The House of Representatives ' proposed KALINGA Act received a big boost on Tuesday afternoon, May 5 after the country’s economic managers threw their support behind the fuel price crisis response measure. The expressions of support were made during the first hearing of the House Ad Hoc...
House Majority Leader Ilocos Norte 1st district Rep. Sandro Marcos is rallying his congressman-colleagues to swiftly pass the proposed Kalinga Act, which is seen to provide relief for poor Filipinos, the middle class, and small business owners amid elevated fuel costs. Marcos made the call ahead of...
SADANGA, Mountain Province – The Philippine Drug Enforcement-Cordillera uprooted marijuana plants worth P31.3 million in the borders of Sadanga, Mountain Province and Tinglayan, Kalinga, on Friday, May 1. Discovered were 224,000 plants in four plantation sites approximately 29,500-square meters....
The proposed Kalinga Bill, now being shepherded in the House of Representatives by Speaker Faustino Dy III through the Legislative Energy Action and Development (LEAD) Council, comes at a time of extraordinary strain. The escalating US-Iran conflict has disrupted global oil flows, driven up prices,...
With three exhaustive marathon hearings under its belt, the 13-panel Legislative Energy Action and Development (LEAD) Council is now ready to move on to the next phase of its function--that is, to craft a consolidated legislative response to the fuel price crisis. But don 't call it "Bayanihan...
House Speaker Faustino "Bojie" Dy III has assured Filipinos that the executive and legislature continue to work together to mitigate the impact of elevated fuel prices resulting from geopolitical events. This, even as the House leader cited the big-time pump fuel price rollback scheduled for...
The House leadership wants to institutionalize a national protection system that would ensure Filipinos are not left to bear the full burden of another fuel-driven crisis similar to what is currently happening. For this purpose, House Speaker Faustino "Bojie" Dy III and Majority Leader Sandro...
BAGUIO CITY – The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in the Cordillera region said 1,187 tricycle drivers in Tabuk City, Kalinga each received cash relief assistance (CRA) worth P5,000, aimed at easing their financial burden caused by soaring oil prices amid the conflict in the...
A hero 's burial will be held for Scout Ranger Capt. Dean Oyando, a native of Tabuk City, Kalinga who was killed in an encounter with New People’s Army rebels in Occidental Mindoro, on Araw ng Kagitingan (Day of Valor). The date of his burial was described by provincial officials as a...
People of Kalinga are paying tribute to Scout Ranger Capt. Dean Oyando who was killed in an encounter with New People’s Army rebels in Occidental Mindoro on March 29. Oyando’s remains were brought home to Tabuk City, Kalinga on Wednesday, April 1. A wake is being held at the family residence in...
LUBUAGAN, Kalinga – A 65-year-old man was killed and 16 individuals, including six minors, were injured after a public utility vehicle plunged into a 30-meter deep ravine on the Poway-Ag-agama Upper Uma Access Road in Barangay Dangoy here on Tuesday afternoon, March 31. The fatality was...
TABUK CITY, Kalinga – Three members of the Citizen Armed Force Geographical Unit (CAFGU) Active Auxiliary were killed and two others were wounded in a shooting incident at the Allangigan Patrol Base in Barangay Apatan, Pinukpuk, Kalinga on Tuesday evening, Feb. 17. Police Capt. Ruff Manganip,...
