Speaker Martin Romualdez (rightmost) talks to officials of the Philippine Rice Industry Stakeholders Movement (PRISM) in Makati City on Sept.1, 2023. Also in the photo are Deputy Majority Leader Erwin Tulfo (leftmost) and Senior Deputy Majority Leader Sandro Marcos (center). (Speaker’s office)...
Some senators on Friday, September 1 find it unnecessary for the government to impose a price ceiling on rice as addressing rice cartel and hoarding should have been the primary move of the government to tame the skyrocketing prices of the basic food staple in the market. Senators...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (center) gets interviewed inside a rice warehouse in Bulacan on Aug. 30 (Speaker’s office). The hoarding of rice--the staple food of Filipinos--is a "heinous crime". Thus, said House Speaker Martin Romualdez on...
Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Brian Raymund Yamsuan (Facebook) Amid rising prices of rice, a neophyte congressman filed a bill that would brand as "economic sabotage" under certain circumstances the hoarding of rice and corn. Lodged before the House...
Anyone with information about smuggled goods and contraband items can send a tip to the Bureau of Customs (BOC) and get 20 percent of the value of the seized goods, Commissioner Bien Rubio said on Tuesday, Aug. 29. (From left) BOC Commissioner Bien Rubio and CIIS Director Verne Enciso (Photo from...
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) vowed that it will intensify its inspection of warehouses believed to be storing smuggled rice or being used for rice hoarding after an order from President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. (2nd left) Customs Commissioner Bien Rubio inspects one of the Balagtas,...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (center) fields questions from journalists after the warehouse inspections in Bulacan (Speaker's office) House Speaker Martin Romualdez has advised rice traders to support President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr.'s Kadiwa stores instead of...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (left), DA Undersecretary Leocadio Sebastian (Speaker’s office) House Speaker Martin Romualdez has called on the "rice czar" of Department of Agriculture (DA), Undersecretary Leocadio Sebastian, to follow Malacañang's policy of...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (center) gets accompanied by Deputy Majority Leader ACT-CIS Party-list Rep. Erwin Tulfo (left) during his surpise market inspections. (Facebook) Amid the apparent surge in local retail prices of rice, the House...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (Speaker’s office) Who says that the House of Representatives is done with the onion price surge issue? House Speaker Martin Romualdez has summoned Bureau of Plant and industry (BPI) officials to report to his office so they...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. said he was determined to go after smugglers and hoarders of agricultural goods, stressing that Filipinos are dying of starvation because manipulative schemes in the market continue to thrivel. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (Noel Pabalate)...
Hoarding and smuggling of agricultural goods are expected to be eliminated through vertical integration, a concept the government is looking to implement in the agriculture sector. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (Noel B. Pabalate) President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. said on Tuesday,...
