Education Secretary Leonor Magtolis Briones is set to receive the prestigious Lifetime Contributor Award for the public sector at the 12th Asia CEO Awards 2021 next month.
(Photo from DepEd) DepEd, in a statement issued Thursday, Sept. 30, announced that Briones will be receiving the said awar
SMC President Ramon Ang and Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. (PCOO/FILE PHOTO/ MANILA BULLETIN)
In a Twitter post, Locsin hinted at the difficulty of doing things when one is the country’s highest elected official.
“He is not rebuilding the Philippines, there is nothing to rebuild; he is instead building it from the ground up ex nihilo as no one else has done. Period,” he said.
“Should he be president? If he is he’ll get nothing done,” the country’s top diplomat added.
Locsin was reacting to a news post about the extension of the South Luzon Expressway to Quezon province. SMC is constructing the 66.7-kilometer SLEX Tollroad-4 (SLEX-TR4) despite issues such as the “unsettled” right of way and COVID-19 restrictions.
Covid-19 treatment facility at the Ninoy Aquino Stadium in the Rizal Memorial Sports Complex, courtesy of Enrique Razon and company
Despite the growth in wealth, these Filipino billionaires are not short on philanthropic efforts. In fact, Villar was hailed as one of Forbes Asia s Heroes of Philanthropy for 2020. It was due to his donation of land to the St Jude Catholic School in 2019 and to his alma mater, the University of the Philippines, which will be used for the construction of an innovation campus. Villar also has been noted to support some churches, efforts to alleviate poverty and initiate measures to address the pandemic such as quarantine facilities and medical equipment.