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Monday, July 18, 2005
'Listen to Arroyo's speech', info agency tells public
By Neil C. Rio
THE Philippine Information Agency (PIA) in Negros Oriental urged the public to listen to the State of the Nation Address (Sona) of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on July 25.
Jennifer Catan-Tilos, PIA information center manager, said the President will bare her administration's major accomplishments since she assumed office in 2004 during which she vowed to pursue her ten-point "Legacy Program".
Among others, the Sona underlines the President's successes in reducing poverty in the country, generating employment, expanding electric and water supplies, education, and improving transportation and putting up infrastructures to spur nationwide economic progress, Tilos said.
From a 34.5 percent poverty incidence in 1990, she said, the Arroyo administration lowered it to 27.6 percent in 2004.
Moreover, for the first five months of this year, the President created more than one million jobs for Filipinos, Tilos said.
The President's other achievements are: 5,260 barangays now have electricity; 8,020 families in Metro Manila now enjoy safe water supply; 50,000 college students availed of the government's SAFE 4 SR with a budget of P300 million and; 2,000 poor families are enjoying the Iskolar sa Mahirap na Pamilya program; 10,765 classrooms built and 3,334 public high schools received computers.
The building of 174 bridges and repairing and construction of 4,774-kilometer national roads and over 500 kilometers of farm-to-market roads.
(July 17, 2005 issue)
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