SUBIC BAY FREEPORT—In about five years, most of the Subic Bay Freeport will be abloom, and fruits will be dangling from some 7,000 trees that would line up the main roads from the Subic gateway to Cubi Point and up to the Naval Magazine area.

More than that, in about 50 years, the mango, acacia, narra and even the lowly banaba trees planted by employees of the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) over the past two months would have been worth more than P60 billion. And that value wouldn’t even include the timber, fruits and beauty to be derived from the trees.
----By Henry Empeño (Read More)