![]() Knee-jerk responseįrom my vantage point, it looks to me that the “Wharton-educated” Marcos Jr.’s knee-jerk reaction could have been a rookie misstep: unfamiliarity with the Philippine sugar inventory and the industry’s complexities. Press Secretary Trixie Cruz-Angeles only explained that her boss, who doubles as the country’s Agriculture Secretary, rejected the proposal because Sebastian had no authority to sign the order. on the planned importation, the public was kept in the dark as to the reasons the aborted importation was deemed illegal. ![]() Other than Beltran allegedly sideswiping Marcos Jr. Other resignations in SRA followed suit and Congress called for the whole “mess” to be investigated. 4.” Beltran is one of the signatories to the “illegal” sugar importation order, which would have allowed the importation of 300,000 metric tons of sugar by the third quarter of this year. said he was not consulted and he promised that “heads will roll.”Īs if on cue, Roland Beltran, an official of the Sugar Regulatory Commission (SRA), quit his post on August 14 as the millers’ representative in SRA “for health reasons.” His resignation was promptly accepted by Executive Secretary Vic Rodriguez but “without prejudice to any investigation that may be conducted in connection with the issuance of Sugar Order No. It was deemed improper because President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. The “unauthorized” order to import sugar has stirred up a hornet’s nest.
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