BOKOD, Benguet – A nine-year-old boy drowned in a river at a quarry site in Sitio Adonot, Ambuklao, here Tuesday, June 14. The Bokod Municipal Police Station said the incident happened at 6:30 a.m. and was reported to them at 12:15 p.m. The victim’s father, Orlando Tamilan Victor, 49, backhoe...
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet -- Two students were reported killed, while another was seriously injured after the vehicle they were riding on fell into a ravine on Wednesday morning, June 8, in Barangay Bahong, La Trinidad, Benguet. The fatalities were identified as Cedric Batil Wasit, 25, driver, and Rolly...
TUBA, Benguet -- Two laborers were killed while two others were injured after they were electrocuted while installing an internet pole at Proper Camp 3, Kennon Road, Tuba, Benguet, on Wednesday afternoon. The dead victims were identified as Joseph Panoy Vallejos, 55, resident of 52A Interior C,...
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet -- Former Anti-Crime and Terrorism Community Involvement and Support (ACT-CIS) party-list Representative Eric Yap has been formally proclaimed congressman in Benguet province, after securing a landslide victory in the election on May 9. Photo courtesy of Rizaldy Comanda Yap was...
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet -- Some 6,000 farmers and fisherfolk in Benguet province are set to receive at least P29,342,000 worth of cash assistance and fuel discount from the Department of Agriculture-Cordillera Administrative Region (DA-CAR). Photo courtesy of Rizaldy Comanda The assistance is part of...
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – Joint personnel from La Trinidad Municipal Police Station and the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group on Friday, April 29, arrested a man who allegedly raped his three neighbors who are all minors on three separate occasions. Col. Reynaldo Pasiwen, provincial...
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – The National Irrigation Administration-Cordillera turned over a total of nine irrigation projects worth P36 million to different beneficiary irrigators/associations during a simple ceremony on Thursday (April 21) at the Benguet Sports Complex in Wangal, La Trinidad....
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – A weeklong anti-illegal drug operation paid off as operatives destroyed marijuana plantation valued at P14,854,000 and arrested 15 people engaged in illegal drugs trading in separate buy-bust operations in Cordillera. Records from the Benguet Provincial Police Office...
MANKAYAN, Benguet -- A drug courier died after a shootout with police in an encounter that took place early morning of Saturday, April 16, in Pas-adan, Colalo, Mankayan. (Photo courtesy of Mankayan MPS/via Zaldy Comanda) Maj. Wiltz Konrad Sally, chief of police of the Mankayan Municipal Police...
ACT-CIS Party-list Rep. Eric Go Yap on Tuesday, April 12 said he is staking his life for the sake of the 130,000 Benguet farmers whose livelihood is being threatened by unabated agricultural smuggling. Yap said this in his virtual appearance before the Senate Committee of the Whole hybrid hearing...
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – Eric Go Yap achieved a milestone in his budding political career as he became a recipient of Nation Builders and Mosliv Award. Go, who has been party-list representative for ACT-CIS since 2019, was awarded Congressman of the Year by the NBMA last March 19 in Parañaque...
BAGUIO CITY – A drug pusher listed in the Regional Top Drug Personality was arrested by the police during a buy-bust operation in this city on Friday, March 25. (Photo from Zaldy Comanda) Col. Glenn Lonogan, city director of the Baguio City Police Office, identified the suspect as Rodel...
