{"id":217296,"date":"2019-06-03T21:43:06","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T01:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=217296"},"modified":"2019-06-03T21:43:06","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T01:43:06","slug":"pcgg-awaits-formal-order-on-auction-of-marcos-jewels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/06\/03\/pcgg-awaits-formal-order-on-auction-of-marcos-jewels\/","title":{"rendered":"PCGG awaits formal order on auction of Marcos jewels"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_199610\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-199610\" style=\"width: 1350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/20180402-ph-JAL_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-199610\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/20180402-ph-JAL_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/20180402-ph-JAL_2.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/20180402-ph-JAL_2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/20180402-ph-JAL_2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/20180402-ph-JAL_2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/20180402-ph-JAL_2-20x13.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-199610\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Senior Deputy Executive Secretary Menardo Guevarra announces during a press briefing in Malaca\u00f1ang that the matter concerning the closure of the resorts in Boracay is currently one of the top priorities that are being discussed by the cabinet citing that it would not only concern the environmental aspect of the issue but the economic impact as well. TOTO LOZANO\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) is awaiting more specific directives and the formal order of President Rodrigo Duterte to auction the jewelry collection of former First Lady Imelda Marcos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no formal action yet from President Rodrigo Duterte,\u201d said Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll wait for PRRD\u2019s action on the memo submitted to his office last Thursday,\u201d said Guevarra, noting that the Chief Executive \u201cmay have some specific instructions\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo earlier confirmed that the President has approved the sale of the jewelry collection through public auction.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Panelo said Malaca\u00f1ang will oppose moves of the Marcos family to block the sale of the PHP700-million jewelry collection.<\/p>\n<p>Panelo said Duterte has directed that proceeds from the jewelry collection would be given to Filipinos \u201cwho are in urgent need of government aid with dispatch\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Marcos\u2019 so-called Hawaii Collection is under the safekeeping at the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP).<\/p>\n<p>The collection was recovered when the Marcoses, including former President Ferdinand Marcos, fled the country in 1986.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) is awaiting more specific directives and the formal order of President Rodrigo &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":199610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-benjamin-pulta","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217296","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=217296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217297,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217296\/revisions\/217297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}