Day: August 6, 2016

BAGUIO CITY – Members of the City Council took turns in criticizing officials of the regional and district offices of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) for the delayed implementation and poor quality infrastructure projects in the different parts of the city that is now causing tremendous traffic congestions and inconvenience to the […]

Indonesia’s constitutional court is hearing a judicial review filed by Islamic activist group the Family Love Alliance that seeks to alter the criminal code to ban homosexual sex Indonesia’s Constitutional Court is considering making gay sex a crime, with Islamic activists pushing for the change insisting Thursday the homosexual community was causing “moral degradation” in […]

BAGUIO CITY – Mayor Mauricio G. Domogan ordered relevant city government offices to strictly do performance monitoring of projects implemented by contractors as part of evaluating their future capacity to implement projects. The local chief exectuvie expressed disappointment over the lackluster performance of almost all contractors who are implementing projects causing extreme inconvenience to the […]

BAGUIO CITY – The former Special 6th Division of the Court of Appeals (CA) commended the City Government for the continuous rehabilitation of the closed 5.2-hectare Irisan open dumpsite which was the earlier subject of a consent decree after being subjected to a writ of kalikasan by concerned environmentalists in Baguio and Benguet. In a […]

BAGUIO CITY – The Oplan Alis Kiti-kiti, Goodbye Dengue campaign to destroy mosquito breeding places, is ongoing in schools, churches, business establishments and households in the 128 barangays in full coordination with the Health Services Office (HSO), Mayor Mauricio Domogan assured last week. As the number of dengue cases increased with fatalities in the city, […]

BAGUIO CITY – Mayor Mauricio G. Domogan ordered the creation of a Technical Working Group (TWG) to conduct the necessary assessment and evaluation on the Antamok open pit site of the Benguet Corporation (BC) as a possible site for the city’s long overdue integrated solid waste disposal facility. The local chief executive created the 7-man […]

BAGUIO CITY – The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) warned the public of an emerging investment scam operating through the internet and direct contact with the purported investors who claim to be operating worldwide. Lawyer Lalaine Monarte, assistant chief of the SEC enforcement and investor protection division, said their office received numerous inquiries regarding the […]

BAGUIO CITY – The City Legal Office opined that there should be no deductions shall be made from the retirement pay of local government employees pursuant to existing laws, rules, regulations and jurisprudence. City Legal Officer Melchor Carlos Rabanes cited that the matter has been upheld in the case of the Government Service Insurance System […]

BAGUIO CITY – Health authorities revealed that cases of Human Immune Virus – Acute Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV-AIDS) in the region rose to two hundred forty eight this year which warrants public awareness on the serious effects of the dreaded virus. Geeny Anne Austria, STI-HIV Coordinator of the Cordillera office of the Department of Health […]

BAGUIO CITY – Mayor Mauricio Domogan last week reiterated that values formation education through the character city program, information and education campaign through all medium goes on, for the control of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Existing laws are also enforced for the inspection of night establishments and health permits of […]