KAWIT, Cavite—Cavite leaders led by Senator Panfilo ‘Ping’ Lacson—who hails from Bayan Luma, Imus City—led the 119th Independence Day celebration at the Aguinaldo Shrine in Barangay Kaingen here on Monday.
Lacson, together with Tourism Secretary Wanda Tulfo Teo, Cavite Governor Boying Remulla, Commodore Adeluis Bordado representing the Armed Forces of the Philippines, and Kawit Mayor Angelo Aguinaldo led the wreath-laying rites at the tomb of the country’s first President, Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo, at the back of the shrine with a 21-gun salute through the Philippine Navy Corps.
Cavite Reps. AA Advincula (3rd District), Roy Loyola (5th District), and Luis Ferrer IV (6th District), with Tanza Mayor Yuri Pacumio and Gen. Mariano Alvarez Mayor Walter Echevarria graced the rites at the Aguinaldo Shrine.
Some hooligans tried to disrupt the speech of Senator Lacson before being apprehended by the local police. The group’s leaders were arrested and detained at the Kawit municipal police station.
In General Trias City, local officials led by Mayor Antonio Ferrer led the wreath laying in the monument of Gen. Mariano Trias beside the historic St. Francis of Assisi Church in the city proper.
Trias was the first Vice President of the Philippines, serving under Aguinaldo.
In Noveleta town, Mayor Dino Reyes Chua and town officials led the parade from the municipal hall in Poblacion to Barangay San Rafael II at the historic Calero Bridge, to commemorate the Battle of Calero during the War of 1898.
Noveleta officials are petitioning to rename the bridge back to Calero Bridge after it was officially named in honor of the late Senator Antero Soriano, who hails from Amaya in Tanza, according to Mayor Chua.