BAGUIO CITY – A total of 2,844 individuals belonging to 894 families have remained in various evacuation centers since the magnitude-7 earthquake struck northern Luzon. In a report released by the Department of Health-Cordillera on August 1, out of the total number, 674 families or 2,009...
CAMP DANGWA, Benguet -- Sixty-three police officers assigned to the Police Regional Office-Cordillera and 10 non-uniformed personnel (NUP) were removed from service as part of the ongoing internal cleansing program of the Philippine National Police. Acting PNP chief Lt. Gen. Vicente Danao Jr....
A DPWH-Mountain Province District Engineering Office backhoe clears a landslide on the Bontoc-Tocucan Road in Bontoc, Mountain Province. (DPWH-MPDO) BAGUIO CITY – The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) reported P491.117 million in damage to infrastructure in the Cordillera region...
Over 2,000 personnel of the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP), including medical doctors, were dispatched to the earthquake-hit Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) to provide the necessary assistance to the region’s distressed areas. BFP chief Director Louie Puracan said at least 25 fire trucks...
PEOPLE in Abra spend the night in makeshift shelters out of fear from aftershocks following the earthquake Wednesday, July 27. (Photo courtesy of PIA-Abra) BAGUIO CITY – A total of 7,691 families or 36,972 individuals were affected by the magnitude-7 earthquake Wednesday, July 27, in six...
BAGUIO CITY – A total of 1,729 families have been brought to evacuation areas, and 51 government buildings were damaged in Abra, the hardest-hit of a 7.0 magnitude earthquake which struck northern Philippines on Wednesday morning, July 27. DSWD Secretary Raffy Tulfo was seen visiting the...
THE body of construction worker Aron Cul-iteng is loaded into an ambulance after his remains were recovered in a building that collapsed in La Trinidad, Benguet. BAGUIO CITY – Three persons died in the Cordillera Administrative Region from the magnitude-7 earthquake Wednesday, July 27. Eight...
At least five persons were killed after a magnitude-7 earthquake struck Abra and nearby areas in Luzon on Wednesday, July 27. National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) Chairperson and Department of National Defense (DND) Officer in Charge Jose Faustino Jr. (left) monitors...
At least one person was injured while a number of major roads at the Cordillera Administrative Region were unpassable as a result of the 7.3 magnitude quake that hit most of areas in Luzon on Wednesday morning, July 27. Police Capt. Marnie Abellanida, spokesperson of the Police Regional...
LAGAWE, Ifugao -– Personnel of the Ifugao Provincial Police Office in partnership with the Ifugao KKDAT (Kabataan Kontra Droga at Terorismo) Chapters conducted a cultural sportsfest in celebration of 27th Police Community Relations and 35th Cordillera Month on Friday, July 22, at Camp Col....
BAGUIO CITY (PNA) – Malacañang has declared July 15 a special non-working holiday in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR). "It is just fitting and proper that the people of the CAR be given full opportunity to celebrate in and participate in the occasion to a special celebration,"...
CAMP DANGWA, Benguet- The Regional Drug Enforcement Unit (RPDEU) of the Police Regional Office-Cordillera had been honored as the Best Regional Drug Enforcement Unit of the Year. Photo from Zaldy Comanda In its anti-illegal drugs campaign, the PNP regional office’s RPDEU was able to confiscate...
