The Innovative, Courageous, Fair and Independent Regulator

August 15, 2019

I am very pleased to be a part of the ERC’s celebration of its 18th Founding Anniversary.

Is this the ERC’s coming-of-age celebration? I am sure the “debutant” theme you have for this event is but a symbolism of an ERC reborn.

ERC’s “coming-of-age” started from the minute it was created upon passage of EPIRA on June 8, 2001.

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Message: Lunduyan ng Tradisyonal na Sining at Kultura

August 15, 2019

It is a pleasure to be here at the opening of Likha-an: Lunduyan ng Tradisyonal na Sining at Kultura. It is actually a dream come true to be able to formally open this resource center, envisioned to be an inclusive venue that will be the home to the nation’s traditional works of art and a celebration of the traditional artists from our regions.

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Speech: Hibla ng Lahing Filipino Travelling Exhibition

August 6, 2019

Traditional textiles are ties that bind. It links the past to the present and brings together cultures, which, no matter how diverse, has a commonality.

It is in this premise that the Hibla ng Lahing Filipino textile gallery was born in 2012 in two small rooms of the National Museum of the Philippines.

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First State of the District Address Deputy Speaker Loren Legarda

August 2, 2019

First State of the District Address
Deputy Speaker Loren Legarda
Friday, 2 August 2019
Binirayan Gym, San Jose, Antique
 
Mga kababayan, fellow Antiqueños:
Good morning.
I am very pleased to join you today and I am privileged and honored to deliver to you my first State of the District Address.
This day is like no other. As the first woman Representative of our dear province to be elected to the House of Representatives and the first Antiqueño Deputy Speaker, I am truly humbled, and I consider this opportunity to report […]

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