Teves: No plan to go home sans bit of ‘fairness’

By Maricel V. Cruz

DESPITE facing stiffer sanctions from the House of Representatives, murder suspect and Negros Oriental Rep. Arnolfo Teves Jr. on Monday said he has no plan to return to the country despite the recantations of the suspectwitnesses in the killing of Negros Oriental Gov. Roel Degamo.

In a virtual press briefing, Teves said the only thing that would convince him to come home is when he sees a “semblance of fairness” from those investigating Degamo’s death. He added that the serious threats to his life were reason enough not to return.

“With or without recantations, there is still a threat to my life and there is still no semblance of fairness,” Teves said in Filipino.

SPEAKER Ferdinand Martin G.

Romualdez on Monday said the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) will soon play a bigger role in the country’s development through earnings from stocks that would be used for projects to spur business activities, create more jobs, and implement needed social programs.

The Speaker issued this prediction in his keynote speech during the inauguration of the PSE Event Hall and Ayala Corporation’s follow-on offering listing ceremony at the PSE Tower in Boni- facio Global City, Taguig City.

Congratulating the people behind the PSE for another milestone in its history, Romualdez expressed the be lief of the House in the capital market and the indispensable role it plays in the country’s economic recovery and development.

“The corporation that will be created to manage the Maharlika Investment Fund will invari ably look to the PSE in its search for blue chip investment opportunities, from which handsome dividends may be generated – dividends which shall