Palace appoints anew

By Nidz Godino

CONGRATULATIONS to the new appointees Malacañang has announced including  finance and agriculture departments and  Office of the President.

In  Facebook post,  Presidential Communications Office (PCO) said  appointees in  finance department are Joven Balbosa (undersecretary), Gerald Alan Quebral (assistant secretary), Cherry Mae Gonzales and Donalyn Minimo (directors IV) and Rizalino Jose Torralba (collector of customs VI).

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.also appointed Bureau of the Treasury officer-in-charge Sharon Almanza as national treasurer.

Newly  appointed officials in  agriculture department are Christopher Morales and Cheryl Marie Caballero, Constante Palabrica, Ernesto Enriquez and Larry Lacson, and Abbey Charles Gawaran.

Marcos also designated new officials to agencies under his office, namely Cris Tenorio (director IV of the Assets Management Office), Manuel Plaza III (member of the Games and Amusement Board), Julius Leonen (PCO director III), Adrian Bautista (PCO director II) and Felix Castro Jr. (OP assistant secretary).

Other appointees are Christian Tan Aguado (part-time commissioner representing the languages of the southern cultural communities of the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino), Reggie Cruz ( Pampango language of the KWF), Bianca Patrice Go (commissioner representing Mindanao of the National Youth Commission), Ernesto Severino (member of the Philippine Postal Corp. board of directors), Ivy Grace Rivera (agrarian reform director IV), Sittie Rahma Alawi, Jimmicio Daoaten and Reynaldo Sy (information and communication technology directors IV) and Jhino Ilano (information and communication technology director III).

The President also appointed Lynna Joy Cardinal (provincial trade and industry officer), Mario Tani (foreign trade service officer II), Anthony Rivera (foreign trade service officer III), Rudolph Jay Velasco (foreign trade service officer IV), Althea Karen Antonio, Alma Argayoso and May Niña Celynne Layug (special trade representatives), Reymundo de Guzman Jr. (Office of Transportation Cooperatives executive director II) and Gregorio Pastorfide (member of the University of the Philippines Board of Regents).