Makati City earns 4 more ‘sisters’
BINMALEY—The towns of Balungao, Tayug, Labrador and Aguilar have joined the long list of “sisters” to Makati City, home of the country’s central business district in the capital.
Makati now has sisterhood ties with 15 towns and cities in Pangasinan, part of the 210 total nationwide.
Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay, who was here last week for the signing, said these partnerships are not political and more a means for sharing good practices in governance.
“We’ve had our sisterhood relations as early as the 90s,” said Binay, the United Opposition’s candidate for vice president in the May elections.
Binay said the sisterhood agreements opens opportunities for him to share the “secrets of his city’s success” to other local government units.
Makati City also donates books, multi cabs, computers, scholarship grants, and medical assistance, among other things, to its sister cities.
Binay said he also learns from the sister cities and towns, especially from the poorest areas like in the province of Catanduanes.
“It proves my point that there’s really a lot of things to be done, that one way of making this country progressive is to give more power to the LGUs,” he said.
Makati has the richest barangay in the country with an annual budget last year of P240-million while the poorest barangay has a budget of P40-million, an amount equivalent to the budget of some towns in other parts of the country.#
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