Chicago-Based Fil-Am Media Interviews PH Consul General

Chicago Philippine Reports TV channel and Via Times News Magazine publisher Veronica Leighton interviews Consul General to Chicago Gina Jamoralin. (Chicago PCG photo)

CHICAGO 01 April 2019 — As part of the Philippine Consulate General in Chicago’s public diplomacy initiatives, Consul General Gina Jamoralin granted a live interview with Chicago Philippine Reports TV (CPRTV) channel and Via Times News Magazine publisher Veronica Leighton on 14 March 2019.

Leighton began the interview by asking Consul General Jamoralin of how the latter felt about her assignment in Chicago, especially immediately coming from her previous assignment in Honolulu. Consul General Jamoralin described how warm and friendly the Filipino-Americans in the United States Midwest just like those in Hawaii and everywhere, and she felt at home immediately despite arriving in Chicago in the middle of winter in January 2018. 

The interview dealt also on the various community projects initiated by Consul General Jamoralin since she arrived in Chicago. Two of these projects, “Paskuhan sa Konsulado and Simbang Gabi” held on 15 December 2018, and the “Midwest Youth Leaders in Diaspora Immersion Program,” held in the Philippines in cooperation with the Commission of Filipinos Overseas on 02-09 January 2019—were well received by the Filipino communities in the U.S. Midwest such that the Consulate General plans to implement them every year.

Consul General Jamoralin also appealed to the registered overseas Filipino voters in the U.S. to cast their votes between April 13 up to May 13 for the upcoming general elections in the Philippines through their respective Philippine foreign service posts, which will conduct overseas postal voting.

The Consul General also spoke about the Philippine economy which is one of the fastest growing economies in Asia, and the flagship infrastructure program of President Rodrigo R. Duterte on infrastructure, the “Build, Build, Build” program which aims to attract massive foreign investments in infrastructure in the Philippines. END

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