BAGUIO CITY – Mayor Mauricio G. Domogan revealed the city’s drug problem is becoming serious while approaching the 6-month self-imposed timetable imposed by President Rodrigo Duterte to curb the proliferation of illegal drugs in the country. The local chief executive claimed the 214 drug surenderers recorded by the Baguio City Police Office (BCPO) from the […]
Day: December 10, 2016
Proposed extension of operating hours of liquor stores vetoed
BAGUIO CITY – Mayor Mauricio G. Domogan vetoed Resolution \No. 252, series of 2016 adopting an experimental scheme for six months to extend the business hours of liquor establishments in the city, saying that the Baguio City Police Office (BCPO) wants reduced operating hours of liquor establishments because of the prevalence of liquor-related incidents. The […]
5,286 employed by John Hay economic zone locators
BAGUIO CITY – Some five hundred two hundred eighty six individuals were employed by some eighty eight locators within the John Hay Special Economic Zone (JHSEZ) as of the end of October this year. In his report to Mayor Mauricio G. Domogan, Zaldy Bello, officer-in-charge of the Office of the President and Chief Executive officer […]
No stopping Miss Universe visit to Baguio – HRAB
BAGUIO CITY – The 250-strong Hotel and Restaurant Association of Baguio (HRAB) underscored there is no stopping the upcoming visit of some 24 contestants of the Miss Universe to the city early next year amidst the denial of a local court over the conduction of a month-long Christmas bazaar at the Melvin Jones grandstand to […]
Health experts alarmed over younger firecracker victims
BAGUIO CITY – Health authorities in the city are alarmed over the increasing number of children wounded during the celebration of the Yuletide revelry. Dr. Donnnabel Tubera, Medical Officer IV of the City Health Services Office and chief of the City Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit, said the easy access of children to firecrackers and pyrotechnic […]
Political will needed to impose firecracker ban
BAGUIO CITY – Health authorities challenged local officials in the region to have the political will to impose a needed total ban on the selling and use of firecrackers and pyrotechnic materials for the celebration of the Yuletide revelry. Dr. Amelita M. Pangilinan, assistant regional director of the Cordillera office of the Department of Health […]
City Prosecutor’s Office reports high solution rate
BAGUIO CITY – The Baguio city prosecutor’s office is among the top five prosecutor’s offices in Region I according to city prosecutor Elmer Sagsago in Monday’s flag-raising ceremonies at City Hall led by Mayor Mauricio Domogan and Vice-Mayor Edison Bilog. “My fellow prosecutors and I regularly work overtime and even on holidays just to serve […]
City to respect court ruling on Christmas bazaar
BAGUIO CITY – The City Government will respect the decision of a local court in issuing the writ of preliminary injunction preventing the Hotel and Restaurant Association of Baguio (HRAB) and the local government from proceeding with the conduct of a month-long Christmas bazaar purposely to generate additional resources for use by the local organizers […]
Baguio currently ahead in Batang Pinoy medal standings
BAGUIO CITY – With numerous medals in the athletics competition still to be decided as of press time, the Summer Capital’s delegation to this year’s Batang Pinoy competitions in Davao del Norte and Tagum City has so far garnered a medal haul of 136 medals (55 gold, 39 silver and 42 bronze) putting them currently […]
Compromise settlement in John Hay row likely
BAGUIO CITY – The long standing proposal of Mayor Mauricio G. Domogan for the existing conflict between the State-owned Bases and Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) and the Sobrepena-owned Camp John Hay Development Corporation (CJHDevCo) to strike a compromise settlement over the development of the 247-hectare John Hay Special Economic Zone (JHSEZ) saw the light […]