The Subic Bay, one of the country’s top tourism destinations, possesses a deep harbor protected by mountains and the Grande Island, making it an ideal port for vessels and site for the once US naval base—the American government’s largest military installation outside of the mainland from the late 1940s to the early 1990s.
An independent investigation initiated by the Subic Bay Freeport Chamber of Commerce has concluded that a US Navy contractor violated Philippine laws when it dumped waste from an American ship outside Subic waters in October.
A US Navy contractor violated Philippine environmental laws by dumping toxic waste into Subic Bay in October, Senate investigators found Wednesday.
The perceived lack of outrage from Malacañang over the reported dumping of toxic wastes in Philippine waters by a US Navy contractor has troubled militants, who backed Sen. Miriam Defensor Santiago’s call for the termination of the Visiting Forces Agreement.
Malacañang would rely on the investigation by the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority and the Senate of the alleged dumping of hazardous waste on Subic Bay since a presidential body could not inquire into it, officials said Sunday.
It seems the most natural way to mark a birthday of someone born on Halloween: Bring the fright to the guests.
The business community here has begun paying the Common Use Service Area (Cusa) fee, which intends to recover expenses for services such as street cleaning, street lighting, fire fighting and law enforcement inside this economic zone.
The 600-megawatt coal-fired power plant being proposed by RP Energy here will endanger aircraft using the Subic Bay International Airport (SBIA), including those that fly into this free port under the country’s Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) with the United States, a British pilot said.
A Senate inquiry was told Wednesday that certain officials of the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA), a free port zone locator and an Indian rice supplier connived in the attempt to smuggle almost P500 million worth of rice in April.
(Second of three parts) SUBIC BAY FREEPORT—The conversion of US military bases in Central Luzon began with cleaning these of Mt. Pinatubo’s debris and with former President Fidel Ramos signing proclamations that provided the legal basis for programs proposed in the University of the Philippines’ baselands study. These programs centered mainly on Subic becoming a [...]
The Keppel Subic shipyard did not have a safety officer on the scene when a steel ramp collapsed crushing five workers to death last Friday, Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said Tuesday.
SUBIC BAY FREEPORT—Although the coal-fired power plant that is to be built here would rise in the Redondo Peninsula, almost all of the power it would generate would not go to businesses in this freeport, an official of the project proponent said. In a July 8 letter to Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) Chair Roberto [...]
SUBIC BAY FREEPORT—The proposed construction of a coal-fired power plant here has divided businessmen between those opposing the project because of its environmental effects, and those supporting it because businesses here need more and cheaper electricity. Danny Piano, president of the Subic Bay Freeport Chamber of Commerce (SBFCC), said his group used to oppose the [...]
