BAGUIO CITY – The Benguet Electric Cooperative (Beneco) has sustained P5 million in damage from typhoon “Egay.” Beneco is rebuilding damaged distribution structures and hopes to fully restore power in all service areas next week and expects cost of damage to increase as reports from remote...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez touches base with victims of Super Typhoon "Egay" in Baguio City. (Speaker’s office) True to his word, House Speaker Martin Romualdez personally joined on Friday, July 28 relief operations in the typhoon-stricken Baguio City in the province of Benguet. Romualdez...
BAGUIO CITY – Five people died and seven others were rescued in landslides triggered by typhoon “Egay” in this city and Benguet on Wednesday, July 26. A 16-year-old student was killed while his parents survived a landslide that buried their house in Barangay Bakakeng here. The Baguio City...
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – Police destroyed marijuana worth P1.4 million and three persons were arrested in separate anti-illegal drug operations in Benguet from July 2 to 8. The Benguet Police Provincial Office said four clandestine marijuana plantations with a total of 7,150 fully grown...
Tea (Tom Fisk/Pexels) On June 29, 2023, the Pandesal Forum on Philippine Tea took place at the Kamuning Bakery Cafe in Quezon City. The forum brought together leaders from various sectors, including academe, government, business communities, and diplomats from the China Embassy, to discuss the...
Government officials have sought support from the business community and diplomats of China Embassy for making the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) as production hub for tea in the Northern Philippines. During the Pandesal Forum of Kamuning Bakery Cafe in Quezon City on Thursday, June 29, they...
BAGUIO CITY – The Benguet Electric Cooperative (Beneco) reported damage to its property, including poles and electrical lines, due to heavy rains and strong wind brought by severe tropical storm “Betty” reaching P1.4 million. The electric cooperative also saw its 37-year-old substation power...
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – Authorities discovered – and destroyed – P30,000,000 worth of marijuana plants in two separate plantations in Kalinga and Benguet on Wednesday, May 31. Joint personnel of the Provincial Drug Enforcement and Intelligence Unit of the Kalinga Provincial...
TUBLAY, Benguet – Police seized undocumented lumber worth more than P100,000 here on Thursday, May 11. Police Col. Damian Olsim, Benguet police chief, said lawmen conducting a checkpoint flagged down an Elf truck for inspection but it turned around. Lawmen chased the truck until it was cornered in...
TUBA, Benguet – A farmers’ cooperative here has received two vegetable greenhouses with solar-powered drip irrigation and fertigation system worth P1.5 million courtesy of the Department of Agrarian Reform-Cordillera and DAR-Benguet. DAR-Cordillera Director Samuel Solomero said the Taloy Farmers...
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – Over P2.7-million worth of dried and fully grown marijuana plants were burned in this province on Monday, April 24. The Benguet Provincial Police Office conducted simultaneous marijuana eradication operations in the municipalities of Sablan, Bakun, and Kibungan which...
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – Police arrested two brothers who allegedly robbed a mining company in Mankayan, this province, of P13.2 million in gold bullions and killed five employees in 2003 after nine years of hiding in Compostela, Davao de Oro on Friday, April 14. Police Brig. Gen. David Peredo Jr.,...
