THE Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) has filed a petition before the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB) seeking an increase in the minimum wage of workers in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR). The petition seeks to raise the minimum wage in the region from P350 per [...]
SOME 6,000 members of the agricultural sector in Benguet are now eligible to receive aid from the share of the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) in the excess and unallotted rice tariffication fund from the national government. Around 5,800 rice and corn farmers in Benguet out of the registered 87,662 will [...]
THE Tourism Infrastructure and Enterprise Zone Authority (TIEZA) revealed that its big-ticket projects in Baguio City remain stalled indefinitely due to a lack of funding. TIEZA chief operating officer Mark Lapid said that the projects in question are stalled but not canceled, and that the TIEZA would continue to provide [...]
THE Baguio City Council has asked Mayor Benjamin Magalong to suspend the increase of real property fair market value in the city, citing a potential spike in property taxes. “It is untimely considering the financial condition of many residents and businesses who suffered losses because of the COVID (coronavirus disease [...]
BAGUIO Mayor Benjamin Magalong and city officials broke ground on the construction of the athlete’s quarters at the Baguio Athletic Bowl this week. City Buildings and Architecture (CBAO) Architect Cliff Ham said that the project will cost some P30 million and start construction this month, with an estimated one year [...]
THE three top spots of the Baguio local government have been kept by the incumbents as the May 9 election concluded this week. Incumbent Baguio Congressman Mark Go retained the representative seat with 99,372 votes. Baguio Mayor Benjamin Magalong meanwhile kept the mayoral seat with 70,342 votes in total, beating [...]
BAGUIO Mayor Benjamin Magalong said on Wednesday that the planned waste-to-energy project in Sablan is still proceeding but will take at least three years to accomplish. “The waste-to-energy will take years to build it up. To construct it, that would take about three years,” Magalong said. According to Magalong, the [...]
THE Benguet State University (BSU) has soft-launched its new Kabayan campus in Kamora National High School (KNHS) in Gusaran, Kabayan. The BSU Kabayan Campus will be housed temporarily in two buildings of the Kamora campus while the BSU constructs its own buildings for the use of the Kabayan Campus. The [...]
MEMBERS of the League of Associations at the La Trinidad Vegetable Trading Areas (LALTVTA) are supporting a suggestion to give the Department of Agriculture (DA) expanded powers explicitly to tackle agricultural smuggling. The suggestion comes from Albay Representative Joey Salceda, who is drafting a measure that would request the establishment [...]
THE Benguet Electric Cooperative (BENECO) has raised the price of power for its member-consumer-owners (MCOs) this month in light of increases in transmission and systems loss charges. The current power rate for April is P9.5114 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) compared to the P9.3356/kWh rate in the previous month, marking an increase [...]