Economist-solon Marikina City 2nd district Rep. Stella Quimbo appears to have cracked the hoarding-price manipulation code that the likes of "Sibuyas Queen" Lilia Cruz (alias Leah Cruz) are allegedly employing. Quimbo managed to do so after only four public hearings of the House Committee on...
HOTSPOT It is unconventional wisdom but governments, past and present, actually owe generations of jeepney drivers and operators a lot. The fact is, these family-run micro-enterprises have been the backbone of public transportation nationwide. Without them, there’s no mobility across the...
So-called "Sibuyas Queen" Lilia Cruz, alias Leah Cruz has once again no-showed a hearing of the House Committee on Agriculture and Food, forcing congressmen to send her stronger summons for her presence. Quezon 1st district Rep. Wilfrido Mark Enverga (Screenshot from, Zoom) Committee Chairman...
Cavite 4th district Rep. Elpidio Barzaga Jr. said he'd favor a recommendation to the President to reshuffle the personnel within the Department of Agriculture (DA). President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. (left) and Cavite 4th district Elpidio Barzaga Jr. (MANILA BULLETIN) But Barzaga, one of the...
Expect the House of Representatives to continue its investigation on the agricultural hoarding issue for several weeks more. Cavite 4th district Rep. Elpidio Barzaga Jr. hints that the ongoing House inquiry on agricultural hoarding won't be concluded anytime soon . (Facebook) This is all thanks to...
The House Committee on Agriculture and Food is beginning to get tough on "Sibuyas Queen (Onion Queen)" Lilia Cruz, alias Leah Cruz. Cavite 4th district Rep. Elpidio Barzaga Jr. (PPAB) Committee member, Cavite 4th district Rep. Elpidio Barzaga Jr. moved for the panel to instruct Cruz to write them a...
"Sibuyas Queen (Onion Queen)" Lilia Cruz was a no-show at the resumption of the House of Representatives' inquiry on agricultural hoarding, and Cavite 4th district Rep. Elpidio Barzaga Jr. didn't like her alibi. Lilia Cruz (left) and Cavite 4th district Rep. Elpidio Barzaga Jr. (HREP website,...
After a one-week "break", the House Committee on Agriculture and Food will resume tomorrow, Monday, Feb. 27, its motu proprio investigation on the alleged hoarding of agricultural products in the Philippines, particularly on onions. Lilia Cruz (HREP website) Committee Chairman Quezon 1st district...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz We have been told many times that it is the Constitution’s fault that our economy is not developing. Never mind wealth and income inequality, regressive taxation, institutional corruption, regulatory capture, and the chronic joblessness as evidenced by more labor migration. The...
The House Committee on Agriculture and Food is taking a "cautious" approach when it comes to statements made by Lilia Cruz, the alleged "Sibuyas Queen". Quezon 1st district Rep. Mark Enverga (left) and Lilia Cruz (Contributed photo, HREP website) Thus, said committee chairman, Quezon 1st district...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta Recently, the phrase “Unidentified Flying Objects” a.k.a. UFOs has acquired a different meaning, it no longer refers to enormous flying saucers of unknown origins, manned by extraterrestrials who plan to invade the planet Earth or to capture homo sapiens specimens...
Cavite 4th district Rep. Elpidio Barzaga Jr. doesn't expect honest answers to come out of "Sibuyas Queen" Lilian Cruz'sc mouth. Cavite 4th district Rep. Elpidio Barzaga Jr. (Screenshot from Zoom) "Personally, I would say that her statements and answers to us are not credible," Barzaga told the...
