{"id":145012,"date":"2018-01-09T22:21:39","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T03:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=145012"},"modified":"2018-01-09T22:21:39","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T03:21:39","slug":"pres-duterte-pushes-enactment-of-firecrackers-ban-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/09\/pres-duterte-pushes-enactment-of-firecrackers-ban-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Pres. Duterte pushes enactment of firecrackers ban law"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_141609\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-141609\" style=\"width: 1350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Rodrigo-Duterte-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-141609\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Rodrigo-Duterte-3.jpg\" alt=\"FILE: President Rodrigo Duterte (PCOO PHOTO)\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Rodrigo-Duterte-3.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Rodrigo-Duterte-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Rodrigo-Duterte-3-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Rodrigo-Duterte-3-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-141609\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: President Rodrigo Duterte (PCOO PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; President Rodrigo Duterte had expressed his intention to ask Congress to pass a law that would implement a nationwide ban on all firecrackers and pyrotechnics.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said the President told his Cabinet members during Monday\u2019s meeting that he wanted the law passed \u201cat the soonest time possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe President also indicated that he will push for Congress to enact a law that will ban all firecrackers and pyrotechnics,\u201d Roque said.<\/p>\n<p>Roque said the President had instructed the Department of Trade Industry (DTI) to look for alternative livelihood for the 75,000 works expected to be displaced by the nationwide\u2019 firecrackers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe wants Congress to enact this law at the soonest time possible so that the public debate on the banning of fireworks and pyrotechnics could begin as early as possible,\u201d Roque said.<\/p>\n<p>Roque explained the intention of the President to impose nationwide ban on firecrackers and pyrotechnics was not based on recommendation of anyone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a result of his own prognosis that firecrackers and pyrotechnics are inimical to human health and safety,\u201d Roque said.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte, who was Davao City mayor for over 20 years, had always banned firecrackers in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Roque assured that all the stakeholders in the firecrackers industry would be consulted during debates on the proposed law both in the Senate and House of Representatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; President Rodrigo Duterte had expressed his intention to ask Congress to pass a law that would implement a nationwide &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":141609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[1983,42517,21403,15359,42516,2444],"class_list":["post-145012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-congress","tag-department-of-trade-industry","tag-firecrackers","tag-harry-roque","tag-pyrotechnics","tag-rodrigo-duterte","mauthors-jelly-musico","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}