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Gov’t to flood market with sugar Mr. Marcos orders over 1.8m tons be made available for domestic use
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RESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has ordered the allocation of the country's entire sugar production for the cropping year 2022-2023 for domestic use.
In Sugar Order No. 1, which was signed by Mr. Marcos as Agriculture Secretary and concurrent chairperson of the Sugar Regulatory Board, over 1.8 million metric tons of sugar will be made available to the market. The order was signed on Aug. 26, 2022 but was only released by Malacanang yesterday. “Sugar production for Crop Year 2022-2023 is expected to be 1,876,135.36 metric tons and shall be quedanned by the mill companies, as implementers of this Sugar Order, in the following percentage: ‘B’ or Domestic Sugar Market- 100 percent,” it said.
The cropping season is set from Sept. 1, 2022 until Aug. 31, 2023. Sugar allocation classifications include A for US quota, B for domestic market use, C for reserve, and D for the global market. “The SRA shall undertake assessment of the Crop Year 2022-2023 sugar production and withdrawals trend. On the basis of such assessment, SRA may from time to time adjust the percentage allocation or distribution to other classes of sugar,” the order read. Aside from Mr. Marcos, other signatories to SO No. 1 include Agriculture
EO halts farmers’ loan payment for 1 year By Vito Barcelo, Vince Lopez, and Rio N. Araja PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has signed an executive order (EO) declaring a one-year moratorium on loan payments for agrarian reform
beneficiaries, the Palace said Tuesday. The one-year moratorium will write off P58.125 billion in loans and benefit about 654,000 agrarian reform beneficiaries and cover 1.18 million hectares of awarded lands. “It is time to give back to the farmers,” the President said during the
signing ceremony in Malacanang. The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) said the executive order is in preparation for another fulfillment of the Marcos administration's commitment, which is for Congress to pass a law that will condone the loans Next page
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MR. PRESIDENT. Employees of the Environment and Interior departments present a birthday cake to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. during the Simultaneous Bamboo and Tree Planting Ceremony at the Old Sanitary Landfill in Barangay Pintong Bukawe, San Mateo, Rizal on Tuesday (story below). Revoli Cortez
Pres. Marcos won't bar efforts State workers to get rice allowance as part of salary to grant ABS-CBN franchise TALKING PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has vowed not to stand in the way of efforts to give media giant ABS-CBN Corp. a new 25-year legislative franchise, which is granted by Congress. In a television interview, Mr. Marcos
said the Lopez-owned network’s woes were due to "technical reasons" that had surfaced during previous House hearings and not because of its "political positions" against his predecessor, former President Next page Rodrigo Duterte.
PBBM says family for settling tax issue By Joyce Pangco Panares
ballooned to P203 billion. “We are actually encouraging that PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. this finally be resolved because I don’t on Tuesday said he looks forward to want to make a legal opinion for which resolving the unpaid estate tax case I am not qualified. But rather, (I want) Next page against his family, which has reportedly
PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said he will institutionalize a “rice allowance” system for state workers as his administration strives to achieve food security for all Filipinos. “We will institutionalize it. At the very least, we will have that (rice allowance). This is life and death, and the people are living very close to the subsistence level,” Mr. Marcos said in a television interview “We have to pull ourselves out of that. They should not be at the subsistence level. They should not be spending 60, 70, 80 percent of their income on food. That’s far, far, far too much. They have nothing left for anything else. They
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President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. grants celebrity interviewer Toni Gonzaga an exclusive interview at Malacanang on Tuesday, discussing a range of topics. Celestine Gonzaga Instagram account
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Cops to strictly President marks birthday with tree planting Barcelo and enforce health ByVinceVitoLopez policy indoors By Joel E. Zurbano, Willie Casas, and Othel V. Campos
FREED. About 370 persons
deprived of liberty (PDL), mostly elderly and infirm, are gathered at the New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa City as they are granted freedom coinciding with President Ferdinand Marcos' 65th birthday on Tuesday. Assisting them are Bureau of Corrections Director General Usec. Gerald Bantag and Public Attorney's Office chief Persida Acosta (inset). Danny Pata and Avito Dalan
THE Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) on Tuesday directed police and local officials to enforce the wearing of face masks inside commercial establishments and other crowded areas. "Local government units and the PNP (Philippine National Police) should coordinate closely in ensuring that the public continues to wear face masks indoors and in public transportation,” said DILG Secretary Benjamin Abalos Jr. “We are still in the middle of the pandemic, and we cannot let our guard down.” Despite an executive order making the wearing of face masks voluntary Next page
PBBM TO REFOCUS DRUG WAR, ADD USERS' REHAB, TREATMENT
PH TO LIFT DEPLOYMENT BAN OF OFWS TO SAUDI BY NOV. 7
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PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Tuesday raised the need to protect the environment as a way to promote economic growth and stability, during a nationwide simultaneous tree planting activity on his 65th birthday. “We have to do this as a concrete step
SSS AT 65. Social Security System (SSS) President and CEO Imcharl G. Regino briefs the media on the SSS Contribution Subsidy Program during the agency's 65th Anniversary Press Conference on Tuesday at its main office on East Ave., Diliman, Quezon City. Manny Palmero
that we take so that nature is cared for because it desperately needs that care and it desperately needs that attention,” Marcos said during the National Simultaneous Bamboo and Tree Planting and Kickoff Ceremony at the Old San Mateo Sanitary Landfill in Rizal. The tree planting program aims to plant over 8,000 seedlings and bamboo planting stocks in some parts of Calabarzon. Next page