The Marikina City local government signed on Thursday, Sept. 14, three ordinances that will give cash assistance and waive rental fees and business tax payments for rice retailers in the city amid the implementation of the national rice price ceiling policy. Mayor Marcy Teodoro on Thursday,...
CEBU CITY – The Department of Social Welfare and Development-Central Visayas (DSWD-7) will distribute cash assistance amounting to P1.3 million to micro rice retailers who were affected by the enforcement of the rice price cap. The DSWD-7 announced on Wednesday, September 13, that there will be...
ILOILO CITY – The Iloilo Grains Retailers, Traders, Millers, and Rice Importers Association has urged lawmakers to reconsider the provision on hoarding as stipulated in Senate Bill No. 2432 or the proposed Anti-Agricultural Economic Sabotage Act. A RICE retailer in Iloilo City. (Tara Yap)...
Pateros Mayor Miguel Ponce III and representatives from the national government on Sept. 13 distributed “ayuda” or financial assistance to retailers affected by President Marcos' imposition of a price cap on regular and well-milled rice. According to Ponce, a total of 22 rice retailers in...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Eleven rice retailers here each received P15,000 aid from the government on Thursday, September 14. It compensates their losses in the implementation of Executive Order 39 that placed a price cap on regular and well-milled rice. The financial assistance under the Department of...
The Mandaluyong City local government on Wednesday, Sept. 13, started the distribution of the P15,000 cash assistance from the national government to the city's rice retailers and sellers affected by the rice price cap mandated by the President. According to the city government, 71 rice retailers...
CABANATUAN CITY, Nueva Ecija (PNA) – One-hundred thirty-nine small rice retailers in this province on Tuesday, September 12, received P15,000 each as subsidy for losses incurred due to price caps on regular and well-milled rice. In an interview, Dr. Richard Simangan, Department of Trade Industry...
DAGUPAN CITY (PNA) – Seven rice retailers, among the first to comply with the price cap imposed on regular and well-milled rice, each received their P15,000 subsidy during the distribution at the city plaza on Wednesday, September 13. The grant was from the Department of Social Welfare...
Senator Risa Hontiveros has urged the Senate to conduct an inquiry into the uncoordinated and contradicting policies of the government on rice regulation. Sen. Risa Hontiveros (Senate PRIB Photo) Hontiveros, in filing Senate Resolution No. 794, called on the Senate to look into...
The Metro Manila Council (MMC) on Tuesday, Sept. 12, said the single-ticketing system (STS), while still on its pilot run, will soon transition into full implementation after the council is able to iron out issues on the digital payment services in the National Capital Region (NCR). The council...
DAVAO CITY – The city government of Mati established on Monday, September 11, Task Force Bantay Presyo to ensure that rice traders fully adhere to the price cap set by the administration of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. Mati City Mayor Michelle Nakpil Rabat issued Executive Order (EO) No. 82,...
Despite the apprehensions of some sectors and economists, the implementation of the price ceiling imposed on the country’s staple grain is “going as well as we can expect,” President Marcos claimed on Tuesday, Sept. 12. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. presides over a sectoral meeting with the...
