More Panagbenga photos

CHECK out the additional photos from last weekend's flower fest celebration. (view photos here...)

Final Panagbenga activities

AFTER the colorful, lively Mardigras-type of parade with crowds milling about along the main thoroughfares last weekend, activities for the next two weeks heats up in different venues.

Immediately after the parades, Session Road, the city’s main road, was closed to vehicular traffic until March 5, from 6AM to 12MN, for ‘Pan-aaspulan (Session Road in Bloom),’ an Ibaloi word for meeting place, with stalls and diverse wares for spectators and customers’ scrutiny. (more...)

Flower festivities caught on cam

THE fun and festive spirit of Baguio City's 11th Panagbenga is captured in these new images. (view photos here...)

Flower festival activities

THE Baguio Flower Festival Association/ad-hoc committee formally opened this year's flower festival with a program and parade at the Rizal Park, 9AM, last Jan. 30. (more...)

2 versions of 11th Panagbenga

THIS year, two groups decided to offer separate versions of Baguio's crowd-drawing Panagbenga Flower Festival.

The split came after Mayor Braulio Yaranon issued Administrative Order 212 on Oct. 21, 2005, retaining the services of the Baguio Flower Festival Association (BFFA), led by businesswoman Nelia Cid, which handled last year's flower fest. (more...)

Panagbenga '06 proceeds to pay for lights: official

AS IT IS NOW clear that there would be two flower festivals next month, one group is expecting to raise more than P4 million because part of the proceeds would have to be set aside for the payment of the newly installed Burnham Park lights. (more...)

All is set for Panagbenga: mayor

THE two rival groups quarreling over the management of the Baguio City's 11th Panagbenga staging are disgracing the affair, a Benguet official said. (more...)

Benguet exec rues 'divided' flowerfest

THE two rival groups quarreling over the management of the Baguio City's 11th Panagbenga staging are disgracing the affair, a Benguet official said. (more...)

Escape of Magdalo men stops Arroyo from attending flowerfest

THE Baguio Panagbenga Flower Festival Association is not expecting President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to attend the opening ceremonies of the 2006 Panagbenga anymore, following reports of a coup d etat, which may be led by the four Magdalo Group soldiers who escaped detention recently. (more...)

Farmers confused, bat for flowerfest unity

BENGUET Board Member Aloysius Kato said Tuesday even cutflower growers in the province are now confused whether or not to supply Baguio City with flowers to be used in the upcoming Panagbenga celebration. (more...)

Arroyo, SEA Games gold medallists invited to Panagbenga

PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and gold medal winners in the recently concluded Southeast Asian (SEA) Games have been asked to adorn the opening of the Panagbenga 2006 on January 30. (more...)