AS the coming elections draw closer and closer, we at the Baguio Chronicle have elected to start a series to help familiarize the Baguio populace with the candidates seeking the highest posts that the city can vote for. In this series of articles, which we will be rolling out regularly [...]
BAGUIO City and the Cordillera Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (CDRRMC) have lined up assistance for the municipalities and cities hit by Typhoon Odette. Baguio City, for its part, has committed P5 million in financial assistance to 44 hit municipalities and cities, through an ordinance allocating the amount [...]
DEPARTMENT of Education (DepEd) officials joined delegates of the Royal Thai Embassy Manila in a visit to Benguet for the turnover of donations to Gov. Bado Dangwa Agro-Industrial School in Kapangan. The school is currently headed by Head Teacher V Marcelo Otinguey, who earlier in the year received the 2021 [...]
THE city council has approved the P2.309 billion annual budget for Baguio in 2022 during last Monday’s regular session. The approved annual budget also accounts for the implementation of the Mandanas-Garcia ruling of the Supreme Court (SC) set to take effect in 2022, which clarifies that the share from the [...]
THE Baguio City Council has agreed to ensure that no changes will be made to any lease contracts for Burnham Park lessors or month-to-month extensions until the city finalizes its Burnham Park development plan. Under Resolution No. 557, series of 2021, the council enacts a state of status quo ante [...]
BAGUIO City’s ambitious multi- billion peso plan to rehabilitate the public market will proceed as planned next year even as the coming election rolls in, Baguio Mayor Benjamin Magalong said. According to Magalong, the city’s Public Private Partnership for the People Selection Committee (P4-SC) procedure will continue as they are [...]
THE Benguet Electric Cooperative (BENECO) was caught by surprise when an unknown entity ordered the withdrawal of some P58.6 million worth of money from the cooperative’s account with the Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP), without authorization or approval from BENECO. According to Advisory 2021-60, issued by BENECO General Manager [...]
UNVACCINATED employees of both the government and private establishments have more expenses to expect this coming month. Vaccine-eligible but unvaccinated employees working on-site in the city are now required to undergo COVID-19 testing at least once every two weeks, paid for out of their own pockets. Under Executive [...]
WITH Baguio City now on Alert Level 2, the local government has loosened some restrictions on its local populace, like shortening its existing liquor ban and removing curfew entirely. Executive Order (EO) 160-2021, taking effect since Wednesday, shortens the liquor ban from 12:00 A.M. to 12:00 P.M to 2:00 A.M. [...]
BAGUIO Representative Mark Go’s push to further expand the capacity of the Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center (BGHMC) has been approved by the House of Representatives on third and final reading, and has been transmitted to the Senate. The bill would see the expansion of BGHMC’s bed capacity from [...]