Tag: Rizal province

Rizal to go on lockdown starting Monday, April 6

(Eagle News)–The province of Rizal will be on lockdown starting Monday, April 6. According to Executive Order No. 164, series of 2020, signed by Acting Rizal Governor Reynaldo San Juan Jr., the lockdown as a preventive measure against the coronavirus disease 2019 will start at 8 a.m. Under the lockdown, non-residents except those exempted by the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases will no longer be allowed entry into the province. […]

Wind farm draws tourists and revenue to Rizal

(Reuters) — Wind turbines are drawing in tourists, revenue and jobs to a small farming town in Rizal. Every year, on top of the windswept hills of the province, more than 340,000 tourists mill the view deck of Pililla town’s 4,500-hectare wind farm to marvel and take pictures of its 125-meter-tall white wind turbines. Construction of the wind farm, which consists of 27 turbines, finished in June 2015. The farm was inaugurated and opened to the […]