Rizal Arts Festival will be launched on February 24, 2010. The exhibit will run until March 13, 2010.
Featuring:
Nemiranda’s Art camp
Rizal Bonsai Club
Eastern Rizal Photographers
Couturiers from Taytay, Rizal : Gener Gozum and Merlino Cruz
Street Graffiti by the Neo Angono Artists
Tattoo Icon, Butch Bautista
and a various artists and art groups from the province of Rizal
and internationally renowned artists of the Philippines. Read more »
Mitsubishi Motors Philippines (MMPC) closed 2009 with sales of 23,247 units, accounting for an impressive 32.5-percent growth compared to its previous year’s sales of 17,539 units.
With this sales performance, MMPC also managed to improve its market share from 14 per cent in 2008 to 17.6 per cent in 2009, to maintain its strong No. 2 position in the industry.
OFFICIALS OF TAYTAY TOWN IN RIZAL province said they have started drafting their own city charter in preparation for their bid for cityhood this year.
Taytay Mayor Joric Gacula said the local government was “serious” in its campaign to become the second component city in the province after Antipolo City, and has started “spadework toward the conversion of the now first-class municipality into a city.” Read more »
The province of Rizal marks its 108th anniversary today, which Malacañang declared a special nonworking holiday.
The day Rizal Province was founded usually falls a day before Independence Day.
It was made a holiday by virtue of Proclamation 1790, or the Foundation Day of Rizal, signed by Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita.
In a statement, Rizal Gov. Casimiro Ynares III said the province’s “remarkable achievements” in providing services and infrastructure projects to residents would make the celebration much more meaningful. Read more »
By DR. CASIMIRO A. YNARES III
We are ready to face the challenges posed by the swine influenza or the H1N1 virus outbreak.
We should be. This disease is nothing new to the world. It had previously claimed many lives in several parts of the globe in a pandemic 91 years ago. The medical community and public health administrators have already learned much about this disease over the past nine decades.
The United States had to deal with similar large scale outbreaks in 1979 and 1988. The medical community turned those occasions into an opportunity to address the problems encountered by the introduction of the vaccine for this type of flu.
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THE government should extend subsidies, such as input subsidy and preferential tariff similar to those given to chemical agriculture, to develop the organic-farming industry.
Minus the subsidies to organic farming, the government can consider removing funding support to chemical agriculture to “level the playing field,” Pablito Villegas, member of the board of trustees of the Organic Producers and Trade Association (Opta), said.
Villegas said in lieu of subsidy, the government could give industry players incentives through lower costs of doing business in organic-farming. He cited the case of the municipality of Baras, Read more »
MANILA, Philippines — Some 120 families who were evicted from a housing project in Rodriguez town, Rizal province, in 2006 have been relocated and given new lots by the Rizal provincial government in San Jose village.
The families — all members of the Pinagpala Homeowners Association — were former occupants of the National Housing Authority’s Sub-Urban Housing Project who were evicted in 2006 by the Rodriguez municipal government.
Rizal Governor Casimiro Ynares III and acting Rodriguez Mayor Jonas Cruz recently awarded these families entry permits and land ownership documents for 40 square-meter lots at the Jovil Village III Relocation Project, also within Rodriguez. Read more »
AN ENVIRONMENT group in San Mateo town has challenged the Department of Environment and Natural Resources to revoke all environment compliance certificates of businesses it claimed are destroying the forested parts of the town.
In a convention of about 500 residents on Sunday in Barangay Banaba, the People’s Response for the Protection of the Environment of San Mateo (Protect San Mateo) vowed to “stop the continuing exploitation of natural resources in San Mateo.”
In a statement, the group bewailed what it called the “wanton quarrying, logging, garbage dumping in sanitary landfills, or ‘glorified dumps,’ illegal and ill-planned conversion of land into subdivisions and resorts, and other destructive activities in the town” and nearby municipalities. Read more »
MANILA, Philippines – Lopez-led Manila Electric Co. will source clean energy from Montalban Methane Power Corp.’s (MMPC) 8.19-megawatt renewable power generating plant in Rodriguez, Rizal, raising its clean and renewable energy portfolio.
In a statement, Meralco said the contract for the supply of electricity is its
“expression of support” to Republic Act No. 9513 signed by President Arroyo, which aims to promote the development, utilization and exploration of renewable energy resources in the country. Read more »
ANTIPOLO CITY, April 15 –- The Department of Health (DOH) on Wednesday launched the Garantisadong Pambata (GP) 2009 campaign here as the government’s vanguard in reducing the estimated 82,000 Filipino children aged five and below who die each year.
Health Secretary Francisco Duque III, who led the GP-09 campaign titled “9 Ways to Save Your Child,” said the statistics translates to 42 child deaths per 1,000 live births.
“Most of them die because of neonatal-related factors; some from preventable pneumonia and diarrhea; some by injuries and measles; but under nutrition accounts more than half of all child deaths,” Duque said in his speech. Read more »
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