Three policemen, including the operations chief of the Cordillera police, were hurt after their helicopter crashed in a mountain in Kalinga on Wednesday, reports from the Isabela and Cordillera police offices said.
The first rule in the campaign of “Team Ryan,” led by Ilocos Sur gubernatorial candidate Ryan Luis Singson, is: No one speaks for more than two minutes.
Unlike his predecessor who would come to Baguio any chance she got, President Aquino rarely finds time to visit the summer capital.
The “Panagbenga Hymn” is Baguio’s LSS (last song syndrome). It has become an indelible part of Baguio similar to the tiger grass brooms, bottles of peanut brittle and strawberries.
Families from Marinduque are expected to arrive here early today not to marvel at this year’s Baguio Flower Festival street dancing and floral float parade but to help identify the seven dead from Thursday evening’s bus crash on Marcos Highway in Benguet.
A Nueva Vizcaya town mayor has a dream—that his fourth-class upland farming town (annual income: P25 million-P35 million) becomes first class (P55 million) in the future. And the way to achieve this, he said, is through mining.
When American photographer Mary Ellen Mark, known for her starkly lit black and white portraits, was given Baguio as her assignment for the Philippine Centennial photo project in 1996, she sought out National Artist Benedicto “BenCab” Cabrera and a man in Barangay Brookside here.
With the recent death of Cecile Afable at 95, if not the oldest editor in the country then the one who held a weekly column the longest (her “In and Out of Baguio” in the Baguio Midland Courier ran continuously from 1946 until June 2012), Baguio City has only one of the famous “Three Witches” left.
The government ban on logging has severely affected the local furniture industry. Those using hardwood like narra, molave, yakal, rosewood and kamagong are particularly hard hit; most are now using salvaged or recycled timber for tables, chairs, bowls and other decorative pieces.
While going up the steps of the Poro Point lighthouse, former Mayor Mary Jane Ortega of San Fernando City in La Union was loudly saying, “Oro. Plata. Mata.” (Gold. Silver. Death.). It is an old Spanish superstition that if one’s last step falls on either gold, silver or death, it will mean the fate of the house or its occupants.
Residents were treated to a spectacle of lights at Poro Point on Saturday night, with about 250 boats and rafts lit in different colors floating near the shore, 600 sky lanterns meeting up with them and ending with a fireworks display.
President Benigno Aquino III on Sunday told the new graduates of the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) that they would have to fight not only the enemies of the state but also the “temptation of corruption.”
A carpenter’s son from Batangas province is leading this year’s graduates of the Philippine Military Academy (PMA), a class that academy officials say will never stage a coup against any leader of the country.
