Thursday, October 12, 2006 Heavy sked for Glo in Cebu today, tomorrow
PRESIDENT Arroyo is in Cebu today for a series of activities that will start with the 8th national convention of the Association of Barangay Councils in the country.
Arroyo will deliver a speech before 2,500 barangay leaders who will gather at the Waterfront Hotel in Lahug, Cebu City.
The gathering of the league, headed by national president James Marty Lim, is to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the implementation of the Local Government Code, according to the Philippine Information Authority.
With the theme, “A Blueprint for Change Toward a System of Culture and Collaboration,” the league will sign an agreement with a National Government agency and a private business for a project for each barangay.
At noon, Arroyo will visit the Capitol building to unveil the marker beside the flagpole at the grounds to commemorate her oath-taking as President on June 30, 2004.
She will then proceed to the Capitol social hall where Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia, who is celebrating her 51st birthday today, will give a citation to Cemex president Jaime de Jaro for the company’s support to provincial projects.
The President will also confer the Presidential Award and Citation to Kepco chairman Joon-Ho Han, whose company invested in power plants in Naga, Cebu and promised to give P20 million for an electrification project of Cebu’s barangays.
The signing of a memorandum of agreement will then be held between the Cebu Provincial Government and Kepco Phils. for the electrification project.
After lunch, Arroyo will go to the Parklane International Hotel for the Couples for Christ-Gawad Kalinga Cebu Congress.
The President will witness the awarding or recognition of 50 groups and individuals who are considered Gawad Kalinga “partners or heroes.”
Arroyo will then join the governor’s dinner party. She will stay overnight in Cebu and go to Danao City tomorrow morning.
Danao City Mayor Ramonito Durano will lead more than 100 fifth district officials in welcoming Arroyo to the inauguration of their bus terminal-cum-public market in Barangay Poblacion, the first phase of which was funded by the Presidential Social Fund. (JPM)
