproar in the community. The department referred the matter to the city prosecutor. He did not file charges and instead referred it to a grand jury for investigation. I do not agree with those who call it “punting” (an idiomatic expression for avoiding making a decision) since the prosecutor could defend his action that it was a way to issue grand jury subpoenas to reluctant or uncooperative witnesses so that he could compel them to testify under oath exactly what they saw and heard as the events on the videotape unfo

By Dominic B. dela Cruz Staff reporter Laoag City— Laoag councilor Joseph H. Tamayo shot down a proposal to allow motorcycle riders not wear helmet when they are in the city’s poblacion area. Laoag City police chief P/Supt. Jeffrey T. Gorospe earlier made the proposal to do away with the wearing of helmet in the poblacion area to prevent concealment of identities of motorcycle-riding criminals. Mr. Gorospe said assassinations or shooting of civilians are usually carried out by riding-in-tandem criminals who take advantage of the helmet law to conceal their identities. The newly installed police chief cited an example where a traffic aide was accidentally dragged by a motorcycle whose rider was not identified because of the helmet as well as a hit and run victim who was hit by a motorcycle with no vehicle plate. He added that the wearing of helmet for motorcycle riders is a national law but he singled out Batac City where the wearing of helmet in their poblacion a

“ The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. ”-- Abraham Lincoln Philosophy according to the Free Dictionary is said to be the love and pursuit of wisdom by intellectual means and moral self-discipline. It is also an art of investigating nature, causes, or principles of reality, knowledge, or values, based on logical reasoning rather than empirical methods. But because of its complicated principles, philosophy remains as a mystery to most of the students. For the record, philosophy first surfaced when Thales of Miletus, a   pre-Socratic   Greek philosopher hypothesized about the nature of matter— that the originating principle of nature was a single material substance: water. Thales attempted to explain natural phenomena without reference to   mythology   and was tremendously influential in this respect and eventually lead to an essential idea of scientific revolution and because of his principles and hypotheses, he

Surprise , surprise. Forests now cover over half of the Philippines.   It actually increased from 23.9 percent in 2003 to 52.6 percent of the total land area in 2006, according to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). This is among the country's major achievements toward achieving international biodiversity targets by 2020, says a CBD country profile citing the Philippine Millennium Development Goal report of 2007. Protected areas increased from 8.5 percent in 1992 to 12.8 percent of total land area in 2008, including 1,169 marine protected areas (in the form of reserves, sanctuaries and parks). Improvements in the management effectiveness of these sites rose from 15 percent in 2000 to 30 percent in 2007.   The number of confiscations of illegally traded wildlife species regulated increased from 513 heads in 2005 to 11,124 heads in 2011; measures such as fish farming and eco-tourism in protected areas are being implemented. The Philippine

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By Leilanie G. Adriano Staff reporter Laoag City —Over the past 12 years, the level of compliance of local government units to the provisions of the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act is low, said provincial environment and natural resources officer Juan delos Reyes. In view of this, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in cooperation with the National Solid Waste Management Commission has sent letters to all concerned local government units here to comply with the law. To promote voluntary compliance to the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000, otherwise known as Republic Act 9003, the DENR initiated a three-day seminar workshop, inviting all local chief executive of the province to improve their local governance through observing discipline and cleanliness. Of the 21 municipalities and two cities here, Mr. Delos Reyes said that about 50 percent has complied with the 10-year solid waste management law. For now, he said majority