PRES. MANUEL ROXAS, Zamboanga del Norte, Dec. 19 (PIA) - Pres. Manuel Roxas town is taking the spotlight among other municipalities with all the recognition its getting from the recent 8th Regional Competitiveness Summit Cities and Municipalities Competitiveness Index held recently by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI).
The town bested all other 5th and 6th class municipalities in the national awards ranking first as the Overall Most Competitive Municipality in the Philippines and Most Competitive: Economic Dynamism. It also bagged the third rank in Most Competitive Government Efficiency and 16th rank as Most Competitive Infrastructure.
Mayor Jan Hendrik Vallecer, during an interview at the Laging Handa Network Briefing, shared “despite being a 5th class municipality, we gained a lot of local income comparable to 1st class municipalities here in Zamboanga del Norte province.”
Published December 19, 2020, 6:00 AM
The Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) has given the Green, Healthy, Smart, and Sustainable Ecozone Award to Lopez-led First Philippine Industrial Park (FPIP) for its “notable commitment to promoting healthy industrialization and sustainably-designed, smart, and green economic zone.”
FPIP was one of only two ecozones to receive the award – the first to be given by PEZA to honor outstanding registered economic zone locators.
PEZA opened the new Green, Healthy, Smart and Sustainable Ecozone Award category for the year 2020 ceremonies as a way to encourage ecozone developers to, among other things, “design ecozone towards sustainability and a decarbonized future;” and “adopt clean and green technologies/methodologies” that would make ecozone operations “more efficient and environment-friendly.”
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