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,...
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – An accountancy student from Saint Louis University was crowned Miss La Trinidad 2023 during the coronation night at Benguet State University gymnasium here on Sunday, March 26. Reynice Tello, 21, a resident of Barangay Balili, La Trinidad, Benguet, whose main advocacy...
KIBUNGAN, Benguet – Authorities discovered a marijuana plantation covering 750-square meter lot in the mountains of Sitio Lesbeng and Batangas in Barangay Tacadang in this town on March 22 and 23. Joint operatives of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Regional Special Enforcement Team...
CAMP DANGWA, Benguet – Authorities seized a total of P517,000 worth of shabu, marijuana and nabbed four drug personalities during separate anti-illegal drug operations in Baguio City, Mt. Province, and Benguet on March 21. Brig. General David Peredo, Jr., regional director of the Police...
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet -- Fourteen floats, eleven street-dancing, six drum and lyre competitors, and a presentation of twin giant strawberry cakes highlighted a grand celebration of Strawberry Festival here on Saturday, March 18. The celebration’s theme was ‘A Festival for Recovery: Building a...
CAMP DANGWA, Benguet – Fifty members of the Communist Terrorist Group have surrendered to the government, with the latest addition being a 30-year-old man in the province of Abra who voluntarily surrendered to the Police Regional Office-Cordillera, La Trinidad, Benguet, on August 1....
Calille, Celeste, and Paul Engler, the family of three who want to save the native trees. (Out of Danger Project) By Jazz Quiambao Here’s a quick question: what Philippine native tree is currently vulnerable, endangered, and with only a few thousand left existing in the whole world? Here’s a...
WOMEN AT WORK Atok's coffee farms are dominated by women who plant their coffee alongside vegetables and flowers (Photo: Apo ni Bayosa) People who grow food should never have to go hungry, yet many of our farmers are—sadly—part of the most underprivileged sectors in the country. It’s a sad...
