{"id":194081,"date":"2018-12-15T09:50:38","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T14:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=194081"},"modified":"2018-12-15T09:50:38","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T14:50:38","slug":"bello-backs-diokno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/12\/15\/bello-backs-diokno\/","title":{"rendered":"Bello backs Diokno"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_112416\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-112416\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/bellofilephoto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-112416\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/bellofilephoto.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/bellofilephoto.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/bellofilephoto-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-112416\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cI join the rest of the members of the Cabinet in our full support for him,\u201d he said in a statement issued on Friday. (PNA FILE PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Silvestre Bello III has joined other members of President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s Cabinet in giving full support to Department of Budget and Management (DBM) Secretary Benjamin Diokno.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI join the rest of the members of the Cabinet in our full support for him,\u201d he said in a statement issued on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The DOLE chief noted that he knows the head of the DBM as a man of honesty and integrity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have known Secretary Ben Diokno to be a man of honesty and integrity,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis performance is beyond the standard and diligence above par,\u201d Bello added.<\/p>\n<p>The House of Representatives on Wednesday adopted a resolution, calling on Duterte to reconsider Diokno&#8217;s appointment as they questioned the supposed insertion of PHP75-billion into the proposed budget of the Department of Public Works and Highways for 2019.<\/p>\n<p>For his part, the DBM head noted that there is nothing irregular in the allocation increase.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Presidential spokesperson Salvador Panelo said that the President still trusts Diokno.<strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2014 Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Silvestre Bello III has joined other members of President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s Cabinet &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":112416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ferdinand-patinio","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194081","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}