BAGUIO CITY -- A total of 839 criminal cases were filed in court by the City Prosecutor’s Office for the first half of this year. Prosecutor Bernard Allan Angeles said 265 inquest cases were also filed during the same period (January to June) with no pending complaints for resolution. "So it...
BAGUIO CITY -- The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas and the Department of Interior and Local Government will launch the ‘Paleng-QR Ph’ cashless payment program with this city as pilot site on Sunday, August 14, at People’s Park Malcolm Square here. BSP Governor Dr. Felipe Medalla and Deputy...
BAGUIO CITY – Three drug personalities who were caught transporting dried marijuana leaves in Baguio city in 2020 were meted with life imprisonment by the Regional Trial Court-First Judicial Region, Branch 61 on Aug. 3, here. The three men who were caught with marijuana bricks at the police...
BAGUIO CITY – A court here has convicted the drug courier of a Filipino-Somali syndicate. DAMOGO mugshot. Judge Lilibeth Sindayen-Libiran of Branch 61, Regional Trial Court, Baguio City, sentenced Areeya Fernandez Damogo, 28, Monday, August 8, to a minimum of two years and one day to a...
BAGUIO CITY -- Leaders of the two groups in a virtual tug-of-war in Benguet Electric Cooperative have decided to patch up and set aside their differences, ending a long leadership dispute that has already affected the cooperative’s operations. Photo via Zaldy Comanda Controversy has been hounding...
CAMP DANGWA, Benguet – The Police Regional Office-Cordillera Administrative Region awarded two police units and one non-uniformed personnel during the 121st Police Service Anniversary celebration attended by President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. in Camp Crame, Quezon City Monday, August 8. The...
BAGUIO CITY – The city government is planning to charge a certain fee on tourists whose vehicles add to worsening traffic problems in the Summer Capital. Under the proposed ordinance, the tourists will be asked to pay 'congestion fee,' as a way to regulate traffic congestion in the city. The...
BAGUIO CITY – The Baguio City Police Office (BCPO) seized P1.7-million worth of illegal drugs and arrested 506 wanted persons from January to June this year. LONOGAN (FB) Police Col. Glenn Lonogan, city police chief, said they conducted 119 anti-drug operations in which 114 drug...
BAGUIO CITY – Mayor Benjamin Magalong here rejected the proposal to regulate busking after the city council recently approved an ordinance controlling street performances in this city. “It is not the right time, adding that people, including artists and musicians, earn meager during Sunday’s...
BAGUIO CITY – Mayor Benjamin Magalong here filed, Friday, August 5, another graft case against officials of the Baguio City District Engineering Office of the Department of Public Works and Highways (BCDEO-DPWH) due to alleged irregularities in the construction of a secondary school building...
BAGUIO CITY – Police dismantled another suspected drug den and arrested four high value targets inside Wednesday, August 3, in San Carlos Heights Extention, Irisan, here. Armed with a search warrant, the Irisan Police Station, National Bureau of Investigation, and the Philippine Drug...
BAGUIO CITY – The City Environment and Parks Management Office (CEPMO) reported that environment lovers have committed to planting some 4,385 saplings/tree seedlings in city parks and available venues up to the end of September in Baguio City. CEPMO head Atty. Rhenan Diwas said planting...