First PIA office outside Metro Manila to rise in Baguio By Dionisio Dennis, Jr. and Liza Agoot
GROUNDBREAKING. Presidential Communications Operations Office Undersecretary and Philippine Information Agency Director General Ramon Cualoping III (left) leads the laying of the time capsule of the P26 million PIA-Cordillera regional office in Baguio City on Monday (May 31, 2021). It will be the first PIA building outside the National Capital Region and is one of the four buildings the agency will build this year. (PNA photo by Redjie Melvic Cawis)
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The Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) will construct the first Philippine Information Agency (PIA) office outside the National Capital Region here.
to the Filipino public, with the final goal of seeing the quality of their lives improved and empowered to participate in the country’s democratic processes.
PIA is one of the agencies under the PCOO that is mandated to disseminate information about government programs, projects, and services
“The essence of information is always by telling of the truth. And this is the foundation by which the PIA has stood for in its entire existence.
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Most importantly, the strength of our national communications system is the professionalism and integrity of the women and men of the work desk of the agency and that is where the structures of the facility that will rise shall serve the Cordilleras,” PCOO Secretary Martin Andanar said in a video message played during the groundbreaking activity in Barangay DPS Caraga INFOCUS
