{"id":53277,"date":"2015-06-26T02:46:30","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T18:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=53277"},"modified":"2015-06-26T02:46:30","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T18:46:30","slug":"psc-poc-officials-consider-raising-sea-games-cash-incentives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/06\/26\/psc-poc-officials-consider-raising-sea-games-cash-incentives\/","title":{"rendered":"PSC, POC officials consider raising SEA Games cash incentives"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_52581\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52581\" style=\"width: 604px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/PSCjf9743_12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-52581\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/PSCjf9743_12-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Philippine Sports Commission facade (Wikipedia photo)\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/PSCjf9743_12-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/PSCjf9743_12-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52581\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philippine Sports Commission facade (Wikipedia photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 The Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) and the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) officials are planning on raising the cash incentives of medalists in the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll sit down to discuss the possible increase of the SEA Games incentives,\u201d POC chair Tom Carrasco said in a report by the Philippine Daily Inquirer.<\/p>\n<p>The PSC and POC officials invited POC president Jose \u201cPeping\u201d Cojuangco Jr., Senate Committee on Games, Amusement and Sports Senator Sonny Angara and House Youth and Sports Development committee chair Representative Anthony Del Rosario in the said meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs to how much is the increase, we still don\u2019t know. We\u2019re going to talk about it,\u201d Carrasco said.<\/p>\n<p>But with regards to the current incentives, a gold medalist in the SEA Games gets P100,000, a silver medalist gets P50,000 and a bronze medalist gets P10,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were several discussions already in the House and Senate to increase the incentives, including the top Filipino performers in the Asian Games and Olympics,\u2019\u2019 Carrasco said, adding that both the Senate and the House were supportive with the incentives increase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 The Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) and the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) officials are planning on raising the cash &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":53279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-53277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-rewrite","mauthors-cyra-moraleda","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53277","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=53277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}