Francis Que News Today

The Supreme Court has upheld a lower court ruling that recognized an ancestral land claim covering 77,585 square meters of land at Barangay Pinsao, Baguio City. In a decision, the High Court recognized the claim of Maximo Bugnay, Sr. over the property, which he claimed was in his family’s possession for a long-time. Bugnay is

THE Supreme Court has affirmed a 10-year-old decision of the Court of Appeals (CA) that denied a petition of several individuals belonging to the Ibaloi and Kankana-ey tribes of Benguet to reverse a ruling of the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) that upheld its issuance of certificates of ancestral land title in 2007.