26 Facts About Joy Belmonte

Joy Belmonte is the only daughter of journalist Betty Go-Belmonte and lawyer Feliciano Belmonte Jr.

Joy Belmonte has three brothers: Isaac Belmonte, the current head of the editorial board of The Philippine Star, Kevin Belmonte, the vice-chairman of Nuvoland Philippines, and Miguel Belmonte, the current president and CEO of The Philippine Star.

Joy Belmonte attended Saint Pedro Poveda College for her grade school and high school education, where she became the first student council chairman of the school.

Joy Belmonte graduated with a Jose Segovia Award for Service and Gerry Roxas Award.

In 1992, Joy Belmonte graduated from the Ateneo de Manila University with a Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences.

Joy Belmonte became an archeologist, and eventually ended up teaching the subject in the Philippines.

In 2009, Joy Belmonte placed a bid to run for Vice Mayor of Quezon City in 2010 as the running mate of outgoing Vice Mayor Herbert Bautista.

Joy Belmonte was sworn in as a new member of the Liberal Party in November 2009, alongside her father and Bautista, in support of the presidential run of Senator Benigno Aquino III.

Joy Belmonte won the elections, with Bautista dominating the mayoralty race, and assumed office on June 30,2010.

Joy Belmonte was a major backer of the successful 2016 vice presidential campaign of Leni Robredo.

Joy Belmonte predicted that "there would be only light rains" based on a bulletin contrary to what happened.

Joy Belmonte said she acknowledges her "shortcomings in this situation", and stated that the residents "'deserve a better leader" because of the incident.

In February 2019, Joy Belmonte was accused of graft by Manuel Morato, a former chairman of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office.

Joy Belmonte denied the accusations and filed a libel case against 11 people including Morato.

Joy Belmonte had agreed to run under the Hugpong ng Pagbabago with incumbent councilor and actor Gian Sotto as her running mate.

Joy Belmonte was among the pioneer members of Partido Federal ng Pilipinas when the party was officially launched in October 2018.

Joy Belmonte's platform included furthering women's rights, adding closed-circuit television cameras along streets, improving the documentation of public projects, and an intensified anti-drug campaign.

Joy Belmonte signed a covenant with women leaders of the Quezon City Community Women Leaders' Federation.

Joy Belmonte had asked for an extension of the deadline, stating that Quezon City is "too large" for the mandate to be done within the required duration.

Joy Belmonte created the "Task Force on Solid Waste Collection, Cleaning, and Disposal Services Management".

Joy Belmonte took charge of Quezon City's COVID-19 pandemic response beginning in 2020.

Joy Belmonte was re-elected to her second consecutive term in 2022 through a landslide victory, defeating her closest rival, AnaKalusugan party-list representative Mike Defensor.

Joy Belmonte was later criticized in social media, and some of the personalities who questioned it was comedian Kitkat, and manager Ogie Diaz.

Joy Belmonte married Raymond Alimurung, the first Filipino CEO of Lazada Philippines.

On July 8,2020, Joy Belmonte disclosed that she had tested positive for COVID-19 and was an asymptomatic carrier.

On March 29,2021, Joy Belmonte announced that she had tested positive again and was symptomatic.