CITY OF SAN FERNANDO – “We are calling on the government to fast track our infrastructure development, especially provincial airports and the Clark airport.”
Thus, said Team Pnoy senatorial candidate Edgardo “Sonny” M. Angara during a break from a sortie in Pampanga at the King’s Royal Hotel here over the weekend.
“Kase (ang Clark International Airport) mayroon na yang international flights at mayroon na ring room for expansion (Because CIA has already international flights and has plenty of room for expansion),” Angara told reporters when asked if he would pushed for the immediate and full development of the CIA.
Angara likened the slow-paced development of the CIA to a genius child who is out of school. “Parang ang sitwasyon diyan may magaling kang anak, genius, pero hindi mo pinapag-aral so hindi makikita ang kanyang potential (The situation in Clark is that you have a child genius but you are not sending him to school that’s why you cannot see his full potential),” he said.
Angara also said he is all out in working for the development of other tourism infrastructure in the country in order to generate more employment which is one of his platforms aside from education.
“Kung gusto nating magkaroon ng trabaho ang ating mga kababayan dapat mag concentrate tayo sa tourism development (If we want to give jobs to our countrymen we should concentrate on tourism development),” the representative from Aurora said.
“There are tourists who want to visit us but we have to turn them back because we don’t have flights and enough hotel rooms,” Angara lamented.
He said he went to Panglao Island in Tagbilaran, a famous dive site last Wednesday, and was told how tourists from China and Taiwan were turned away due to mainly lack of hotel rooms. He added that they are now constructing about 1,000 hotel rooms in Tagbilaran to accommodate more tourists.
Angara said in Aurora, tourism has grown 1,001 percent in the last five years. “Unequivocally, if we do not improve our tourism infrastructure, there will be a lot of wasted opportunities,” he said.
