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==Red tide remains up in Bataan and Zambales - BFAR==
==Balanga being transformed into high tech-city==
*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R03&article=561332768270
*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R03&article=1951336534568
*By: PIA
*By: PIA
*''March 27, 2012''
*''Thursday, May 10, 2012''


Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) warned the public anew to refrain from gathering and eating shellfish from the Bataan coastal waters and Masinloc Bay in Zambales as red tide toxin which causes paralytic shellfish poisoning remains present in these areas.
CITY OF BALANGA, Bataan- This relatively undeveloped city is being transformed into the vision of being a world-class university town by 2020. In this light, the city government of Balanga has lined up various technological projects in remodeling the Bataan capital into a “high tech-city.”


Affected by the ban in Bataan are the municipalities of Mariveles, Limay, Orion, Pilar, Abucay, Samal and Orani and the city of Balanga.
Balanga City Mayor Jose Enrique Garcia III announced the construction of a city library and a city information technology lab parallel to improving the education sector with the university town project.


BFAR Central Luzon information officer Lanie Lamyong said “based on the latest shellfish bulletin issued last March 14, the current red tide toxin level in shellfish samples collected from the coastal waters of Bataan and Masinloc Bay are still significantly higher to the 60g STXg/100g tolerable limit.”
The said project allots 18.51 hectares or 23 percent of the central district’s 80.42 hectares for the establishment of schools, churches, city hall, and other public buildings.


Lamyong reiterated that fishes, squids, shrimps and crabs harvested from these areas are safe to eat as long as they are fresh and washed thoroughly and their internal organs such as gills and intestines are removed before cooking.
Garcia said that studies were made designing Balanga after internationally renowned technological institutions like the Silicon Valley in California that has gained prominence worldwide with its investments on computer innovations.


==Pantranco Benefits==
“Silicon Valley (adopted) the fine mixture of ingenuity, innovation, and resourcefulness, (thus) people there were able to transform this once barren, secluded area into a high-tech investment and economic hub,” he said.
*Source: http://mb.com.ph/articles/355323/disabilities-center
*By: Mar T. Supnad
*''March 25, 2012''


BALANGA CITY, Bataan — After years of legal battle, employees of the defunct Pantranco North Express, Inc. will finally receive millions of pesos of benefits starting March 28, it was disclosed Saturday.
In Balanga, free wireless frequency internet connections are available in barangay halls, public elementary schools, and business establishments.


Pantranco Retrenched Employees Association (PANREA) president Romy Alfonso said each of the employees of Pantranco will receive P40,000 each to be distributed on March 28, 29 and 30. Alfonso said, however, the initial payment of P20,000 each will be given to the former employees of Pantranco while the rest will be given in the coming days.  
The city government is also establishing information technology corners and e-Centers in Balanga’s 25 barangays under the Barangay Online program, which will serve as venue for technical assistance and online library.


==Bataan Freeport Area Brand launched==
According to Roneth Santos of the city government, about 42 units of closed-circuit television cameras were installed around the city monitored by the Philippine National Police and the Public Safety Office for public security.
*Source: http://mb.com.ph/articles/355223/bataan-freeport-area-brand-launched
*By: Mar T. Supnad
*''March 24, 2012''


MARIVELES, Bataan — The Authority of the Freeport Area of Bataan (AFAB) launched the other day the new Freeport Area of Bataan (FAB) Brand.
Santos said that a subsidized computer loan program for city public school teachers was also launched which gave a P5,000 subsidy to teachers who want to own a laptop computer and the remaining balance was loaned to them with zero interest.


“The FAB Brand is sought to provide the visual representation that will encapsulate what the FAB stands for and seeks to achieve,” said Deogracias Custodio, AFAB Chairman and Administrator. “It is to exude universal appeal that will anchor the FAB in the consciousness of its stakeholders, potential investors and the public at large,” he explained.
Garcia also pioneered the use of a 3 x 4-meter giant LED TV monitor in center of the Plaza Mayor De Balanga used in celebrations.


Supporting these activities is the congressman of the Second District of Bataan, Albert S. Garcia, known as the Father of the FAB. Garcia lauded this milestone in the continuous efforts of the AFAB to bring the FAB to national and international prominence.  
“We therefore urge each and every Balangueño to continue believing and commit themselves as our partners in pursuit of vision to make Balanga one of the finest cities in the world,” added Garcia.


==50 Balangueñas graduated from massage training workshop==
==Free CCP workshop to dig ‘gold minds’==
*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R03&article=551332213320
*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R03&article=1951336464310
*By: PIA
*By: Jose Mari Garcia
*''March 23, 2012''
*''Wednesday, May 09, 2012''


BALANGA CITY, Bataan- A total of 50 Balangueñas from this city recently graduated from a five-day skills and training workshop as massage attendants and manicurists.
CITY OF BALANGA, Bataan- About 200 kids from various public and private schools in this city gathered for a four-day arts workshop facilitated by trainers from the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) to discover “gold minds” among gifted students.


Carrying the theme “Galing ng Masahista at Manikuristang Balangueño,” the undertaking aimed to hone the massage therapy education among workshop participants.
The fourth string of the free, annual workshop dubbed “Batang Sining” was held in Balanga Elementary School from April 30 to May 3 and hailed esteemed art aficionados like Palanca hall of famer Dr. Luis Gatmaitan; Herminio Beltran, chief of the inter-textual division of CCP; Rey Escasenas, storyteller from Alitaptap group; and Jasmine Tresvalles, CCP culture and arts officer.


According to city mayor Jose Enrique Garcia III, more training will be given to the people of Balanga for them to become more productive citizens.
Balanga City mayor Jose Enrique Garcia III said that the use of arts as a catalyst for social change and a force for values transformation among students will mobilize cultural awakening and discover gold minds in line with the city’s vision of a world-class university town status by 2020.


“As we see the enthusiasm of women to learn, the city government will be training more people in various skills that would enable them to be productive,” Garcia said.
“The Batang Sining Creative Expression Workshop for elementary students is part of the city government’s quest to help bring the arts to the masses, particularly to students, and to bring out their imagination, innovative spirit and artistic abilities,” said Garcia.


“Through this kind of training, they would not only be learning, but this will be another income source,” Garcia added.
The participants from grades three to five took part in the activities for day one of the workshop that included group plays like the boat is sinking, connect the body parts and group cheer; creative introductions; storytelling; and writing about what is their idea of a perfect world.


Meanwhile, city councilor and chairperson of the Committee on Women and Family of the Sangguniang Panglungsod Liza Vasquez also share Garcia's view, saying that “with the new skills acquired by the graduates, they will be able to contribute to their family as this will be a source of income.”
Day two presented sharing of folk stories, art of mime, storytelling hour, appreciating poetry, drawing images in poems and choral reading. Puppet-making and puppetry were staged on day three of the workshop, while dramatization, group presentations and graduation were held on day four.


The training was made possible with the assistance of Technical Education and Skills Development Authority in this city, together with the City Social Welfare and Development office and Balanga City cooperatives.  
“In our time today, the children have their different arts. Their music, for the old-school people, is deafening. This program aims to produce caliber artists like Lea Salonga and Jessica Sanchez,” said City Schools Division of Balanga Supt. Dr. Ronaldo Pozon.


==Forgotten Soldiers commemorates Bataan Death March==
He added that the Batang Sining workshop was in line with the new Child Protection Program of the Department of Education that eyes to steer the students away from abuses like vices at home and in school.  
*Source: http://entertainment.inquirer.net/34261/forgotten-soldiers-commemorates-bataan-death-march
*By: entertainment.inquirer.net
*''March 22, 2012''


In recognition of the 70th anniversary of the Bataan Death March, the White Sands Missile Range presents a new documentary movie, Forgotten Soldiers on Friday and Saturday.
==Ordering back the tides==
*Source: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/189605/ordering-back-the-tides
*By: Juan Mercado
*''Tuesday, May 08, 2012''


Forgotten Soldiers follows a little-known group of Filipino soldiers and American officers who served together in elite units known as Philippine Scouts.
Trees fail to flower,” Aetas huddled at the Bataan mountaintop meeting told Fr. Shay Cullen. “Bees are disappearing. Storms  blow away our nipa huts as never before.”


These regular U.S. Army soldiers, along with the Philippine Army and U.S. national guard units, fought the first major battle of the war after Pearl Harbor. They were then subjected to the horrors of the Bataan Death March.  Half of the men died in combat and as prisoners of war.
With Preda Foundation coworkers, the priest toiled up the two-hour steep trail on horseback. Preda buys Aeta wild mangoes at double what lowland hawkers offer and markets them abroad.


Six years ago, producer/director Donald A. Plata recognized that the pivotal events that took place in the Philippines at the beginning of World War II have slipped into history, and few Americans today have ever heard of the Philippine Scouts, or even the Battle of Bataan.
Half a world away, Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research scientists documented what Aetas learned from seat-of-their-pants.


Plata financed, filmed and developed Forgotten Soldiers to tell that story, and to give credit to the men of Bataan and Corregidor for their sacrifices and achievements.
University of Bern experiments span two decades, four continents and 1,634 plant species. “Spring flowering and leafing advances 5 to 6 days per year for every degree Celsius of warming,” they report in the journal Nature.


Forgotten Soldiers will be shown at 7 p.m., on Friday and Saturday evening at the Post Theater, White Sands Missile Range.
Bern tests “underestimated how much plants change,” reports British Broadcasting Corp. science reporter Matt McGrath. He adds that research leader Elizabeth Wolkovich and This Rutishauser fret over additional water needed by a plant community that  sprouts a week  earlier.


==BOC Open To Scraps Inquiry==
Contrary to myth, Filipinos have modest freshwater endowment: 6,332 cubic meters yearly. In contrast, Malaysians tap into 26,105 cm. Saudi Arabians have only  118 cm. They bartered more oil for water last year when Riyadh ’s last aquifers ran dry.
*Source: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/354878/boc-open-to-scraps-inquiry
*By: Mar T. Supnad
*''March 20, 2012''


MARIVELES, Bataan — A top official of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) said over the weekend that her office is open to inquiry into the reported importation of alleged contaminated and hazardous scraps from Fukushima, Japan that made its way to this town.
Here, “we  have a water aristocracy set on its head.” A squatter’s shack in Cebu City pays 13 times for water than a gated Maria Luisa enclave home, notes the United Nations World Water Development Report.


Customs Collector Elvira Cruz said that her office was able to collect P6.5 million in taxes from the Marinobu Trading after the company imported a shipload of scrap from Japan using the Seafront shipyard in Barangay Lucanin, here.
In the Philippines, 54 out of every 100 lived in cities by 2007. By 2020, the number of urban Filipinos will be double rural counterparts. Many cities are saddled with below-par water facilities even as births and migration interlock.


Earlier, Mayor Jesse Concepcion said that he ordered the revocation of the permit granted to the Japanese company Marinobu Trading “to allay fears of our constituents who expressed apprehension about the reported shipment of hazardous scraps, now stockpiled inside Seafront.”
A “youth bulge” characterizes this migrant torrent, San Carlos University’s Soccoro Gultiano and Peter Xenos of East-West Center point out. Hormones of these young migrants are on overdrive. They will tarry in the reproductive age bracket longer.


==Garcia Says ‘No’ To Unification==
A sharper slowdown in birthrates won’t materialize anytime soon, not even if the Reproductive Health bill gets into law books. But demand for just about everything else will spiral. And there is no substitute for water.
*Source: http://mb.com.ph/articles/354768/lily-accessories-made-by-wives
*By: Mar T. Supnad
*''March 19, 2012''


BALANGA CITY, Bataan — Governor Tet Garcia’s stand on the “on again” and “off again’ unification of political bigwigs in this province was spelled out clearly last weekend when he said, “no way to unification.”
Politically charged issues, like a chief justice’s blacked out dollar accounts, smudge concerns including shifting rain bands. A bachelor President’s date will send commentators into  a tizzy. But glossing over emerging threats can be lethal.


Garcia said that a meeting with political allies in the Provincial Board last March 14 at his house here rejected the call for unification.
“We’re seeing changes happening… in ways  we didn’t expect to see for hundreds of years,” 27 scientists led by Oxford University’s  Alex Rodgers caution in their recent  “State of the Oceans” report to UN.


This, as the province is abuzz with the supposed alliance between the governor and 1st District Rep. Minia Roman in time for the elections next year during which all incumbents will not be challenged by candidates from either camp.  
As polluted seas warm, we enter  “a phase of extinction of marine species unprecedented in human history,” they wrote. Over-fishing, pollution and climate change interlock “in ways not previously recognized.”


==Limay Mayor to Boy Scouts: "We join you in nation-building"==
“Accelerated” changes include melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. Sea levels are rising and methane trapped in the sea bed, is seeping out.
*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R03&article=551331802000
*By: PIA
*''March 18, 2012''


LIMAY, Bataan- “We join you as you help build the nation by instilling the virtues of patriotism, courage, and self-reliance among our young people.”
Here “expect  sea waters to rise by at least 20 cm in the next 40 years,” writes Dr. Wendy Clavano in  a current  series for Environmental Science for Social Change, a Jesuit research organization.


So expressed Limay Mayor Lilvir Roque to more than 4,000 boy scouts who gathered to conduct a four-day camping here in line with the celebration of the diamond anniversary of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines (BSP) here. The camping culminates today.
The severest threat stretches “along the Paci?c seaboard: from Samar all the way down to eastern Mindanao.” Include the Zamboangas and island provinces of Romblon and Marinduque in the Sibuyan, says Clavano, a PhD  from Cornell University .


“We wanted you to prepare for life, that’s why we’re doing this activity because you needed to overcome fears and be even stronger to face challenges,” Roque added.
She suggests the creation of a “vulnerability index.” This could undergird mitigation programs for what initial data pinpoint as “high risk areas. That sweeps in the Lingayen Gulf (La Union and Pangasinan), Lamon Bay (Quezon and Camarines Norte), Camotes Sea (western Leyte, northern Bohol, and northeastern Cebu).


He further explained that “in this town, we strive to develop our young people to live a life of leadership, integrity, faith, and excellence, pursuing a five-fold agenda of living, loving, learning, leading and leaving legacy. This scouting movement contributes to such ideals to build straight, disciplined, concerned, self-reliant citizens in the best tradition of world scouting.”
Add to that list Guimaras Strait (along northwestern Negros Occidental and Guimaras), central Sulu Sea (Cuyo Archipelago), Iligan Bay (in particular Misamis Occidental), Zamboanga del Norte and Bislig Bay (Surigao del Sur).


The Jamboree week started on March 14 at Camp Lilvir Roque, this town, where scouts were trained in at least six modules that would prepare them for responsible leadership in the future.
`Only 4 percent of coral reefs here in remain in pristine condition. Other countries with equally threatened reefs are Haiti, Grenada, Comoros, Vanuatu, Tanzania, Kiribati, Fiji and Indonesia.


==Bataan celebrates Boy Scouts diamond anniversary==
Edges of the “Tropical Belt —outer boundaries of the subtropical dry zones—have drifted towards the poles, notes Nature Geoscience. Temperature and rainfall changes alter yields, including politically-volatile crops like corn and rice.
*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R03&article=551331779196
*By: Joelyn G. Baluyut
*''March 15, 2012''


LIMAY, Bataan- The province of Bataan is celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines (BSP) via a five-day camping in Limay town.
“In the Philippines, rice yields drop by 10 percent for every one degree centigrade increase in night-time temperature,” BBC’s environment correspondent Richard Black writes. As droughts dry reservoirs, yields have fallen by 10 percent to 20 percent over the last 25 years. More declines are ahead.


Since yesterday until Sunday, a total of 4,000 scouts coming from more than 200 elementary and secondary participating schools in the province has been conducting different major activities to prepare the youth for responsible leadership and contribute to nation-building according to the ideals, principals, and program of scouting.
Three billion people live in the tropics and subtropics. They’ll nearly double by the end of the century. The National Statistical Board asserts there are 93 million plus of us today. No sir, it’s 99.9 million, counter some United States and international bodies.


Dubbed “Iskwats: Sandigan ng Matatag na Pamayanan,” this activity aims to strengthen each scout’s responsibility towards the future by conducting basic training skills in scouting that’ll eventually contribute to nation-building.
The “most extreme summers of the last century could become routine towards the end of this century,” predicts the University of Seattle. What would be summer 2100 in the Philippines be like?


For Boy Scouts, among the major activities included are Jubilee Trek which is hiking, back to basic, global development village, extreme challenge trough obstacle, scout skills and kims games, relays on knot tying, stretcher, coconut, fire bucket, bandage, scout law, and human obstacle.
Filipino policy makers must move beyond politics-as-usual. Overdrawing on aquifers in Metro Cebu and Manila is causing severe  land subsidence. Clavano urges that priority be given to adaptation and mitigation approaches for sea rising levels. Like King Canute, politicians cannot order back the tides.


While for Senior Scouts, modules on high rope adventure, scout skills games I and II and special activities will be performed.
“Nor can we move crops north or south since many are photosensitive,” notes Dr. Geoff Hawtin at International Centre for Tropical Agriculture. “Tipping points could come quickly.”


==D.O.L.E. Extends Aid To Farmers==
==Red tide notice remains in effect in Bataan==
*Source: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/354003/dole-extends-aid-to-farmers
*Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R03&article=561336288823
*By: Mark Anthony N. Manuel
*By: PIA
*''March 11, 2012''
*''Monday, May 07, 2012''
Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) reiterates its caution to the public to avoid gathering and eating shellfish from the Bataan coastal waters as red tide toxin that causes paralytic shellfish poisoning remains present in these areas.


The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) regional office here has recently provided a total of P350,000 livelihood assistance to a farmers’ community group in Bataan for their organic fertilizer program.
Affected by the ban are the municipalities of Mariveles, Limay, Orion, Pilar, Abucay, Samal and Orani and the city of Balanga.


The assistance fund is part of the agency’s Community Enterprise Development (CED) program that aims to assist the farmers’ cooperative that were affected by recent typhoons.
BFAR Central Luzon information officer Lanie Lamyong said “based on the latest shellfish bulletin issued last May 3, the current red tide toxin level in shellfish samples collected from the coastal waters of Bataan and Masinloc Bay are still significantly higher to the 60g STXg/100g tolerable limit.”


DOLE has awarded the livelihood assistance worth P200,000 to 38 members of the Canitangan Organic Farmers Marketing Cooperative (COFMACO) for their organic fertilizer production.  
Lamyong reiterated that fishes, squids, shrimps and crabs harvested from these areas are safe to eat as long as they are fresh and washed thoroughly and their internal organs such as gills and intestines are removed before cooking.


==Bello Speaks At A.P.O. Meet==
==Palace wishes Jessica Sanchez good luck in final AI stages==
*Source: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/353810/bello-speaks-at-apo-meet
*Source: http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/257316/news/nation/palace-wishes-jessica-sanchez-good-luck-in-final-ai-stages
*By: Mar T. Supnad
*By: LBG, GMA News
*''March 10, 2012''
*''Sunday, May 06, 2012''
As it congratulated her for advancing the top four of “American Idol,” Malacañang on Sunday wished Filipino-Mexican singer Jessica Sanchez good luck in the next stages of the competition.


BALANGA CITY, Bataan — Former Solicitor General Silvestre “Bebot” Bello will be championing the cause of good governance as he addresses today’s meeting of the Alpha Phi Omega (APO) in Bataan. Businessman Gerry Calimbas of Morong and Edgardo Lulu, of Pilar town, who are the head and coordinator of the APO in this province’s 1st District, respectively, will welcome Bello.
Deputy presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte said Filipinos will continue to support Sanchez in her quest to top the reality television search for the next singing superstar.


Dr. Junn Teopengco, president of the APO-Mt. Samat Alumni Association, said the meeting will focus on expanding their organization, to include barangay leaders and members of non-government organizations.  
“Congratulations, and we continue to wish her good luck for the final stages of the competition,” Valte said in a text message read on government-run dzRB radio.


==Hazard Watch==
Last week, Sanchez survived another elimination round on American Idol, while 18-year-old country singer Skylar Laine was booted out.
*Source: http://mb.com.ph/articles/353730/cavite-population-rapidly-going-up
*By: Mar T. Supnad
*''March 09, 2012''


MARIVELES, Bataan — The Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office (PENRO) here, headed by its chief Amado Villanueva, has vowed to uphold environmental laws to ensure sustainable development in this fast-rising industrial area of Bataan.
In the Philippines, Filipinos continued to show support, especially those from her mom's hometown in Bataan province.


This, after the PENRO received a request from Mayor Jesse Concepcion to investigate a Japanese-owned company importing scraps from Japan that has allegedly been operating without the required clearances from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR).
Sanchez's Filipina mother Editha is a daughter of Eddie Bugay, a retired US Navy man who hails from Samal but is based in Orani town in Bataan.


The investigation focuses on the alleged entry of tons of the reported hazardous, toxic-laden and possibly radiation-contaminated scraps from the exploded Japanese Nuclear Power Plant in Fukusima.
==Balanga City uses passbook to save enviroment==
*Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R03&article=1951336115976
*By: Jose Mari Garcia
*''Saturday, May 05, 2012''


==Dutch Company Investing P1B Here==
CITY OF BALANGA, Bataan- In this city, passbooks are not only used to save money, but also to help save the environment.
*Source: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/353710/dutch-company-investing-p1b-here
*By: www.mb.com.ph
*''March 08, 2012''


Manufacturing Cable Assemblies In Bataan
Under the Junk Shop ng Bayan Project of the city government, public schools in Balanga use customized passbooks to keep track of plastic garbage they each one has collected.


Dutch company Molex Integrated Products Philippines Inc. is investing P1.147 billion for the manufacture of cable assemblies in an 11-hectare lot in Hermosa economic zone in Bataan and would employ 1,265 once in full commercial operation.
The accumulated trash of schools will be picked by a truck and the points saved in their passbook may be used to claim rice rewards, said Annie Tuazon, consultant on solid waste management of the City Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO).


The project has been approved by the Philippine Economic Zone Authority as among the huge big ticket items that flocked into the country.
“If you have collected three kilos of dry and clean plastic, you will be rewarded with a kilo of rice. You could then accumulate the points to get more rice,” Tuazon said.


Molex is a leading one-source supplier of interconnect products. It is focused on the design, development and distribution of innovative product solutions that touch virtually every walk of life.
According to CENRO, Balanga City, the capital and economic center of Bataan, is producing 20 to 25 tons of varied garbage everyday, which is equivalent to 9,100 tons yearly.


Its portfolio is among the world's most extensive, with over 100,000 reliable products, including everything from electronic, electrical, and fiber optic interconnects to switches and application tooling.
With the city’s population of about 90,000 which is projected to balloon in years, proper and sustainable solid waste management is critical as to not fill up the dumpsite in Brgy. Munting Batangas, said CENRO head Nelia Castor.


Molex has extensive worldwide resources to meet customer needs on a local, regional, and global level.
Therefore, CENRO has been piloting environmental projects including the Junk Shop ng Bayan, Gamit Pang-eskwela Mula sa Basura, Operation Linis Ilog and Linis Barangay, and the production of doy bags from tetra packs.


Molex offers well-established sales, product development, manufacturing and logistics resources in Asia, Europe and the Americas. The company’s engineering, development and manufacturing capabilities are organized into three product divisions, all serviced by the Molex Global Sales and Marketing Division.
Castor said the garbage truck circulates the city every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. The schools also may call their office whenever they have amassed plastics.


The company’s flexible design and manufacturing capabilities allows the company to better provide custom cable solutions for numerous applications. (BCM)
Meanwhile, small plastics like those from snack food will be brought to the Material Recovery Facility in Brgy. Munting Batangas where they will be macerated.


==Balanga City receives Rice Achievers Award==
Tuazon said that since small plastics are strenuous to be sewn as doy bags, they will be put through a pulverizer funded by the Department of Science and Technology to be grinded and mixed into the production of paper tiles.  
*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R03&article=541331010177
*By: Rebecca Grace S. David
*''March 07, 2012''


BALANGA CITY, Bataan- To merit the 2011 Rice Achievers Award, Balanga has implemented several agricultural initiatives.
==Balanga City bats for zero illiteracy rate==
*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R03&article=1951335927897
*By: Jose Mari Garcia
*''Friday, May 04, 2012''


Balanga City Mayor Joet Garcia prioritized food security and the stability of farmers and fisher folks. Garcia continually initiated agricultural programs which proved to be beneficial to both the farmers and the consumers.
CITY OF BALANGA, Bataan- The education sector here is eyeing the gradual reduction of illiteracy rate among children and youth by allotting more land space and projects in Balanga for students.


One of the agricultural programs of the city is the Binhian ng Bayan which supported the Seed Subsidy Program where farmers were given certified and hybrid rice varieties as planting materials which greatly improved harvest.
Under the University Town project, Balanga City Mayor Jose Enrique Garcia III has allocated 18.51 hectares (ha) or 23 percent of the central district’s 80.42 ha for the establishment of schools, churches, city hall, and other public buildings.


A Plant Now Pay Later Program, another agricultural initiative of the city government, provided assistance to farmers for the purchase of farm inputs like fertilizer, pesticides, implements and machineries.
“The planning started in 2007 and based on a study we did, there are three components of a university town: provide access to quality education, complete facilities for the students, and provide conducive learning environment,” Garcia said.


In infrastructure, the construction of farm-to-market roads in barangays Cataning, Dangcol, Cabog-cabog, Central, Tanato, and Munting Batangas, which cost P24 million, were completed, facilitating the transport of farm products to the markets resulting in lower prices for consumers.
In a statement made by the city government, education projects that include programs starting from day care centers to tertiary schooling are prioritized in light of achieving the vision of a “world-class university town by 2020.”


Annually, under the Dangal Balangueno program, the city recognizes the Most Outstanding Farmer of Balanga, as its way of recognizing the invaluable contribution of farmers in the city's development.
“Among Mayor Joet Garcia’s plans for the city is to lower the number of non-readers to the point of eliminating them totally,” said the city government.


A farmers’ day was even instituted where recognition is given to the Most Active Agricultural Groups which have implemented effective agricultural and fishery programs.
“The city government prioritizes education in the project, thus, several programs relative to literacy were implemented. More studies and trainings were held to ensure that proper education will produce well-rounded citizens," it added.


As a proof of the support of the city to agricultural organizations, it allotted P341,088 for their operations. They were given loans under the Pangkabuhayang Proyekto Para Sa Balangueno.
Among the projects are Responsible Parents Training through Education for the Upbringing of Children (Educhild), Reactivation of the Council for the Protection of Children, Iskolar Balangueño Scholarship Program, TEACHNOLOGY Computerization Program, Provision of Assistance to Public Schools, and Centers for Excellence.


One successful recipient is the Tanato Upland Farmers Association (TUFA) which is composed of 41 members. From the initial five heads of swine which they bought from the loan, they now raise 46 heads in their swine-breeding project.
These undertakings of the Garcia administration had led to the award from the National Literacy Coordinating Council as 2nd Most Outstanding Local Government Unit last September 2011.


Presently, the group has an income of P90,000 it derived from fertilizer trading and its Bigasan sa Barangay.
Balanga has one state university, 10 colleges, seven secondary schools, 30 elementary schools, 27 day care centers, and 10 pre-schools.  


TUFA is also the caretaker of the Animal Breeding Center where 6 buffalos and 25 goats are available for bull and buck mating for free.
==Freeport Area of Bataan’s new brand gets nod of investors==
 
*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R03&article=1951335770588
The city also established the Bagsakan Center located at the upper floor of the public market. Farmers were given the option to bring their products here instead of selling to middlemen.
*By: PIA
 
*''Tuesday, May 01, 2012''
==No dengue outbreak in Bataan but cases go up==
*Source: http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/250422/news/regions/no-dengue-outbreak-in-bataan-but-cases-go-up
*By: Ernie Esconde
*''March 06, 2012''


The Provincial Health Office in Balanga City, Bataan on Monday reported that although there is no dengue outbreak in Bataan, seven municipalities were tagged as hotspots as cases there have increased by almost 70 percent compared to last year.
CITY OF BALANGA, Bataan- The Freeport Area of Bataan (FAB), the province’s top dollar economic hub, launched recently its new official brand which gained the approval of international investors.
Dr. Rosanna Buccahan, PHO officer-in-charge, said 364 cases of dengue fever were recorded from January to February this year compared to 214 for the same period last year. No fatality was reported.
Placed under the hotspot category are the City of Balanga and the towns of Abucay, Hermosa, Limay, Mariveles, Pilar and Orion, with 27 new cases from February 19-25, 2012.
Five towns previously declared hotspots were removed from the list.
An area is declared a hotspot when there is an increase in the number of cases for two consecutive weeks, Buccahan explained.
According to Buccahan, the rise in dengue cases is expected in the whole country. “Wala na kasing period o panahon ng dengue. All throughout the year na,” she said.
Bucahan strongly recommended conducting search and destroy activities, environmental cleanup and intensification of health education to prevent the increase of dengue fever in the community.
“Let us go back to basics by applying the ABaKaDa or Aksiyon Barangay Kontra sa Dengue. Hanapin natin ang kiti-kiti at puksain,” Buccahan said.
PHO reports showed that the ages of those contracting dengue ranged from 9 months to 62 years old, with most of them belonging to the 11-20 age group. Those aged 7 years old were most affected.  


==New Posts For Cop Chiefs==
FAB administrator Deogracias Custodio said the new symbol of the multimillion economic zone in booming Mariveles town signifies different values essential to establishing businesses.
*Source: http://mb.com.ph/articles/353366/new-posts-for-cop-chiefs
*By: MAR T. SUPNAD
*''March 05, 2012''


CAMP TOLENTINO, Bataan — Chiefs of police (COPs) in this province face the prospect of getting new posts, Senior Superintendent Ricardo D.C. Zapata, Jr., Police Provincial Office (PPO) director, said Monday.
“The new FAB brand is almost full circle to connote unity, expansion and growth,” said Custodio.


Zapata’s deputy for administration, Supt. Mario Ramos, is closely monitoring COPs in the different municipalities and city of Bataan to assess who will be given new posts.
He explained the color red in the logo denotes passion and determination needed to cultivate a business while the blue stands for stability of growth.


Ramos, who is also the PPO’s intelligence officer, will be the one to make recommendations to Zapata who among the COPs needs to be transferred to a different position first.
Executives of foreign companies expressed satisfaction over the new brand which, according to Custodio, represents the Filipinos as globally competitive with world-class service.


The Provincial Director (PD) said this move is necessary to make Police Stations more effective and dynamic, especially in areas where there is a proliferation of criminal and drug activities.
“It is sort of fresh and the design looks good to us,” said Dong-In Group general manager Park Ki Jung.


“We have several police officers who want to come and work in Bataan; I am not relieving my officers, but if they cannot afford to do their work, then I’ll give them other assignements,” said Zapata.
The corporate chiefs also pointed out that building business in the country has its share of advantages compared to other Asian countries.


He said his order to Ramos is clear. The Bataan PPO’s thrust is to improve police efficiency in solving crimes and ridding the streets of illegal drugs.
According to John Cartwright, general manager of C&L Philippines Footwear Manufacturing Corporation, FAB is very promising and full of potentials as it is very accessible from Manila and other neighboring cities via the new Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway.


Ramos vowed to monitor the performance of every Police Station and gauge whether or not the chiefs of police in these areas are effective in their jobs.
“One thing more, the wages are up in China,” said Cartwright.


Likewise, Zapata directed Senior Inspector Dennis Orbista, PPO information officer, to provide media men the contact numbers of all COPs and access to all reported crimes in their respective areas of responsibility.
Park added that the availability of qualified manpower and English-speaking workers are plus points for FAB.

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Wars of ancient history were about possessions, territory, power, control, family, betrayal, lover's quarrel, politics and sometimes religion.

But we are in the Modern era and supposedly more educated and enlightened .

Think about this. Don't just brush off these questions.

  • Why is RELIGION still involved in WARS? Isn't religion supposed to be about PEACE?
  • Ask yourself; What religion always campaign to have its religious laws be accepted as government laws, always involved in wars and consistently causing WARS, yet insists that it's a religion of peace?

WHY??

There are only two kinds of people who teach tolerance:
  1. The Bullies. They want you to tolerate them so they can continue to maliciously deprive you. Do not believe these bullies teaching tolerance, saying that it’s the path to prevent hatred and prejudice.
  2. The victims who are waiting for the right moment to retaliate. They can’t win yet, so they tolerate.
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Balanga being transformed into high tech-city

CITY OF BALANGA, Bataan- This relatively undeveloped city is being transformed into the vision of being a world-class university town by 2020. In this light, the city government of Balanga has lined up various technological projects in remodeling the Bataan capital into a “high tech-city.”

Balanga City Mayor Jose Enrique Garcia III announced the construction of a city library and a city information technology lab parallel to improving the education sector with the university town project.

The said project allots 18.51 hectares or 23 percent of the central district’s 80.42 hectares for the establishment of schools, churches, city hall, and other public buildings.

Garcia said that studies were made designing Balanga after internationally renowned technological institutions like the Silicon Valley in California that has gained prominence worldwide with its investments on computer innovations.

“Silicon Valley (adopted) the fine mixture of ingenuity, innovation, and resourcefulness, (thus) people there were able to transform this once barren, secluded area into a high-tech investment and economic hub,” he said.

In Balanga, free wireless frequency internet connections are available in barangay halls, public elementary schools, and business establishments.

The city government is also establishing information technology corners and e-Centers in Balanga’s 25 barangays under the Barangay Online program, which will serve as venue for technical assistance and online library.

According to Roneth Santos of the city government, about 42 units of closed-circuit television cameras were installed around the city monitored by the Philippine National Police and the Public Safety Office for public security.

Santos said that a subsidized computer loan program for city public school teachers was also launched which gave a P5,000 subsidy to teachers who want to own a laptop computer and the remaining balance was loaned to them with zero interest.

Garcia also pioneered the use of a 3 x 4-meter giant LED TV monitor in center of the Plaza Mayor De Balanga used in celebrations.

“We therefore urge each and every Balangueño to continue believing and commit themselves as our partners in pursuit of vision to make Balanga one of the finest cities in the world,” added Garcia.

Free CCP workshop to dig ‘gold minds’

CITY OF BALANGA, Bataan- About 200 kids from various public and private schools in this city gathered for a four-day arts workshop facilitated by trainers from the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) to discover “gold minds” among gifted students.

The fourth string of the free, annual workshop dubbed “Batang Sining” was held in Balanga Elementary School from April 30 to May 3 and hailed esteemed art aficionados like Palanca hall of famer Dr. Luis Gatmaitan; Herminio Beltran, chief of the inter-textual division of CCP; Rey Escasenas, storyteller from Alitaptap group; and Jasmine Tresvalles, CCP culture and arts officer.

Balanga City mayor Jose Enrique Garcia III said that the use of arts as a catalyst for social change and a force for values transformation among students will mobilize cultural awakening and discover gold minds in line with the city’s vision of a world-class university town status by 2020.

“The Batang Sining Creative Expression Workshop for elementary students is part of the city government’s quest to help bring the arts to the masses, particularly to students, and to bring out their imagination, innovative spirit and artistic abilities,” said Garcia.

The participants from grades three to five took part in the activities for day one of the workshop that included group plays like the boat is sinking, connect the body parts and group cheer; creative introductions; storytelling; and writing about what is their idea of a perfect world.

Day two presented sharing of folk stories, art of mime, storytelling hour, appreciating poetry, drawing images in poems and choral reading. Puppet-making and puppetry were staged on day three of the workshop, while dramatization, group presentations and graduation were held on day four.

“In our time today, the children have their different arts. Their music, for the old-school people, is deafening. This program aims to produce caliber artists like Lea Salonga and Jessica Sanchez,” said City Schools Division of Balanga Supt. Dr. Ronaldo Pozon.

He added that the Batang Sining workshop was in line with the new Child Protection Program of the Department of Education that eyes to steer the students away from abuses like vices at home and in school.

Ordering back the tides

Trees fail to flower,” Aetas huddled at the Bataan mountaintop meeting told Fr. Shay Cullen. “Bees are disappearing. Storms blow away our nipa huts as never before.”

With Preda Foundation coworkers, the priest toiled up the two-hour steep trail on horseback. Preda buys Aeta wild mangoes at double what lowland hawkers offer and markets them abroad.

Half a world away, Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research scientists documented what Aetas learned from seat-of-their-pants.

University of Bern experiments span two decades, four continents and 1,634 plant species. “Spring flowering and leafing advances 5 to 6 days per year for every degree Celsius of warming,” they report in the journal Nature.

Bern tests “underestimated how much plants change,” reports British Broadcasting Corp. science reporter Matt McGrath. He adds that research leader Elizabeth Wolkovich and This Rutishauser fret over additional water needed by a plant community that sprouts a week earlier.

Contrary to myth, Filipinos have modest freshwater endowment: 6,332 cubic meters yearly. In contrast, Malaysians tap into 26,105 cm. Saudi Arabians have only 118 cm. They bartered more oil for water last year when Riyadh ’s last aquifers ran dry.

Here, “we have a water aristocracy set on its head.” A squatter’s shack in Cebu City pays 13 times for water than a gated Maria Luisa enclave home, notes the United Nations World Water Development Report.

In the Philippines, 54 out of every 100 lived in cities by 2007. By 2020, the number of urban Filipinos will be double rural counterparts. Many cities are saddled with below-par water facilities even as births and migration interlock.

A “youth bulge” characterizes this migrant torrent, San Carlos University’s Soccoro Gultiano and Peter Xenos of East-West Center point out. Hormones of these young migrants are on overdrive. They will tarry in the reproductive age bracket longer.

A sharper slowdown in birthrates won’t materialize anytime soon, not even if the Reproductive Health bill gets into law books. But demand for just about everything else will spiral. And there is no substitute for water.

Politically charged issues, like a chief justice’s blacked out dollar accounts, smudge concerns including shifting rain bands. A bachelor President’s date will send commentators into a tizzy. But glossing over emerging threats can be lethal.

“We’re seeing changes happening… in ways we didn’t expect to see for hundreds of years,” 27 scientists led by Oxford University’s Alex Rodgers caution in their recent “State of the Oceans” report to UN.

As polluted seas warm, we enter “a phase of extinction of marine species unprecedented in human history,” they wrote. Over-fishing, pollution and climate change interlock “in ways not previously recognized.”

“Accelerated” changes include melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. Sea levels are rising and methane trapped in the sea bed, is seeping out.

Here “expect sea waters to rise by at least 20 cm in the next 40 years,” writes Dr. Wendy Clavano in a current series for Environmental Science for Social Change, a Jesuit research organization.

The severest threat stretches “along the Paci?c seaboard: from Samar all the way down to eastern Mindanao.” Include the Zamboangas and island provinces of Romblon and Marinduque in the Sibuyan, says Clavano, a PhD from Cornell University .

She suggests the creation of a “vulnerability index.” This could undergird mitigation programs for what initial data pinpoint as “high risk areas. That sweeps in the Lingayen Gulf (La Union and Pangasinan), Lamon Bay (Quezon and Camarines Norte), Camotes Sea (western Leyte, northern Bohol, and northeastern Cebu).

Add to that list Guimaras Strait (along northwestern Negros Occidental and Guimaras), central Sulu Sea (Cuyo Archipelago), Iligan Bay (in particular Misamis Occidental), Zamboanga del Norte and Bislig Bay (Surigao del Sur).

`Only 4 percent of coral reefs here in remain in pristine condition. Other countries with equally threatened reefs are Haiti, Grenada, Comoros, Vanuatu, Tanzania, Kiribati, Fiji and Indonesia.

Edges of the “Tropical Belt —outer boundaries of the subtropical dry zones—have drifted towards the poles, notes Nature Geoscience. Temperature and rainfall changes alter yields, including politically-volatile crops like corn and rice.

“In the Philippines, rice yields drop by 10 percent for every one degree centigrade increase in night-time temperature,” BBC’s environment correspondent Richard Black writes. As droughts dry reservoirs, yields have fallen by 10 percent to 20 percent over the last 25 years. More declines are ahead.

Three billion people live in the tropics and subtropics. They’ll nearly double by the end of the century. The National Statistical Board asserts there are 93 million plus of us today. No sir, it’s 99.9 million, counter some United States and international bodies.

The “most extreme summers of the last century could become routine towards the end of this century,” predicts the University of Seattle. What would be summer 2100 in the Philippines be like?

Filipino policy makers must move beyond politics-as-usual. Overdrawing on aquifers in Metro Cebu and Manila is causing severe land subsidence. Clavano urges that priority be given to adaptation and mitigation approaches for sea rising levels. Like King Canute, politicians cannot order back the tides.

“Nor can we move crops north or south since many are photosensitive,” notes Dr. Geoff Hawtin at International Centre for Tropical Agriculture. “Tipping points could come quickly.”

Red tide notice remains in effect in Bataan

Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) reiterates its caution to the public to avoid gathering and eating shellfish from the Bataan coastal waters as red tide toxin that causes paralytic shellfish poisoning remains present in these areas.

Affected by the ban are the municipalities of Mariveles, Limay, Orion, Pilar, Abucay, Samal and Orani and the city of Balanga.

BFAR Central Luzon information officer Lanie Lamyong said “based on the latest shellfish bulletin issued last May 3, the current red tide toxin level in shellfish samples collected from the coastal waters of Bataan and Masinloc Bay are still significantly higher to the 60g STXg/100g tolerable limit.”

Lamyong reiterated that fishes, squids, shrimps and crabs harvested from these areas are safe to eat as long as they are fresh and washed thoroughly and their internal organs such as gills and intestines are removed before cooking.

Palace wishes Jessica Sanchez good luck in final AI stages

As it congratulated her for advancing the top four of “American Idol,” Malacañang on Sunday wished Filipino-Mexican singer Jessica Sanchez good luck in the next stages of the competition.

Deputy presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte said Filipinos will continue to support Sanchez in her quest to top the reality television search for the next singing superstar.

“Congratulations, and we continue to wish her good luck for the final stages of the competition,” Valte said in a text message read on government-run dzRB radio.

Last week, Sanchez survived another elimination round on American Idol, while 18-year-old country singer Skylar Laine was booted out.

In the Philippines, Filipinos continued to show support, especially those from her mom's hometown in Bataan province.

Sanchez's Filipina mother Editha is a daughter of Eddie Bugay, a retired US Navy man who hails from Samal but is based in Orani town in Bataan.

Balanga City uses passbook to save enviroment

CITY OF BALANGA, Bataan- In this city, passbooks are not only used to save money, but also to help save the environment.

Under the Junk Shop ng Bayan Project of the city government, public schools in Balanga use customized passbooks to keep track of plastic garbage they each one has collected.

The accumulated trash of schools will be picked by a truck and the points saved in their passbook may be used to claim rice rewards, said Annie Tuazon, consultant on solid waste management of the City Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO).

“If you have collected three kilos of dry and clean plastic, you will be rewarded with a kilo of rice. You could then accumulate the points to get more rice,” Tuazon said.

According to CENRO, Balanga City, the capital and economic center of Bataan, is producing 20 to 25 tons of varied garbage everyday, which is equivalent to 9,100 tons yearly.

With the city’s population of about 90,000 which is projected to balloon in years, proper and sustainable solid waste management is critical as to not fill up the dumpsite in Brgy. Munting Batangas, said CENRO head Nelia Castor.

Therefore, CENRO has been piloting environmental projects including the Junk Shop ng Bayan, Gamit Pang-eskwela Mula sa Basura, Operation Linis Ilog and Linis Barangay, and the production of doy bags from tetra packs.

Castor said the garbage truck circulates the city every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. The schools also may call their office whenever they have amassed plastics.

Meanwhile, small plastics like those from snack food will be brought to the Material Recovery Facility in Brgy. Munting Batangas where they will be macerated.

Tuazon said that since small plastics are strenuous to be sewn as doy bags, they will be put through a pulverizer funded by the Department of Science and Technology to be grinded and mixed into the production of paper tiles.

Balanga City bats for zero illiteracy rate

CITY OF BALANGA, Bataan- The education sector here is eyeing the gradual reduction of illiteracy rate among children and youth by allotting more land space and projects in Balanga for students.

Under the University Town project, Balanga City Mayor Jose Enrique Garcia III has allocated 18.51 hectares (ha) or 23 percent of the central district’s 80.42 ha for the establishment of schools, churches, city hall, and other public buildings.

“The planning started in 2007 and based on a study we did, there are three components of a university town: provide access to quality education, complete facilities for the students, and provide conducive learning environment,” Garcia said.

In a statement made by the city government, education projects that include programs starting from day care centers to tertiary schooling are prioritized in light of achieving the vision of a “world-class university town by 2020.”

“Among Mayor Joet Garcia’s plans for the city is to lower the number of non-readers to the point of eliminating them totally,” said the city government.

“The city government prioritizes education in the project, thus, several programs relative to literacy were implemented. More studies and trainings were held to ensure that proper education will produce well-rounded citizens," it added.

Among the projects are Responsible Parents Training through Education for the Upbringing of Children (Educhild), Reactivation of the Council for the Protection of Children, Iskolar Balangueño Scholarship Program, TEACHNOLOGY Computerization Program, Provision of Assistance to Public Schools, and Centers for Excellence.

These undertakings of the Garcia administration had led to the award from the National Literacy Coordinating Council as 2nd Most Outstanding Local Government Unit last September 2011.

Balanga has one state university, 10 colleges, seven secondary schools, 30 elementary schools, 27 day care centers, and 10 pre-schools.

Freeport Area of Bataan’s new brand gets nod of investors

CITY OF BALANGA, Bataan- The Freeport Area of Bataan (FAB), the province’s top dollar economic hub, launched recently its new official brand which gained the approval of international investors.

FAB administrator Deogracias Custodio said the new symbol of the multimillion economic zone in booming Mariveles town signifies different values essential to establishing businesses.

“The new FAB brand is almost full circle to connote unity, expansion and growth,” said Custodio.

He explained the color red in the logo denotes passion and determination needed to cultivate a business while the blue stands for stability of growth.

Executives of foreign companies expressed satisfaction over the new brand which, according to Custodio, represents the Filipinos as globally competitive with world-class service.

“It is sort of fresh and the design looks good to us,” said Dong-In Group general manager Park Ki Jung.

The corporate chiefs also pointed out that building business in the country has its share of advantages compared to other Asian countries.

According to John Cartwright, general manager of C&L Philippines Footwear Manufacturing Corporation, FAB is very promising and full of potentials as it is very accessible from Manila and other neighboring cities via the new Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway.

“One thing more, the wages are up in China,” said Cartwright.

Park added that the availability of qualified manpower and English-speaking workers are plus points for FAB.

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