By Alex P. Vidal
Hon. Angel Briones of the Iloilo Sangguniang Panlalawigan has offered to the Makati-based Games and Amusement Board (GAB) the use of the ground floor of the 2-million provincial Liga Ng Mga Barangay building at the back of the Iloilo Sports Complex in La Paz district as the GAB’s Iloilo extension office.
Briones made the offer to GAB Commissioner Alex Paglumotan during a dialogue attended by various organizers and leaders of professional sports in Iloilo City and province of Iloilo at Robinson’s Mall, Iloilo City on May 6.
Briones said, the building was a project of Senator Miriam Defensor – Santigao and is nearing its completion. “We are using top floor as gym for contact sports and we are offering the ground floor to be the extension office of GAB,” Briones said.
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Briones said he made the offer to Paglumotan, a former Vice Mayor of Bacolod City, because he intends to license his athletes in Iloilo intending to turn professional.
GAB’s other extension office is located in Bacolod City and Briones said many of his poor athletes find it hard to cross the sea just to apply for professional license.
The board member was referring to his amateur boxers in the municipalities of Ajuy and Anilao who regularly participate in his boxing program in the fifth district of Iloilo. For his part, Paglumotan said, he was elated by Briones’ gesture saying he would report the “good news” to GAB Chairman Eric Buhain who was in Tokyo to supervise the World Boxing Council (WBC) minimum weight title fight between champion Eagle Kyowa and Cebuano challenger Rodel Mayol. Kyowa, a Thai won the fight by split decision on Saturday night, May 6 held at Kurukuean Stadium, Tokyo, Japan.
GOV. TUPAS
Paglumotan also thanked Gov. Niel D. Tupas, Sr. in a phone conversation facilitated by Briones after the dialogue where the governor expressed his support to the proposal to make the Liga building as Iloilo extension office of the GAB.
Paglumotan was delighted to hear Briones’ offer as the commissioner was still contemplating on asking Iloilo City lone district Rep. Raul Gonzales, Jr. to provide the extension office.
“The gestures of both Governor Tupas and Board Member Briones augur well with our desire to bring the government to the people like what we are doing in the Games and Amusement Board,” said the ecstatic Paglumotan, who is Tupas’ friend when the governor was still Congressman of the fifth district of Iloilo. /MP mailto:madyaas_pen@yahoo.com
Hon. Angel Briones of the Iloilo Sangguniang Panlalawigan has offered to the Makati-based Games and Amusement Board (GAB) the use of the ground floor of the 2-million provincial Liga Ng Mga Barangay building at the back of the Iloilo Sports Complex in La Paz district as the GAB’s Iloilo extension office.
Briones made the offer to GAB Commissioner Alex Paglumotan during a dialogue attended by various organizers and leaders of professional sports in Iloilo City and province of Iloilo at Robinson’s Mall, Iloilo City on May 6.
Briones said, the building was a project of Senator Miriam Defensor – Santigao and is nearing its completion. “We are using top floor as gym for contact sports and we are offering the ground floor to be the extension office of GAB,” Briones said.
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Briones said he made the offer to Paglumotan, a former Vice Mayor of Bacolod City, because he intends to license his athletes in Iloilo intending to turn professional.
GAB’s other extension office is located in Bacolod City and Briones said many of his poor athletes find it hard to cross the sea just to apply for professional license.
The board member was referring to his amateur boxers in the municipalities of Ajuy and Anilao who regularly participate in his boxing program in the fifth district of Iloilo. For his part, Paglumotan said, he was elated by Briones’ gesture saying he would report the “good news” to GAB Chairman Eric Buhain who was in Tokyo to supervise the World Boxing Council (WBC) minimum weight title fight between champion Eagle Kyowa and Cebuano challenger Rodel Mayol. Kyowa, a Thai won the fight by split decision on Saturday night, May 6 held at Kurukuean Stadium, Tokyo, Japan.
GOV. TUPAS
Paglumotan also thanked Gov. Niel D. Tupas, Sr. in a phone conversation facilitated by Briones after the dialogue where the governor expressed his support to the proposal to make the Liga building as Iloilo extension office of the GAB.
Paglumotan was delighted to hear Briones’ offer as the commissioner was still contemplating on asking Iloilo City lone district Rep. Raul Gonzales, Jr. to provide the extension office.
“The gestures of both Governor Tupas and Board Member Briones augur well with our desire to bring the government to the people like what we are doing in the Games and Amusement Board,” said the ecstatic Paglumotan, who is Tupas’ friend when the governor was still Congressman of the fifth district of Iloilo. /MP mailto:madyaas_pen@yahoo.com
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