By HENRY EMPEÑO | SUBIC BAY FREEPORT — The Magbukun Ayta tribe, which claims ownership of the land where a shooting range is being constructed for the 2019 Southeast Asian Games, has thrown its full support to the project, calling it a source of tribal pride. In a press conference called by the Magbukun tribal… Read More Subic tribesmen support SEAG shooting range project

By HENRY EMPEÑO |  SUBIC BAY FREEPORT — A senior official of the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) expressed indignation at reports that a part of the West Ilanin Protected Area here was destroyed for the construction of a shooting range to be used in the 2019 Southeast Asian Games. SBMA Ecology Center manager Amethya… Read More SBMA: No forest destroyed for Subic SEA Games

By HENRY EMPEÑO |  SUBIC BAY FREEPORT — For humanitarian reasons, there will be no port charges at all for the Vietnamese fishing boats that sought shelter in Subic Bay due to bad weather last week, the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) clarified on Tuesday. Contrary to news reports that the SBMA threatens to fine… Read More SBMA: No port charges for ‘overstaying’ Viet fishers

By HENRY EMPEÑO |  SUBIC BAY FREEPORT — For the second time, the Office of the Ombudsman quashed charges filed by then Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) chairman Martin Diño against other senior officials amidst the leadership row in the Subic agency two years ago. A consolidated joint resolution approved by Ombudsman Samuel R. Martires… Read More Ombudsman again junks Diño’s raps vs top SBMA officials

By HENRY EMPEÑO SUBIC BAY FREEPORT — Three teams from the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) swooped down on separate areas at the Ilanin Forest here on Monday to repossess more than 240 hectares of land that remained undeveloped since its lease to the Subic Bay Marine Exploratorium, Inc. (SBMEI) 12 years ago. The teams… Read More SBMA repossesses 240 has. undeveloped by Subic theme park

By CARRIE T. ASPA |  SUBIC BAY FREEPORT ZONE — The Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) is set to repossess the popular marine theme park Ocean Adventure and related facilities due to multiple contract violations and failure to fulfill development commitments. SBMA Chairman and Administrator Wilma T. Eisma said the agency on Friday served a… Read More SBMA to foreclose Ocean Adventure Park

By HENRY EMPEÑO | SUBIC BAY FREEPORT — The Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) took exception to the reported delay in the processing of business permits here and stressed that it has put in place various measures to improve locator services in line with President Duterte’s directive to simplify business procedures and expedite transactions. SBMA… Read More SBMA: Measures for ‘ease of doing business’ already in place

By HENRY EMPEÑO | SUBIC BAY FREEPORT — Five senior officials of the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) heaved a collective sigh of relief here after the Office of the Ombudsman dismissed for lack of merit a complaint filed against them two years ago by former SBMA chair Martin Diño. In a decision approved by… Read More Ombudsman junks Diño complaint against 5 senior SBMA officials

OLONGAPO CITY — The self-confessed gunman in the killing of businessman Dominic Sytin last year has pleaded guilty to murder and frustrated murder charges before the court, staying true to his allegation that the killing was masterminded by the victim’s brother. Edgardo Luib, who was arraigned at the sala of Judge Richard Paradeza of Regional… Read More Gunman in Sytin killing pleads guilty

By HENRY EMPEÑO |  SUBIC BAY FREEPORT — A Chinese national was detained here by authorities after he and another compatriot seized a vehicle at knifepoint from a Filipino driver along the Subic Freeport Expressway (SFEX) early Sunday evening. Twenty-four year old Bin Zhang, who gave his address as Silver City 4 Condominium in Pasig… Read More Chinese arrested in Subic for carnapping