TUBA, Benguet – A mining company production department supervisor was killed in landslide in a mining site here on Dec. 1. The victim, whose name was not disclosed by the police, is a 48-year-old native of Pangasinan and resident of Philex Mines, Camp 3, Tuba. According to the Tuba Municipal...
BAGUIO CITY – A 74-year-old man who was among the nine victims of a landslide in Tuba, Benguet, during the height of super typhoon "Nando" Monday died while being treated in a hospital. Four vehicles, a Ford Ranger, a Toyota Innova, a Toyota Grandia, and a tanker truck, all headed to Baguio...
BAGUIO CITY – Nine people were injured by landslides triggered by tropical cyclone ' 'Nando ' ' in Sitio Begis, Barangay Poblacion, Tuba, Benguet on Monday afternoon. Several vehicles, including a fuel tanker, a commuter van, and a car, were destroyed. Rescue teams evacuated...
TUBA, Benguet – Public Works and Highways Secretary Manuel Bonoan on Monday defended the Kennon Road rockshed project, which President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. branded as "useless" during his inspection on Sunday. In an interview, Bonoan assured that the Kennon Road rockshed remains effective in...
A newly-built rock shed in Tuba, Benguet, collapsed due to tropical cyclone ‘’Emong." Baguio City Mayor and Baguio-La Trinidad-Itogon-Sablan Tuba-Tublay chairman Benjamin Magalong visited and lamented the condition of the infrastructure in Millsite, Camp 4, Kennon Road. The Department of...
TUBA, Benguet – Three persons were killed when their van crashed into a wall on Marcos Highway here before dawn on Sunday, March 9. The Tuba Municipal Police Station identified the victims as Justine Nichole Fernandez Bungay, 22; Homer Lozano, 46, and Arlene Nanquil, 56. Five other...
Two men were killed and their companion was injured when their mini-Elf truck plunged on an 80-meter-deep ravine on Kennon Road in Tuba, Benguet on Friday, Jan. 3. Police identified the fatalities as Michael Gayob Mader-an, 46, driver, and James Liwan Wagne, 31, residents of Tuba. The injured was a...
Thirty-six families lost their homes in a fire in Riverside Compound, Barangay Camp 6, Tuba, Benguet, on New Year’s Day. MAYOR Benjamin Magalong (in white hard hat and jacket) visits houses destroyed by a fire on New Year’s Day in Barangay Camp 6, Tuba, Benguet. One-hundred fifty-five...
Bureau of Immigration personnel arrested two foreign nationals during a manhunt operation on Saturday, July 27, in Tuba, Benguet in connection with a Chinese involved in a Philippine Offshore Gaming Operator in Bamban, Tarlac. The agency identified the suspects as Wang Keping, 35, female, and Khuon...
Aboitiz Power Corp. (AboitizPower), together with its retail electricity customer, Philex Mining Corp., provided much-needed vitamins and over-the-counter medicines for the people of Barangay Ansagan in Tuba, Benguet. AboitizPower recently donated medicines to Barangay Ansagan in Tuba,...
TUBA, Benguet – Three persons were killed and three were injured after the Sports Utility Vehicle they were riding in plunged into a ravine in Sitio Begis, Barangay Taloy Sur, this town, on Saturday, April 20. RESCUERS extract a victim of a road accident on Marcos Highway in Tuba, Benguet,...
TUBA, Benguet – Authorities discovered and destroyed marijuana worth P72 million in a plantation in Sitio Sangilo in Camp 4 on Kennon Road in this town. The plantation was discovered following a buy-bust operation early this month in Camp 4. MAP of Benguet with the municipality of Tuba...