Briones urges campus journos to preserve national identity, heritage

  PANGASINAN, Philippines -- Education Secretary Leonor Briones reminded about 5,000 campus journalists from 18 regions to focus on the reclamation of stories and the heritage of the Filipino culture. In her keynote speech before campus journalists gathered in Lingayen for the 2019 National Schools Press Conference (NSPC), Briones said Filipinos should never forget about their roots and to appreciate efforts to preserve the national identity and national development. "Sana we should never forget that we are Pangasinenses, we are Visayans, we are Warays, we are Ilokanos, but at the end of the day, we are Filipinos. Accent notwithstanding," she said during the culmination of...

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