September 19, 2017
| Local Government Units | Public Service Announcement | Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority
RECENT victories in labor and criminal complaints have raised the hopes of some 300 displaced employees of the Subic Bay Marine Exploratorium, Inc. (SBMEI), operator of Ocean Adventure and Camayan Resort, to return to work and eventually get their jobs back. “We are hopeful that these victories will eventually lead us back to our jobs,” Read More
September 18, 2017
| Local Government Units | National Government Units | Public Service Announcement
Before the budget of the Commission on Human Rights was slashed to a mere P1,000 by the House of Representatives, the CHR faced only a 10-percent cut (to P649.48 million), as the Department of Budget and Management had proposed. But then the House leadership threatened to defund the commission with a “zero budget,” and later Read More
September 16, 2017
| Developments | Local Government Units | National Government Units | Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority
Foreign investment approvals fell by more than 50 percent in the second quarter, the government reported on Friday, with all but one of six agencies reporting year on year declines. Photo by: rappler.com Data released by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) showed that six out of seven monitored investment promotion agencies (IPAs) had approved just Read More
September 16, 2017
| Local Government Units | National Government Units | Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority
House Minority Leader Danny Suarez is taking to task Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea for sitting on the leadership issues that have hobbled the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) and the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) for months. Suarez said these agencies have a big role to play and failure to resolve the corruption probe on ERC Read More
September 16, 2017
| Finance | Local Government Units | National Government Units | Public Service Announcement
The government’s investment promotion agencies (IPAs) expect more investments from China on top of the $24 billion worth of economic benefits the Duterte administration had secured during the President’s visit to Beijing last year. Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Undersecretary for Trade and Investments Promotion Group Nora K. Terrado said this as she led Read More
