By the beach

President Marcos, Jr. (4th from left) leads the capsule-laying ceremony for Cebu’s first-ever stand-alone, world-class convention facility, the P1.5-billion Mactan Expo Center, together with Alliance Global Group, Inc. (AGI) Chief Executive Officer Kevin L. Tan (4th from right). The state-of-the-art facility will offer almost 10,000 square meters of MICE space. Also shown in photo are (from left) Lourdes T. Gutierrez-Alfonso, chief operating officer, Megaworld; Cong. Cindi Chan of the lone district of Lapu-Lapu City; House Speaker Martin G. Romualdez; Sec. Antonio Lagdameo, Jr., special assistant to the President; Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia; and Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Junard Chan.