Batangas City

contributed by: Janel Bajaro All the way from Tagaytay City, fifty bikers reached Lipa City, Batangas last Monday stead of a bicycle expedition with the core intention of spreading the public awareness regarding cervical cancer. Women gave flowers to the biker to symbolize hope – that we could still do …

There are more than a thousand and one things that we Batanguenos can be proud of, one of which is the Verde Island passage which is declared as the center of the center of Marine Shorefish biodiversity. This passage which is considered to be one of the most busiest sea …

Crisis is in the air. People strive to find ways on how to put themselves in the comfort zone. Among these people are students. Students who struggle through the threats and demands of their environment, particularly the school they are attending to. Students, most of them, who mostly find ways …

  Long before the Spaniards came, large centers of population already thrived in Batangas. Native settlements lined the “Pansipit river”, a major water way. Mr. Robert C. Fox, an American archeologist, revealed that based on archeological findings particularly in Calatagan Peninsula, the province has been trading with the Chinese since …

HISTORY The Religious of the Good Shepherd (RGS) established the first Catholic School for girls (Girl School) in the Diocese of Lipa. This was in 1913, when the Most Reverend Joseph Petrelli, Bishop of the Diocese, asked the help of the RGS Sisters working in Ragoon, Burma to come to …

HISTORY Lyceum Batangas is a tertiary educational institution established in 1966, which envisions itself to be the center for academic excellence in the country and in the Asia Pacific Region. It was established by former Senator Sotero H. Laurel, along with three prominent women of Batangas namely, Belen Castillo, Criselda …

HISTORY Batangas State University was established on 1903 as a Manual Training School, aimed of training male youth for gainful occupations particularly woodworking under the leadership of the American Mr. Sheer, the first school principal. Other succeeding principals follows. This includes Messrs. Schartz, Zacarias Canent, Isaias Maclang and Nad Pascual …