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Tag: chit estella

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    Categories Editor's Pick News

    ​ Chit Estella as children’s storyteller

    By Elizabeth Lolarga  |  Aug 11, 2021 2:59 PM

    Chit Estella, known for her hard-hitting reportage, her high ethical standards and unimpeachable integrity, was mourned by family, colleagues and friends when she died in a freak vehicular crash. But 10 years later, her voice cannot be stilled with the publication of a children’s book she authored.

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    Categories Editor's Pick News The Chit Estella Road Safety Page

    Still no justice for journalist Chit Estella 10 years after fatal road crash

    By VJ Bacungan  |  May 13, 2021 8:00 AM

    Her death was reported as an “accident,” but the tragedy that occurred a decade ago could have been prevented.

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    Categories Arts & Culture News The Chit Estella Road Safety Page

    6 years since Ma’am Chit’s death: still no justice, road crashes continue to rise

    By DANIEL ABUNALES  |  May 13, 2017 8:53 PM

    This year is no different in her family’s search for justice.

    #SafeRoadsPH, chit estella, overspeeding, road safety, speeding

  • Categories Road Safety Stories The Chit Estella Road Safety Page

    Five years after, still no justice for Ma’am Chit

    Aug 19, 2016 11:30 PM

    By JAKE SORIANO [metaslider id=48020] Photos by LALA ORDENES At first glance, the Quezon City Regional Trial Court looks more like a church than a court. An assortment of statues  — Christ on the cross, the child Jesus, the Virgin Mary — stare down on court employees, lawyers, police officers, nervous witnesses, family members of […]

    #SafeRoadsPH, chit estella, Commonwealth Ave., road safety, speeding

  • Categories News Road Safety Stories The Chit Estella Road Safety Page (old) The Fellows

    Meet the Road Safety Fellows

    Apr 18, 2016 8:52 PM

    IN MARCH, VERA Files conducted a road safety orientation seminar and training workshop for the 10 fellows chosen under the Road Safety Journalism Fellowship. Together with road safety advocates from the World Health Organization, VERA Files’ partner in the fellowship, the journalists took part in the three-day interaction, along with other stakeholders of the Bloomberg Initiative […]

    chit estella, road safety, WHO

  • Categories News Road Safety Stories The Chit Estella Road Safety Page (old)

    Road safety journalism award launched

    Apr 17, 2016 1:48 PM

    JOURNALIST and VERA Files trustee Ellen Tordesillas announced  on April 12 the launch of a new award to honor the best student work on road safety issues. The Chit Estella Road Safety Journalism Award, named in honor of journalist Lourdes “Chit” Estella-Simbulan, will be given next year as a special category in the Philippine Journalism Research […]

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    Conflict of judge and lawyers’ schedules delays Chit Estella case

    May 13, 2014 12:05 AM

    By APRIL ANNE BENJAMIN WHILE Chit Estella’s death three years ago in a vehicular accident came in a split second, the resolution of her case is taking forever. The cause: conflict of schedules of judge and the lawyers. “It is quite disappointing. Kung wala ‘yung delays, baka patapos na ang kaso (The trial should have […]

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    Driver: Estella chose route of ill-fated taxi

    Aug 16, 2012 11:12 PM

    THE driver of the taxi journalist Chit Estella was riding when it was hit by two buses said on Wednesday Estella herself had chosen the route the taxi took from her home to Ayala Technohub in Quezon City where she was to meet her friends for dinner.

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  • Categories Banner Chit's Desk The Chit Estella Road Safety Page (old)

    Cabbie blames 2 buses for Estella’s death

    Jun 29, 2012 10:34 AM

    By ARTHA KIRA PAREDES, Photos by MARIO IGNACIO IV

    THE driver of the taxi journalist Chit Estella was riding when she was killed last year blamed two buses that hit his cab along Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City, one with such impact it spun around.

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  • Categories The Chit Estella Road Safety Page (old) Top Stories Video

    Road safety website launched

    May 17, 2012 10:29 AM

    Text by REYNARD MAGTOTO, Photos and Video by VINCENT GO

    ROAD safety advocates launched on Sunday morning a websitein commemoration of the first year of the Decade of Action for Road Safety (DARS), which coincided with the first death anniversary of journalist Lourdes “Chit” Estellawho died in a road accident a year ago.

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