The Ambongdolan Cave in Tublay, Benguet. Photo courtesy of Art Tibaldo via Baguiocity.com
UPDATE: Our blogger friend, Jhie who comes from Tublay has more information and more photos on these caves. Visit Ivadoy Country for more. Thanks Jhie!
Category Archives: Benguet
Our Town: Mankayan, Benguet
One would think that Mankayan, home of Lepanto Mines, would have better roads than the rest of the Cordilleras. But, no, this is what we’ve got — an unpaved road and sinking homes. According to Baguiocity.com the houses we see in the picture used to be at the same level as the road but they have now sank. Residents blame all that tunneling by Lepanto to get at the gold.
But where did all the gold go? The bulk of it went to the pockets of American and Makati-based stock holders, a teeny bit was given to the government in the form of taxes, and a teeny weeny bit was paid to our kailiyans who worked in the mines.
Roundup: Around the Boondocks
We haven’t been doing any roundup for sometime now so we think it’s high time to do it again. Here goes:
More Chris and Charlie: Remember our kailiyans who are in contention to become the “King of Filipino Migrant Workers in Korea? We blogged about them here. We hope that you followed Layad’s example and voted for either of the two here.
Suffer the Children
Part 1: Child laborers in a Benguet rock quarry
Part 2: Child laborers in a Benguet rock quarry
Benguet by the Numbers
This is for the little geek in you crying out for facts and statistics. The data is from the 2003 Benguet Socio-Economic Profile which we downloaded from the Benguet provincial website. The files appear to have been removed from said site so email us if you want a copy [in PDF].
Please note that these figures may have changed since four years have passed after the Profile was written. But then again, considering the slow pace of change in the Philippines, maybe these figures have remained basically the same.
17% – Percentage of highland vegetables bound for Baguio/La-Trinidad which come from the town of Buguias. Other vegetable sources are: Atok and Mankayan (12% each), Mt. Province (11%), Kibungan (10%), Bakun (8%), Kabayan (7%), Kapangan (7%), Tublay (7%), La-Trinidad (4%), Tuba and Itogon (2% each) and Bokod (1%).