President Marcos has appointed a new set of government officials in various agencies.
The Presidential Communications Office (PCO) announced on Thursday, June 13, that Raymond Balatbat was tapped to be the country's ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with concurrent jurisdiction over Yemen.
Balatbat's nomination for the position was first reported on June 9.
Marcos also designated Paolo Teston as assistant secretary of the Department of Health (DOH) and Avenilo Aventura Jr. as executive director of the Philippine Heart Center.
The President also appointed Raymond Anthony Dilag as commissioner at the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG).
He also named Anthony Castelo as vice chairman, chief operating officer and Board of Directors member of the Bataan Shipyard and Engineering Co. Inc. under the PCGG.
Francisco Rivera was also appointed as the chairman of the Games and Amusement Board (GAB) under the Office of the President (OP), Jesus Leonardo Auxilio as executive director of the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency's (NICA) National Maritime Aerial Reconnaissance and Surveillance Center, and Kaye Tinga as president and chief executive officer of the Board of Trustees of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP).
Other appointments were made in various agencies and offices such as the Department of Justice (DOJ)-Board of Pardons and Parole, Bureau of Immigration (BI), Department of Information and Communications Technology-National Privacy Commission (DICT-NPC), Department of Labor and Employment's (DOLE) National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC) and National Wages and Productivity Commission (NWPC).
More appointees were at the Philippine Commission on Women of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Civil Aeronautics Board of the Department of Transportation (DOTr), Philippine Creative Industries Development Council, Career Executive Service Board, Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR), Department of Agriculture (DA), Manila Economic and Cultural Office (MECO), Department of Budget and Management (DBM), and CCP.