Last year, ‘Ondoy’ wrecked havoc in the Philippines with the Rizal province badly hit by the typhoon.
In commemoration of the devastating event and in recognition of all the efforts that helped Thunderbird Resorts and the rest of the Rizal province rise above the calamity, we bring:
“ONDOY NO MORE”
Thunderbird Resorts Run for a [...]
RIZAL PROVINCE — Rizal Governor Casimiro “Jun” Ynares III has created a task force to monitor and control of pest infestation in the province, following the alarming attack of armyworms in plantations across Southern Tagalog.
Ynares signed on Monday Executive Order No. 6 Series of 2010, establishing the Provincial Task Force which is tasked to conduct [...]
The national government, through the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), has turned over to the provincial government of Rizal some P29 million worth of completed development projects that will benefit residents of remote villages in the province.
The AFP said that the completed projects under the “Kalayaan sa Barangay Program” (KBP) include school buildings, water [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
MANILA, Philippines – Rodriguez, Rizal Mayor Pedro Cuerpo’s continued defiance of a suspension order on him is obstructing operations at the town hall, Vice Mayor and acting mayor Jonas Cruz said Tuesday.
Cruz, who was sworn in as acting mayor on Monday despite Cuerpo’s refusal to honor the order from the Sandiganbayan, said that the suspended [...]
