When long-time Clark Development Corp. director Benigno N. Ricafort assumed on Aug. 1 last year the position of CDC president and chief executive officer, the cloud of the global financial crisis was there hanging over his head.
Although he knew the negative impact of the crisis, Ricafort took on the assignment from President Arroyo. Giving us yesterday a preview of his first annual report, he said among other things:
• Since August 2008, CDC has signed 73 new investment projects that will infuse fresh capital with a projected commitment of $280 million or about P14 billion.
• Clark has 417 active locators with some P70 billion in investments, more than 55,000 workers, and exports of close to $1 billion.
• The biggest investment gain this year came from new tourism projects and the expansion from the International Container Terminal sector with P11.2 billion committed investments.
• While there was a decline in foreign direct investments of close to 50 percent for the first quarter of 2009, second quarter data showed a big leap with more than a billion-peso worth of contracts signed.
• Local and international civil aviation authorities have allowed the processing of 22 withheld projects in the western section of Clark after declaring the area a “no-fly zone,” thus lifting building height restrictions there.
• The CDC has just concluded its road show for stakeholders in the Next Frontier, a legacy project of President Arroyo that will develop more than 10,000 hectares in the Sacobia Valley south of Clark proper. Expected investments could bring in $5 billion and employ 143,000 more workers.–Federico Pascual, Jr., Philippine Star
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International Equal Pay Day
“Increase wages now,
more than other cost items.
For widespread, practical equality!”
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against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the recommendations of the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry
against serious violations of protocols of
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September –
5 Sept – Intl Day of Charity
7 Sept – Intl Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies
8 Sept – International Literacy Day
12 Sept – United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation
15 Sept – International Day of Democracy
16 Sept – International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer
17 Sept – World Patient Safety Day
18 Sept – International Equal Pay Day
21 Sept – International Day of Peace
26 Sept – International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
27 Sept – World Tourism Day
28 Sept – International Day for Universal Access to Information
29 Sept – International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste
30 Sept – World Maritime Day
Monthly Observances:
Health, Safety and Sanitation Month
National Clean-up Month
Civil Service Month
National Peace Consciousness Month
Social Security Month
Rule of Law Month
National Teachers’ Month (Sept 5-Oct 4)
Weekly Observances:
Sept 17 – 23:
World Clean and Green Week
Week 2: Education Week
Week 4: Medicine Week
Last Week: National Family Week
Daily Observances:
Third Saturday:
International Coastal Clean-up Day
Third Monday: World Health Day
Last Friday: National Maritime Day
Sept 8: National Literacy Day
Sept 15: Philippine Medicine Day
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