STA. RITA — Kapampangans and local businessmen have a list of topics they wish to hear from President Benigno Aquino III in his fourth State of the Nation Address (Sona), especially concerns ranging from the Clark Airport, agriculture, support for small and medium enterprises and even the proposed scrapping of the Priority Development Assistance Fund […]
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO – Pampanga Provincial Board unanimously approved over the weekend a resolution asking the agency to fast-track the completion of flood mitigation projects in the province. This even as the Provincial Board commended the Department of Public Works and Highways for a “job well done” on the San Fernando-Sto. Tomas-Minalin Tail Dike. […]
CLARK FREEPORT — President Benigno Aquino III’s uncle and Former Tarlac Congressman, Jose “Peping” Cojuangco, Jr., on Friday said the raffling off of nearly 5,000 hectares of Hacienda Luisita land was rushed before the president will deliver his fourth State-of-the-Nation Address today, Monday. “The Sona has become the reason for the land distribution, not the […]
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO–The Department of Science and Technology 3 (DOST-3) has formally launched the Dengue Vector Surveillance website for monitoring of weekly reports on dengue. Designated school coordinators, who used to do their weekly reports manually by tediously filling up forms, can just text their reports which are then automatically encoded to the website. […]
ANGELES CITY–A top tourism official in Central Luzon expressed elation over the announcement of the Clark International Airport Corp. (CIAC) that the Qatar Airways will begin daily Doha-Clark flights here on October 28. Department of Tourism (DOT) Regional Director Ronnie Tiotuico said the entry of Qatar Airways and another giant intercontinental airliner, Emirates Airways, are […]
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO–The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) has started the distribution of farm lands in Hacienda Luisita over the weekend. DAR started the distribution of Lot Allocation Certificates (LAC) on July 18 in Barangay Cutcut in Tarlac City through a draw lots. DAR Secretary Virgilio Delos Reyes said the land distribution there was […]
MAGALANG, Pampanga–An accreditation agency conducted evaluation on the programs of the Pampanga State Agricultural University (PSAU) last week. The Accrediting Agency of Chartered Colleges and Universities in the Philippines, Inc. (AACCUP) conducted the evaluation from July 15 to 19. The evaluation team was headed by AACCUP Executive Director Manuel Corpus along with 27 other accreditors. […]
STA. RITA, Pampanga–Senator Alan Peter Cayetano has vowed to work for the return of government subsidy for farmers numbering some 33,000 in Pampanga. Cayetano stressed that the subsidy for farmers, previously given by the Department of Agriculture (DA), should return to help them cope up with the rising cost of farm inputs and fertilizers. “Our […]
STA. RITA, Pampanga–Senator Allan Peter Cayetano has expressed full support to the development of a twin airport system for Clark International Airport and the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA). Cayetano stressed that with the development of a dual airport, a fast train should be essential for the interconnection of Central and Northern Luzon. The senator, […]
MAYNILAD has withdrawn from its partnership agreement with Miya Manila Water Projects Inc., the proponent consortium that proposes to undertake the non-revenue water (NRW) and expansion projects of the Bacolod City Water District (Baciwa). This was confirmed in a letter dated July 5 by Maynilad President and Chief Executive Officer Victor Vargas to lawyer Mai […]