BBM's Platform of Government

[Yatta]

ACQUITTED!!!




Package was for a "Juanito Remulla" not "Juanito Remulla III".




https://twitter.com/mikenavallo/stat...J7hM80_ERy5AQQ

[Monseratto]

Iba talaga if your papi is the Justice Secretary...

[BratPAQ]

ACQUITTED!!!




Package was for a "Juanito Remulla" not "Juanito Remulla III".




https://twitter.com/mikenavallo/stat...J7hM80_ERy5AQQ

So it's a good thing I'm not using my 2 first names, especially sa delivery. I can deny that even though the parcel is addressed to me, it doesn't have my whole legal name. [emoji16]

Also pag na hulihan mga pusher ng droga, tanong nila kung may pangalan sa sachet ng droga, pag wala eh walang huli. [emoji23]

[dreamur]

3 months to decide on a criminal case. That is a world record! Si TE dapat i-bandera to. Only in the pilipins that a case can be heard and resolved in just 3 months!

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[Yatta]

And 1 more!

Gov't drops 2 ill-gotten wealth cases worth over P34M vs General Garcia and family

MANILA, Philippines – The Sandiganbayan’s Fourth Division accepted a request by the Office of the Ombudsman to withdraw two petitions which sought the forfeiture of ill-gotten wealth of former Armed Forces of the Philippines comptroller Major General Carlos Garcia, his wife, and their three sons.

The government lawyers in their Motion to Withdraw Petition on November 17, 2022 said a plea bargaining agreement with Garcia in 2010 had already recovered “substantially all” of the properties being pursued for forfeiture by these two civil cases.

Ordered dismissed by Fourth Division in its December 7, 2022 resolution were Civil Case Nos. 0193 and 0196. The two dropped cases sought over P345 million unlawfully acquired properties and assets of the Garcia family.

[Yatta]

[H1Tman]

Hindi pwedeng magbunga ng bawang ang sibuyas.

[Devastator]

He is either simple minded, a smart ass or both.

[boybi]

Pwede ba mag bus or boat papunta Korea and Japan?

[Sweetlucious]

Fake news yan. Sobrang obvious pa nga.

[Monseratto]

Fake news yan. Sobrang obvious pa nga.

But if the source is from Quiboloy's propaganda network... it must be fake?


SMNI itinanggi kumakalat na quote card ni Sandro Marcos

[Monseratto]

Ex vaccine czar....

Palace: Faustino out; Carlito Galvez is new defense chief | Inquirer News

[uls]

from coronavirus thread:

I hope you're right. Nasa lahi pa naman nila BBM ang pagiging dictator.

tingin ko bbm can't wait for his term to be over para makapag relax

he's the opposite of a workaholic

napilitan lang tumakbo yan dahil sa nanay

revenge ng nanay yan sa nangyari noong 1986

as far as bbm is concerned mission accomplished na siya

yan ang tingin ko

[Monseratto]

Philippines: Onions so expensive they're being smuggled into the country | CNN Business

Onions have become such a hot commodity that they’re being smuggled into the country.

Customs officers seized $310,000 worth of white onions concealed in a clothing shipment in their latest bust on December 23, according to the state-run Philippine News Agency. Two days earlier, $364,000 worth of red onions from China found hidden in pastry boxes were also seized by Customs.

[Mr. Witcher]

Philippines: Onions so expensive they're being smuggled into the country | CNN Business

Considering PBBM as head of DA. [emoji23]

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[gongrhey]

Philippines: Onions so expensive they're being smuggled into the country | CNN Business

Smuggled by OFWs or balikbayans going home as well. It is in the news abroad.

[Sweetlucious]

Kelan ba walang smuggling ng agri products sa pinas?

Goes to show na foreign media dont know whats really happening in the country.

[Flipo]

Considering PBBM as head of DA. [emoji23]

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Clueless | Philstar.com

Clueless
DEMAND AND SUPPLY - Boo Chanco - The Philippine Star
January 9, 2023 | 12:00am

It is tragic that we now have agriculture officials who are clueless about basic economics. Unfortunately, Junior, who assumed the agriculture portfolio, isn’t that knowledgeable too. The blind are leading the blind.

Clueless is a merciful way of describing the statement of the DA’s deputy spokesperson who said the “out of control” increase in the cost of onions in public markets could have been averted if there had been tighter measures against smuggling of agricultural products, as well as the importation of commodities during harvest season.

Ano daw? The onion situation is basically a supply and demand problem. There is scarcity of supply in the market, so the price has gone to stratospheric heights.

Smuggling is not to blame for the high prices. Indeed, smuggling is an indication that market forces have sensed an opportunity and they are moving to increase supply. A timely legal importation of onions would have also increased supply and decreased prices.

Dr. Fermin Adriano, a former DA undersecretary, recalled in his recent column that when the DA’s Bureau of Plant Industry was in the process of approving SPS (sanitary and phyto-sanitary) certificates for white onion importation, Sen. Imee Marcos went on a rant. She said that just like the raging sugar importation controversy then, crooks in the DA who are in cahoots with smugglers and traders are creating an artificial shortage of onion to justify its importation.

“The Aug. 14, 2022 reports of morning dailies quoted the senator claiming that there was no need to import white onion because we have an abundant supply of it. She further complained that the DA could not produce empirical evidence or data showing that the country has an onion supply shortage.

“Fearing that they might lose their jobs (just like what happened to former undersecretary Leocadio Sebastian), concerned DA officials withheld the issuance of SPS certificates.

“Perhaps unknown to the current DA officials, the Philippines is a net importer of onion. The local sufficiency data for onion provided by the Philippine Statistics Authority from 2016 to 2019 indicates that we are on average self-sufficient on onion at 70 to 80 percent only. Obviously, the 20 percent will have to be imported to fill in the gap.”

Indeed, the need to import was belatedly recognized by the DA deputy spokesperson who said that if this price increase does not stop, we can import onions. Unfortunately, such delayed importation may arrive right during the harvest season and depress prices for onion farmers.

The other favorite solution of bureaucrats is to impose a price ceiling that they call SRP or suggested retail price. Actually, it is not a suggestion. It is an imposition. It attempts to intervene with market forces. Using it without addressing the supply gap is a stupid attempt to repeal the law of supply and demand.

A leader of a farmers group observed that “setting an SRP will not solve the problem. Traders will not follow it, and the DA will not be able to enforce it.”

Raul Montemayor, national manager of the Federation of Free Farmers urged the government to look behind who is responsible for the price upsurge. It’s not the farmers.

“In fact, almost all the onions being sold now at P600+ were bought from farmers last February-August for less than P100 per kilo, some as low as P20 per kilo.”

According to Montemayor, supplies thinned out due to typhoon-related agricultural damage and the DA’s refusal to import stocks. With the tight supply, traders are now selling red onions at higher prices, which they had bought cheaply earlier in the year.

“DA was saying that they stopped imports to protect farmers despite knowing that it was off-season and most of the stocks were already in the hands of traders. So, it was the traders who benefitted and took advantage of the import bans, not the farmers. Whether this was deliberate or not, we do not know,” he said.

Montemayor added: “If there is supply, it is very tight. Unless they fix the marketing system, imports will again be cornered by the very same traders who are controlling supply and manipulating prices.”

What use is a government that is helpless in dealing with abusive traders?

Red onion costs P500 to P750 per kilo, based on DA’s price monitoring of markets in Metro Manila last Dec. 28. This led the DA deputy spokesperson to urge consumers not to buy onions by the kilo. Another callously stupid statement from this bureaucrat.

What is happening in onions today is nothing new. The big problem of onion farmers in marketing their produce is the lack of cold storage facilities. They could have stored their produce to lengthen the shelf life so they are not forced to sell at low prices to traders who then hoard the stock to the detriment of consumers.

There is only one cold storage facility in Central Luzon and the DA is supposed to build one on Mindoro, another major onion producer. Normally, onion harvest starting in January and February are meant to immediately supply the market to tame rising onion prices.

Subsequent harvests in March and April are supposed to be stored to last during the onion off-season. But because we do not have enough cold storage facilities, only a portion of the harvest is stored.

Dr. Adriano explained further that “when imports of white onion were abandoned, consumers switched to red onion, which was the available variety. Note that if white onion importation was approved in August, imports would have arrived beginning late October till December, relieving the demand for red onion and taming rising onion prices.

“Because of the import ban, a dramatic rise in the prices of red onion is now being experienced as it is the off-peak season (during the last quarter of the year) as harvest starts in January.”

Hopefully, Junior wakes up and realizes he has made two big mistakes in six months, sugar and onions. Food inflation is at its highest and impacts on overall inflation and our cost of living.

It is time to get real experts to help him make better decisions. We, the consumers, suffer with every mistake he makes.

[Monseratto]

Eggs are already in short supply... Those that are available are either expensive or very small...

[_Qwerty_]

sa Andok's lang ako bumibili pero ilang days nang walang delivery.. last time 8.70 isa..

sa talipapa namin 9 pesos na isa

Eggs are already in short supply... Those that are available are either expensive or very small...

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dapat kasi before Christmas pa nag import nang onions.. para bumagsak na presyo and malugi yang mga nag ho hoard nang local na sibuyas!

Clueless | Philstar.com

Clueless
DEMAND AND SUPPLY - Boo Chanco - The Philippine Star
January 9, 2023 | 12:00am

It is tragic that we now have agriculture officials who are clueless about basic economics. Unfortunately, Junior, who assumed the agriculture portfolio, isn’t that knowledgeable too. The blind are leading the blind.

Clueless is a merciful way of describing the statement of the DA’s deputy spokesperson who said the “out of control” increase in the cost of onions in public markets could have been averted if there had been tighter measures against smuggling of agricultural products, as well as the importation of commodities during harvest season.

Ano daw? The onion situation is basically a supply and demand problem. There is scarcity of supply in the market, so the price has gone to stratospheric heights.

Smuggling is not to blame for the high prices. Indeed, smuggling is an indication that market forces have sensed an opportunity and they are moving to increase supply. A timely legal importation of onions would have also increased supply and decreased prices.

Dr. Fermin Adriano, a former DA undersecretary, recalled in his recent column that when the DA’s Bureau of Plant Industry was in the process of approving SPS (sanitary and phyto-sanitary) certificates for white onion importation, Sen. Imee Marcos went on a rant. She said that just like the raging sugar importation controversy then, crooks in the DA who are in cahoots with smugglers and traders are creating an artificial shortage of onion to justify its importation.

“The Aug. 14, 2022 reports of morning dailies quoted the senator claiming that there was no need to import white onion because we have an abundant supply of it. She further complained that the DA could not produce empirical evidence or data showing that the country has an onion supply shortage.

“Fearing that they might lose their jobs (just like what happened to former undersecretary Leocadio Sebastian), concerned DA officials withheld the issuance of SPS certificates.

“Perhaps unknown to the current DA officials, the Philippines is a net importer of onion. The local sufficiency data for onion provided by the Philippine Statistics Authority from 2016 to 2019 indicates that we are on average self-sufficient on onion at 70 to 80 percent only. Obviously, the 20 percent will have to be imported to fill in the gap.”

Indeed, the need to import was belatedly recognized by the DA deputy spokesperson who said that if this price increase does not stop, we can import onions. Unfortunately, such delayed importation may arrive right during the harvest season and depress prices for onion farmers.

The other favorite solution of bureaucrats is to impose a price ceiling that they call SRP or suggested retail price. Actually, it is not a suggestion. It is an imposition. It attempts to intervene with market forces. Using it without addressing the supply gap is a stupid attempt to repeal the law of supply and demand.

A leader of a farmers group observed that “setting an SRP will not solve the problem. Traders will not follow it, and the DA will not be able to enforce it.”

Raul Montemayor, national manager of the Federation of Free Farmers urged the government to look behind who is responsible for the price upsurge. It’s not the farmers.

“In fact, almost all the onions being sold now at P600+ were bought from farmers last February-August for less than P100 per kilo, some as low as P20 per kilo.”

According to Montemayor, supplies thinned out due to typhoon-related agricultural damage and the DA’s refusal to import stocks. With the tight supply, traders are now selling red onions at higher prices, which they had bought cheaply earlier in the year.

“DA was saying that they stopped imports to protect farmers despite knowing that it was off-season and most of the stocks were already in the hands of traders. So, it was the traders who benefitted and took advantage of the import bans, not the farmers. Whether this was deliberate or not, we do not know,” he said.

Montemayor added: “If there is supply, it is very tight. Unless they fix the marketing system, imports will again be cornered by the very same traders who are controlling supply and manipulating prices.”

What use is a government that is helpless in dealing with abusive traders?

Red onion costs P500 to P750 per kilo, based on DA’s price monitoring of markets in Metro Manila last Dec. 28. This led the DA deputy spokesperson to urge consumers not to buy onions by the kilo. Another callously stupid statement from this bureaucrat.

What is happening in onions today is nothing new. The big problem of onion farmers in marketing their produce is the lack of cold storage facilities. They could have stored their produce to lengthen the shelf life so they are not forced to sell at low prices to traders who then hoard the stock to the detriment of consumers.

There is only one cold storage facility in Central Luzon and the DA is supposed to build one on Mindoro, another major onion producer. Normally, onion harvest starting in January and February are meant to immediately supply the market to tame rising onion prices.

Subsequent harvests in March and April are supposed to be stored to last during the onion off-season. But because we do not have enough cold storage facilities, only a portion of the harvest is stored.

Dr. Adriano explained further that “when imports of white onion were abandoned, consumers switched to red onion, which was the available variety. Note that if white onion importation was approved in August, imports would have arrived beginning late October till December, relieving the demand for red onion and taming rising onion prices.

“Because of the import ban, a dramatic rise in the prices of red onion is now being experienced as it is the off-peak season (during the last quarter of the year) as harvest starts in January.”

Hopefully, Junior wakes up and realizes he has made two big mistakes in six months, sugar and onions. Food inflation is at its highest and impacts on overall inflation and our cost of living.

It is time to get real experts to help him make better decisions. We, the consumers, suffer with every mistake he makes.