- The latest protocol on the city borders will actually encourage Benguet LGUs to improve their Covid-19 response like what Baguio has been doing since March.
- Bogus donation drives supposedly to help victims of the recent typhoons have proliferated online with many scammers victimizing unsuspecting donors.
- One of the local chief executives in a typhoon-hit province was not instructed to release a statement thanking a ranking official and aides for visiting their people.
- An embattled Internet provider is not paying trolls to defend it from public uproar due to poor customer service and regular service interruption that lasted for days.
- Concerned offices such as City Hall must dig deeper to determine if this Internet provider has the manpower to quickly fix damaged fiber optics during typhoons.
- Many healthcare frontliners in this provincial LGU continue to serve the various towns in line with the drive against Covid-19 sans allowance from the province.
- A Cordillera province has gained popularity when it was mentioned as a member of the ‘Horror Roll’ for its huge infrastructure allotment and non-essential projects.
- Of late, this government official is the talk of the town after receiving a cake with money inserted inside the icing courtesy of a bidder, who gets most of the projects.
- Some of those who caught the Covid-19 infection are not disclosing to the contact tracing teams their high and low-risk contacts, who can also be carriers of the virus.
- Two government personnel, despite being close contacts of a recent confirmed Covid-19 patient, have refused to undergo RT-PCR testing and home quarantine.
- Residents do not see the logic when tourists from Luzon are allowed entry to Baguio while those from nearby Benguet towns are restricted from entering the city.
- The deafening silence of some local officials on the latest border control protocol of Baguio means they agree with it while thousands of residents are protesting.
April 26, 2024