LTO assures support to ease Baguio traffic
By Dexter A. See BAGUIO CITY – The Cordillera office of the Land Transportation Office said it will support the new leadership of the Baguio city government in its thrust to ease traffic congestion in...
View ArticleProj to bring water to Bontoc; mayor cites achievements
By Alpine L. Killa BONTOC, Mountain Province – Third - termer Bontoc Mayor Franklin Odsey cited finished and ongoing projects under his administration like bringing sufficient potable water supply to...
View Article2 die, 1 hurt in Ilocos Sur road accident
By Freddie LazaroSANTIAGO, Ilocos Sur – Two persons died and another was hurt when a truck accidentally hit a tricycle parked on the curb of the national highway here in Barangay Busel-busel on...
View ArticleOceana Gold assailed for environment devastation
DIDIPIO, Nueva Vizcaya -- The Philippine Task Force for Indigenous Peoples’ Rights (TFIP) urged the stoppage of mining operations of Oceana Gold here saying they support indigenous peoples in local...
View ArticleBody to draft Cordillera autonomy law convened
BAGUIO CITY – A body to draft an organic act for the proposed Cordillera autonomous region was recently convened in preparation for the filing of the Cordillera Organic Act in the 18th Congress of the...
View ArticleBulacan bettor wins P44.4-M lotto jackpot
PULILAN, Bulacan — A bettor from this town won the jackpot in the 6/42 Regular Lotto drawn June 28, according to the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO).The bettor hit the winning combination...
View ArticlePriest in sex abuse charges missing .
By Leslie Ann Aquino SAN FERNANDO CITY, Pampanga -- The whereabouts of Father Daniel Baul, the priest accused of sexual abuse, is not known even to his bishop.“His whereabouts is not known me,”...
View ArticleFugitive Ilocos Norte mayor nabbed in QC; denied bail by court
DINGRAS, Ilocos Sur -- A former mayor of Dingras who is facing murder charges in connection with the killing of an official of an electric cooperative was arrested in Quezon City on June 28. Marynette...
View ArticleDENR closes, opens dumpsite as trash woes hound Baguio
BAGUIO CITY – The Dept. of Environment and Natural Resources closed, then opened the Irisan garbage dumpsite here within a span of two weeks even as the trash problem of this summer capital has yet to...
View ArticleNIA to lessen work in Ifugao proj after NCIP opposition
By Sherwin De Vera ALFONSO LISTA, Ifugao -- The National Irrigation Administration Cordillera Administrative Region will minimize construction work in the Alfonso Lista Pump Irrigation Project (ALPIP)...
View ArticleLate MP Rep Dalog’s ‘kasilyas’ bill now law
By Erlindo AgwilangBONTOC, Mountain Province -- A law of national significance, originally and principally authored in the 17th Congress by the late Rep. Maximo B. Dalog Sr. of the lone district of...
View ArticlePNP probes murder of ex-Isabela board member; P’sinan teacher shot dead
By Victor Martin and Eva VisperasSANTIAGO CITY, Isabela — Police are now probing the murder of a former board member and newly appointed municipal administrator of San Mateo town in this province who...
View ArticleMayor orders gambling stopped in Baguio City
BAGUIO CITY -- Mayor Benjamin Magalong has given gambling operators to cease operating here.In his speech after taking his oath of office at the Baguio City Hall grounds on June 30, Magalong said “all...
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Scammed vendors desist to file charges; settle for payment
BEWARE! In photo are suspect-scammer operators of a certain company called Intensity 8 General Merchandise detained at the Sagada Municipal Police Station a few days back. They were released after an...
View ArticleTechnologies to address trash / Clearing canals for rainy season
CITY HALL BEATAileen P. RefuerzoBAGUIO CITY – Mayor Benjamin Magalong welcomed offers to conduct feasibility studies on introduction of new technologies that would address solid and liquid wastes, two...
View ArticleCleaning up
LETTERS FROM THE AGNOMarch L FianzaBAGUIO CITY -- Every clean up move or change in the city provokes comparison of what the new chief executive of Baguio can do and has been doing lately, against what...
View ArticleReflections on death
HAPPY WEEKENDGina Dizon(With the death of my younger brother Roderick last July 5 and demise of younger sister Bessie last Nov. 15, a neighbor, relative, friend, acquaintance and kailyan, here’s a...
View ArticleThe inescapable appointment
TRUTH FOR TODAYJun MalazoSAGADA, Mountain Province -- Just about this time last year, I needed to have a series of medical tests. I had some serious concerns with my health at that point. To spare...
View ArticleGrim Reaper strikes again / Igorot 'nationalism'
BEHIND THE SCENESAlfred P. DizonFor the past weeks, the Grim Reaper has struck friends, a member of the family, acquaintances and lately Claudio Pancho, 63, the development management officer of the...
View ArticleUS group suggests ways to solve Baguio's trash woes
EDITORIALA U.S.-based environmental group on Tuesday proposed to the Baguio City government to practice strategies or ways to curb its decades-old garbage problem. “Educating the community and other...
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