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(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 Competitiveness Enhancement Fund will be allocated to farm machinery and equipment, rice seed development, ...

(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 Philippines. According to the Department of Health (DOH), rabies is considered a public health problem and...

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 martial rule. The former presidential spokesman said the 1987 Constitution provides stringent legisla...

(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 9, 2022 elections. "Approved in the IATF's 144th meeting is the request of the Commission o...

(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 National Capital Region under Alert Level 3 beginning October 16, 2021 until October 31, 2021," ...