2011 marks highest increase in HIV cases
CONTINUED awareness and safe sex practices remain the only defenses against the spread of the still incurable Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV-Aids).
Hundreds of participants from various sectors joined Baguio City’s version of the International Aids...
Councilors order leveling of ex-village chief’s home
THE City Council approved recently the demolition of the house of former Bakakeng Central village chief Helen Miranda provided she is relocated by the city.
Committee on Urban Planning, Lands and Housing under Councilor Isabelo Cosalan recommended the relocation based on proofs, grounds...
City police nab more taxi robbery suspects
IRATE taxi drivers trooped to the Baguio City Police Office Station 1 along Naguilian Road Wednesday after hearing of the arrest of four suspects involved in robbery incidents in the city.
A tip from a concerned citizen led to the arrest of the alleged robbers involved in a string of...
Judge nixes order raising traffic violation penalties JM Agreda
A LOCAL court recently declared a Land Transportation Office (LTO) department order revising fines and penalties for traffic violations as null and void for being unconstitutional.
Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 6 Judge Antonio Esteves declared LTO Department Order 2008-39...
City’s cleanest village named
AFTER several weeks of evaluation of Baguio’s 128 villages, SLU-SVP village was named the cleanest and greenest from around 19 other finalists.
Mayor Mauricio Domogan announced the winners at City Hall’s flag raising program on Monday.
Optical media board vows more raids in city
THE Optical Media Board (OMB) vowed to conduct more raids in the city to remove stalls of pirated DVDs being peddled in streets and business establishments.
OMB Chairman Ronnie Ricketts, in a meeting with city officials and vendors last week, stressed vendors should abide with the country...
Wage increase in Cordillera approved
THE Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB) approved last May 18 a new wage order that provides an P8 increase to basic salaries of private sector employees in the Cordillera, a Labor official said.
The RTWPB’s Wage Order 15, Department of Labor and Employment Regional...
Beneco not interested in streetlights
THE management of the Benguet Electric Cooperative (Beneco) recently expressed it is no longer interested in managing and operating streetlights of the Baguio City Government.
Beneco legal counsel Delmar Cariño said during the City Council session Monday that it is no longer feasible for...
Terms readied for Athletic Bowl rehab
BAGUIO City Mayor Mauricio Domogan recently announced plans of three developers, including a Filipino-Korean investor, to infuse P4.3 billion to develop the Baguio Athletic Bowl and Burnham Park.
The mayor said one of the components of the Comprehensive Development Plan of Burnham Park is...
Trash backlog continues
SEVERAL villages continue to experience delays in their garbage collection schedules as the City Government of Baguio finds solutions to avoid a backlog in its transfer and sorting station in Irisan Lime Kiln.
Mayor Mauricio Domogan said the garbage backlog, caused by hauling delays of...
Funding for Irisan dumpsite rehab out
AFTER waiting for months, going from one top Cabinet official to another, the Baguio City Government finally secured the fund needed to rehabilitate the collapsed retaining wall of the Irisan dumpsite.
Mayor Mauricio Domogan, in his weekly Ugnayang Panlungsod, said the Office of the...
Mayor orders probe into soil dumping in Forbes
BAGUIO City Mayor Mauricio Domogan recently ordered a thorough investigation on illegal soil dumping activities conducted at a portion of Forbes Park reservation.
Domogan earlier sent employees from his office and the City Environment and Parks Management Office (Cepmo) forestry team to...
6 villages face legal action
AN OFFICIAL of the Commission on Audit (COA) said six villages are now in hot water for not submitting disbursement vouchers and supporting documents for their projects and activities.
COA Baguio City auditor Noemi Tagudar said the villages are South Central Aurora Hill, Padre Burgos,...
Agreda: When languages die
IT’S a sad fact when languages die, so goes the culture of the people that speaks the language.
Cutting of trees at Happy Hollow ordered stopped
THE contractor of the circumferential road project in Happy Hallow was advised not to proceed with the cutting of trees as its permit to cut is still pending before the Environment department.
Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Baguio District Engineer Ireneo Gallato said...
Trade industry’s Diskweto Caravan successful
HUNDREDS of parents joined the Baguio-leg of the nationwide Balik Eskwela Diskwento Caravan spearheaded by the Department of Trade and Industry and held at the Baguio Convention Center on Tuesday.
Marge Reyes, 29, a mother of two public school students, said it is cheaper to buy school...
Proposed solid waste site in Itogon gains support
MAYOR Mauricio Domogan expressed his appreciation to the support of Itogon Mayor Oscar Camantiles for the development of a solid waste site.
Camantiles recently signed a manifestation of support for the development of a multipurpose disposal site in Ampucao village in Itogon.
Mother tongue languages highlighted in K plus 12
TWELVE mother tongue languages highlight the K plus 12 education program of the Department of Education (DepEd).
Baguio City schools administrative officer lawyer Augustino Laban said Monday the 12 primary languages in the country will be used in facilitating classes.
Mayor: Mines View stall rentals remain
BAGUIO City’s local chief executive stood firm on the local government’s decision to implement prescribed rental rates of stalls in the newly constructed Mines View Multipurpose Building.
Mayor Mauricio Domogan said the proposed rates have already been agreed upon and forwarded by the...
Baguio to pilot LGU-initiated conditional cash transfer
SOME 40 residents in Baguio City have been benefitting from a conditional cash transfer (CCT) program initiated by the local government, said Department of Social Welfare and Development Secretary Corazon Soliman.
She said it is within the ideals of the country’s conditional cash transfer...
City scrambles for solutions on waste problem
BAGUIO City officials huddled in an emergency meeting recently to plot solutions and strategies on its burgeoning waste problem – no available dumpsite and soaring waste volume.
Mayor Mauricio Domogan is now imploring the help of nearby municipalities of Itogon, Sablan and La Trinidad to...
Dad denies terminal being built for south bound buses
A CITY councilor denied reports of a new bus terminal to be built near the Baguio General Hospital Rotonda and Kisad Road.
Councilor Nicasio Aliping, chairman committee on Public Utilities and Transportation, said the Governor Pack terminal stays as the city’s southbound terminal as no...
Market biggest source of unsegregated trash
MAYOR Mauricio Domogan sought the cooperation of Baguio public market vendors to segregate their trash and take out garbage only during designated schedule.
Citing reports from garbage collectors, Domogan said collected trash from the market, which remains the biggest contributor to the...
Carnival operates on mayor’s mere notation
MAYOR Mauricio Domogan has denied again on granting a permit for a carnival to operate beside an elementary school, but a document showed the carnival operation is sanctioned by City Hall.
Documents gathered by Sun.Star Baguio from Quezon Elementary School principal Aurelio Estrada showed...
Bizmen agree with plastic bag ordinance
MAYOR Mauricio Domogan was delighted with the positive response of businessmen to the city’s plastic bag ordinance.
Domogan revealed businessmen whom he talked to last week told him they are willing to abide by the city’s plastic bag ordinance which takes effect this year.
