Category: Metro BLISTT

Zoning ordinance amendment eyed

The City Planning and Development Office (CPDO) is pushing for the amendment of the city’s zoning ordinance that currently allows only one parking slot for every five apartments or condo units in a building. CPDO Coordinator Archt. Donna Tabangin said that if possible, the requirement should be one slot for every apartment or condo unit […]

Tourism Promotions Board to fund 5 art, culture projects

Five major projects on art and culture in Baguio will be funded by Tourism Promotions Board (TPB), an attached corporation of the Department of Tourism. This was announced by DOT Secretary Bernadette Romulo Puyat in her keynote speech during the 111th Baguio Charter Day anniversary program on September 1, 2020. While the amount of the […]

Councilors eye bigger stipend for barangay health workers

The city council is eyeing the increase of the monthly stipend given by the City Government to qualified barangay health workers (BHWs), barangay nutrition scholars (BNSs), and barangay nutrition action officers (BNAOs). The proposed ordinance introduced by Councilor Betty Lourdes Tabanda seeks to adjust the said stipend from P3,500.00 to P5,000.00. Tabanda asserted that the […]

Dads tell residents to support census

The city council, in a resolution, is encouraging all residents in the city to fully cooperate in the ongoing census on housing and population conducted by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) and to give accurate information in order to ensure the credibility of the national census results. Councilor Vladimir Cayabas, main author of the resolution, […]

FREEDOM

A child runs around as the mom looks on and his siblings with the father during the first day of opening of the Burnham Park last Sept. 1. Zaldy Comanda

THREE OF EIGHT

Visual artists from left: Venazir Martinez, Angelo Aurelio and Silvino Dulnuan pose in front of the Sunshine Park stage where the eight kalasag (shield) shaped posts that hold the roof of said stage had been converted into murals. IOt was their way of honoring the bravery of frontliners in the battle against the coronavirus disease […]

City sources out P1 billion for priority projects

More than P1 billion worth of projects had been sourced out by the local government from the different government agencies to help in achieving the overall goal of making a better Baguio in the future. In his first State of the City Address (SOCA) delivered during the 111th Baguio Charter Day anniversary program at the […]

Weekly Covid stat: 7.71 infections a day, new death logged

Baguio experienced another surge this week as confirmed coronavirus disease (Covid-19) cases rose by 54 from the period August 25 to Sept. 3, the Public Information Office – Baguio reported. It was a 46 percent jump from the same period last week as the city reports 7.71 new infections every day from an average of […]

Magnobyong nagbebenta ng shabu sa nightclub entertainers timbog

LUNGSOD NG BAGUIO – Isang magnobyo na ayon sa anti-narcotics operatives ay nagbebenta sa mga night club entertainers ang nasakote sa isang apartment sa Loakan Proper barangay gabi ng Miyerkoles. Nagbenta si Patrick Roger Loyola Catbagan, 33, isang taxi driver mula barangay South Sanitary Camp at kaniyang kasintahan na si Maryjane Bautista Nunag, 28, isang […]

8 murals for frontline heroes in Covid fight unveiled

Eight local artists turned eight kalasag (shield) shaped posts of the Sunshine Park stage into murals honoring Baguio’s frontliners against the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) during the National Heroes Day celebration here last Monday. Young artists Venazir Martinez, Silvino Dulnuan, Angelo Aurelio and Pasakalye artists Joyce Mallare, Jherwin Libatique, Sonia Oyam and Angelica Rosalin and Tara […]

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