www.punto.com.ph P 10.00 Villar proposes Central V 13 P N 23 unto! partnership with M - W D 16 - 18, 2019 PANANAW NG MALAYANG PILIPINO! Luzon CILA on agri, food B. J"7)) M. “We want to work V7#&)+/7)" with your member com- panies in implementing CLARK FREEPORT — programs that could ben- The plan for a possible efi t your members. Their public-private partner- businesses in their own ship relating to agricul- sectors as well as their ture and food between communities here. Pub- Clark locators and the lic-private partnership Senate was proposed by can accomplish much Sen. Cynthia Villar. given the right project or Villar, chair of the program,” Villar said. Senate committee on “You may have mem- agriculture and food bers involved in the ag- made this pitch at the in- riculture sectors. Cen- duction and turnover cer- tral Luzon, Pampanga in emonies of newly-elect- particular, is an agricul- ed offi cers of the Clark tural province, even the Investors and Locators neighboring areas. Nue- Association (CILA) held va Ecija and Tarlac have Sen. Cynthia Villar inducts newly-elected CILA offi cers and BODs. From L-R: Karen Dizon at the Fontana Leisure rice and that is very im- representing Evelyn Yumul TMC marketing manager, SIAEP deputy general manager Rene Parks here Monday. portant to us,” she add- Philip Banzon, Amerton Inc. VP for HR Froilanda Rodriguez, SGV & Co.’s Jose Pepito Zabat, Villar was the guest of ed. Medina Flores Palarca Ofrin Law Offi ces’ Atty. Gerald Medina, Clark Electric Distribution Corp. VP honor and inducting offi - Villar also mentioned Radito Tuazon, Demagus Trading Corp.’s Dr. Francisco L. Villanueva, Jr., Cargohaus Inc. general cer for the newly elected that the recently con- manager Darwin Malinit, Yokohama Tire Philippines Inc vice chair Hitoshi Kobayashi, and BBI offi cers and board of di- cluded SEA Games has Leisure and Resorts president Dr. Irineo Alvaro, Jr. P+ " % J -!! M. V-/'!0$-! rectors. P74& 8 ?#&7;& NEED FOR REVIEW CITED Clark raids net more DOTr freezes SMC’s Chinese CLARK FREEPORT - Three Chinese men were arrested by the airport in Bulacan police’s Regional An- ti-Traffi cking in Per- B. D/)4 C&(57):&; sons Task Group 3 (RATTG3) for alleged- ly prostituting nine LARK FREEPORT – After Chinese women in a awarding to San Miguel residential unit in this freeport. CCorp. (SMC) last September RATTG3 opera- the contract to build a new tives arrested Fan Ji- anwu, Wang Xiankai, international airport in Bulacan, and one alias Jeff at the Department of Transportation the ON Pool Villas on (DOTr) has announced the contract E. Aguinaldo Street here. on the project is still under review. Police poseurs P74& 8 ?#&7;& paid the suspects P6.000 for sexual ac- cess to the women before they identifi ed themselves as cops. The lawmen recov- Ayala Land eyes new ered from the suspects the marked cash they paid, cellular phones, passports, identifi ca- Downtown for Tarlac tion cards, a Toyota Passengers disembark from the cruise ship World Dream and tour sedan and even box- the Subic Bay Freeport after the vessel docked at the Alava Wharf TARLAC CITY- A new The site would also es of condoms. on Dec. 11. C " downtown for this capi- be near the pending The suspects were tal city? Central Luzon Link Ex- charged with violation This plan has been pressway (CLLEx), not of Republic Act No laid out by Ayala Land far from the Aquino Mu- 10364 or the Expand- Inc. (ALI) in a project seum. ed Anti-Traffi cking in More and bigger cruise ships called Cresendo that will ALI, however, did not Persons Act of 2012, spread over 290-hect- disclose the project cost. even as the rescued ares eyed for mixed- The Cresendo proj- women were turned use estate n Barangay ect will cover a cen- over to social welfare Central not far from the tral plaza or a commer- P74& 8 ?#&7;& expected in Subic next year Subic-Clark-Tarlac Ex- cial district for build- pressway (SCTEx) and ings to rise on 500- to SUBIC BAY FREEPORT — More fi rmed cruise ship arrivals and two the MacArthur Highway, 2,000-square meter lots. cruise ships are expected to arrive tentative bookings next year. and would be accessible The smaller lots are for in this premier trade and tourism port On top of that, four confi rmed ar- via the Tarlac-Pangasin- “shophouses” designed next year, as the Subic Bay Metro- rivals and one tentative booking have an-La Union Express- for homegrown enter- politan Authority (SBMA) continues been posted for 2021, she said. way (TPLEx). prises where owners to upgrade maritime facilities to in- “Beginning January next year, ALI said the com- can reside on upper crease cruise tourism traffi c. we shall be seeing more and bigger munity is envisioned to fl oors. SBMA Chairman and Administra- cruise ships in Subic. This includes become a center for in- From the central pla- tor Wilma T. Eisma said the Subic MS Spectrum of the Seas, which will vestments, employment, za, a pathway stretching agency has already listed 38 con- P74& 8 ?#&7;& education and balanced over a kilometer will lead life for local folk. P74& 8 ?#&7;& Farmers to get P5K each this X’mas But losses average P25K per hectare B• D••• C••!"•#•$ out. It’s mere palliative to the deep-seated problems of the CITY OF SAN FERNANDO - domestic rice industry that the Some 600,000 farmers from government itself created. It’s 33 provinces aff ected by the like farmers went on caroling drop in palay prices are to re- before the government which ceive P5,000 each from the gave them coins because it’s government starting Dec. 23, Christmas time. This govern- but farmers said the amount is ment has no real concern for insignifi cant compared to the our farmers. They keep on average P25,000 they lost per treating rice farmers without hectare because of the Rice dignity and respect,” the group Liberalization Law. said. The Kilusang Magbubukid Earlier, Agriculture Sec. ng Pilipinas (KMP) hit the William Dar said each farmer P5,000-per- farmer aid under will get P5,000 from a P3-bil- the Rice Farmers Financial lion fund from the Land Bank Assistance (RFAA) as “plain of the Philippines. SPES SALARY DISTRIBUTION. Gov. Dennis ‘Delta’ Pineda leads the cash salary dole out.” “For sure farmers will ac- distribution under the Special Program for the Employment of Students at Bren Z. “The Department of Agri- cept the P5,000, but this will Guiao Convention Center here. P+ " 0 &#"'1 2 J&! J-1 /P-4*-!5- PIO culture’s (DA) uncondition- not drown their call for the re- al cash transfer scheme is peal of the Rice Liberalization not enough to reverse eff ects Law,” said KMO chair Danilo of rice tariffi cation. P5,000 is Ramos. worth much less than the ac- KMP decried the “dole-out tual losses incurred by farmers scheme as the latest in the un- Gov Delta distributes P 24.8-M due to the plunge in palay pric- ending series of incompetent es,” the KMP said in a state- and unsatisfactory palliatives ment. that the government is carry- It warned that “there would ing out to cushion the impacts be more losses in the future as of rice liberalization. “ long as RA 11203 (Rice Liber- KMP and watchdog Bantay to 2,600 students from SPES alization Law) is in eff ect,” the Bigas is continuing the gather- KMP said. ing of signatures against RA CITY OF SAN FERNAN- DOLE, tuluy tuluy ing sawup the largest budget allocation It noted that “on average, a 11203. Copies of the initial DO, Pampanga – Gov. Den- para kekayu,” he added. among the provinces in Cen- rice farmer lost a minimum of 50,000 signatures of rice farm- nis “Delta” Pineda distributed Gov. Pineda explained that tral Luzon with 4, 600 benefi - P25,000 per hectare as a re- ers were already submitted to P24.8 M to 2,600 students un- 60% of the cash salary was ciaries. sult of the rice tariffi cation law Congress and Senate. der the joint Special Program provided by the provincial gov- It can be recalled that SPES that caused the plummeting “We expect legislators to for the Employment of Stu- ernment while the remaining student-benefi ciaries attended palay prices.” act upon the petition as soon dents (SPES) of the provincial 40% was provided by DOLE. a contract signing last October “The RFFA is a plain dole- as possible,” Ramos said. government and the Depart- DOLE Regional Director this year to inform them about ment of Labor and Employ- Maria Zenaida Angara-Campi- their tasks, duties and respon- ment (DOLE). ta said students must put to sibilities for the summer job. Gov. Delta said that educa- good use the cash salary that Also present in the salary Village chief, tanod tion has always been the prior- they received by spending it distribution were Board Mem- ity program of his administra- wisely on tuition fees and oth- bers Benny Jocson, Cherry tion. er school-related expenses. Manalo, Ananias Canlas Jr., He said, “ing pakisabi mi Campita also praised the Anthony Joseph Torres, Pol gunned down mung mayap, ayusan yu ing eff orts of the provincial gov- Balingit, Olga Frances Da- pamagaral yu. Ing priority mi ernment in gathering and en- vid-Dizon, Gabby Mutuc, Nel- B• A•%"•& M. G"'"•• reng anak Kapampangan, rolling thousands of Kapam- son Calara, Public Employ- mangayari la ngan uling dakal pangan students in the pro- ment Service Offi ce (PESO) TALAVERA,Nueva Ecija - A village chair and a local peacekeep- employment kailangan kening gram.