Category Archives: Speeches
Tribute to Rizal High School
Before anything else, let us all acknowledge and give a big hand to the hosts for this year’s gathering, the golden and silver jubilarians, batches 1961 and 1986, respectively, in cooperation with batches 1971 and 1981.
When I got the invitation to speak before you, I did not hesitate to accept it, because I felt that this was my perfect opportunity to get to know Rizal High School and have the chance to personally visit this historic educational school, which was once hailed by the Guinness world records as the largest secondary school in the world in terms of student population from 1992 to 2002. At the time the institute was educating about 25,000 students per year.
Thinking housing strategies outside the box
Congratulations indeed for the successes your organization has accomplished throughout the twenty years of your existence. It is therefore with deep gratitude that this humble representation comes to speak before you on a subject which for quite some time in the past was a major interest associated with my family, especially my mother who was former minister of human settlements, and which now is presently a policy area prioritized by the Senate Committee on Urban Planning, Housing and Resettlement which by providential coincidence has been assigned to me as chairman.
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