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SunStar New Subic facility ready to accept Covid patients INSPECTION. Bases Conversion and Development Authority President and Covid-19 Testing Czar Vince Dizon (right) and Health Assistant Secretary Maria Francia Laxamana (left) inspect the amenities inside the newly-inaugurated The Manila Times Temporary Treatment and Monitoring Facility inside Subic Bay Freeport Zone. (PIA) + April 16, 2021 SUBIC BAY FREEPORT -- A new Temporary Treatment and Monitorin...

SunStar BCDA surpasses previous admin AFP contributions CONTRIBUTION. The Bases Conversion and Development Authority made a record-high contribution to boost the capabilities of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. (BCDA) + April 14, 2021 CLARK FREEPORT -- The Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) made a record-high contribution to the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) in the first five years of the Duterte administration. BCDA contribut...

(AFP photo) In a statement, BCDA President and Chief Executive Officer Vince Dizon, said the agency contributed P17.8 billion from 2016 to 2021 to the AFP, higher than the P13 billion turned over by the previous administration in six years. “The goal of the BCDA is to breach or exceed the contribution to the AFP by previous administrations as we will have around one year left of the Duterte administration,” Dizon said. He stressed that BCDA remains steadfast not only in its support for the ...

Published April 13, 2021, 1:30 PM Manila 1st District Representative Manuel Luis Lopez is proposing the establishment of national monument called the “Bantayog ng mga Bayaning Frontliners” (Monument of Frontline Heroes) in honor of health workers as well as non-medical frontliners in the fight against the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. (JANSEN ROMERO / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) Lopez, chairperson of the House Committee on Metro Manila Development, said that his House Bil...

Benefits for Japanese investors highlighted MANILA, PHILIPPINES - Media OutReach - 12 April 2021 - The Philippines has enacted a landmark law that cuts corporate income tax by as much as 10 percent and rationalizes fiscal incentives, thereby serving as the biggest stimulus for businesses in the countrys history. On March 26, President Rodrigo R. Duterte signed Republic Act No. 11534 or the "Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives for Enterprises Act" (CREATE) into la...

Benefits for Japanese investors highlighted MANILA, PHILIPPINES – Media OutReach – 12 April 2021 – The Philippines has enacted a landmark law that cuts corporate income tax by as much as 10 percent and rationalizes fiscal incentives, thereby serving as the biggest stimulus for businesses in the country’s history. On March 26, President Rodrigo R. Duterte signed Republic Act No. 11534 or the “Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives for Enterprises Act” (CREAT...

Published April 6, 2021, 4:00 PM Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) said the new concession agreement (CA) between the Philippine government and Manila Water Company, Inc will be beneficial to all — the government, the public, and the Ayala-led east zone concessionaire.   Speaking for the first time since the new CA deal was signed last week, MWSS Board Chairman and Acting Administrator Reynaldo V. Velasco said “the contract is both advantageous to the Government, a big win...

(JANSEN ROMERO / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) In his press briefing Monday, April 5, Presidential spokesman Harry Roque announced that the government has finished its renegotiations regarding the 1997 Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) concession agreement with Manila Water. The new agreement, according to Roque, was modeled after the New Clark City Joint Venture Agreement of the Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) as advised by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). T...

The Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) on Thursday, April 1, said it is a step closer towards the completion of its over Php 3-billion plan to relocate and modernize the housing and support facilities of the Philippine Air Force (PAF).

Published April 1, 2021, 1:49 PM The Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) said it will start the P3-billion project for housing and support facilities of the Philippine Air Force (PAF) after more than a year from the signing of the agreement. Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana and BCDA President and Chief Executive Officer Vince Dizon signed a Memorandum of Agreement for the relocation of PAF’s housing and operational areas in the 65-hectare New Clark City in August 2019. “We a...