Land institute to feature virtual tour of Clark Freeport
CLARK FREEPORT--This freeport is set to be featured in a live virtual tour session at this year's Urban Land Institute (ULI) Asia Pacific Summit.
The virtual tour on May 24, 2021, will give ULI members a glimpse of this Clark Freeport's various investment and tourism facilities. It will also include a presentation about the master plans for Clark International Airport, New Clark City, and the Clark Freeport Zone.
During the activity, there will also be a 25-minute question-and-answer session.
The online Q & A will feature panelists including Clark Development Corporation President and Chief Executive Officer Manuel Gaerlan, LIPAD President and CEO Bi Yong Chungunco, and Bases Conversion and Development Authority representative Karen Tham.
In a statement, CDC said that this opportunity will highlight Clark's beauty and potential on an international scale.
CDC also said the participation of the state-owned firm in the summit will be beneficial in positioning Clark as a premier business, aviation, and tourism hub in the country. This will also serve as an encouragement to ULI members to consider Clark as their next location for their future ventures and advocaci es.
The general session and virtual roundtables for the ULI Summit will officially begin on May 25, 2021, and will end on May 27.
This year's conference will take a hybrid approach, with an in-person event in Tokyo, Japan, and a virtual version accessible through a dedicated online platform.
Established in 1936, ULI is an international membership-based nonprofit research and education organization.
It currently has a total of 45,000 members and 2,500 of which are from Asia Pacific Region.
The organization’s members come from a variety of backgrounds, including land use and real estate development, private enterprise, and public service.
CLARK FREEPORT --- Former senator Alan Peter Cayetano said he does not agree with the proposal of the House of Representatives Committee on Economic Affairs and Committee on Social Services to distribute only P1,000 per person under Bayanihan 3.
Cayetano said the proposed P200 billion budget for Bayanihan 3 is enough to cover the distribution of P10,000 per household.
“Hindi limos ang hinihingi ng ating mga kababayan,” he said. “Tulong, dahil extraordinary ang problema.”
(Our people are not asking for alms. They need help because we are facing an extraordinary problem.)
In February, Cayetano and his allies filed the 10k Ayuda Bill, which proposes to distribute P10,000 to every Filipino family as the country continues to struggle with growing hunger and joblessness in the middle of the ongoing pandemic.
The proposed measure was consolidated into Bayanihan 3 but unfortunately, the provision of P10,000 for every family was not adopted.
Cayetano urged the public to push lawmakers to support the proposal to distribute P10,000 in cash aid to every Filipino family.
“Ligawan po natin ang ating mga kongresista (Let us keep on trying to convince our congressmen),” he said, adding that concerned citizens should write to their congressmen and local officials to endorse the 10k Ayuda Bill.
Citing the availability of funds, Cayetano said he is confident President Rodrigo Duterte will not veto the 10k Ayuda Bill if Congress passes it.
“Nandun ako sa Gabinete nung ginawa yung Free Education (Act). Iyon din ang sinabi. Pero nung nakita ng Pangulo na may pera, nakita niyang maganda ang programa, laban,” he sai d.
(I was in the Cabinet when the Free Education Act was being crafted. They also said the same thing. But when the President found available funds, when he realized that that the program would be helpful, he signed into l aw.)
ULI has a significant presence in the Philippines, and it aspires to shape the future of the built environment to have a transformative impact on communities around the world.