Roque Said News Today

(File photo) MANILA - UniTeam senatorial candidate Harry Roque vowed to consider measures that would alleviate the plight of Filipino rice farmers and shield them from the disadvantageous provisions of the rice tariffication law. If elected in the Senate, Roque said he would look into the graft-prone provisions of the rice tariffication law (Republic Act 11203), which has liberalized the country's rice trading, importation, and exportation. Under the law, an annual PHP10-billion Rice Competi...

(File photo) MANILA - In observing the Rabies Awareness Month, UniTeam senatorial aspirant Harry Roque said he would push for legislation to make owners liable for dog bites. Roque, author of House Bill No. 5965 or "An Act in Relation to Owner's Liability for Dog Bites" when he was a congressman, said he would refile this proposed measure in the Senate if elected. Rabies is a vaccine-preventable viral disease, yet more than 59,000 people die from this disease annually in the Philip...

UniTeam senatorial candidate Harry Roque (File photo) MANILA - UniTeam senatorial candidate Harry Roque has dismissed "imagined fears" that a Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. presidency is a prelude to another dictatorship and martial law era in the country. The anti-Marcos group's "paranoia," Roque said, should stop as institutional safeguards and international mechanisms are in place to deter any sitting Philippine president from ever placing the nation under m...

(PNA photo by Jess Escaros Jr) MANILA - The Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management for the Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) has allowed the simulation voting in San Juan City on October 23, Malacanang said on Friday. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said the IATF-EID, during its meeting on Thursday, approved the Commission on Elections' request on the one-day voting simulation exercises to ensure the Filipino voters' safety against the coronavirus disease 2019 in the May ...

(File photo) MANILA - The alert level status in Metro Manila will be downgraded to Alert Level 3 from the current Alert Level 4 beginning Oct. 16, Malacanang announced Wednesday. This, after the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) decided to ease restrictions in Metro Manila, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said in a press statement. "The Inter-Agency Task Force on Wednesday, October 13, 2021, approved the recommendation to place the N...

MANILA, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- The Philippines Department of Health (DOH) reported 8,292 new COVID-19 infections on Monday, pushing the number of confirmed cases i

MANILA, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- The Philippines Department of Health (DOH) reported 8,292 new COVID-19 infections on Monday, pushing the number of confirmed cases i

Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte (File photo) MANILA - President Rodrigo Duterte, as well as Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque, still have high hopes that Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte will consider the public's clamor for her to join the 2022 presidential race. "Pareho kami ni Presidente (The President and I have the same sentiment, and) that [is] we are hoping that Sara Duterte will still run for president," Roque said in a virtual presser on Thursday. Roque issued the statement...

President Rodrigo Roa Duterte (File photo) MANILA - Filipinos are free to criticize President Rodrigo Duterte's administration, Malacanang said on Tuesday, assuring that everyone can enjoy exercising free speech in the Philippines. "The President believes in freedom of speech and free marketplace of ideas, and he has demonstrated this in his entire public career. As a public official, the Chief Executive has not filed a libel case against his critics," Presidential Spokesperson Har...

The Philippines Department of Health (DOH) reported on Tuesday 5,177 new COVID-19 infections, bringing the tally in the Southeast Asian country to 1,235,467.