News Roundup 07 November 2019
Nov 07, 2019 • 1 min Read
Robredo, Lacson to meet, discuss war on drugs | INQUIRER.NET – Vice President Leni Robredo and Senator Panfilo Lacson are fixing the schedule for their sit-down to discuss on how to help the government fight illegal drugs. Lacson in statement Wednesday said “Kudos to Vice President Robredo. I take my hat off to her for accepting the daunting challenge; nobody in this world cannot be incapable of accomplishing a task as long as he or she puts his or her mind and conscience into the job.”
Duterte hopes Robredo will see ‘reality’ upon taking drug war role | PHILSTAR.COM – Presidential spokesperson Salvador Panelo in a statement Thursday said, “With the vice president at the helm of the anti-narcotics campaign, President Duterte expects that the former would see the realities on the ground.”
‘Open’ Bicam on budget might turn into a circus — Cayetano | Manila Bulletin – House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano responded to the proposal of Sen. Panfilo Lacson to make the Bicameral Conference Committee hearings on the proposed P4.1-trillion national budget for 2020 open to the public by saying, “We’re not afraid of transparency, but we don’t want to make the Bicam a circus.”
P6.8-M ‘shabu’ seized in Parañaque | The Manila Times – Joint operatives of Parañaque police and Caloocan police arrested Bayan Ibrahim, 32, through a buy-bust operation at Russia St., Barangay Don Bosco, Parañaque city. Confiscated were plastic sachets of shabu weighing about one kilogram with a street value of P6.8 million, 95 bundles of P1,000 used as buy-bust money, a Toyota Vios, and a cellphone.
