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Published January 23, 2021, 9:21 AM
Former speaker and Taguig-Pateros 1st District Rep. Alan Peter Cayetano has asked the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to urgently conduct a probe on the price increases of basic commodities in the country, saying that it is “another tragedy in the making.”
Taguig-Pateros Rep. Alan Peter Cayetano
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He laments that the increase in prices of basic goods are being felt deeply by millions of Filipinos who were rendered jobless, poor, and hungry by the pandemic and made homeless by recent typhoons and natural disasters.
“With a third of Filipino households reporting hunger and a quarter of businesses wiped out last year, the upward trend in the prices of our basic goods is another tragedy in the making,” he said in a Facebook post on Friday.
Published January 9, 2021, 5:41 PM
Former Speaker Taguig-Pateros Rep. Alan Peter Cayetano has called on Filipinos to avoid getting distracted by current talks about the death penalty, Charter change, and the party-list system as he stressed the importance of discussing plans and efforts to keep the country’s population safe from the COVID-19 pandemic through vaccination.
Taguig-Pateros Rep. Alan Peter Cayetano
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Cayetano said people and leaders of the nation should keep their “eyes on the ball,” referring to the bid to make the COVID-19 vaccine readily accessible to the whole population.
“Importante ba ang tatlong iyon o iyong vaccination? Are those three more important than vaccination?” Cayetano asked.