May 5th, 2010
With the opening of a new facility for neglected and abandoned older persons in Tanay in Rizal province, the Social Welfare department is urging the private sector to help government efforts in setting up care facilities.
Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) acting Secretary Celia Capadocia- Yangco pointed out a growing concern for the care of the elderly, especially amid the growing trend of labor migration.
“With more and more Filipinos considering going abroad to seek employment opportunities, their attention to the elderly in the family undermined,” she said in an interview with GMANews.TV. Read more »
May 5th, 2010
Taytay, Rizal – Around 500 entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs from Batangas, Cavite, Laguna, Quezon and Rizal on April 27 flocked to the SM Event Center, SM in Taytay, Rizal to learn the rudiments of starting a successful business.
Brought by the Department of Trade and Industry in Calabarzon and in collaboration with the Philippine Center for Entrepreneurs, the’Go Negosyo’ seminar aims to inspire entrepreneurship and encourage people to start their own businesses, and help them learn the basics of establishing an enterprise. Read more »
January 25th, 2010
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 »
January 23rd, 2010
THERE ARE no earthquakes in a perfect world. Too bad we don’t live in such a place, as the staggering scope of the destruction in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, reminds us.
In more ways than one, the geological history of the Philippines is similar to that of the island of Hispaniola, where the sovereign states of Haiti and the Dominican Republic are located.
Like the Philippines, Hispaniola harbors pristine beaches and places where jungles blanket mountains of gold.
Sadly, where gold is found, earthquake faults lurk and spoil the calm of island paradises. Read more »
January 23rd, 2010
MANILA, Philippines – Airsoft gun owners on Wednesday urged the Supreme Court to exempt airsoftToy Gun Ban guns from a nationwide election gun ban imposed by the Commission on Elections.
In a 14-page petition, lawyer Reynante Orceo, founder of Easternbloc Airsoft Philippines, asked the Supreme Court to declare as unconstitutional a provision in Comelec Resolution No. 8714, which bans all persons from carrying firearms and deadly weapons in public places including public buildings, streets, parks and private vehicles from January 10 to June 9, 2010. Read more »
January 19th, 2010
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.
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January 12th, 2010
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 »
June 10th, 2009
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 »
May 9th, 2009
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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May 3rd, 2009
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 »
