By JONAS REYES | Subic Bay Freeport THE Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) has given business locators in this premier free port more time to pay for their overdue accounts to help them weather the adverse economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. SBMA Chairman and Administrator Wilma T. Eisma said the Subic agency has recently… Read More SBMA extends payment period for Subic locators
SUBIC BAY FREEPORT — Development assistance from the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) to neighboring communities continue despite the Covid-19 pandemic which has shuttered a few business operations here in the Subic Bay Freeport. SBMA Chairman and Administrator Wilma T. Eisma said the agency will release next week a total of P123.1 million in the… Read More SBMA to release P123-million LGU shares
QUEZON CITY — The Philippine Rural Development Project (PRDP) has picked three agrarian reform beneficiaries’ organizations (ARBOs) in Zambales to be the recipients of marketing projects aimed at increasing their income, enhancing economic activities, and spurring rural development. Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) Zambales provincial agrarian reform program officer Eric T. San Luis identified the… Read More 3 Zambales farmers’ groups qualify for PRDP marketing projects
CANDELARIA, Zambales — Local government units (LGUs) and offices of national agencies in Zambales are mobilizing inspection teams to ensure compliance with directives from the national government to clear roads of incumbrances as stipulated in DILG Memorandum Circular No. 2020-145. The circular gave LGUs from November 16, 2020 until January 15, 2021 to conform with… Read More Zambales LGUs comply with road-clearing order
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga – Local government units (LGUs) in Central Luzon are strengthening their efforts in dealing with communist insurgents toward local peace engagements. The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) regional office, in collaboration with the Office of the Presidential Adviser on Peace Process, spearheaded on January 21 a consultation-meeting with… Read More C. Luzon LGUs gear toward local peace engagements vs. insurgency
IBA, Zambales (PIA) — United States Agency for International Development’s TB Platforms Project conducted a nine-day Tuberculosis (TB) screening for about 381 healthcare workers in Zambales. In partnership with President Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Hospital (PRMMH), the free chest x-ray activity is part of the FAST (Finding cases Actively, Separating safely, Treating effectively) strategy. “FAST is… Read More USAID holds TB screening for healthcare workers in Zambales
By HENRY EMPEÑO | Subic Bay Freeport FOUR members of the police force in Olongapo City and one purported confidential informant or police asset were arrested here early Friday morning in connection with an entrapment operation and the discovery of a clandestine drug laboratory right in the middle of an upper-crust residential village here. The… Read More 4 cops, police ‘asset’ nabbed in Subic shabu lab bust
By HENRY EMPEÑO | Subic Bay Freeport SAYING it has had enough of speculation about the nature of a Chinese investment project in two strategically-located islands here in this free port, the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) on Friday said it welcomes a call by a so-called advocacy group for a Senate investigation into the… Read More SBMA on Grande Island probe: ‘Get on with it’
By HENRY EMPEÑO | Subic Bay Freeport JAPANESE precision motors manufacturer Nidec Subic Philippines Corporation said goodbye to more than 70 percent of its work force here on January 5, as it trimmed operations to maintain the viability of the company here in Subic amid shifting global market. The firm, which specializes in precision electronic… Read More Nidec-Subic bids farewell to 784 workers
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