BCDA stops tree-cutting, John Hay illegal mines
The Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) has stopped a government contractor from cutting pine trees to widen a circumferential road here.
The Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) has stopped a government contractor from cutting pine trees to widen a circumferential road here.
An official of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) in the Cordillera said the holding of special elections for a village here, whose ballots were delivered to Compostela Valley, was beyond the local poll office’s jurisdiction.
A section of the Presidential Mansion here has been covered by the ancestral land claim of a family, whose land title was recently validated by the Court of Appeals, the chair of the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) said on Tuesday.
Summer has become uncomfortable for residents here, with temperatures rising to close to 30 degrees Celsius in the last two weeks, just as lowland provinces experience even hotter temperatures at 40 degrees Celsius.
Three officials of John Hay Management Corp. (JHMC) have been suspended as government regulators of the John Hay Special Economic Zone investigate a suspected treasure hunting operation inside the former American rest and recreation center here.
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.
The city government wants the showdown between the administration’s Team PNoy and the United Nationalist Alliance in the summer capital on Sunday to be a friendly duel.
A cadet from Davao del Sur has topped the graduating class of the Philippine Military Academy this year, PMA officials announced on Monday.
A giant “balangay” (wooden boat) rides the sea of commerce on the final week of the 18th Baguio Flower Festival, the only piece of art looming over tents filled with food and products from various parts of the country at the street bazaar called “Session Road in Bloom.” The huge sunflower-bedecked boat, manned by [...]
BAGUIO CITY, Philippines—The culmination of the monthlong Panagbenga (Flower) Festival literally started with a bang on Sunday after a hand grenade exploded outside the Baguio City Volunteers Against Crime (BCVAC) office located near the grandstand at Burnham Park, police said. Only a few spectators were aware of the explosion, however, by the Melvin Jones [...]
Three men were reported wounded after a grenade exploded in Melvin Jones Grand Stand, Burnham Park in Baguio City Sunday morning, a radio report said.
A man died on Sunday in the Baguio leg of a simultaneous nationwide run to celebrate the 18th year of the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth), police said.
