Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel III today objected to a plan of the Senate Blue Ribbon committee chairman to issue a partial report on the public hearing on the Sugar Regulatory Board (SRB) sugar importation fiasco.
"The issue in this investigation is simple enough that a partial report i
Executive Secretary Victor Rodriguez on Tuesday skipped the Senate blue ribbon committee's second hearing into the sugar importation controversy due to a Cabinet meeting in Malacañang.
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Tuesday, August 30 expressed her disappointment over Executive Secretary Victor Rodriguez’s failure to appear at the continuation of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee’s hearing on the sugar importation mess.
Hontiveros inquired into Rodriguez’s whereabouts when she
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Senators on Monday said it is too early to clear Executive Secretary Victor Rodriguez of any liability over the drafting of Sugar Order No. 4, which would have allowed the importation of 300,000 metric tons of sugar.