Author name: North Luzon Monitor

The city government will be implementing a simplified procedure in dealing with illegal structures and squatting activities beginning July 24, 2023. This was based on an executive order by Mayor Benjamin B. Magalong reorganizing the current Anti-Squatting and Anti-illegal Structures Committee, and renaming it as the City Anti-Illegal Structures Committee (CAISC), further restructuring its functions, …

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The Department of Health Cordillera Administrative Region (DOH-CAR) warns local government units and health service providers to be ready in implementing their mitigation measures on the anticipated health impacts of El Niño. The DOH-CAR anticipates outbreaks on dengue and food borne diseases as well as bacterial outbreaks such as dermatitis, diarrhea and other gastroenteric problems …

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Mayor Benjamin Magalong signed city council resolution no. 381, series of 2023, expressing the deepest sympathies and heartfelt condolences of the Summer Capital’s officialdom and constituency to the bereaved family of the late barangay kagawad Benito Puctiyao Allig of Dizon Subdivision barangay. The measure stated that Allig was a dedicated public servant having served said …

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The Persons with Disabilities Affairs Office (PDAO) reported there are more than five thousand eight hundred registered PWDs in the city who are now enjoying services provided by concerned government agencies, the local government and the private sector. PDAO officer Samuel Aquino claimed that this number is expected to increase once the City Social Welfare …

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The City Council, during last Monday’s regular session, approved on first reading a proposed ordinance providing for the Golden Anniversary Wedding incentive in the city. Under the ordinance authored by Councilor Leandro B. Yangot, Jr., the incentive shall be availed by residents who had been living in the city at least 10 years. Further, those …

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The city and San Jose City, Nueva Ecija formally establish their sisterhood relationship to expand their collaboration in various aspects of governance. Under Resolution No. 417, series of 2023, local legislators also authorized the City Mayor representing the local government to enter into a memorandum of understanding with the officialdom of San Jose City, Nueva …

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City Environment and Parks Management Office (CEPMO) head Atty. Rhenan Diwas calls for tree planters as twenty thousand (20,000) pine and fruit seedlings are available in the city nurseries. Three workers each in Busol and Botanical park nurseries make sure that from the eighteen thousand seedlings in January, and a drop of at least one …

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Baguio entrepreneurs met last week with city executives led by Mayor Benjamin Magalong, and non-government/ecological-based organizations, to discuss schemes, incentives or discounts for buyers who use their own shopping bags in business establishments. The discussion focused on how to radically reduce or altogether eliminate single-use plastics (SUPs) as packaging materials for goods in groceries or …

Business people meet with mayor, executives, NGOs on reduction/elimination of single use plastics (sups) in the city Read More »

The Baguio City Market Authority (BCMA) has declared as “extinguished” the contracts or occupation of a total of 1,565 at Block III, Block IV and Caldero section at the city market which were destroyed by the fire last March 11, 2023. In Resolution No. 002-2023 approved  on June 15, 2023, the BCMA said that with …

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A resident of Loakan Proper barangay is facing charges for openly burning waste. The Baguio City Police Office Loakan Station 4 and Loakan Proper barangay officials ladt July 12, 2023 jointly filed a case for violation of section 48 paragraph 3,  Chapter VI of Republic Act No. 9003 or the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act …

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