Bataan Capitol launches “Facebook @ work”

BALANGA CITY, Bataan – The Provincial Government of Bataan (PGB) last Friday launched an information system management called “Facebook @ work.” 

Geoff Loyola, Chief of the Management Information Service Office (MISO) and the Provincial Information Office (PIO), led the seminar and orientation utilizing the salient features of the most popular social media site in the world. 

Leo Club hosts illegal drugs seminar for high school students

CITY of BALANGA, Bataan – The Leo Club of Bataan, in cooperation with the Host Lions Club of Bataan hosted a one-day illegal drugs seminar for about 6,000 students of Bataan National High School (BNHS), the largest secondary school in the province.   Undersecretary Rommel L. Garcia, Dangerous Drugs Board Vice Chairman and member of Rodriguez […]

”Maria, Huwaran ng Kabayanihan at Kabanalan”

BALANGA CITY, Bataan – Inspired by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines’ (CBCP) declaration for this year to be celebrated as the Year of the Laity, the Religious Institute of the Marian Missionaries of the Holy Cross and the Campus Youth Ministry organized a Rosary Mass-Rally at the Bataan People’s Center last friday, September 5 from 8am-12nn, with the theme; ‘‘Maria, Huwaran ng Kabayanihan at Kabanalan.”

DOT to impart mechanisms to attract tourists in Bataan

BALANGA CITY, Bataan –  The Department of Tourism (DOT) Director for Central Luzon  Ronaldo Tiotuico  is determined to impart  with the  local tourism councils  the essential  mechanisms  to attract foreign and local visitors with the improvement  of tourism facilities and historical sites. Tiotuico who has served the government for almost 37 years, assured Mrs. Vicky […]

FAB is Bataan’s economic engine-Gov. Abet

   BALANGA CITY, Bataan – Bataan Governor Albert “Abet” Garcia has described the Freeport Area of Bataan (FAB) in Mariveles town as an economic engine of the province.

   Speaking in a tourism event last week, the governor pointed out that the free port, for the past years, has attracted foreign investors and created thousands of jobs for local folks. “The growth of FAB is tremendous, becoming an important economic engine of the province”, said the governor.

Bataan farmers finish DAR – AES training

   ABUCAY, Bataan—Fifty seven farmer- beneficiaries from Bagac and Dinalupihan towns finished the year-long Agricultural Entrepreneurship and Extension Services (AESS) training, a program of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR). The farmers received their certificates of graduation in a ceremony held in Villa Amanda Resort, this town.

   A professional service provider, UMIC International Incorporated, was hired by DAR Bataan, to train the 32 farmers from Bicol Binukawan Marketing Cooperative and 25 from Dinalupihan Multi-Purpose Cooperative.

DTI extends P1.6M-assistance to Mariveles bagmakers

   BALANGA CITY, Bataan – The Mariveles Bagmakers Multi-purpose Cooperative, Inc. is the latest recipient of the Shared Service Facility (SSF) project from the Department of Trade and Industry. 

   Nelin Cabahug, Bataan DTI Provincial Director, said they provided the bagmaking cooperative in Mariveles a computerized embroidery machine and a flat-bed binding machine, worth P1.6 million. Mariveles is home to more than 60 multi-national firms in the fast-growing Freeport Area of Bataan, the former Bataan Export Processing Zone.

Tourism office at DepEd, magsasanib pwersa

   LUNGSOD NG BALANGA, Bataan – Magiging katuwang ng Provincial Tourism Office (PTO) ang Department of Education (DepEd) sa isasagawa  nitong cultural mapping  para maghanap ng mga bago at magagandang lugar sa Bataan  na hindi pa nararating at nababalitaan ng iba nating kababayan sa Pilipinas at sa ibang bansa.

Bataan tykes – assured of a child – friendly local governance

BALANGA CITY, Bataan – In line with the country’s commitment in building a “child-sensitive and child-friendly society, the Provincial Technical Working Group is conducting a mandatory audit system, the Child Friendly Local Governance Audit (CFLGA). Aimed at assessing the LGU performance in the delivery of social services on child and youth welfare as well as in identifying results of the intervention, it will also focus on addressing the four broad categories of child’s right to survival, development, protection and participation.