I know a lot of them are graduates of Baguio schools, and they probably think they’re doing Baguio a favor, but let me tell you how the City Council is destroying Baguio via their badly thought of plans.
The city bounced back pretty fast after the 1990 earthquake, but the damage caused by the local government in the 17 years since is like water torture, drop after drop (or should I say, building after ugly building, policy after useless policy) and yet in the end, devastating to the environment that fuels our economy. And it continues to this day.
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Our garbage was not collected for one week. This is because of Peter Rey’s uber-simplistic directive that unsegregated garbage will not be collected. And I suppose only an uber-simplistic mind would believe that that was enough to get the people here to follow his orders. Wrong!
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Gray skies and the unwillingness to post photos that make Baguio look unattractive have prevented me from adding a photo of the Engineer’s Hill satellite market for this post. Located in an uber-prime location between Session Road Extension and Leonard Wood Road lies a colony of small, privatized government lots called Engineer’s Hill. This area is about just 1km from the Baguio City Market and is visible to a lot of visitors to Baguio also because the elegant Victory Liner terminal is located there. Read More…
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Great news!
According to The Philippine Daily Inquirer, the Baguio Centennial Commission, headed by mayoral uncle Virgilio Bautista, is planning to build a museum at the old Diplomat Hotel location on Dominican hill because, as they say, it has a good view of the city plus there are trees all around the grounds.
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