False advertisements on social media for rooms and spaces in boarding and transient houses have been victimizing students who are returning to Baguio City for the new school term after spending two years attending online classes because of restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
BAGUIO CITY For the first time, the city government will build a complex for the elderly and ex-rebels in Baguio city. Half of the complex will serve as retirement homes for the elderly, while the other half will be allotted for the former rebels in the city and nearby localities. The cost of t
WOODCARVING. Young people in Ifugao join a woodcarving competition during the Imbayah Festival in Banaue, Ifugao in 2019. In Baguio, the city government has tied up with the Department of Science and Technology-Cordillera and handicraft makers for a PHP1.2-million industry development project that would benefit handicraft shops. (PNA photo courtesy of PIA-CAR) BAGUIO CITY - The city government is entering into a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with the Department of Science and Technology- Cordillera Administrative Region (DOST-CAR) and various woodcarving cooperatives to improve the industry. City council information officer Jordan Habbiling on Tuesday said city hall is working out the upgrading of the woodcarving industry through science, technology, and innovation. He said the city council has authorized the city's executive to enter into a MOA for the project that will be funded by the DOST-CAR worth PHP1.26 million. Habbiling said the project will be carried out in two phases an
RESPONSIBLE DOG OWNERSHIP. The legal office of Baguio City will sue irresponsible dog owners as part of the Responsible Dog Ownership Ordinance of the city passed in 2021. Councilor Betty Lourdes Tabanda said the city's responsibility of filing a case will come when there is no private offended party who is affected due to the violation based on the ordinance. (PNA file photo) BAGUIO CITY - Animal welfare advocates in the city have lauded the city government for approving a resolution allowing its legal office to file charges against erring dog owners. "More than a year of rescuing, we have experienced so many heartbreaks for rescues: abandoned, neglected by the owners. The Baguio City Pound that so many despise is continuing to operate because of owners letting their dogs out and on the loose not bothered by the danger imposed," the Furvent Animal Rescue and Advocacy Group said in a social media post on Tuesday. The group added that it can now push for the creation of an
BAGUIO CITY – Real property owners in the city might soon reap the benefits of tree planting as the city government looks at granting tax incentives to properties that maintain trees. City Council information officer Jordan Habbiling, in a media release on Tuesday night, said the measure was broach