3 workers buried alive in Bontoc cheat death
BONTOC, Mountain Province – Three workers cheated death after they were buried alive by landslide here Monday around 2:15 p.m. here at Sitio Finew, Barangay Samoki. Around 10 minutes after the...
View ArticleLady teen shot dead in Tuba, PNP officer slain in shootout
30 slain in Baguio drug-related deaths MORE SUSPECTED drug pushers and users, including a former police officer, were killed in separate incidents in North and Central Luzon last week.BenguetIn Tuba,...
View ArticleBaguio gov’t to take over Kayang, Hilltop buildings
No compromise; mayor sets Dec. 31 deadline on city lot lessees BAGUIO CITY – Buildings of public lot renters in this city, mostly along Kayang and Hilltop will be taken over by the city government if...
View Article‘Isnaberong taxi drivers’
BEHIND THE SCENESAlfred P. DizonCOMMUTERS pissed off at taxi drivers who refuse them rides can now report these nincompoops at any Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board office.The LTFRB...
View ArticleChristmas greetings!
EDITORIALS As the Yuletide Season starts, most of us are looking for signs this Christmas -- something that could calm our fears about what lies ahead, given the unsure situation the country is facing...
View ArticlePhl has highest growth of HIV cases worldwide
HEALTH UPDATEDexter A. SeeBAGUIO CITY – The Philippines has registered the fastest growth in HIV cases starting 2014, an alarming situation that involves a multi-sectoral approach to help curb the...
View ArticleKadaclan on high value crops
COMMUNITY BILLBOARDDionie ChungalanBARLIG, Mountain Province – Personnel from the Dept. of Agriculture travelled to Kadaclan here recently, a village 58 km from Bontoc to boost heirloom rice production...
View ArticleKadaclan on high value crops
COMMUNITY BILLBOARDDionie ChungalanBARLIG, Mountain Province – Personnel from the Dept. of Agriculture travelled to Kadaclan here recently, a village 58 km from Bontoc to boost heirloom rice production...
View ArticleIlocos Norte to start athletic scholarship next school year
By Jennifer T. PambidLAOAG CITY -- The provincial government will be offering ‘Sirib’ athletic scholarship starting school year 2017-2018 for Ilocano youth.Provincial Ordinance No. 005-2016 sponsored...
View ArticleSlay count up in Luzon drug war
More drug suspects have been killed in separate incidents in Luzon last week.BulacanSenior Supt. Romeo Caramat, acting Bulacan police director, identified three of the fatalities as Ramiro de la Cruz,...
View ArticleNEWS BRIEFS
Couple dies in Isabela road mishapCORDON, Isabela -- A couple died when their motorcycle crashed into a road repair project along the national highway here in Barangay Caguilingan Tuesday night. Chief...
View ArticleIbaloi, first Benguet Igorot to receive TOYM award
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet -- Ryan Camado Guinaran, M.D. is the first Ibaloi and first Igorot from Benguet to receive the award for this year’s The Outstanding Young Men and Women Program. He won the...
View ArticlePasuquin barangay captain shot, killed
PASUQUIN, Ilocos Norte -- A village chairman was shot dead here night of Dec. 9. Zosimo Corpuz of Barangay Sta. Catalina was on his way home after attending a lantern parade in Barangay 20 when...
View Article4 dead in Ilocos road accidents
By Raymund Cantindig SAN FERNANDO CITY , La Union -- – Four persons, including three members of a family, died in separate vehicular accidents in Ilocos Sur on Dec. 10.Rogelio Garduque, 35; his wife...
View ArticleFormer Mt. Province poll exec faces 'dishonesty' raps
BONTOC, Mountain Province — The former Commission on Elections provincial supervisor here was accused before the poll body by an anti-graft and corruption advocate for alleged dishonesty, absence...
View ArticleBaguio officials oppose mine permit over Loakan Airport
By Dexter A. SeeBAGUIO CITY – The City Government has notified Cordillera offices of the Mines and Geosciences Bureau and National Commission on Indigenous Peoples of its opposition to the mining...
View ArticleAfrican mine firm won’t pull out of Lepanto project
BAGUIO CITY—South African-owned mining companies operating in the Philippines will not pull out their investments in the country amid uncertainty over the Duterte administration’s audit of over 40...
View ArticleTwo kids seriously ill like their mother
BAGUIO CITY -- When it rains, it pours, the impact of which is too much to bear for Jane Lamlamag Garcia, a mine laborer’s wife and mother of two young children who are as sick as their mother.She...
View ArticleNNC: Obesity highest in Cordillera Region
BAGUIO CITY – Obesity among Filipinos is highest in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR), according to the National Nutrition Council (NNC). Cordillerans consume 940 grams a day compared to the...
View ArticleCity mayor urges bocaps: Get road obstructions out
By Dexter A. SeeBAGUIO CITY – Mayor Mauricio G. Domogan called on barangay officials in the city’s 128 barangays to aggressively implement the anti-road obstruction law to improve traffic congestion in...
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