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Airport screeners to wear body cameras – Speaker
by DELON PORCALLA Philstar.com
MANILA — Security officers screening passengers at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) and other gateways nationwide will soon be wearing body cameras and will no longer be allowed to carry their cell phones while on duty, according to Speaker Martin Romualdez.
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Romualdez, who met with officials of the Department of Transportation (DOTr) led by Secretary Jaime Bautista on Monday, March 6, said security screening officers would not be allowed to wear jackets or uniforms with pockets as well as bring bags to prevent
US o cial: How many ‘promises from Beijing’ really created PH jobs?
by KRIXIA SUBINGSUBING Inquirer.net
MANILA — The United States is working to strengthen economic relations with the Philippines, a senior U.S. Department of State official stressed as she asked whether China’s “promises” in the past had actually generated jobs for Filipinos.
Speaking to reporters on Monday, March 6 during her one-day visit to the Philippines, State Undersecretary for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland said U.S.-Philippine economic ties had grown “richer and stronger than what most people realize’’ but that “(we) can and should do even more.”
Nuland said they hope to draw more U.S. investments to the country particularly in the climate and energy sectors, both being priorities of the Biden administration.
New EDCA sites
She also noted that the four additional military sites in the Philippines to which U.S. forces would have access under the 2014 Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (Edca) would not only help incidents of theft at the NAIA.
The Office for Transportation Security, which is under the supervision of the DOTr, has received flak over a series of theft incidents involving OTS personnel, which were recorded on closed-circuit television footage.
“The OTS agreed to punish erring personnel and to put in place measures to stop the illicit acts of its staff,” Romualdez said.
The OTS leadership, according to Romualdez, proposed the use of body cameras to monitor in real time the activities of airport security personnel as
