THE provincial government of Benguet has hired some 147 teachers for both primary and secondary levels of education to augment the province’s existing teaching force ahead of the expected return to full face-to-face classes in November. According to Benguet Governor Melchor Diclas, the newly-hired teachers under the Provincial School Board [...]
THE Provincial Government of Benguet has provided P500,000 worth of financial assistance to the Provincial Government of Abra in support of its relief operations for the families affected by the July 27 earthquake. According to Benguet Governor Melchor Diclas, the fund was sourced from the province’s Disaster Risk Reduction Management [...]
THE Department of Education- Cordillera (DepEd-CAR) lauded its smooth return to face-to-face classes this week as the region posted a 92 percent attendance of enrolled students in the various schools. Cyrille Gaye Miranda of the DepEd-CAR Public Affairs Office said that 92.64 percent of the target 448,205 learner population from [...]
THE Benguet Corporation (BC) will be constructing a bridge near its abandoned mining patented claim area near an open pit in Sitio Luneta, Loacan-Antamok, Itogon. The bridge, funded under the company’s Care and Maintenance Budget, is expected to be a 400 meter-long one-lane concrete bridge. However, the corporation has not [...]
TWO bills from Cordillera representatives in Congress are seeking the scrapping of tolls along Kennon Road. House Bills (HB) 1047 and 1048, filed by Benguet Representative Eric Yap and Mountain Province Representative Maximo Dalog Jr. respectively, state that due to Executive Order (EO) 34 by former president Ramon Magsaysay, as [...]
DEPARTMENT of Tourism (DOT) Secretary Christina Garcia Frasco has directed the DOT regional offices to coordinate with their respective local government units (LGUs) to determine the extent of damage, and extend assistance to tourism-related establishments (TREs) affected by the earthquake that occurred on Wednesday, July 27. The DOT's infrastructure arm [...]
SENATOR Robin Padilla, who prides himself to be the Cordilleran senator, is pushing for the legalization of medical marijuana or cannabis as an alternative treatment option in the Philippines. This may help sort out Cordillera’s illicit marijuana industry. Senate Bill 230 seeks said legalization, as well as expanding research into [...]
Frank Cimatu and Angel Castillo YOU’VE seen the footage of cars and even pigs being washed away from the roads of Banaue which the Habagat rains have turned into a river. But, as it turns out, what affected the province more were the unseen damages. About P50 million worth of [...]
CORDILLERAN students under the K-12 program will be undergoing limited face-to-face classes due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and increasing costs of operation brought on by rising fuel and basic goods prices, the Department of Education(DepEd) said on Wednesday. “More than 40,000 K-12 pupils in the region will have to [...]
ITOGON’s new municipal government is hoping to lobby for the possible lifting of the four-year pocket mining ban that has hampered the local economy. Mayor Bernard Waclin has declared their intention to meet with pocket mining associations in Itogon and seek their full compliance with the ongoing ban in order [...]