Clark, Tesda renew ties for manpower development

December 2, 2010

CLARK FREEPORT — The Clark Development Corporation (CDC) and the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda) have renewed their partnership in providing skills training and employment to job seekers in Pampanga.

CDC president Benigno Ricafort and Tesda Provincial Director Ben-Hur Baniqued signed Wednesday a memorandum of agreement (MOA) here before local and national officials.

Ricafort said the CDC “recognizes the importance of skills development and…relevance program needs of [Clark] locators.”

Eduard Pinlac of CDC’s customer service department said Tesda is the lead government agency tasked in catalyzing and coordinating manpower development services, thus it pursued its mandate of providing skills training and increase the chances of employment of the labor force in Pampanga.

Based on the MOA, Tesda shall be the center for the coordination and information dissemination to its graduates by establishing centralized linkage for their graduates and trainees.

This centralized information will be used for facilitation, monitoring and determining required job opportunities for Tesda graduates and trainees inside the Clark Freeport.

Pinlac said Tesda and CDC have committed to link up their data base “relative to the utilization and maintenance of a common manpower pool.”

The Tesda Pampanga Office shall regularly provide CDC a monthly report on available manpower database according to age, gender, education, and experience.

This information will help Tesda plan, design, and fund skills training programs suitable to current and future manpower needs of Clark locators based on studies and projections of CDC.

On the other hand, the CDC shall provide regular updates to Tesda a list of job vacancies and job opportunities in order to aid the lattr in planning for relevant training programs to match requirements of industries here.

At the same time, the CDC shall assess manpower requirements of locators and periodically provide Tesda relevant data to be utilized in planning, budgeting, and conduct skills training programs.

Clark Wine Center was built in 2003 by Hong Kong-based Yats International Leisure Philippines to become the largest wine shop in Philippines supplying Asia’s wine lovers with fine vintage wines at attractive prices.  Today, this wine shop in Clark Philippines offers over 2000 selections of fine wines from all major wine regions in the world.  As a leading wine supplier in Philippines, Pampanga’s Clark Wine Center offers an incomparable breadth of vintages, wines from back vintages spanning over 50 years.  Clark Wine Center is located in Pampanga Clark Freeport Zone adjacent to Angeles City, just 25 minutes from Subic and 45 minutes from Manila.

Wines from Burgundy, Bordeaux, Rhone, Loire, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Austria, Alsace, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, South Africa, Chile and Argentina etc. are well represented in this Clark Wine Shop.

For more information, email Wine@Yats-International.com or visit http://www.ClarkWineCenter.com

Getting to this wine shop in Pampanga Angeles City Clark Freeport Zone Philippines from Manila

Getting to the Clark Wine Center wine shop from Manila is quite simple:  after entering Clark Freeport from Dau and Angeles City, proceed straight along the main highway M A Roxas. Clark Wine Center is the stand-along white building on the right, at the corner A Bonifacio Ave.  From the Clark International Airport DMIA, ask the taxi to drive towards the entrance of Clark going to Angeles City.  From Mimosa, just proceed towards the exit of Clark and this wine shop is on the opposite side of the main road M A Roxas.