Speeches
Local holiday bills
Local holidays signify commemorative events in the communities concerned. It usually marks the founding anniversary, or the charter day of the local government unit, or the birth or death of a prominent personality who is a native of the LGU celebrating the local event.
The declaration of local holidays through congressional legislations will permanently preserve and uphold the local historical and significant events that enrich the cultural heritage of local government units. These remarkable milestones will deeply engrave into the hearts and minds of the constituents of the LGUs concerned through their active participation and meaningful commemoration of momentous local celebrations.
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.
Conversion of the Municipality of Imus into a component city
It is important to note that Imus became an independent municipality on October 3, 1795. On June 11, 1977, my father, then President Marcos issued Presidential Decree No. 1163, which transferred the provincial capital of Cavite from Trece Martires City to Imus. Although the seat of the provincial government of Cavite was moved back to Trece Martires City, there is no other enabling law after P.D 1163 that specifies the capital of Cavite.
A MODEL FOR PHILIPPINE COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT
As former governor of Ilocos Norte, i know firsthand about the role that cooperatives can play in the development and wellbeing of local communities. I have an idea also of what it takes to make a cooperative work.
As governor, I made a conscious effort to encourage and support the formation of cooperatives in my province. I helped in the formation of a teacher’s cooperative as well as a farmers’ cooperative.
One reason for my doing so was that I have seen and learned about cooperatives while I was studying in England. I saw for myself what tremendous good an effective cooperative can do to improve the lives of its members and their communities.
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