BAGUIO CITY — The Supreme Court has stopped a 2013 order by the Court of Appeals for Mountain Province capital town, Bontoc, to extract buried garbage near a prominent river, ruling that the waste should not be removed without first determining whether excavation is technically sound and feasible. The SC decision, promulgated on Jan. 21 but revealed only on Tuesday (July 28) by the Bontoc government on social media, effectively resolved a 14-year legal debate over the fate of the former Matoytoy-ok, Caluttit Open Dumpsite which Bontoc closed and rehabilitated in 2013 following a petition before the High Court for […]...Keep on reading: SC halts removal of river-side trash dumped in Mountain Province capital