PLDT GenSan and Cotabato Consumer Experience Zone Head Melvin Lacuna, 4th from left, and PLDT Mindanao-Customer Development Management Executive Peter Acob, 1st from left, conferred the Mr. and Ms. PLDT Award to Ed Justin Suarez and Diana Jane Delgado Cadiente. 

“One of PLDT’s advocacies is the promotion of the country’s culture and arts, and GenSan has one of the most thriving cultural traditions with its Tuna Festival,” PLDT Community Relations (ComRel) Division Head Katherine P. Diaz De Rivera said. 

“The Tuna Festival becomes a platform that recognizes the world-class talent of Filipinos. GenSan is a city that lives up to the richness of its culture, a place of homegrown talents and creative minds,“ Diaz De Rivera added.

PLDT subscribers enjoy the #FibrTunaFest in the PLDT Home lounge at the GenSan Oval Plaza.

As a major sponsor, PLDT was one of the companies listed as Magandang Marang, enabling locals and tourists alike to experience the #FibrTunaFest in the PLDT Home lounge at the GenSan Oval Plaza. This came with free unli WiFi and livestream of the Tuna Festival activities. PLDT Home also offered the Fibr Tuna Festival Sale where people can subscribe to any Home Fibr plan and save as much as P3,600 from the free activation and installation fees. 

In one of the festival highlights, PLDT GenSan and Cotabato Consumer Experience Zone Head Melvin Lacuna and PLDT Mindanao-Customer Development Management Executive Peter Acob conferred the Mr. and Ms. PLDT Award to Ed Justin Suarez and Diana Jane Delgado Cadiente.


PLDT participates in the Tuna Festival Parade with its Geek Squad automobiles.

Cadiente is a BS Accountancy student from Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Colleges. She is a fashion model, environmentalist, and cultural preservation advocate, as well as the reigning Miss Tourism Culture and Arts 2019. Suarez is taking up BS Medical Technology at the Notre Dame of Dadiangas University. He is a Sangguniang Kabataan Councilor in Brgy. Fatima in GenSan.

During the Tuna Festival this year, one of PLDT ComRel’s activities included conducting an orientation for 55 newly hired employees who were interested in becoming a part of the PLDT Employee Volunteers Group.


PLDT ComRel Division gives an orientation to around 55 newly hired employees who are interested to be a part of the PLDT Employee Volunteers Group.