This Week’s Milestones: July 1-7, 2018

July 4, 1967

The city of Cadiz in Negros Occidental province was inaugurated after Republic Act No. 4894 was signed into law by then President Ferdinand Marcos.

Cadiz was classified as a first-class city in July 1991, before it became a second-class city at present.

Under Executive Order No. 249 signed in 1987, a first-class city generates an average annual income of P30 million, while a second-class city generates an average annual income of P20 million to P30 million.

July 4, 2012

Queen Sofia of Spain visited the cities of Legazpi and Ligao as well as the town of Camalig in Albay province during her five-day visit to the Philippines.

In Albay, Queen Sofia went to the areas where  Spanish development agency Agencia Española de Cooperacion Internacional para el Desarrollo (Aecid) had poured funds for disaster risk reduction.

Among these Spanish-funded projects were Camalig Emergency and Educational Shelter, a 14-classroom structure erected in February 2010, with a P24.7-million aid from Aecid; Josefina Belmonte Duran Memorial District Hospital in Ligao City, where hospital facilities and equipment funded by Aecid reached P14.4 million; and Climate Change Adaptation Academy at Bicol University in Legazpi, where investments by Aecid amounted to some P110 million.

Compiled by Kathleen de Villa, Inquirer Research

Sources: Inquirer Archives, DOT, negros-occ.gov.ph, officialgazette.gov.ph, pia.gov.ph, sancarloscity.gov.ph