Calacatchara Festival has been one of the most celebrated festivals of Batangas. This is evident in the number of times the Calacatchara street dancers have wowed attendees of the annual Ala Eh! Festival – one proof that the festival of Calaca, Batangas strongly unites the people. In case you don’t …
Read More »A Tribute to Classroom Heroes on World Teacher’s Day
Teachers, second parents, classroom heroes. If not for them, there won’t be doctors, engineers, soldiers, business tycoons, and other professionals who build our workforce and the community. Aside from our parents, they are the ones who exert the most efforts in teaching us what we have to learn in academics …
Read More »October 28 is a Special Non-Working Holiday for Barangay and SK Elections
On October 28, 2013, exercise your right to suffrage. Malacañang declared the date a special non-working holiday for the 2013 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) Elections. This is under Proclamation No. 656 which was signed by President Benigno Aquino in September 25. October 28 falls on a Monday so that’s …
Read More »The Search for SUPERKIDS 2013 at Robinson’s Place Lipa
Another entertaining event was held last September 22 at Robinson’s Place Lipa Activity area where seventeen dazzling little kids competed for Robinson’s SUPERKIDS Search 2013. Before this competition, workshops took place to hone kids’ dancing skills, modelling skills and vocal power last Sept. 14-15, 2013 which aims to enhance the …
Read More »Mary Mediatrix Medical Center and Eye Bank Foundation Formally Ink Partnership
Do you still remember the late actors Miko Sotto and AJ Perez? Both were at the height of their showbiz careers when they met an unfortunate incident that took their lives too soon. Another thing that linked the two actors was their being cornea donors. It was through the Eye …
Read More »The 1st Batangas Province Tourism Conference (Event Details and Photos)
September 13 may have fallen on a Friday but it seemed that blessings in many different forms showered Batangas province particularly its tourism sector. LGU officials of various municipalities and cities of Batangas, stakeholders of the tourism of the province, business owners, students, and advocates of local and national tourism …
Read More »Taal Lake and Volcano Featured in Katy Perry’s ROAR Music Video (Youtube)
It’s very rare to see a major tourist spot of the Philippines be featured in an American MTV. Rarer still is to see such huge and fearsome animals like an elephant and a tiger anywhere near Batangas province. But that’s just what happened when the Director of Katy Perry’s Roar …
Read More »FAITH Kicks Off Mabini@150
Press release from First Asia Institute of Technology and Humanities (FAITH) by Kelly Austria Historians, artists, academicians, teachers, students, and other history lovers gathered to pay homage to one of Batangas’ favorite sons. In 2014, we will celebrate the 150th birth anniversary of Apolinario Mabini y Maranan, who was born …
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