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‘Saving Baguio from urban decay’

BAGUIO CITY (July 11, 2022)— A mission to save Baguio City from urban decay has been launched two weeks ago by Mayor Benjamin Magalong. Baguio City, whose environment has been compromised and carrying capacity upset,  turns 113 years old a month from now, and it is “hurtling towards urban decay”, he said. A “change of mindset” […]

SM City Baguio recognized as one of the Disaster Resilience Champions

SM City Baguio was recognized as one of the Disaster Resilience Champions on the kick-off program and “Panangdadayaw iti Bituen to Amianan” of the Cordillera Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (Cordillera RDRRMC) and the Office of Civil Defense-Cordillera Administrative Region (OCD-CAR) in observance of the National Disaster Resilience Month 2022. This year’s Theme […]

House ethics complaint foisted vs Philreca partylist lawmaker

BAGUIO CITY (July 11, 2022) — Member consumers of the Benguet Electric Cooperative (Beneco) is foisting an ethics complaint against Philippine Rural Electric Cooperative Association (Philreca) party-list representative, Presley De Jesus, before the Ethics Committee of the House of Representatives for using the cooperatives’ resources, equipment and facilities during the 2022 elections. In August 2021, […]

350 welcomed for PMA plebehood

Fort Del Pilar, Baguio City (July 9, 2022)— Three hundred fifty young boys and girls composing the Philippine Military Academy class of 2026 were welcomed for plebehood Saturday here. Officiating the oath taking rites at the hollowed ground of the premier military officer training institution in the country, PMA acting Superintendent Brig. General Julius Tomines […]

Oath of LU 2nd Dist Rep. Dante S. Garcia

Tubao, La Union(June 28, 2022)— La Union second district lawmaker Dante S. Garcia takes oath on Tuesday in his hometown Tubao town together with town officials of La Union’s 11 towns. Artemio Dumlao

Ombudsman junks plea of Ilocos Sur officials facing graft

BAGUIO CITY (June 26, 2022)— The Office of the Ombudsman has denied the petition for partial reconsideration of two former mayors of Narvacan town in Ilocos Sur facing graft raps. The nine-page ruling containing the consolidated order issued by Graft Investigator Daniel Von Evan Panelo; Assistant Ombudsman Pilarita Lapitan, and approved by Ombudsman Samuel Martirez, […]

Reds boasts of renewed NPA offensives ahead of PBBM inaugural

BAGUIO CITY (June 25, 2022)—- The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) boasted Saturday of renewed offensives by its armed wing— New Peoples Army— a week before Pres.-elect Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. takes his oath on June 30. The CPP lauded the NPA “for its actions defending the Lumad and Moro communities against the landgrabbers, […]

Baguio drug den raid nets 2 mantainers, four customers

BAGUIO CITY (June 25, 2022)— A nightfall raid Friday by Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency agents and local policemen at a lodge along Magsaysay Avenue here netted two drug den maintainers and four of their customers. More or less 20.4 grams of dried marijuana leaves, 3 ml of liquid shabu, and paraphernalia used in sniffing drugs […]

Yap backs PBBM as Agri-Chief

Incoming Benguet representative Eric Go Yap welcomed the decision of incoming President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to head the Department of Agriculture ensuring that food security will be on top of the next administration’s agenda. “The decision of incoming President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. to head the DA to ensure immediate government action on the issues […]

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