Crime safety, plastics tips for holidays in Baguio
CITY HALL BEATAileen P. RefuerzoBAGUIO CITY – The Baguio City Police Office traffic and operations division chiefs last week issued safety tips for residents and tourists planning to spend their...
View ArticleFariñas to run vs Imelda’s grandson for Ilocos Norte governor
LAOAG CITY -- Outgoing Ilocos Norte Rep. Rodolfo Fariñas said Tuesday he decided to run for governor of the province because the Marcoses broke their peace deal.Fariñas said under the agreement he had...
View ArticleFormer village chairman slain
By Erwin BeleoBACNOTAN, La Union – A former barangay captain was gunned down by still unidentified assailants in Barangay Cabugao here Monday morning.Former barangay captain Frederick Valin, 58, of the...
View ArticleNorth Luzon gubernatorial bets withdraw from May 2019 polls
SEVERAL candidates for governor withdrew from the race on the last day of substitution of candidates on Nov. 30.Isabela Rep. Napoleon Dy backed out of the gubernatorial race after setting aside his...
View ArticleArson of Sagada resto hit; P250-K reward up for info
By Gina DizonSAGADA Mountain Province -- Residents of this tourist town and those overseas condemned the intentional burning of two buildings at Kiltepan Peak found at the eastern part of the town...
View ArticleCase filed against 8 men for padlocking Asin Resort
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – A complaint was filed with the provincial prosecutor’s office here Monday for trespassing against eight persons for allegedly entering the premises of the Sinot Resort in Asin,...
View ArticleWidowed solon wants La Union placed under military protection
Politically-related killings up By Erwin BeleoAGOO, La Union – La Union 2nd District Rep. Sandra Eriguel asked the Commission on Elections to place the province under military protection to prevent the...
View ArticleFundamentalists eyed in slay of Baguio Muslim leader
BAGUIO CITY – Police are probing role of fundamentalist groups in the killing of Muslim preacher and leader Bedejim Abdullah, an instructor of the Philippine Military Academy who was shot dead here at...
View ArticlePOLICE ROUNDUP
19 men nabbed for gambling in Baguio BAGUIO CITY – Police arrested 19 persons here last week for illegal gambling. Fifteen were arrested playing drop ball along Otek St. night of Dec. 2. Nabbed were...
View Article3 die, 12 hurt in La Union, Isabela highway crashes
Road collapses; cement from mixer kills 2 By Freddie Lazaro and Liezle Basa IñigoLUNA, La Union — Two separate accidents resulted in the killing of two construction workers in La Union and a man in...
View ArticleYouth groups hit ‘red-tagging, intimidation’ by cops; Baguio City PNP chief...
BAGUIO CITY – Kabataan partylist leaders assailed the “series of red-tagging and intimidation against student activists and their families,” by police here during the city council’s regular session...
View ArticleMayor to Baguio PNP chief: Address crime the right way
By Sohee KimBAGUIO CITY – Mayor Mauricio Domogan told the new city police chief he is authorized to introduce changes in peace and order programs of this summer capital, provided such will be more...
View ArticleBenguet lady cop cited for honesty
CAMP DANGWA, La Trinidad, Benguet – The Police Regional Office-Cordillera hailed the honesty and dedication to duty of Chief Inspector Thrislyn Sagpaey who returned a misplaced bag of a senior citizen...
View ArticleP1 M bounty for killer of Subic businessman
By Mar SupnadCAMP OLIVAS, Pampanga – The family of slain businessman Dominic Sytin is offering a P1 million reward to anyone with vital information that will lead to the identification and arrest of...
View ArticleDuterte Death Squad
PERRYSCOPEPerry DiazPresident Rodrigo Duterte has a plan that would counter communist assassins. It’s going to be violence vs. violence. It’s going to be an armed civilian group called the “Duterte...
View ArticleHomecoming: Food and country
BEHIND THE SCENESAlfred P. Dizon(Harold Clavite, Director General of the Philippine Information Agency writes this week’s column) SOMETIMES, all you need to appreciate home is a change of perspective....
View ArticleConstructive criticism
BANTAY GOBYERNO Ike SeñeresMany people would think that criticism is always bad, and that it always accentuates the negatives, but that is not really so. Perhaps this misunderstanding stems from the...
View ArticleNewsmen light sketches
LETTERS FROM THE AGNOMarch L. FianzaBAGUIO CITY -- In this age of hi-tech communication, there should be lesser circulation of fake and wrong information, but it is the opposite that I see. In five...
View ArticleLower House federalism bill ‘dead on arrival’
EDITORIALSThe House of Representatives on Dec. 11 approved on third and final reading its draft constitution that seeks to shift to a federal form of government.Voting 224-22 with three abstentions,...
View ArticleAutonomy IEC gets interesting through quiz bee
By Zenia C. AlalagBAGUIO CITY – A total of 39 Santo Tomas National High School (STNHS) students from grade levels 7 to 12 participated in a quiz bee on regional autonomy initiated and led by school...
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