Friday, February 09, 2007
New airport as the Lopez Jaena airport?
By Lory Ann B. Bilbao
THE Dr. Graciano Lopez Jaena Foundation Inc (DGLJFI) wanted to convince President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo that the Iloilo International Airport, located in the municipality of Cabatuan in Iloilo Province, be named after a local hero.
The Iloilo International Airport, which is sprawled on a 188-hectare site between the municipalities of Sta. Barbara and Cabatuan, is 19 kilometers away from Iloilo City. It is expected to be operational April this year.
In a Regional Development Council meeting Thursday, the foundation proposed the same move. Its chairman, Antique Governor Sally Zaldivar Perez, also a member of the foundation and who has once proposed for the conversion of the Iloilo International Airport into the junked Panay International Airport, said they would push for its renaming.
The council created the proposal into a resolution duly signed by its members.
The Provincial Board Members earlier hit the initiative of changing Iloilo into Panay and has manifested its strong opposition to the move in its resolution.
Tupas said that naming the Iloilo airport after an Ilonggo hero should be studied first.
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