WE have been waiting for the chance to praise something Budget Secretary Florencio Abad has done and it has come. The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) on Sunday, August 23, announced the release of P9.48 million for the initial stages of the restoration of the historic Manila Metropolitan Theater, or the Met.
Earlier, in June, he released P270 million for the National Commission for Culture and the Arts to buy the Met from the Government Service Insurance System.
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