Baguio bizman hunted for shooting entrep
BAGUIO CITY – A businessman is now being hunted by police for allegedly shooting a fellow businessman here Sept. 12 around P12:30 p.m. here at No. 251 AYU Building Lower Magsaysay.Victim Ronald Lee...
View ArticleP’sinan bocap shot dead in ambush, gunman known
By Liezle Basa IñigoSAN JACINTO, Pangasinan — An incumbent barangay chairman in this town was killed in an ambush carried out by a lone gunman Tuesday afternoon, police said.Senior Insp. Mark Ryan...
View ArticleRights group: AFP coddling Palparan despite life term
MALOLOS, Bulacan -- Rights group Hustisya lambasted the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ delay of retired general Jovito Palparan’s transfer to New Bilibid Prisons, after a court here sentenced him of...
View ArticleOSG favors IPMR to sit as city council member
BAGUIO CITY – The militant Cordillera People’s Alliance welcomed the Office of the Solicitor General’s answer to a petition filed by the City Government of Baguio to prevent the city’s indigenous...
View ArticleDENR halts small-scale mining in Cordillera
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet -- Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu ordered the immediate halt of all small-scale mining activities in the entire Cordillera Administrative Region following the massive landslides...
View Article30 North Luzon roads, most in Cordillera impassable: DPWH
The Dept. of Public Works and Highways said 30 road sections in Northern Luzon, mostly in the Cordillera Administrative Region, remain impassable due to the onslaught of Typhoon Ompong.The DPWH said...
View Article'Ompong' death toll in Cordi 67; 63 missing
DENR: Mining not cause of deadly Itogon landslide ITOGON, Benguet – Bodies are still being unearthed at Barangay Ucab here where rescuers are holding on to faintest ray of hope to get survivors from...
View ArticleRedefining public utilities
BANTAY GOBYERNOIke SeneresMany people are now saying that internet access is no longer a luxury because it is already a necessity. Much more than that, internet access is already an economic need,...
View Article‘Give chance to younger leaders’
LETTERS FROM THE AGNOMach FianzaLA TRINIDAD, Benguet -- Unless he changes his mind, three-termer Representative Ronald M. Cosalan of Benguet is no longer vying for any position in the 2019 midterm...
View ArticleMissing the point in the Mt.Data “Sipat”
BENCHWARMERRamon DacawiThere was no incoming howler, but we woke up last September 13 to be told schools and government offices were closed. Somebody had petitioned it as a holiday, supposedly to allow...
View ArticleThe saga of the Balangiga bells
PERRYSCOPEPerry DiazOne of the most – if not the most – atrocious massacres committed against Filipinos occurred in Eastern Samar during the Philippine-American War. The order was to “kill and burn”...
View ArticleSegregating barangays from Camp John Hay
BEHIND THE SCENESAlfred P. DizonBAGUIO CITY – Some 23 years ago since the city government and the Bases Conversion Development Authority inked a memorandum of agreement to segregate 13 barangays within...
View ArticleDisaster preparedness
EDITORIALSince tropical cyclones can be tracked and disaster preparedness can prevent lives lost, zero casualty has been the target since the previous administration during typhoons....
View ArticleCordillera dev’t, peace councils push income classification of LGUs
BOKOD, Benguet – The Cordillera Regional Development Council and the Regional Peace and Order Council passed a resolution urging Congress to upgrade and institutionalize income classification of...
View ArticleKingad beats Jap in ONE MMA bout
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet -- Filipino flyweight phenomenon Danny “The King” Kingad recorded another impressive victory as he edged out Japanese newcomer Yuya “The Little Piranha” Wakamatsu at ONE: Conquest...
View ArticleP1.9K cards for free fuel given to Cordillera PUJs
BAGUIO CITY -- The Cordillera offices of the Department of Transportation (DOTr) and Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) have distributed 1,962 Pantawid Pasada Fuel Cards to...
View ArticleGov't offers livelihood to landslide, typhoon victims
BAGUIO CITY -- Government agencies in Cordillera are laying down plans to give livelihood opportunities to families affected by the fatal landslide in Itogon, Benguet due to Typhoon Ompong to help them...
View Article'Ompong' inflicts P4.13-B agri, infra damage in Cordillera
BAGUIO CITY-- The Cordillera region has reported a P4.13-billion damage in agriculture, fisheries and irrigation due to Typhoon "Ompong", according to the Cordillera Regional Disaster Risk Reduction...
View ArticleCity council approves amnesty for delinquent real property taxpayers
BAGUIO CITY – The city council approved on third and final reading a proposed ordinance extending the grant of amnesty or relief on penalties, fines, surcharges, interests or arrears to delinquent real...
View ArticleNegative projection of Baguio during Typhoon Ompong
By Dexter A. See BAGUIO CITY – Mayor Mauricio G. Domogan lashed out at a number of individuals and media outfits who projected a negative perception of Baguio City during the onslaught of Super typhoon...
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