DESPITE the slump in global cargo volume, Mindanao Container Terminal (MCT) posted a slight increase of goods handled for the nine-month period ending in September.

Dante Clarito, MCT port department manager, said the terminal that geared to become an alternative port in the southern part of the country may still achieve its original target of about a 5 percent to 10-percent volume increase from last year.

THE success of Producers Savings Bank Corp. (PSBC) is truly remarkable. From its humble beginnings in San Jose town in 1997, it has risen to what it is today: 55 branches all over the archipelago and still counting, from its beginning as a rural bank serving and helping farmers from Nueva Ecija to manage their finances.

PSBC’s journey is backed by a faith in the capacity of the Filipino farmers to rise above their difficulties and sustain their noble vocation to produce food for the Filipino people and do more.

PSBC was founded by Andy Cornejo, (in photo) a visionary businessman and farmer at heart.

BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya—The escalating number of casualties in the illegal small-scale mining operations in the province has prompted provincial officials to cross party lines.

Nueva Vizcaya provincial board member Patricio Dumlao Jr. criticized the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB), the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and local officials in mineral-rich municipalities where illegal small-scale mining activities run rampant, for their failure to curb what he described as destructive mining ventures.