News Evening Round up
Sep 24, 2019 • 4 min Read
Lacson bares plan to give House deputies P1.5B each | PHILIPPINE DAILY INQUIRER Plans are afoot to give all 22 deputy speakers an additional allocation of P1.5 billion each, while each member of the House of Representatives would supposedly get P700 million, Sen. Panfilo Lacson said on Monday, citing information from several lawmakers.
DA chief: No funds to cover pig deaths | PHILIPPINE STAR – After losing their pigs to African swine fever (ASF) or forced culling, hog raisers are left with not much help from the government, which has admitted a lack of funds to help them recover their losses. Agriculture Secretary William Dar said his department can only provide loans for affected hog raisers, but not reimbursement for pigs that died of the disease or were culled.
Find other oil sources, Duterte orders | MANILA BULLETIN – President Duterte has ordered concerned agencies to look for other sources of oil to sustain the country’s stable energy supply, Presidential spokesman Salvador Panelo said Monday. The President issued the directive in a bid to mitigate the impact of the recent attacks on Saudi Arabia’s two oil refineries on the country.
Rogue major ‘ninja‘ boss | DAILY TRIBUNE – The Philippine National Police (PNP) is now hot on the trail of 22 “ninja cops” suspected of being involved in the recycling of illegal drugs seized during government operations. PNP Chief Gen. Oscar Albayalde yesterday said the 22 rogue PNP personnel were taken from the original 87 names suspected of having involvement in the illegal drug trade.
2 other PMA hazing victims in hospital | THE MANILA TIMES – Two other cadets of the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) who were subjected to hazing rites are being treated in a hospital, the military admitted on Monday as two academy officials were dismissed over the hazing death of Cadet 4th Class Darwin Dormitorio. Brig. Gen. Edgard Arevalo, spokesman for the Armed Forces of the Philippines, refused to identify the two victims, but said they were both fourth-class cadets (freshmen).
House seeks budget revision | MANILA STANDARD – The House of Representatives will seek changes to the 2020 national government budget that it passed Friday to finance the right-of-way claims that the government must pay for its infrastructure projects. The changes will mean the realignment of some P10 billion, Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano said on Monday.
P100M per congressmen in 2020 budget ‘won’t sit well’ with senators | MALAYA BUSINESS INSIGHT – The P100 million minimum allocation for pet projects of each of the 299 members of the House of Representatives in the proposed 2020 national budget “won’t sit well” with senators, Sen. Panfilo Lacson said yesterday. Lacson was reacting to the revelation of House appropriations committee vice-chair and Albay 2nd District Rep. Joey Salceda that each congressional district has been allocated P100 million each in the proposed P4.1-trillion budget plan for next year.
Flagship projects face ‘recalibration’–source | BUSINESS MIRROR – The national government is in the process of recalibrating flagship projects “to catch up with the Build, Build, Build agenda,” according to sources at the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA). On Monday, Neda sources told the BusinessMirror that this recalibration could lead to an increase in the number of flagship projects to be undertaken by the Duterte administration.THE national government is in the process of recalibrating flagship projects “to catch up with the Build, Build, Build agenda,” according to NEDA sources.
More online lending apps ordered shut down by SEC | SUNSTAR CEBU – The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued a cease and desist order (CDO) against 11 more online lending applications due to various violations. The CDO, dated Friday, Sept. 20, 2019, was issued against Cash Whale, Cash 100, Cashafin, CashMaya, CashFlyer, Cashwarm, Cashope, Cashwow, Creditpeso, ET Easy Loan and Peso2Go.
No manhunt yet in Davao Region | SUNSTAR DAVAO – FIVE days after the 15-day grace period given by President Rodrigo Duterte, Police Regional Office (PRO)-Davao said that they have not yet conducted a massive manhunt pending the master list of heinous crime convicts (HCC) from the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) and Department of Justice (DOJ). In an interview with PRO-Davao spokesperson Police Major Jason Baria Monday, September 23, he said they expect the master list and consolidated names of HCC.
