ON Tuesday, House Bill No. 10026 strengthening the field offices of the Commission on Elections by upgrading and creating certain positions, which was filed by Congressman Eric Yap was approved in the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives. "Mula sa pagpaparehistro ng mga botante hanggang sa paghahanda para [...]
POLICY experts said the failure to adopt tobacco harm reduction (THR) strategies negatively affects public health and disproportionately targets those in low- to- middle income countries as eight million people die from tobacco-related use each year, and 80 percent of the more than one billion tobacco smokers are from developing [...]
By Marilou Guieb Over a hundred years ago, when tuberculosis (TB) was ravaging the country, many of the afflicted were sent to Baguio, then known as Kafagway, to recover. It was believed that the pristine environment and clean air, lots of vegetables and fresh fruits, would be the key to [...]
THE Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) has vaccinated four-fifths of its registered tourism workers, according to the Department of Tourism. Tourism Secretary Berna Romulo-Puyat revealed that overall across the country, some 51.40 percent or 126,097 of 245,338 registered tourism workers are already vaccinated. Metro Manila currently has the highest ratio of [...]
BENGUET Governor Melchor Diclas is eyeing a request for the issuance of enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) status in light of the rapidly increasing incidence of COVID-19 in the province. As of Thursday, September 16, Benguet has breached the 2,000 mark with 2,076 active COVID-19 cases, according to data from the [...]
FOUR barangays have been tapped by the City Health Services Office (CHSO) to provide transportation for COVID-19 patients in augmentation of the city’s strained patient transport capabilities. Barangays Trancoville, Pacdal, Gibraltar, and Burnham-Legarda have provided vehicles earmarked for the transportation of asymptomatic COVID-19 patients for their respective districts, but City [...]
THE Baguio City Council has approved on first reading an ordinance reducing all unpaid fines for traffic violations incurred prior to the start of 2021 as amnesty in order to lighten the load on the Traffic and Transportation Management Division (TTMD) of the Baguio City Police Office (BCPO). The ordinance [...]
BAGUIO Mayor Benjamin Magalong has ordered an extension of the currently employed heightened restrictions on mobility and business operations in the city in light of continued high incidence of COVID-19. According to the Executive Order issued by Magalong, the city’s average cases per day has soared to 240, and nearly [...]
THE Baguio City Council has ordered the Baguio City Market Authority (BCMA) and City Treasury Office to temporarily suspend all bidding for and awarding of market stall contracts in light of the recently-passed market amnesty ordinance. The resolution to hold in abeyance was issued following the approval on third and [...]
KABUGAO, Apayao -- The National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) has green-lighted the development of the 150-megawatt (MW) Gened-1 renewable hydro power project in Apayao after a series of deliberations and consultations with indigenous peoples and traditional communities. In its meeting on August 13, the NCIP en banc resolved to [...]
