PAL to suspend Cebu-Baguio route

Vincent Cabreza 06/01/2024

BAGUIO CITY—Philippine Airlines (PAL) plans to suspend its 17-month experimental Baguio-Cebu-Baguio route during the monsoon season. However, tourism officials believe this won’t impact visitor numbers in Baguio. “PAL told us and the mayor (Benjamin Magalong) way earlier,…

7 of Top 10 PMA Class of 2024 grads are women

Vincent Cabreza 05/11/2024

FORT DEL PILAR, Baguio City — A female cadet from Surigao City topped the 2024 graduating class of the Philippine Military Academy (PMA)—a batch in which she and six other women were among the Top 10 students.…

PMA graduating class of 2024 topped by female cadet from Surigao

Vincent Cabreza 05/10/2024

FORT DEL PILAR, Baguio City — Cadet First Clas (Cdt 1stCL) Jeneth Elumba from Surigao City topped the 2024 graduating class of the Philippine Military Academy (PMA). Elumba, who finished her training as magna cum laude, ranked…

SC mulls use of AI translators, podcasts about cases

Vincent Cabreza 04/14/2024

BAGUIO CITY, Philippines — Imagine adaptive algorithms translating courtroom exchanges from English to major Filipino dialects in real time for the benefit of litigants, or podcasts that explain the scope and impact of landmark decisions to average…

Landslide kills 16-year-old boy in Baguio

Vincent Cabreza 07/27/2023

BAGUIO CITY — A 16-year-old boy was killed by a landslide early Wednesday that buried him and his parents along Barangay Bakakeng Central as Typhoon Egay (Doksuri) dumped heavy rains and spawned strong winds. Rescuers managed to…

Cordillera mining slumps in 2022

Vincent Cabreza 05/02/2023

BAGUIO CITY, Benguet, Philippines — The Cordillera mining industry performed poorly in 2022, making it more imperative to bring into the mainstream economy the black market operation of the region’s small-scale mining sector, government officials said. The…

Baguio-Cebu flights seen to boost Cordillera tourism

Vincent Cabreza 10/26/2022

BAGUIO CITY (October 14, 2022) — Provinces in the Cordillera region will open their tourism destinations and sell their goods to the largely untapped market in the Visayas once Baguio City reopens Loakan Airport to domestic flights…

Quake forces closure of Kennon Road, other routes in northern Luzon

Vincent Cabreza 07/27/2022

BAGUIO CITY—The Kennon Road in this city has been closed to traffic due to multiple slides after the magnitude 7 earthquake that shook Luzon Wednesday, July 27, morning, the Department of Public Works and Highways announced. Despite…

Rizal in ‘bahag’: Pushback vs racial put-down

Vincent Cabreza 06/19/2021

BAGUIO CITY — A miniature wooden statue of Jose Rizal in coat and “bahag” (loincloth) was the star of an impromptu art installation that Kidlat Tahimik, a national artist for film, put up on June 12. It…

Baguio signs deal with AstraZeneca to vaccinate 70 percent of its population

Vincent Cabreza 01/11/2021

BAGUIO CITY –– Mayor Benjamin Magalong on Sunday signed a deal with British pharmaceutical AstraZeneca for vaccine doses good for 70 percent of the city’s 350,000 population. The arrangement was part of a tripartite agreement between the…

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