Michael Escaler News Today

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. ordered the importation of sugar through selected importers, Agriculture Senior Undersecretary Domingo Panganiban revealed on Tuesday before the Senate blue ribbon committee.

Pressed by Sen. Francis Tolentino to clarify what Marcos told him after a Cabinet meeting, Agriculture Senior Undersecretary Domingo Panganiban said the president directed him to “import through selected importers of sugar.”

Agriculture Senior Undersecretary Domingo Panganiban on Tuesday told a congressional hearing that President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. ordered the importation of sugar “through selected importers.”

Malacañang would do well to retail the sugar brought into Batangas piers. Its Kadiwa rolling stores for poor consumers would be the best outlets. That will bring down sweetener prices.

Senator Risa Hontiveros on Tuesday, February 21 questioned the entry of 260 20-foot containers containing sugar shipment at the port of Batangas ahead of the official release of Sugar Order No. 6 by the Sugar Regulatory Administration last February 15, calling it “bewildering and highly disturbing.”

Sen. Risa Hontiveros bared what she called a “government-sponsored” smuggling of 260 containers of sugar which she said arrived at the Batangas port around two weeks ago.

It was a happy reunion of old friends, as well as making new friends, when Renaissance man Ernest Escaler hosted a dinner at his beautiful home in Parañaque.

Pangilinan-led Philex Mining Corp. is investing in a gold mining project in Itogon, Benguet as it gears up for the expansion of its Padcal Mine.