Out of six nominations, La Union secured two awards in the event including Best Festival Practices and Performance for Mutia ti La Union 2020 and Best Festival Catalyst/Organizer for Gov. Pacoy. The Best Special Events Director was also awarded to Bernard Yabut Maybituin for Mutia ti La Union 2020. Other nominations for La Union were […]
BAGUIO CITY (December 14, 2020) -Infrastructure-oriented think tank InfrawatchPH lashed at the contradictory policy directions of various government departments in implementing the Ninoy Aquino International Airport rehabilitation project. “After last week’s bloody mess over the RFID system in Metro Manila’s tollways, the Department of Transportation should not now drop the ball in the airport sector, […]
Ribbon Cutting, Blessing and Commissioning of 10 MVA Substation. Lead by Engr. Melchor S. Licoben. BENECO General Manager (OIC), Mayor Ruben Tindaan, Vice Mayor Dionne Baucas, PB John Puddong, Fr. Jonathan C. Obar, BENECO BOD and Management and other Guests. December 11, 2020 at Sinipsip, Amgaleyguey, Buguias, Benguet. “The commissioning of the 10 MVA transformer […]
BAGUIO CITY (December 12, 2020) — Senior citizens and persons with disabilities (PWDs) in Baguio City can now enjoy free parking in all business establishments following the approval on third and final reading on December 7 Ordinance 149, Series of 2020, granting exemptions to senior citizens and PWDs from the payment of parking fees in […]
Hinterland Source Of Three Captured MJ Traders Zeroed In “P5.1M MJ On 20 Plantations Goes Up In Smoke” BAGUIO CITY (December 12, 2020) – Authorities zeroed in at the source of the three young marijuana traders captured Sunday night along lower Magsaysay Avenue here with 7 kilos of marijuana in tubes worth P840,0000.00. Starting Thursday […]
Decades ago, you could judge a city by the number of newstands on its main streets. Baguio City already was a cosmopolitan city even then. In the early 1920s, it already has a bookstore, owned by the mother of the great grammarian Jean Edades. At that time, most of Manila still had no electricity. After […]
BAGUIO CITY (December 11, 2020) – Panagbenga 2021 will still be enjoyed, though not anymore welcoming huge crowds, but blended rites. The recently held Ibagiw Creative Arts festival serves as a benchmark for the future staging of similar crowd-drawing events in the city, like the month-long Panagbenga by February, already on its 26th year, Baguio […]
BAGUIO CITY (December 10, 2020) – Narvacan, Ilocos Sur mayor Luis “Chavit” Singson, Vice Mayor Pablito Sanidad Sr., and 9 town councilors including town administrator Pablo Sanidad II, were sued before the Ombudsman in connection with the realignment of an aggregate P9M worth of unused funds for tourism, socio-cultural projects and activities. The Local Government […]
BAGUIO CITY (December 10, 2020) – Nineteen year old Czareanah Angel de Guzman alias “Ina Santos” was taken by authorities to face drug charges after she sold .5 grams of shabu to an undercover government agent Wednesday afternoon along Bakakeng Central barangay here. Baguio City police and PDEA-Baguio agents trapped de Guzman, categorized by authorities […]
BAGUIO CITY (December 7, 2020) – Infrastructure-oriented think tank InfrawatchPH urged transportation chief Arthur Tugade to man up and accept responsibility for the escalating public fallout over its order mandating cashless transactions in toll roads. This entire RFID mess has been due to the ‘ill-advised rush’ of DoTr to enact cashless transactions last August on […]