By JONAS REYES | SUBIC BAY FREEPORT — All Hallow’s Eve or Halloween, a tradition widely believed to have originated from the Gaelic pagan festival Samhain, may have conjured images of ghosts, witches, and wandering spirits, but what started out as a scary commemoration is now as festive as every other modern celebration. In the Subic… Read More ‘Fright night’ sells in Subic Bay Freeport
By RUBEN VELORIA SUBIC BAY FREEPORT — The Bureau of Customs will soon implement a “zero contact” policy in business transactions at the Port of Subic under the Enhanced Goods Declaration Verification System, or 1-Assessment System, which is designed to curtail corruption in processing cargoes and thus increase revenue collection for the government. This was… Read More Subic BoC to implement ‘zero contact’ policy by Nov. 5
By JONAS REYES | CLARK FREEPORT – The Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) is seeking to integrate tourist destinations in the neighboring provinces of Pampanga, Tarlac, Bataan and Zambales to further sweeten the pot for the cruise tourism program of the Subic Bay Freeport and create inclusive growth in the region. In a briefing here… Read More Eisma: Complementation key to CL tourism growth
By HENRY EMPEÑO | IBA, Zambales — Former Zambales governor Jun Ebdane and incumbent Mayor Jay Khonghun of Subic town have joined forces for the May 2019 election, forming a formidable north-south combo under the PDP-Laban banner to wrest control of the Zambales capitol. Ebdane, a former police general who served variously as Defense Secretary… Read More Ebdane-Khonghun teamup eyes Zambales capitol
By NING DIMAANO | SUBIC BAY FREEPORT — A company engaged in trading of motor vehicles here has sealed an agreement with the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) for the training of workers in the automotive industry. Subictrak International Inc., a Subic-registered enterprise engaged in importation, remanufacture, rebuilding and re-export of motor vehicles and… Read More Subic firm partners with TESDA to train auto workers
By NING DIMAANO | SUBIC BAY FREEPORT — The Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) has reiterated its commitment to help develop indigenous people’s communities in the Subic Bay Freeport Zone and renewed its vow to promote the rights of the tribes to their ancestral domain here. During the kick-off of the celebration of the National… Read More SBMA renews pledge to help develop Subic indigenous communities
By JONAS REYES | SUBIC BAY FREEPORT – The Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) and its chairman and administrator Wilma T. Eisma have been named finalists in the Stevie Awards, a set of business awards given annually by the American Business Awards organization to recognize accomplishments and contributions of companies and business people worldwide. The… Read More SBMA, Chairman Eisma nominated for Stevie Awards
By HENRY EMPEÑO | SUBIC BAY FREEPORT — Officials and business executives here are pressing for a compromise that would satisfy both the government and investor-companies in the Subic Bay Freeport under the proposed Tax Reform for Attracting Better and High-Quality Opportunities, or ‘Trabaho’ bill. In two separate consultations with Trade Assistant Secretary Rafaelita Aldaba… Read More ‘Win-win’ solution sought for Subic investors under ‘Trabaho’ bill
By HENRY EMPEÑO | SUBIC BAY FREEPORT — Two unidentified females emerged as persons of interest in the slaying of a former newspaper publisher in a housing area here last Sunday. A spot report from the Investigation Division of the Law Enforcement Department of the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA-LED) said the two females are believed… Read More Former newsman slain; 2 females ‘persons of interest’
Photo by JUN DUMAGUING | Amphibious armored vehicles (AAV) are parked at the beach in the Subic Bay Freeport Zone upon their arrival on Sunday, September 30, for Exercise Kamandag, a bilateral exercise between armed forces of the Republic of the Philippines and the United States of America, which formally started at the Subic Bay… Read More KAMANDAG 2018
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