Koronadal City female cadet tops PMA’s Bagsik-Diwa Class of 2022
A 21-year-old woman from Koronadal City, South Cotabato, CADET 1CL Krystlenn Ivany G. Quemado, topped the Bagsik-Diwa (Bagong…
PMA announces Top Ten of the BAGSIK-DIWA Class of 2022
It’s a female cadet leading Philippine Military Academy MA Class 2022. A woman from Koronadal City, South Cotobato…
Vice president Leni Robredo turns Baguio pink
Vice President Leni Robredo visited Baguio City on December 6, with motorcades and supporters welcoming her and blazing…
Plant. Survive. Pray.
BAGUIO CITY—It was an afternoon of a heavy downpour as Steve Abanag led me through a stone-paved stairway…
Fear grips some Job Order health workers in Abra
Some hospital workers in Abra, Cordilleras region are gripped with so much fear in contracting Covid-19, which probably…
Woman with travel history to Japan tested positive for Covid-19 after visit to Baguio
A guest in one of the best hotels in this city inside Camp John Hay tested positive for…
PMA cadet drowns at the Academy’s pool
With the Philippine Military Academy still reeling from the issue of hazing that led to the death of…
Why do the I.P., environmentalists oppose the Kaliwa Dam? Here’s why
By Marilou Guieb | Correspondent THE Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) has won one round in the…
‘Mabalasik’ weeps over family drama on graduation day
BAGUIO CITY—As is wont to happen on graduation days, a touching life drama occurred on Sunday at the…
PMA training now focuses on national security management
THE Philippine Military Academy (PMA) has an upgraded curriculum for the incoming cadets come June 1 when classes…
5 female cadets land on top 10 of PMA’s 2019 Mabalasik Class
BAGUIO CITY—The thrill in her voice was evident when asked how she felt graduating on top of her…
Farmers urged to plant more coffee
Farmers should consider planting coffee so they can cash in on in the increasing demand of Filipino consumers…
PMA names Alab Tala batch top 10 graduates
FORT DEL PILAR, Baguio City—He was named after the most notorious criminal in the Middle East at the…
DENR chief gives back to alma mater PMA
FORT DEL PILAR, Baguio City—Sitting on the desk of President Duterte at Malacañang is a memorandum request for…
Kaigorotan seeks a stop to human-rights abuses
THE Cordillera arm of the Human Rights Alliance (CHRA) and the Cordillera People’s Alliance (CPA) on February 12…
Small-scale mine tunnels blasted in Cordillera
IT was done the military way —swift, on target and well orchestrated. The targets were 18 adits, horizontal…
Panagbenga 2018, a festival of creativity
THE staging of the 2018 Panagbenga, now on its 23rd year, goes with the theme “Celebration of Culture…
Bringing back the glory of PHL’s summer capital
Pristine air, verdant meadows, near and distant mountains, clear rivers and springs and the cool weather have made…
Fair recruitment brings hope to OFWs
IT has been almost two decades since the story of Ely Rose Miguel made newspaper headlines. Miguel was…
The lingering scent of Perfumed Nightmare 40 years hence
When the sleeping typhoon blows off its cocoon The butterfly embraces the sun. Such poecy from Perfumed Nightmare…
More Cordillera warriors die in continued Marawi crisis
THIS time around, an Ifugao brave is the fifth Cordilleran gunned down in the battle raging in Marawi…
Baguio mayor confident of strong economy
BAGUIO City—Mayor Mauricio Domogan continues to believe in his city’s strong economy, as he cited accomplishments and challenges…
Café by the Ruins to find a new home
BAGUIO CITY—Cafe by the Ruins, a popular café featuring signature dishes with touches of indigenous ingredients and a…
SKYdirect launched in city nearest the skies
STEEP mountains, deep valleys and a generally difficult terrain isolate far areas in the Cordillera region, depriving many…
Sen. JV Ejercito visits Baguio General Hospital
THE Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center (BGHMC) will soon have its 500-bed capacity expanded to 800. This…
Philipine Treasures: Creating beauty from broken pieces and throwaways
Story and photos by Marilou Guieb SOMEWHERE near Wright Park in Baguio City, where horses for rent and…
Philam Life: ‘Live Ready’ is a goal and a campaign
PHILAM Life has rolled out its newest campaign on financial literacy. Philam Life said life is not only…
Sitel SM Cybersite opens 4th site in Baguio
SITEL SM Cybersite formally opened its fourth site in Baguio City on March 24, bringing the count to…
Strawberry Festival, a beckoning to the wonders of La Trinidad
AS strawberry fields turn scarlet with the ripening of the berries, the 36th Strawberry Festival opened its Strawberry…
8 lady cadets to graduate among top 10 of PMA Batch Salaknib
THEIR graduation may fall on International Women’s Day, but the celebration at the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) is…
Panagbenga: A festival true to its name
By Marilou Guieb | Photos by Mau Victa IT’S that time of year again when the mercury dips…
Coffee, a way of touching lives
By Marilou Guieb | Correspondent COFFEE has thrived for centuries in the Cordillera region. Stories go that some…
4th Northbuildex slated in Baguio on Jan. 12-14
THE Baguio Convention Center will be a walk-through for builders and architects from January 12 to 14, during Northbuildex 2017.…
Gong Festival in Baguio relays pride in Cordillera culture
IN a region where 90 percent of the population is made up of ethnic groups, a celebration of Indigenous…
Of honeybees and golden sunflowers
BAGUIO CITY—It was 1992. The Balatoc Mines in Itogon, Benguet, had closed and gold miners were out of…
‘Let the Paris Agreement not be forgotten’
‘Where does your President [Duterte] stand on this [the Philippines’s pledge to the Paris Agreement on climate change]?” …
Relocation brings hope to illegal settlers
THERE’S a new urban phenomenon quietly creeping around the fringes of cities. In tight resettlement areas, uniform box…
Cherry blossoms in Benguet reflect 3 nations’ friendship
IT was one day last month when Benguet celebrated its Arbor Day. It might seem like a trite…
Lighting candles of hope for people living with H.I.V.
BAGUIO CITY—In 2008 we had one case of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection a day, and a low…
DBM releases ₧233.8M as LGU share in mine taxes
THE Department of Budget and Management (DBM) has released P233.8 million to cover the 40-percent share of local…
FWD Life Philippines comes to Baguio City
By Marilou Guieb / Correspondent THERE’S a new insurance offer come this second quarter of the year. FWD…
Iqbal visits ‘hostile’ territory, justifies Mamasapano carnage
By Marilou Guieb / Correspondent CHAIRMAN Mohagher Iqbal of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) stepped on Cordillera…
‘Turnback,’ female cadet top PMA Class of 2016
By Marilou Guieb / Correspondent A CADET who was turned back from his original class owing to illness…
For as long as flowers bloom, Anthoniuz will give joy with bouquets
AS you walk on the narrow and crowded sidewalk along Assumption Road in Baguio City, you will pass…
Cordillera D.O.T. exec paints Baguio, La Trinidad homes in Boysen and Davies Paints’ rainbow colors
By Marilou Guieb / Correspondent CORDILLERA Tourism Regional Director Marie Venus Tan is painting the town not just…
Like a holiday present, Krispy Kreme opens Baguio branch
RIGHT on time for the holiday season, Krispy Kreme opened its 75th store on December 20 in Baguio City.…
New transport system in Baguio needed for breath of fresh air
THE central business district (CBD) of Baguio City has been notorious for having the highest air-pollution concentration in the…
Bringing clean water to Juan and Maria
DRAWING from an age-old craft of pottery and adding to it cutting edge nanotechnology has created the candle-type ceramic…
Overfishing threatens ‘VIP corridor’
IN 1.14 hectares of sea, the seemingly endless meadow of corals and swarms of fish have made an underwater…
Remembering Baguio’s July 16 tremblor in gratitude
By Marilou Guieb / Correspondent ON July 16 survivors of the earthquake on that fateful day 25 years…
The Maryknoll nuns’ Earth House provides calm in a city of chaos
By Marilou Guieb / Correspondent BAGUIO City has always been known to be the escape from the oppressive heat…
Coco’s Gift Shop: A testament to love and friendship in Baguio
AS one enters the Baguio Country Club (BCC), a colorful shop attracts the eye. Coco’s Gift Shop. Coco…
Kidlat Tahimik, ‘Balikbayan #1’ and ‘sariling dwende’
‘WHEN I’m making my film, I’m just a storyteller expressing my own sariling dwende, said Kidlat Tahimik (KT),…
The soul of Baguio in Café by the Ruins and Café Dua
FROM the ruins of World War II, a café rose a quarter of a century ago and became a…
Biggest, innovative agriculture trading center to open in March
The biggest and first state-of-the-art agriculture trading center in the country, which seeks to increase the incomes of…
Life is a chocolate treat served by Art Nacuza
FEBRUARY is the month when the world goes cheesy with love. But it really should be going coco-loco,…
‘Teleserye’ creates popular tourist destination in Tuba, Benguet
THE Christmas holiday traffic was horrific, as expected by residents come every long holidays. But this year was…
A paradise garden at Baguio Country Club
BAGUIO CITY—There is a room on the second floor of an old pinewood building in the swanky compound…