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More fallout from sugar mess SRA board member quits, but Zubiri demands all agency execs resign
By Othel V. Campos, Vito Barcelo, Macon Ramos-Araneta, and Maricel V. Cruz
S
ENATE President Juan Miguel Zubiri on Monday called on all officials of the Sugar Regulatory Administration to resign, even as current SRA board member Roland Beltran yesterday said he was resigning due to health reasons.
In his privilege speech, Zubiri also called for a Senate investigation into the unauthorized release of Sugar Order No. 4. The order would have authorized the importation of 300,000 metric tons of sugar, a move President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. disallowed as concurrent
Agriculture Secretary and chairman of supply and food prices. the SRA board. In a Facebook post by the Office of Meanwhile, Marcos on Monday sat the President, Marcos discussed ways down with the country’s top food manu- to solve the looming supply shortage of Next page facturers to discuss the country’s sugar
OVER FOOD AND SUGAR. In this photo posted by the Office of the President on his official Facebook page, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. (seated, third from right) meets with members of the Philippine Chamber of Food Manufacturers Inc. at Malacanang on Monday night.
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Bakers seek P4 more for Pinoy Tasty
2.3m Pinoys pushed into poverty last 4 yrs. By Julito G. Rada SOME 2.3 million more Filipinos were pushed into poverty from 2018 to 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said Monday. By the end of 2021, the poor made up 18.1 percent of the population, up from 16.7 percent in 2018, based on the preliminary results of the Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES) 2021. Poverty incidence among the population is defined
By Othel V. Campos BREAD bakers are actively pushing to raise prices of Pinoy Tasty and Pinoy Pandesal by as much as P4 per pack, possibly in two tranches.
Oil prices rolled back for 7th straight week
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NEWS / A2 “We will propose to the DTI (Department of Trade and Industry) to allow us to increase prices effective August 30. We decided to hold off for two months to help consumers cope with food inflation,” said Philippine Baking Industry Group (Philbaking)
PICTURE OF POVERTY. A family eats their lunch inside their
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BILATERAL MEETS EYED FOR PBBM AT UN ASSEMBLY NEWS / A2
makeshift house in Baseco Compound on Monday. The preliminary results of the Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES) for 2021 showed that poverty incidence among the population rose to 18.1%, equivalent to 19.99 million Filipinos who lived below the poverty threshold of about P12,030 per month. Danny Pata
4 nuns among 16 charged for link to ‘terrorism’ financing of CPP, NPA pines (RMP), were charged in court for alleged involvement in the funding of THE Department of Justice on Monday the terrorist organization Communist said 16 persons, including members of Party of the Philippines and its armed the Rural Missionaries of the Philip- wing, the New People’s Army.
By Rey E. Requejo
DOJ spokesperson Jose Dominic Clavano said the criminal charges were filed before the Iligan City Regional Trial Court against Sister Emma Teresita E. Cupin, Sr. Susan M. Dejolde,
Ma. Fatima Napoles Somogod, Sr. Augustina C. Juntilla, Sr. Mary Jane C. Caspillo, Melissa Amado Comiso, Czarina Golda Selim Musni, Maridel Next page
DOH admits over 20.6m doses of COVID vax wasted or remain unused, the Department of Health (DOH) said Monday. Undersecretary Maria Rosario VerMORE than 20.6 million doses of geire, the DOH’s OIC, said the number COVID-19 vaccines have either expired represents 8.42 percent of the country’s
By Willie Casas and Macon Ramos-Araneta
total procured vaccines as of Aug. 12 this year, or within the 10 percent allowed number for wastage by the World Health Organization (WHO). Next page
37k unvaxxed teachers OKd in F2F classes By Willie Casas and Maricel V. Cruz
NEW LAKAS MEMBERS. Speaker Martin Romualdez (2nd from left) administers the
oath to Eastern Samar Rep. Fe Abunda (right) and Calamba Laguna Rep. Charisse Hernandez (2nd right) as new Lakas-CMD Party members with Lakas President Emeritus and Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (center) and Lakas VP for Mindanao Development Concerns and House Majority Leader Mannix Dalipe (left) as witnesses. Ver Noveno (See story on A4)
SOME 37,000 unvaccinated teachers will now be allowed to teach during the resumption of face-to-face classes on August 22, the Department of Education said yesterday. This was as the Department of Next page
SC BOOSTERS. Department of Health OIC Maria Rosario Vergeire (center) administers a booster vaccine against COVID-19 while Supreme Court Chief Justice Alexander Gesmundo (left) looks on and Manila Mayor Honey Lacuna (right) jabs another patient at the launching of the Pinas Lakas program at the SC offices on Monday. Danny Pata
VP orders probe of pricey laptops, wants fraud audit By Macon Ramos-Araneta VICE President Sara Duterte-Carpio, in her role as Education Secretary, has ordered a probe into the 2021 procurement of alleged overpriced and outdated laptops through the Procurement Service of the Department of Budget and Management (PS-DBM). Next page
Press Secretary, MMDA chief Fernando Zobel takes both test positive for COVID sick leave as Ayala CEO Story on A2
Story on B4
Celis named poll commish, Panganiban returns to Agri Story on A3