Betty Go-Belmonte
| Betty Go-Belmonte | |
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| Born |
Billie Mary Go 31 December 1933 Santa Mesa, Manila, Philippine Islands |
| Died | 28 January 1994 (aged 60) Quezon City, Philippines |
| Nationality | Filipino |
| Education | |
| Occupation | Journalist, newspaper publisher |
| Employer | STAR Group of Companies |
| Known for | Co-founder, Philippine Daily Inquirer, The Philippine STAR and Pilipino Star Ngayon |
| Spouse(s) | Feliciano Belmonte, Jr. |
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Betty Go-Belmonte (31 December 1933 – 28 January 1994) was a Filipina journalist and newspaper publisher. She established the STAR Group of Publications which publishes the national newspaper, The Philippine STAR and The Freeman, the tabloids Pilipino Star Ngayon, Pang-Masa, and Banat, as well as the magazines Starweek, People Asia, and The Fookien Times Yearbook.
A street as well as a station of the LRT Line 2 was named after her.
Belmonte was the eldest child of Go Puan Seng, founder of the Filipino-Chinese newspaper The Fookien Times, and Felisa Velasco, daughter of a merchant family. She had four younger sisters, Cecily, Dorcy, Elsie, and Gracie, and a younger brother, Andrew. She grew up to devout Protestant upbringing in the Santa Mesa district of Manila and in the Kamias district of Quezon City. When she was eight years old, her family moved to the foothills of the Sierra Madre, near Ipo Dam, to escape persecution from advancing Japanese forces during World War II, where they lived in poverty.
After the war, Belmonte and her siblings took their elementary studies at Kamuning Public School and Hope Christian High School, and their high school studies at the Philippine Christian Colleges and UP High School. She was often teased at school for having a boy's name, so her father started calling her Betty. When she was 19, she wanted to become a Protestant missionary and stay single. This upset her grandmother, who wanted her to marry. In college, she wanted to be a painter and pursue a course in Fine Arts but her father thought she would not be able to make a living as a painter and enrolled her in an English degree at the University of the Philippines Diliman instead.
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