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MANILA: Washington will continue to find ways to strengthen and advance security cooperation with the Philippines, its “oldest” ally in the region, the US State Department has told Arab News. It follows the latest demand by President Rodrigo Duterte for the US to pay more if it wants to maintain the two-decade-old Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) which allows the deployment of American troops in the country. “We value our alliance with the Philippines, which is the oldest in the Asia-Pacific region,” the State Department said. It an unprovoked, angry tirade on Friday, during an addres...

The administrator of the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority responds to comments made by the president.

Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority Administrator Wilma Eisma contradicts President Rodrigo Duterte's claim Subic Bay is being converted into an American military base due to port visits of US military ships there.

SunStar + February 06, 2021 INTENDED to capitalize on Subic’s health safety record as an international gateway, the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) has developed an end-to-end platform that will deliver corporate jet maintenance service despite the continuing Covid-19 pandemic. SBMA Chairman and Administrator Wilma Eisma said the “Corporate Jet Maintenance Bubble” (CJMB) will be located at the Subic Bay International Airport (SBIA), which also houses a crew-change hub for mariners that is being operated by the Department of Transportation (DOTr). “The corporate je...

January 29, 2021 THE Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) is set to release next week a total of P123.1 million, which came from revenue collections between July and December 2020 and the retained amount from the 2018 second semester local government unit (LGU) share. “The release for this period is 29.9-percent lower than the shares for the same period last year, which was P175.7 million. And this goes to show how much the Covid-19 health crisis has impacted—and continues to impact—Freeport operations,” SBMA Chairman and Administrator Wilma Eisma said. “It also goes...