In Benguet, lessons on disaster preparedness
By Tarra QuismundoA Canadian program aims to make disaster preparedness “a way of life” in one of the country’s most hazard-prone provinces.
A Canadian program aims to make disaster preparedness “a way of life” in one of the country’s most hazard-prone provinces.
There was no joyful reunion, only grief, when the bodies of five people killed in a bus accident in Benguet last week were met by relatives at Balanacan port in this province late Sunday afternoon.
Marinduque State College officials are ready to face investigation or any charges that may be brought against them after three students and two teachers of the academic institution died and 28 others were injured in a vehicular collision in Tuba, Benguet Thursday night.
Philex Mining Corp. is again being held to account, this time by government foresters, over a road that it allegedly built through a Benguet watershed without first securing the proper clearances, like an environmental compliance certificate (ECC).
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 field trip to Baguio City turned tragic for students and teachers of Marinduque State College when the bus they were riding crashed into two other vehicles Thursday night, police said.
Seven students were killed when their tourist bus lost its brakes and crashed into a truck along a zigzag road in Benguet Thursday evening, police said Friday.
The country’s largest gold producer, Philex Mining Corp., allegedly destroyed a portion of a protected forest in Itogon, Benguet, to build a road to its new mine waste facility.
The Senate has set an inquiry into the “unprecedented” mine spill that occurred at a mining site of Philex Mining Corporation in the province of Benguet last August 2012.
Six were killed and seven were injured in a road accident in Benguet early Sunday, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said.
Labor leaders from Luzon on Friday tried to convince the House subcommittee on labor standards to endorse a measure that would increase daily wages by P125 during the last of a series of congressional hearings held near the town’s strawberry fields.
It’s not a confession one would expect from an education secretary.
Several Marijuana plantation sites in Benguet, estimated to be worth P5 million, were destroyed by authorities in a two-day operation, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) said Tuesday.
