Las Piñas City lone district Rep. Camille Villar (Rep. Villar’s office) Alyansa para sa Bagong Pilipinas senatorial candidate Las Piñas City lone district Rep. Camille Villar sees Benguet as a potential crown jewel of tourism in the...
KIBUNGAN, Benguet – The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency and the Philippine National Police destroyed 90,000 fully grown marijuana plants valued at P18 million in an eradication operation in Kibungan, Benguet from April 1 to 2. Authorities discovered marijuana planted in two lots with a...
Romualdez-led miner Benguet Corp. (BC) is looking at better earnings this year due to rising gold prices while planning to diversify its business after shedding off debt. “As gold prices continued to soar, breaching the $3,000-per-ounce level this year, Benguet is positive that 2025 will surpass...
TUBA, Benguet – Three persons were killed when their van crashed into a wall on Marcos Highway here before dawn on Sunday, March 9. The Tuba Municipal Police Station identified the victims as Justine Nichole Fernandez Bungay, 22; Homer Lozano, 46, and Arlene Nanquil, 56. Five other...
Arabica coffee wildings thrive in elevated places like Bakun, Benguet, especially as its cultivation at higher elevations and in cooler temperatures help the concentration of its flavor. (This is an A.I. generated picture.) Hedcor, a renewable asset manager of Aboitiz Power Corporation...
ITOGON, Benguet – Three persons were killed and another was injured when a pickup truck plunged into a 100-meter deep ravine in Barangay Ucab here on Jan. 20. RESIDENTS help victims of an accident in Itogon, Benguet on Jan. 20. (Photo via Zaldy Comanda) Charles Oplas, 21, died on the spot,...
Two men were killed and their companion was injured when their mini-Elf truck plunged on an 80-meter-deep ravine on Kennon Road in Tuba, Benguet on Friday, Jan. 3. Police identified the fatalities as Michael Gayob Mader-an, 46, driver, and James Liwan Wagne, 31, residents of Tuba. The injured was a...
Thirty-six families lost their homes in a fire in Riverside Compound, Barangay Camp 6, Tuba, Benguet, on New Year’s Day. MAYOR Benjamin Magalong (in white hard hat and jacket) visits houses destroyed by a fire on New Year’s Day in Barangay Camp 6, Tuba, Benguet. One-hundred fifty-five...
ITOGON, Benguet – An 84-year-old man was killed in a fire that razed his house in Sitio Bay-o, Barangay Tuding, this town, before dawn on Thursday, Dec. 26. The Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP)-Itogon identified the victim as Felino Balalong Sr. Investigation said that the victim was cooking...
Benguet Corporation (BC), a publicly-listed mining corporation controlled by the Romualdez family, announced its first cash dividend declaration in 35 years as it is finally debt-free. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE), the firm said it had declared cash dividend on its common...
Probationary 2 nd Lieutenant Mhel Lucas Empiso tops this year's Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Officer Candidate Course (OCC). (Courtesy of AFP) A young man from Kapangan, Benguet emerged on top of this year’s Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Officer Candidate Course (OCC), beating...
CAMP DANGWA, Benguet – The newly renovated Camp Bado Dangwa Hospital in this camp for police officers and their dependents officially reopened on Friday. CONNIE Angeles, Executive Director of Health and Medical Programs of SM Foundation Inc., and Police Regional Office-Cordillera chief...
