Baguio Insider

Catchy slogan!

There’s actually a group of evangelists and Baguio residents who have formed a watch group and want to shoo away migrants.

Their ire, though is focused on the Koreans. I have reproduced excerpts of a recent article below:

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There’s a recent addition to this post below:

I posted a comment at Padma’s blog about the people of Baguio not being really poor, Nashman asked me if we lived in the same universe, so I had to rethink my definition of ‘poor.’

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Good news for all those living in Baguio, or those coming up in the next few months!

Asian Massage is a great alternative to all the blind masseurs who have heretofore been the only ones offering home service massage. And you no longer have to go to a public place like those ’spas’ at SM City Mall or Session Road.

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UPDATE on 11/17/2007: Mrs. Sembrano, who was elected as city councilor in May 2007,  and in no way responsible for the  ’savings’ from the 2006 city budget (not that that’s any justification for the city council’s recent move),  has voted along with other members to allot a cars for themselves in a recent issue.

Please read this article though as far as the irony of things is concerned, Mrs. Sembrano who heads the market committee opposing a market on Burnham Park that Pinky Rondez, head of the tourism committee is pushing for).

I was so hoping that Mrs. Sembrano, not being heretofore responsible for the current ills in Baguio (unlike her re-electionist compatriots) would be a fresh voice, a clean voice. The recent developments have proven otherwise.

I have been getting dismayed about Baguio’s mayors, vice-mayors, councilors and congressmen in recent days years. All the same people who have been members of past administrations keep getting elected all the time. The same people directly responsible for the uglification of Baguio and the destruction of the good quality of life that people have enjoyed here for decades.

Last May, Elaine Sembrano’s name surfaced because she was a dark horse, a political newbie, who’s daughter it seems appears on TV. But Mrs. Sembrano was elected because she has kept close ties with the market vendors via what can be called micro-financing, according to her sister, Baby Samonte, who is one of my friends in Manila. So she made it to the magic 12 and thank goodness for that!

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