When some people think of education, they think of children.  In reality, education, they think of children. In reality, education begins when a child is a baby.  Education begins at home.

DOLE Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz headed the inauguration of the Center for Advanced Maritime Studies (CAMS). Some maritime leaders from Asia and Europe call attention to the role of Maritime Academy of Asia and the Pacific (MAAP) together with their president Vice Admiral Eduardo Ma. R. Santos (AFP, ret.). Their goal is to mold young Filipinos as professional and globally competitive thru high quality of maritime education and training.

People have various interpretation about education. Others say that it is the key to prosperity, others believe that it is a matter of recognition, still others pronounce that education is what makes a person worthy to be emulated by others and still others reveal that it is the reaching of one s ambition and goals in life.

Education experts say that there are exciting times for the field of instructional system. Society in general complains that our school systems are not meeting current needs. Thus the DEPED has been restructured by separating basic from higher education.

The Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) group is now coordinating with Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) for the analysis of Bataan Technology Park’s communications services. In addition, BCDA is in negotiations with the Subic EnerZone (SEZ) for the improvement of energy facilities in BTP. 

The unproductive and hilly 248-hectare land at Pilar Bataan will be developed as retirement place and source of living of government employees. This will still give employment to the local residents by raising crops like banana, rice, and corn. Also, fishponds, cattle breeding, and recreation will provide earning proceeds for the members of the Central Luzon Association of Regional Officers (CLARO).

Pompil Corsame, President of the Export Processing Zone Chamber of Exporters and Manufacturers (EPZCEM) stated that Luen Thai International Group headed by Raymond Tan has put up a multinational firm here. A class but inexpensive hotel and restaurant in the Freeport Area of Bataan (FAB) will be built to provide the needs of the growing number of investors in the area. Luen Thai owns some existing garments manufacturing firms in Clark Special Economic Zone, Tarlac and in Cebu.

According to Hermosa Mayor Danny Malana the Sumi Philippines Wiring Systems Corp. will hire about 3,000 workers early next year. Malana also added that HEIP is a 165-hectare industrial estate component in a 478-hectare mixed-use property development in the municipality.

Through the Executive Order 675 issued in November 2007, the partnership of SBMA and Hermosa town plans to include some lands of Hermosa, Bataan as extension of the free port.

In a meeting with SBMA directors Bienvenido Benitez, Philip Camara, John Philip Chua Chiaco and Ramon Diez Sesdoryo, Hermosa Mayor Danilo Malana stated that the Bataan Provincial Council has passed a resolution last January "concurring and adopting Executive Order 675 which authorizes certain contiguous areas in Hermosa to be declared as additional secured areas under the Subic Bay Special Economic and Freeport Zone as defined under Proclamation No. 532 dated February 1, 1995."