KARITOON.COM
The word karitoon comes from the words, Karitela- a horse-driven carriage used in Northern Luzon, used to transport goods to places; Kariton-a Big box, specifically balikbayan box; and Cartoon. Karitoon.com in a sense is a Big box in a horse-driven carriage, similar to the phlight of our overseas contract and migrant workers. Filipinos abroad, with different tales and different stori
es, the new “national heroes”, greatly contributing to help keep our the country’s economy afloat. Karitoon.com aims to give the “cartoon” or the lighter side of the news. “Hometown” news for Filipinos working out of the Northern Luzon area, good news about towns in Northern Luzon. We want our “Kailians” to feel at home, we aim to deliver news about their hometowns as it unfolds, news which you seldom get from other news sources on the web. Karitoon is where you could find photos of local festivals and local activities. We aim to inform our viewers about what is happening locally in the different provincinces and municipalites of the Northern Luzon. With the internet serving as the karitela, and the box containing the information that the internet holds, karitoon.com will be a home on the web, the “tambayan ng bayan” of those from the Northern Luzon regions of the Philippines.
