Message of Deputy Speaker Loren Legarda Education Capability Seminars for the Department of Education Supervisors of Antique

At the outset, allow me to extend my warmest greetings to all the Officers of the Schools Division of Antique led by Mrs. Lisa Beriong and the District Supervisors of Antique who have been chosen to attend this seminar, organized by the Development Academy of the Philippines through the Center for Governance – Operations Management Office. 
I am particularly pleased that this seminar, turned webinar, is finally implemented.  This is part of the capability building program that I funded when I […]

Mensahe: Turnover of Barasoian Church in Malolos, Bulacan

Mensahe ni Deputy Speaker Loren Legarda
Barasoain Church, Malolos, Bulacan
September 15, 2020 | 9:00 AM
*Delivered by NHCP Chair Rene Escalante
 
Isang magandang umaga sa inyong lahat.
Isang malaking karangalan ang makasama kayo sa natatanging okasyong ito upang pasinayaan ang napaayos na Simbahan ng Barasoain, dito sa makasaysayang bayan ng Malolos, Bulacan.
Nagpapasalamat ako sa NHCP dahil pinanatili nito ang yumi at tatag ng dakilang templong ito ng Pambansang Kasaysayan.
Dahil sa taas ng antas ng pagiging makasaysayan ng Barasoain, dineklara itong National Historical […]

Privilege Speech of Deputy Speaker Loren Legarda On COVID-19 and Biodiversity Conservation

We are living our days in fear of even casual contact with each other. Events have been canceled, travel plans changed, the public’s attention consumed by a threat that the world has just woken up to: the 2019 novel coronavirus (nCoV) — a new strain of coronavirus first identified in Wuhan, Hubei, China in December last year.  The latest news reports indicated that the World Health Organization (WHO) has already given this virus an official name:  COVID-19.

STATEMENT OF DEPUTY SPEAKER LOREN LEGARDA Head of the Philippine Delegation to COP25 on the outcome of the recently-concluded climate conference in Madrid, Spain

I welcome the conclusion of the United Nations Climate Conference (COP25) held last week in Madrid. I welcome its close for several reasons, not all of which may be self-evident, and so I wish to spell them out:
Confronted by the most serious crisis humanity has ever faced, leaders of the most advanced nations that also happen to bear the greatest responsibility in creating and exacerbating today’s climate crisis, have chosen instead to lean back and watch as the world burns.
I […]

Message of Deputy Speaker Loren Legarda during the Launch of Cátedra Extraordinaria De Filipinas at the Universidad de Complutense de Madrid 13 December 2019

Our culture is our soul and while many do not realize it, we need to release our cultural energy, which serves as our motivation to work and engage in meaningful and profound social interaction.

Art, history, social sciences are forms that encompass cultural diplomacy, which I deem as the Philippines’ fourth pillar of foreign policy, a  key to opening up the country to political and economic initiatives with other nations. 

In consonance with this belief, I was firm […]