Baguio Insider

According to this news report:

“The significant amendments to House Bill (HB) 2813 or the Act Revising the Baguio City charter is the titling of all lands, including the 211 titles in the name of the City Government. The 221 titles, or the so-called Igorot titles, were declared null and void by the Supreme Court (SC) after a long drawn out court battle.

Under the proposal, a selection committee headed by the mayor may dispose the public lands through public bidding.

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When the Mayor of Baguio, whose family owns University of Baguio declared a paradigm shift from tourism to education and (added by Vice-Mayor and UB Chief of Legal Affairs Danny Farinas recently) - ta da! - commercialism, I figured to look into how well our graduates performed in the hugely popular Nursing Licensure Exams last December 2007, just to have a gauge of how valid that claim of his of “Welcome to the Educational Center of the North” was.

Here is an analysis of how well (or how badly) the schools in Baguio performed in 2007: (more…)

I came upon this article at http://www.TruthForce.info about LGU Projects for the common good. Volt Contreras features Filipino local government units that have come up with creative solutions to their problems, that may be emulated by our own local government if they put the collective minds to it.

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February 16, 2008 started as a perfect Saturday — clear skies, the classic northern chill in the air.

Then suddenly the lights went off at about 11:30, almost simultaneously with the all-too-familiar wild wailing of fire trucks. Suddenly, all of us at home receive text messages: UB (University of Baguio) is burning! UB is on fire!

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