December 12, 2020
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 […]
December 12, 2020
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 […]
December 11, 2020
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 […]
December 11, 2020
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 […]
December 10, 2020
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 […]
December 10, 2020
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 […]
December 7, 2020
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 […]
December 7, 2020
Three young drug traders trying to sneak passed a border control area along lower Magsaysay Ave., Sunday night at least 7 kilos of dried marijuana leaves worth P840,000.00 were outsmarted by Baguio policemen and PDEA-Baguio agents.. Manuel Sanchez Balbuena II, 22, a native of Balagtas, Bulacan but is living at #4 Sunnyside Fairview, Tacay Road, […]
December 7, 2020
A baby Brahminy Kite eagle flew back to the wilds in Ilocos Norte after it was released by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Monday morning. Staying two days with the environment officers in Ilocos Norte for two days after it was found by two teenage boys near the Padsan River in barangay […]
December 7, 2020
BAGUIO CITY (December 7, 2020) — Tinglayan town in Kalinga was placed under lockdown for two weeks until December 21. Tinglayan Mayor Sacrament Gumilab via an executive order on Sunday placed the entire town under community quarantine after a COVID19 surge in barangays Bangad, Lower Bangad, Centro Bangad and Upper Bangad. The mayor also noted an increase […]