News Roundup 14 November 2019
Nov 14, 2019 • 1 min Read
Speaker vote a matter of procedure but a lot can still happen – Cayetano | INQUIRER.NET – Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano said that as a matter of procedure Congress will hold an election whether or not the term-sharing deal between him and Marinduque Rep. Lord Allan Velasco happens. Cayetano also repeated his earlier message to Velasco that he has nothing to worry about because he would follow President Rodrigo Duterte. It was Duterte who pushed for the idea that Cayetano becomes Speaker for the first 15 months, with Velasco taking over the remaining 21 months of the three-year term.
Robredo: Majority of drug supply comes from China | PHILSTAR.COM – Vice President Leni Robredo met with the law enforcement cluster Inter-agency Committee on Anti-Illegal Drugs on Thursday to discuss the anti-narcotics campaign. “I want to gather more data, because the reports that we have, most of the supply that enters the country comes from China,” Robredo told reproters.
Gov’t only needs ‘emergency attention’ to hasten infrastructure projects | Manila Bulletin – Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon said there is no need to grant President Duterte emergency powers to help hasten the construction of the government infrastructure projects. “Hindi na po kailangan ng emergency [powers], siguro emergency attention ang kailangan, tutok lang (Emergency powers is no longer needed, maybe what’s needed is emergency attention),” Drilon said in an interview with DZMM.
BI deports 312 Chinese linked to telco fraud | The Manila Times – The Bureau of Immigration (BI) deported at least 312 Chinese workers involved in telco fraud. The Chinese were part of the 512 foreigners nabbed by the agency last month “in a massive raid of a Business Processing Outsourcing office in Pasay City.”
