Aquino’s 5-year report card

— Appointed people with integrity and independence (Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales, Chief Justice Ma. Lourdes Sereno, Commission on Audit Chair Grace Pulido-Tan, Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) Commissioner Kim Henares and Justice Secretary Leila de Lima)

— Increased the dividends of government-owned and -controlled corporations to P131.86 billion in five years

— Increased BIR collections to P1.3 trillion

— No more reenacted budgets

— Better world perception of the Philippines: “Asia’s Rising Tiger,” “Asia’s Rising Star,” and “Asia’s Bright Spot”

— Increased foreign investments with P6.2 billion in 2014, the highest in our history

— Increased local investments with P2.09 billion

— 8-percent growth of the manufacturing sector

— Lower unemployment rate, at 6.8 percent, the lowest in the past decade

— Better labor and management relations; total strikes down to only 15

— Expanded beneficiaries of Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) to 4.4 million households

— By 2013, no more backlogs in the number of textbooks, classrooms and chairs

— Started to implement K to 12 program.

— 8.6 million finished Tesda courses; with 71.9 to 91.26 employment rate

— Doubled PhilHealth beneficiaries to 89.4 million; covered the poorest 40 percent by 2014

— Completed the Cadastral Survey

— Accomplished 78 percent of Sitio Electrification Program

— Philippine air carriers now off European Union blacklists

— European Maritime Safety Agency continues to recognize our maritime education certificates (saving the jobs of 800,000 Filipino mariners).

— In process to buy out the Metro Rail Transit (MRT) private maintenance contractor

— Armed Forces of the Philippines modernization—acquired/bought 2 C-130, three C-295 medium lift transport and 2 2-212 light lift transport, 6 landing craft utility, 12 FA-50 fighter, etc. Completed 56 modernization projects and approved 30 more

— PNP equipment to “shoot, scoot and communicate”—302 patrol jeeps of 2,523 bought have been delivered; 12, 399 handheld radios; 30,136 long firearms; 3,328 investigative kids and 16,867 radios

— Oplan Lambat-Sibat able to arrest 163,00 wanted persons and neutralize over 1,000 gangs; decreased homicide cases to 23 per week

— Built 57,000 housing units for men and women in the armed services

— Infrastructure: completed Lullutan Bridge in Isabela province and Jalaur River Multipurpose Project in Iloilo province; started/ongoing projects include Balog-Balog Multipurpose Project Phase 2 in Tarlac, Basilan Circumferential Road, Muntilupa-Cavite Expressway

— 50 ongoing public-private partnership projects

— SWS survey: 8 out of 10 Filipinos trust the Philippines will be among the “developed countries.”

— European Commission lifted yellow card/ban for Philippine fish products

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