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The House committee on appropriations has approved the funding provisions of the measure creating the Department of Disaster Resilience (DDR), which is among the legislative priorities mentioned by President Rodrigo Duterte in his third State of the Nation Address (SONA). The House panel, chaired by Davao Rep. Karlo “Ang Probinsyano” Nograles, passed the consolidated bill […]
Rice hoarding is economic sabotage, not a legitimate business strategy. This was stressed by House Appropriations Committee chairman Rep. Karlo “Ang Probinsyano” Nograles on Thursday during the budget deliberations on the Department of Agriculture (DA) after DA chief Manny Piñol explained that hoarding rice was considered a legitimate business practice by some rice traders. “We […]