Sablan ’23 agri budget stands P1.595 million SABLAN, BenguetFarmers and fruit gardeners are all hopeful for abundant harvest as they look forward for a monthlong Fruit Festival celebration in September. For the first time, this annual festival will held for a month which is on its 9th edition. In a recent interview, Mayor Alfredo […]
Sablan Mayor Alfredo Dacumos, Jr. (4TH from left) leads in the rice fund activity recently held at their municipal grounds. The program has four components 1) rice farm mechanization, 2) inbred rice seed development,propagation, and promotion, 3) expanded rice credit assistance, and 4) rice extension services. Photo courtesy of Sablan Municipal Agriculture Office
La Trinidad Mayor Romeo Salda and Vice-Mayor Roderick Awingan commit to sustain assistance to local farmers and fishermen through the town’s livelihood programs during the recently concluded orientation and seminar for the sector. The activity with its theme “Masaganang agricultura maunlad na ekonomiya” focus on the proper management, handling of pesticides and the disposal of […]
Benguet lawmaker Eric Go Yap vowed to ensure the promotion of culture and tradition of all the tribes in the province as his legislative priority, proving critics wrong the non-Benguet native legislator would usher in a different culture in the highland province. As thousand converged in Kibungan during the recently held Kankana-ey Festival, Yap lauded […]
CAMP DANGWA, Benguet Bilang bahagi ng pinaigting na kampanya ng PROCOR laban sa iligal na baril, apat na loose firearms ang narekober sa mga lalawigan ng Abra, Ifugao, at Kalinga noong Mayo 20. Ayon sa mga ulat na isinumite kay Brig.Gen. David Peredo, Jr., regional director ng Police Regional Office Cordillera, dalawang loose firearms ang […]
P57-M halaga ng marijuana plants pinuksa sa Cordillera CAMP DANGWA, Benguet Nasa kabuuang P57 milyong halaga ng mga halamang marijuana ang nabunot at nasunog sa Benguet at Kalinga sa isang linggong operasyon ng Police Regional Office-Cordillera noong Mayo 14-20. Sa rekord mula sa Regional Operations Division (ROD), ang mga operasyon ng pagsugpo ng marijuana sa […]
SAN FERNANDO, La Union The Provincial Government of La Union (PGLU) under the leadership of Governor Raphaelle Veronica “Rafy” Ortega-David, through the Provincial School Board (PSB), turned over textbooks and workbooks worth Php 17,971,186.50 to Department of Education La Union Schools Division Office as support to the DepEd-LUSDO reading program headed by Superintendent Jorge M. […]
BAGUIO CITY The Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) reported that in 2022, a total of P2.217 billion of taxes, fees and royalties were paid by large mining companies operating in the Cordilleras. These large mining companies include Philex Mines, Benguet Corp., Lepanto Mines and Itogon-Suyoc Resources, Inc (ISRI). A total of P478.239 in excise tax […]
Bontoc, Mountain Province Ten individuals are recent beneficiaries of the Department of Labor and Employment Integrated Livelihood Program (DILP) or Kabuhayan Program. Bontoc Mayor Jerome “Chagsen” Tudlong, Jr., Senior Employment Labor Officer Marshall Pachingel of DOLEProvincial Office, and Employment Officer III Jenelyn Caluza of the Bontoc Local Government Unit (LGU) led the turnover of Kabuhayan […]
Landbank ATM to be installed in Sablan municipal ground SABLAN, Benguet To ensure that government services reach barangays especially to remote communities, the Municipal Government of this 5th class town has required its various departments to bring government services and also enhanced support program to communities. In an interview on Monday (May 22), Mayor Alfredo […]