Diocesan Retirement Homes or Residencia Sacerdotal is a retirement village for priests which has been situated in Balanga City. Last Tuesday afternoon, Bishop Ruperto Santos of the Diocese of Balanga solemnized its blessing and inaugural ceremony while former Philippine Ambassador to the Vatican Henrietta de Villa, graced the occasion. The retirement home can be found in a 0.5 hectare land in Tagles Ville Subdivision in Barangay San Jose, Balanga City.

With the progress of this seaport, Marilveles officials and the Authority of Freeport area of Bataan (AFAB) headed by chairman and administrator Lawyer Deo Custodio forecasted that this coastal town will boom just like SBMA in the next few years. Custodio reported that five newly registered companies had shown their plan to invest here. They are: Lewisberg Warehousing and Logistics Corp. North Binghamton Solutions Corp. Off-Road Adventure and Classic Automative Restorers, Inc. Good Sail Trading, Inc. and Greenville River Manufacturing Corp.

John Paul II made two visits to the Philippines, a bastion of Catholicism in Asia, while pope. His second visit was in 1995 when the Philippines hosted the World Youth Day Catholic festival. The first shrine of John Paul II in the Catholic Philippines was inaugurated last May 2 after John Paul II's beatification in Rome and to agree with the late pope's beatification.

With the launching of $1.8 billion expansion program of Petron Corporation, residents of LImay, Bataan are expecting more job opportunities that will surely lessen the number of residents unemployed from the town.