Baguio City – The city has set in motion its control measures against the more infectious Delta variant after registering two cases last Aug. 15. Mayor Benjamin Magalong said the city’s lead contact tracing team immediately revisited the record of the local case, a 23-year old male English as Secondary Language (ESL) teacher who was […]
Day: August 22, 2021
Rescuers Retrieve Body In Benguet Landslide
CAMP DANGWA, La Trinidad, Benguet – Responders searching for the live-in couple in a landslide on Tuesday have retrieved a male cadaver Thursday afternoon. Maj. Elpidio Pagoy of the Itogon Municipal Police Office, in a report, said Nestor Talangcag’s body was recovered at the landslide site in Antamok, Loacan, Itogon, Benguet. The body of Morina […]
Chief PNP Leads Funeral Honors For Slain Igorot Cop
LA TRINIDAD, Beguet – Full funeral honors were accorded to Police Colonel Michael Cadiogan Bawayan Jr. as he was laid to his final resting place here over the weekend. Chief PNP General Guillermo Eleazar together with other high ranking PNP officials, colleagues from the Special Action Force and other PNP Units led the funeral […]
City Completes Plan For Southwestern Growth Corridor
Baguio City completed the comprehensive master development plan for the proposed southwestern growth corridor in the city to help decongest the central business district. The proposed southwestern growth corridor will be located within the 10-hectare property at the Baguio Dairy Farm ceded by the agriculture department to the city government for its high impact development […]
City To Manage, Operate Proposed Modern Abattoir
The Baguio City government will bankroll, manage and operate the proposed modern abattoir that will be established within a 1-hectare portion of the 10-hectare property ceded to the city by the agriculture department as an expansion area for the city’s high impact projects. The agreement for the city to fund and eventually manage and operate […]
Integrity of COVID Data
Mayor Benjamin Magalong has emphasized the importance of data integrity in the ongoing battle against the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19). “Throughout the pandemic, we have seen to it that our COVID-19 numbers are as they are, good or bad, uptrend or downtrend. We don’t undermine or manipulate them just to look good,” he said. He said […]
In Baguio, No Sugar-coating of Covid Situation
In Baguio City, you get Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) facts and situation straight up, no sugar-coating. Mayor Benjamin Magalong had always emphasized the value of truthfulness in informing residents of the obtaining situations and factual information including those on the ongoing pandemic especially since this concerns the health of the populace. “We don’t like to lie […]
ATTN: Hon. V.M. Tino Olowan & Hon. Councilors
Honorable Gentlemen and Ladies, panahon na para harapin at talakayin once and for all ang accreditation ng First Citizens of Baguio City Organization (FCBCO) as an accredited indigenous peoples organizations. At the same time dapat na ring mag talaga ng kinaukulang IPMR or Indigenous Peoples Multi Sectoral Representative. As this newspaper is in full support […]