(Surigao del Norte Rep. Robert Ace Barbers’ Office / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN)
With the country buried in trillions of pesos of debt by the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, the President’s decision was the thing he has been praying for since last year, Barbers said.
“I have been hoping for this since last year. I have been saying that mining is the only way out of this debt trap we have found ourselves in by reason of the pandemic. Mining pays, and it will help us pay our debts. The royalties, revenues, taxes will all contribute to our economic recovery,” said the lawmaker.
(Surigao del Norte Rep. Robert Ace Barbers’ Office / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN)
“I commend Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana for demanding and daring the Chinese Ambassador to honor his word that the ships were there to seek shelter during the bad weather and would leave as the weather improved. It has been weeks that the weather is good yet they are all still there,” Barbers said in a statement on Monday, April 5.
Barbers assured Lorenzana that he has the support of like-minded lawmakers as the Philippines “need other patriotic Filipinos like him.”
“I hope that the good Secretary is joined by the other members of the Cabinet in his stance against China, but Secretary Lorenzana should walk the talk,” he pointed out.
Published February 25, 2021, 8:05 PM
A bill approved on second reading by the House of Representatives a day before the bloody Quezon City shootout between operatives of two law enforcement units will have to be amended if found necessary as a result of the “misencounter” on Wednesday, February 24.
(Surigao del Norte Rep. Robert Ace Barbers’ Office / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN)
Approved Tuesday, House Bill 7814 seeks to plug legal loopholes that have served as stumbling blocks in government’s successful implementation of the anti-drug war.
House Bill 7814 contains amendments to Republic Act 9165 or the Comprehensive Dangerous Act of 2002.
Surigao del Norte Rep. Robert Ace Barbers said several legal issues and controversies in the conduct of anti-drug operations surfaced as a result of Thursday’s “misencounter” between Quezon City police operatives and agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency that resulted to the death of four persons, three of them belo
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(Surigao del Norte Rep. Robert Ace Barbers’ Office / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN)
“There seems to be a race now among LGUs to secure their own supply of anti-COVID vaccines. The LGUs, particularly in the NCR (National Capital Region), are setting aside a huge chunk of their local budgets for this purpose,” Barbers said Wednesday.
“If that’s the case then we should allow them to do so, but I believe it is important that the vaccines procured by LGUs should only be used to inoculate frontline healthworkers only as a matter of policy,” said the chairman of the Committee on Dangerous Drugs.