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| Congressman Jesus Celeste |
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By Mortz C. Ortigoza
BOLINAO - The roughly P2 billion
reason why infrastructures and other projects keep pouring in a congressional district because the area is huge compared to other districts in
the Pangasinan province, according to a solon.
Pangasinan First District
Congressman Jesus “Boying” Celeste said that for this year he has received a
P1.4 billion regular allocation from the national budget notwithstanding the P600
million appropriations to his district given by national agencies like the
Departments of Education, Tourism, and others.
“Our area is bigger here that’s why we have a bigger budget,” when
asked why another congressional district in Pangasinan has P700 million allocation
as regular budget this year.
A congressman of another district
told Northern Watch Newspaper before
the reason the First Congressional District has a bigger allocation because its
area started to develop while other congressional districts in the province
have almost done their infrastructure projects.
Celeste is preoccupied in seeing
his nine towns and one city’s district benefited on the paved concrete roads,
improvements of tourism sites in the area, coastal highways, and mulled to
construct a bay walk just like in the Second and the Fourth Congressional
Districts of Representatives Leopoldo Bataoil and Christopher de Venecia.
“One
of our projects is fencing the highway going to the airport in Alaminos,” he cited.
He said that the national
government re budgeted the botched airport project that he said would be a
stimulus for the economic growth of the district that caters to its pristine beaches,
swanky hotels, and other tourism come-on.
He said in the past that the
presence of an airport and casino will phenomenally leapfrogged the financial
viabilities of the hotels and pristine beaches here, Alaminos City and other
towns because of the influx of local and foreign tourists like the Chinese,
South Koreans, Taiwanese, and others who will relish the full package of a
casino and beaches.
Celeste is a member of the Committees on National
Defense and Security, Appropriations, Games & Amusement, Natural Resources,
North Luzon Growth Quadrangle, Reforestration, Science and Technology, and Tourism in the
House of Representatives.
He is serving his last term as
the solon of Western Pangasinan that will end on May 2019 election.
A source, who asked anonymity,
said that Celeste will be running for the mayoralty post of Alaminos City
versus the rumored opponent the City’s Vice Mayor Jose Antonio Miguel Y. Perez
while the present mayor Art Celeste, his younger brother, will run for the
congressional race versus the rumored opponent Under Secretary Tim Orbos of the
Department of Transportation and Communication.
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