P-Noy names heads of regional dev’t councils

CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga — President Benigno Simeon “Noynoy” Aquino III has appointed the mayor of this city and 10 other provincial governors and city mayors in the Philippines as chairmen of Regional Development Councils, the office of the National Economic Development Authority here reported.

Mayor Oscar Rodriguez, the current national president of the League of Cities of the Philippines, has been appointed as head of the Central Luzon Development Council together with Dr. Roberto Ramirez as the new vice chairman.

The President has also appointed as RDC chairmen Kalinga governor Joel Baac (Cordillera), Occidental Mindoro Governor Josephine Sato (MIMAROPA), Albay governor Joey Salceda (Bicol), Capiz governor Victor Tanco (Western Visayas), Leyte governor Carlos Jericho Petilla (Eastern Visayas), Dipolog city mayor Evelyn Uy (Zamboanga Peninsula), Iligan city mayor Lawrence Cruz (Northern Mindanao), Davao city mayor Sarah Duterte (Davao region) and General Santos city mayor Darlene Antonino-Custodio (SOCCKSARGEN).

Meanwhile, Metropolitan Manila Development Authority chairman Francis Tolentino is automatically the chair of RDC-NCR while Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) acting governor Ansaruddin Alonto-Adiong is a member of the National Economic and Development Authority Board.