BAGUIO Congressman Mark Go’s bills converting two annex schools of the Baguio City National High School (BCNHS) to independent high schools have been approved by the Senate on third and final reading for immediate implementation. The committees in the Senate have expressed full support for House Bills 7994 and 7995, [...]
EXECUTIVE Order No. 117-2021, signed by Mayor Benjamin Magalong, will be imposing heightened restrictions in Baguio City until Sept. 30, 2021. The EO was passed due to the recent surge of COVID-19 cases in the country. EO 117 includes: No operation for indoor gyms, fitness centers, sports venues; indoor recreation [...]
AFTER the initial plans to set up a waste-to-energy plant in neighboring Sablan fell through, the city government has decided to instead begin working towards the put-up of a waste-to-energy facility within its own borders. The facility is planned to be put up in the city-owned 139 hectare lot in [...]
Starting Thursday, until October 3, the Baguio - La Trinidad - Itogon - Sablan - Tuba - Tublay (BLISTT) area will be on lockdown, restricting all travel through the borders. Under a Joint Advisory by the BLISTT local chief executives, all travels through their borders are now temporarily restricted. Non-residents [...]
AMID the rampant ongoing spread of COVID-19 ravaging the city of Baguio, Mayor Benjamin Magalong remains confident that the city can meet and fully vaccinate its target population of 95 percent of the city’s residents by year end. The numbers are currently bleak, with the city experiencing nearly 250 cases [...]
FOLLOWING the classification of Benguet and Baguio City as Alert Level 4 from September 24 - 30 under the Department of Health guidelines, the municipality of Sablan has put forward a scheme to control travel from Sablan to Baguio City. Under Executive Order No. 123, Series of 2021, Sablan Municipal [...]
FOLLOWING increased electricity rates for the past months in the city of Baguio, the Benguet Electric Cooperative (BENECO) has committed to searching for and implementing a measure to lower the costs for consumers and prevent increasing production costs from being passed on to Baguio residents. BENECO General Manager Engr. Melchor [...]
PHILIPPINE National Police Chief Gen. Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar has created a special task force to look into the killing of Dr. Amor Trina Dait on Saturday night. Dait, 52, was a resident doctor of La Paz District Hospital. She was shot by unidentified suspects in her house in Barangay Poblacion [...]
IF you are one of the more than 143,000 Baguio residents who have been fully vaccinated since September 24, then there’s a high probability that you will be reading this. According to the City Health Service Office, no death can be traced directly from any of the COVID vaccines administered [...]
By Rocky Ngalob FOR four years now, I have sat behind the less-occupied table at the NCIP-CAR office, dissecting papers on Free Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) processes. As the FPIC Focal for the region, I am barred from participating in the conduct of the Free Prior and Informed [...]
