Government officials have sought support from the business community and diplomats of China Embassy for making the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) as production hub for tea in the Northern Philippines. During the Pandesal Forum of Kamuning Bakery Cafe in Quezon City on Thursday, June 29, they...
BAGUIO CITY – The Benguet Electric Cooperative (Beneco) reported damage to its property, including poles and electrical lines, due to heavy rains and strong wind brought by severe tropical storm “Betty” reaching P1.4 million. The electric cooperative also saw its 37-year-old substation power...
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – Authorities discovered – and destroyed – P30,000,000 worth of marijuana plants in two separate plantations in Kalinga and Benguet on Wednesday, May 31. Joint personnel of the Provincial Drug Enforcement and Intelligence Unit of the Kalinga Provincial...
TUBLAY, Benguet – Police seized undocumented lumber worth more than P100,000 here on Thursday, May 11. Police Col. Damian Olsim, Benguet police chief, said lawmen conducting a checkpoint flagged down an Elf truck for inspection but it turned around. Lawmen chased the truck until it was cornered in...
TUBA, Benguet – A farmers’ cooperative here has received two vegetable greenhouses with solar-powered drip irrigation and fertigation system worth P1.5 million courtesy of the Department of Agrarian Reform-Cordillera and DAR-Benguet. DAR-Cordillera Director Samuel Solomero said the Taloy Farmers...
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – Over P2.7-million worth of dried and fully grown marijuana plants were burned in this province on Monday, April 24. The Benguet Provincial Police Office conducted simultaneous marijuana eradication operations in the municipalities of Sablan, Bakun, and Kibungan which...
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – Police arrested two brothers who allegedly robbed a mining company in Mankayan, this province, of P13.2 million in gold bullions and killed five employees in 2003 after nine years of hiding in Compostela, Davao de Oro on Friday, April 14. Police Brig. Gen. David Peredo Jr.,...
Residents of Benguet may conveniently avail of the Professional Regulation Commission’s (PRC) services as the agency is set to mount an outreach program in the area on April 18. In order to further bring its services closer to Filipinos, PRC on Thursday, April 13, said it will be mounting a mobile...
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – Two drug peddlers involved in the bulk distribution of marijuana in Bulacan were arrested by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Central Luzon on Wednesday, April 12, in a private parking lot in Barangay Balili here. Seized during the buy-bust operation were 15 kilos...
There’s a lot more a farm can be than being a land to plant crops. We all know how farms can be developed to become resorts, restaurants, tourism sites, and learning centers. A special farm in Beckel, Benguet made sure to get in all that. Cosmic Farm is an organic farm founded in 1989 by Rogel...
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – The Police Regional Office-Cordillera has awarded six police officers from the Benguet Provincial Police Office for the recent arrest of six fugitives in the province. Police Brig. Gen. David Peredo Jr., PRO-Cordillera chief, awarded them during his first command visit...
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency and Benguet Provincial Police Office arrested two drug pushers and seized suspected shabu worth P3.4 million in Barangay Betag here on Sunday, April 2. Suspects were identified as Abdul Madid, alias “Maino,” and Sidec Dula Madid,...
