Organizers and human resource departments in Manila companies are busy planning upcoming company outings and teambuilding events in and around Manila for the summer months. Learning from past experiences of holding outings and trips for groups in public theme parks and resorts outside Manila offering cheap rates, trip planners and event organizers are particular careful […]
Manila residents as well as event organizers look to Pampanga for good resorts and hotels for holidays, vacations, short getaway excursions or to hold company and social events. During summer and holidays in the Philippines, Manila residents travel to the north to look for beautiful places to visit and good resorts to stay in Pampanga. […]
THE Supreme Court downplayed Monday Chief Justice Renato Corona’s alleged ownership of some 31 firearms. Court spokesman Jose Midas Marquez said the reported armory of the chief magistrate was overblown, just like the supposed 45 properties listed by the Land Registration Authority (LRA) in his name. “Most of the guns belong to Corona’s father and […]
A HOUSE of Representatives leader said Monday that the impeachment court is not the proper venue to discuss the allocation of priority development assistance funds (PDAF), more commonly known as “pork barrel”, to its members. “This is not the proper venue to talk about pork barrel funds,” Quezon Representative Lorenzo “Erin” Tañada III, House Deputy […]
DEFENSE lawyer Jose Roy III was cited for indirect contempt Monday evening over a supposed attempt by Malacañang to bribe senators that Chief Justice Renato Corona’s lawyers announced at a press conference in February. At the press conference on February 12, members of the defense panel said Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr. had been calling […]
MANILA — Navotas City Representative Tobias Tiangco told the Senate impeachment court Monday that there was pressure from the House leadership for members of the majority to endorse the impeachment complaint against Chief Justice Renato Corona. He said he was taken aback when House Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. supposedly told the majority that Corona’s impeachment […]
SAN FERNANDO CITY, Pampanga – The Department of Agriculture (DA) and the Pampanga provincial government have awarded more than P16.5 million worth of farm machineries to various farmers’ groups in the four districts of this province. The awarding of machineries to 58 farmers’ groups is joint undertaking of the national government through the DA, Philippine […]
MANILA, Philippines—An alleged leader of an organized crime group and three of its members were killed in a shootout with police in Pampanga early Sunday, a Philippine National Police spokesman said on Monday. Chief Superintendent Agrimero Cruz Jr. identified one of the slain suspects as Gider Ignacio de Leon, who purportedly led the “Den-Den Group” […]
The Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) has bared a five-year strategic plan designed to generate more employment and investment opportunities in this free port.In his first State of the Freeport Address (SOFA), SBMA chairman and administrator Roberto V. Garcia said that for the next five years, the agency will implement an audacious development program to […]
More giant clams or “taklobo” have found their way into Subic Bay through a marine resources conservation program of the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) and the active participation of various stakeholders in this free port. SBMA Chairman Roberto Garcia said the agency recently seeded the Ilanin Bay here with 200 taklobo seedlings for this […]