GREGORIO B. HONASAN II

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  • Senator Gregorio Ballesteros Honasan II
  • Senate Office:
  • Rm. 507 5th Flr., GSIS Bldg., Financial Center, Roxas Blvd., Pasay City
  • Trunk Lines: (632) 552-6601 to 70 loc. 5531 / 5532 / 5533
  • Telefax No.: (632) 551-0525
  • Email: gringo_chq@yahoo.com
  • Website: www.greghonasan.com

Born on March 14, 1948 in Baguio City to Colonel Romeo Honasan and Alice Ballesteros, a very young Gringo became one of the eagle scouts chosen to attend the 11th International Scout Jamboree at Marathon, Greece in 1963. He could not go because a typhoon had damaged a significant portion of their house and his family’s finances were severely limited. This was the very Philippine contingent that was aboard the plane that crashed in India. A monument honoring those who perished in this crash stands today in Quezon City.

Gringo Honasan spent his elementary years in the Dominican School in Taipei, Taiwan. He graduated with an Honorable Mention in Don Bosco High School in Mandaluyong. At first, he wanted to become a doctor. After learning, however, that his expensive dream of a medical education would mean no college education for his other siblings, he instead chose to take up Bachelor of Science with a degree of Economics at the University of the Philippines. After two years in U.P., he went to the Philippine Military Academy, where he attained the title of a “Class Baron,” the institution’s highest leadership award. Subsequently, he took up a Masters Degree in Business Management at the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) and finished the course with distinction.

His Family Life

Gringo married Jane Cabale Umali, and became a loving father to children Kim Francis, Kit Martin, Karel Paolo, Klarina Fatima and Klarisa Rosario. He is a devoted husband to his wife and is – as his children attest – “a good man, and a great father!”