Senator Cynthia Villar blew her top Wednesday (January 8) over the importation of non-iodized salt and the passage of a 1995 law requiring all locally produced salt to be iodized.
Bilyonaryo Manny Villar, known for his ‘sipag at tiyaga’ mantra, turns 73 on December 13.
Senator Cynthia Villar on Monday urged farmers to practice composting amid the increasing cost of chemical fertilizers in the country.
An agrarian reform group is calling for the resignation of Senator Cynthia Villar from her committee chairmanships after her vested interests became apparent during a heated exchange with Senator Raffy Tulfo last week.
Senator Raffy Tulfo has gained another admirer in sociologist Randy David for his brazen confrontation of Senator Cynthia Villar over her family’s practice of converting farmlands into residential and commercial areas.
Former Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Winnie Monsod said Senator Raffy Tulfo did the right thing in confronting Senator Cynthia Villar about real estate developers’ practice of converting farmlands into subdivisions and commercial spaces.
Senator Cynthia Villar stood pat on authoring Republic Act 11203 or the Rice Tariffication Law, which opened the gates for cheaper rice imports at the expense of Filipino farmers’ income.
Senator Cynthia Villar got into a heated debate with Senator Raffy Tulfo after the neophyte lawmaker put the spotlight on property developers’ strategy of buying farmlands for conversion into residential and commercial spaces.
“Matuto tayong kumain ng kamote,” Sen. Cynthia Villar suggested.
Sen. Cynthia Villar on Wednesday lambasted the Philippine Reclamation Authority (PRA) for its supposed arbitrariness in blocking certain government projects, including the construction of a hospital in her hometown of Las Pinas City.
