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Pacquiao visits Benguet to help flood, landslide victims

BAGUIO CITY (October 26, 2021)— Senator Emmanuel Pacquiao made a surprise visit to Benguet Tuesday to extend financial assistance to the families of the three young siblings who perished during a landslide triggered by the heavy rains due to typhoon Maring a few weeks ago.  He also distributed relief assistance to those who were affected […]

Baguio opens to fully vaccinated tourists

BAGUIO CITY (October 26, 2021) -Baguio City will now be welcoming tourists so long as they are fully vaccinated. Visitors though are still required to create an account on visita.baguio.gov.ph and with valid ID.   On their account, they must specify their schedule of visit at least a day before their travel. The city government […]

Baguio drug dealer’s home raided

BAGUIO CITY (October 25, 2021)— Over P50,000 worth of liquid and solid shabu including shabu sniffing paraphernalia were seized during a raid on an alleged drug dealer’s home at Victoria Village here Sunday night. Joint PDEA,  NBI-Cordillera agents backed up by local policemen wielding a search warrant issued by a local court here took Fernand Leo […]

Two killed in a motorcycles-car smash-up in Ilocos Sur

BAGUIO CITY (October 25, 2021) – A motorcycle rider was declared dead on arrival (DOA) while another rider succumbed while being treated at the hospital moments after their motorcycles smahed with a car Sunday night along a road in Barangay Nanguneg East, Narvacan, Ilocos Sur. Mark Mendell Verzola, 36, from Barangay Poblacion, Sta. Maria, Ilocos […]

Man stabs live-in partner to death in Iocos Sur

BAGUIO CITY(October 25, 2021)—-  A man stabbed his live-in partner to death after a verbal spat at around 8:00 AM Monday in Barangay Pug-os, Cabugao town in Ilocos Sur. Rowena Ibea Ramos, 26,  did not reach the community health unit clinic alive where she was rushed by villagers after suffering stab wounds on her abdomen, […]

Abra capital tricycle driver survives shooting

BAGUIO CITY (October 25, 2021)—- A tricycle driver survived an attempt on his life after a gunman shot him several times at 7:15 PM Sunday night in sitio Turod, Barangay Bangbangar, Bangued,  Abra’s capital. Luis Soria Agaid, 29, from Barangay Namarabar, Peñarrubia, Abra, reportedly came from the house of a friend and was driving his […]

Comelec grants petition of Independent Benguet Party

The Commission on Elections last week finally granted the petition for registration of the Independent Benguet Party (IBP) as a local political party in the province of Benguet. Socorro B. Inting, the presiding commissioner of the Comelec Second Division and Antonio T. Kho Jr. a member of the same division signed the resolution under SPP […]

DepEd employee timbog sa droga sa Abra

BANGUED, Abra – Natimbog na ng Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Abra ang matagal na nilang sinusubaybayan na empleyado ng Department of Education (DepEd) na sangkot sa pagbebenta ng shabu sa Bangued, Abra. Sinabi ni PDEA Regional Director Gil Castro, ang nadakip ay nakilalang si Jersey Pat Barbero,disbursing officer ng DepEd-Abra at residente ng Barangay Cabaroan, Bangued,Abra. […]

Think tank urges Rody to suspend taxes on petroleum products

BAGUIO CITY (October 22, 2021) — A public policy thinktank is calling on President Rodrigo Duterte to suspend taxes on petroleum products until the price of petroleum stabilizes in the international market. “The President in several instances has never shied away from undertaking executive action for the public interest, such as when he ordered the […]

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