INQToday: Charter framer Davide warns vs changing economic provisions
Here’s a quick roundup of today’s top stories:
Amending the “restrictive” economic provisions of the 1987 Constitution may cause further problems for Filipinos in the future, one of the Charter’s framers warned.
Retired Supreme Court Chief Justice Hilario Davide Jr. pointed out during Monday’s Senate subcommittee deliberation on Resolution of Both Houses No. 6 (RB6) that the country’s problems are not due to the 1987 Constitution, but rather it was implemented poorly.
The Senate will not succumb to the pressure of a deadline, Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri maintained on Monday, adding that the upper chamber will carefully consider proposed amendments to the 1987 Constitution.
The Senate chief made the clarification following calls from the House of Representatives, specifically urging Zubiri to pass Resolution of both Houses No. 6 by March.
The House of Representatives is on heightened alert after some lawmakers received bomb threats at the Batasang Pambansa complex, Secretary General Reginald Velasco said on Monday.
In an interview with reporters on Monday, Velasco refused to divulge who among the House’s over 300 lawmakers received the threat, but they are still heightening security measures to protect members.
The Department of National Defense (DND) will “strictly enforce” its mandate to protect the integrity of the national territory amid calls for a separate Mindanao, Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. said on Monday.
“The mandate of the Department of National Defense is to secure the sovereignty of the State and integrity of the national territory as enshrined in the Constitution,” Teodoro said in a statement.
Former President Rodrigo Duterte’s call for a separate and independent Mindanao should not be entertained, Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Gen. Benjamin Acorda Jr. said on Monday.
“Let us be united, let us not entertain these ideas,” Acorda said during a press briefing in Camp Crame, Quezon City.
Motorists will see another increase in the pump prices of petroleum products this week, this time by as much as P1.50 per liter, effective Tuesday, Feb. 6.
In separate advisories, local oil firms said the price per liter of gasoline would go up by P0.75 and diesel by P1.50. The cost of kerosene will likewise climb by P0.80 per liter.
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