By BEHN FER. HORTALEZA, JR.

BINALONAN — President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo unwrapped in a brief visit here last Saturday five major projects for Pangasinan’s development as part of the master plan for the North Luzon Agri-business Quadrangle (NLAQ) super region.
The President spoke during the formal inauguration of a private airstrip and groundbreaking for a new two-storey school building timed to be completed when classes open in June in this quiet agricultural town that is her mother’s hometown.

Owned by the family of her cousin Binalonan Mayor Ramon Guico Jr., president of the League of Municipalities of the Philippines, the airstrip .measuring 850 meters, was put up by the World City Colleges (WCC) Aviation Company whose president is Captain Ramon V. Guico III, vice mayor of Binalonan. Read the rest of this entry »