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  Lacson Exhorts NICA: Speed Up Processing of Intel Info vs Agri Smugglers, Protectors April 12, 2022 -   Our food security depends on it. Sen. Panfilo "Ping" M. Lacson thus exhorted the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency Tuesday to have a sense of urgency and speed up its processing of intelligence information on agricultural "smugglers" and their supposed protectors in government. Lacson said that so long as these smugglers and protectors are not named and charged, a vicious cycle will continue where smugglers lie low immediately after a Senate hearing - then resume their activities after a few weeks. "Pakibilisan ang processing ng intelligence para ma-file-an ng kaso ang dapat ma-file... Dapat may urgency nang kaunti (Please speed up the processing of intelligence information so we can file charges against those who should be charged... There should be a bit of urgency)," he said at the Senate Committee of the Whole hearing on agricultural smuggl...

  Coast Guard, Supporters Act on Lacson Call for Help for Flood-Hit Iloilo Residents April 12, 2022 -  Acting on information and a call for assistance from Sen. Panfilo "Ping" M. Lacson, the Philippine Coast Guard is sending rubber boats and other assets to help residents affected by floods particularly along the highway between Iloilo and Roxas City in Capiz. Lacson called former Coast Guard Commandant retired Vice Admiral Edmund Tan and informed him of the situation, after receiving updates from Iloilo early Tuesday. Tan replied he has informed incumbent Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Artemio Abu (Philippine Military Academy Class 1992), and that Abu "readily agreed" and will instruct the Coast Guard in the area to "act accordingly." Commodore Ed Ybañez, the Coast Guard District Commander in Western Visayas, added rescue operations are ongoing in Iloilo and Capiz, and that he already deployed seven Deployable Response Group (DRG) teams from the district....

  Senate to overturn ‘endo’ bill veto if Palace gives its go-signal — Sotto MANILA, Philippines — The Senate is willing to overturn President Rodrigo Duterte’s veto of the bill against labor contractualization or “endo” bill if it receives a “go signal” from Malacañang, Senate President Vicente Sotto III said Monday. Congress passed a security of tenure bill, which seeks to protect workers’ rights by removing the ambiguities in laws that prohibit labor-only contracting. However, in 2019, Duterte vetoed the legislation despite that this had been one of his rallying points during the 2016 presidential elections. “Matagal ang debate, mahaba [The debate took time, it was long]. Naipasa namin finally [We finally passed it]. I signed it, sent it to the President. The President sent me a veto message. Yung definition ata, something to the effect of the contract policy ang di gusto [I think they did not like the definition of the contract policy, something to that effect],” Sotto said at t...