Photo by Pixabay from Pexels. As the world adapts to the worsening effects of climate change, the agriculture sector is exposed as one of the most vulnerable sectors, if not the most. According to data from the Philippine Statistics Authority, damages incurred due to natural disasters totaled P463...
BAKUN, Benguet – The body of a farmer who went missing in Bakun river was found on Saturday morning, Aug. 20, four days after he was swept away by the river’s raging waters in Likew Section, Sinacbat, Barangay Poblacion, Bakun in this province. Photo from Zaldy Comanda The Municipal Disaster...
CAMP DANGWA, Benguet – A two-day police operation resulted in the discovery of marijuana plants in five plantations in the provinces of Kalinga and Benguet with a combined worth of P28,530,000. Photo via Zaldy Comanda BGen. Mafelino Bazar, regional director of the Police Regional Police...
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – Police Col. Damian Olsim assumed his post as acting chief of the Benguet Provincial Police Office Thursday, Aug. 18. Police Brig. Gen. John Chua, Police Regional Office-Cordillera deputy regional director for administration, presided over the turnover of command ceremony....
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – An overnight anti-illegal drug operation of the Police Regional Office-Cordillera has resulted in the arrest of three alleged drug personalities in Baguio and Benguet on Monday, Aug. 15. Photo via Zaldy Comanda Cordillera regional director Brigadier General Mafelino...
Photo by Markus Spiske from Unsplash. Filipinos may be rice-eaters, but potatoes are still a frequent part of their diet. It is a common ingredient in many tomato-based dishes like kaldereta and menudo, as well as soups like nilaga. Outside Filipino cuisine, the potato is a common side dish offered...
TUBA, Benguet -- Residents in remote villages of Balococ and Goldstream in Barangay Camp 4, Tuba, Benguet, are appealing to the government for better access roads. Photo via Zaldy Comanda Barely a week from now, more than a 100 elementary students in the said villages will be attending face-to face...
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – Officials of the provincial government Benguet led by Gov. Melchor Diclas gave Philippine National Police Chief, Police General Rodolfo Santos Azurin, Jr. a warm welcome as he made a courtesy call to the capitol on Friday afternoon, August 12. Photo via Zaldy Comanda...
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – Seven drug personalities were arrested and P2,506,000 worth of marijuana plants were destroyed during a weeklong operation conducted from July 31 to August 6 in Cordillera Region. Based on the records of the Police Regional Office-Cordillera’s Regional Operations Division...
The Philippines is home to a wide variety of crops and livestock, many of them disappearing from cultivation due to modernization. A handful of them are listed in the Ark of Taste, the Slow Food Movement’s catalog of endangered foods from across the globe. There are currently 65 Filipino food...
BAGUIO CITY -- The Benguet Corporation has allocated funds for the immediate construction of a bridge near its abandoned mining patented claim area near an open pit in Sitio Luneta, Loacan-Antamok, Itogon. Residents walk to the proposed site of a one-lane bridge to be constructed by Benguet...
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – Benguet generated the second highest revenue out of ten provinces identified by the Bureau of Local Government Finance (BLGF) as having significant earnings for fiscal year 2020-2021. Benguet is known as the top producer of highland vegetables and has the most mining...
