DU30 NAMES GMA ALLY AS CLARK DEV’T CORP. CHAIR
CLARK FREEPORT—President Duterte has appointed Edgardo Pamintuan as chair of the Clark Development Corp. (CDC), Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea announced in a Feb. 5 letter to the CDC board of directors.
Pamintuan, a lawyer, chaired the Subic-Clark Alliance for Development Council during the administration of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo who herself was appointed as presidential adviser for Clark Programs and Projects in November last year.
Pamintuan replaced Jose de Jesus who returned to the private sector in December 2019.
Pamintuan was named to the CDC less than a month after retired Police Gen. Manuel Gaerlan was selected as president and chief executive officer of the state agency that converted Clark from a former United States air base to an economic zone.
As a human rights lawyer in the 1980s, he advocated for the civilian and productive use of Clark, which has a main zone of 4,400 hectares and subzones totaling 35,000 hectares.
He served as mayor of Angeles City for five terms, leading its rebuilding after Mt. Pinatubo’s 1991 eruption. He was also president of the League of Cities of the Philippines.
Revenue shares
At the Subic Bay Freeport Zone, eight of its neighboring cities and towns received over P123 million representing their shares from revenues collected in the second half of 2020 by the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA).
The amount would help the governments in Zambales and Bataan provinces revive their respective economies.
But this year’s shares was 29.9 percent lower than the P175.7 million revenue shares these local governments received for the same period in 2019, said SBMA chair and administrator Wilma Eisma on Friday.
Olongapo City collected the biggest share with P28,631,819.10; followed by Subic, Zambales (P18,820,655.14); and Dinalupihan, Bataan (P15,311,741.98).
Other recipients were San Marcelino town in Zambales (P14,753,996.41); Hermosa, Bataan (P12,818,258.50); Castillejos, Zambales (P11,522,821.52); Morong, Bataan (P10,697,853.76); and San Antonio, Zambales (P10,549,471.67).