Mayor Pizarro allots P16.4 million for water system rehabilitation

PILAR, Bataan – Mayor Alice D. Pizarro has allocated P 16.4 million for the rehabilitation of the water system of four clustered villages of the town under the bottom-up budgeting program of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG). Mayor Pizarro identified the four barangays namely  Del Rosario, Ala-Uli, Nagwaling and Liyang, all of which are reportedly […]

BM Serrano sponsors medical mission

ORANI, Bataan – Around 3,000 residents of this town benefitted from the medical and dental mission sponsored by Board Member Benjie Serrano as a treat to them in celebration of his 42nd birthday. Residents received free checkup, medicines, dental services, reading glasses, and free haircut from the mission held at the covered court of Orani North Elementary School on […]

Land Bank-Bataan to implement new automated check clearing system

CITY of BALANGA, Bataan – Starting January 20, 2017 the management of Land Bank – Bataan will be implementing a new automated check clearing system called Check Image Clearing System (CICS) pursuant to Philippine Clearing House Corporation (PCHC) Circular memo 15-460 and 15-3126. According to Land Bank – Bataan Assistant Manager Ms. Lea V. Montilla, […]

Garcia acts to modernize Bataan Provincial Highway

BALANGA CITY, Bataan – Bataan Governor Albert Raymond S. Garcia is presently on an official trip to the United Kingdom to study the possibility of adopting the bus rapid system being implemented in developed countries to the province’s main artery— the Roman Highway known today as the Bataan Provincial Highway. This was revealed in a […]

House Committee on Health approves Garcia’s House Bill 2043

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES – Bataan 2nd District Congressman Jose Enrique “Joet” Garcia III’s bill for the upgrading of the Bataan General Hospital in Balanga City was recently approved by the House Committee on Health. Rep. Garcia presented HB 2043 entitled “An Act Upgrading the Bataan Provincial Hospital in the Province of Bataan into a level III […]

Barangay Tala as ecotourism zone, pushed in Congress

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES – Bataan 1st District Representative Geraldine B. Roman has filed House Bill 270 that seeks to declare Barangay Tala in the Municipality of Orani in the Province of Bataan as an ecotourism zone. The said village is part of the Bataan National Park, one of the most sought-after destinations in Bataan known for its […]

AFAB supports Mariveles Liberation Day anew, hosts FAB Health Day

Contributed by Carissa Caraig, AFAB MARIVELES, Bataan – The Authority of the Freeport Area of Bataan, once again, has pledged full support to the annual festivities of the Municipal Government of Mariveles as part of the celebration of the 72nd Liberation Day of the town. Headed by AFAB Chairman and Administrator Emmanuel D. Pineda, the […]

BPSU to establish cashew research and development center

BALANGA CITY, Bataan – The Bataan Peninsula State University (BPSU) will establish a cashew research and development center to help cashew producers in the province. Dr. Hermogenes Paguia, BPSU Director for Research, said the center will help in the production, processing, and packaging of cashew. The fruit abounds in the province particularly in Bagac and […]

P 21 M ice plant and cold storage facility to rise in Bataan

MARIVELES, Bataan – Board Member Jose C. Villapando, Sr., Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP)  chair of Cooperative Development and Transportation Committees has bared  the proposed construction of P21 million ice plant and cold storage facility in the upland village of Batangas Dos, this town. Villapando said, Kaizen (Japanese term for continuous improvement) Multi-Purpose Cooperatives of Batangas Dos, is eyeing […]

SSS crackdown on delinquent employers

CITY of BALANGA, Bataan – Social Security System (SSS) Bataan has intensified its campaign to run after delinquent employers for violation of the Social Security Act of 1997. In an interview with SSS-Bataan Head, Joel Y. Villafuerte, he said that they have been consistently complying with the marching orders from their higher-ups to come up […]