00:00Because he was late and fought during work hours, a security guard shot his colleague at work in Antipolo City.
00:13The suspect apologized and said that his family was threatened by the victim.
00:20The hot news was brought to you by EJ Gomez.
00:24This security guard was caught on CCTV.
00:28The white man was not allowed to shoot.
00:32He also saw people running away from the gunman.
00:35The victim was his colleague at the police station.
00:38After being shot, he seemed to have talked to his colleague and then left.
00:43It happened in a warehouse in Barangay De La Paz, Antipolo City yesterday.
00:48The 34-year-old victim was dead on the spot.
00:52He was hit by bullets in his arm and leg.
00:55The security guard who was shot also responded to the police.
00:58The victim's body was identified.
01:01The 9mm caliber gun was recovered from the suspect.
01:05He was shot four times.
01:09He was shot four times.
01:13According to the suspect's statement to the police,
01:15he fought during duty hours and when the victim was late, he shot him.
01:20According to him, they usually do that.
01:24Instead of their turnover at 7 p.m., they always exceed 7.30 p.m. or more.
01:29I was late. Sometimes, I was on straight duty.
01:33He didn't let me shoot.
01:36I was angry at the same time.
01:38The 35-year-old suspect also received threats from the victim because of their work schedule.
01:46He threatened my family.
01:49He threatened me many times.
01:51That's why I did it.
01:55What did he say to you?
01:57He will kill me.
01:58Who?
01:59My family.
02:01The victim's relative tried to fool the suspect.
02:05As far as I know, he was on duty.
02:10Sometimes, his wife would bring him food because he was on straight duty.
02:16He couldn't go inside because his relative was coming.
02:21To the suspect, if you're angry at my wife,
02:27you did a lot to her.
02:31Even if you say that he's just late, you can talk to him.
02:35You can report him to the agency.
02:39You can complain about him.
02:42Why did he reach that far and he was shot three times?
02:46What is that?
02:48That's not justice.
02:50The suspect is asking for forgiveness from the victim's family.
02:53I hope you can forgive me because this is my family.
02:59I love my family very much.
03:01I do everything for my job.
03:03At the custodial facility of Antipolo Component City Police Station,
03:07the suspect is in jail for a homicide case.
03:11T.J. Gomez reports for GMA Integrated News.
03:16Welcome to the declaration of food security emergency of the Department of Agriculture.
03:21We will talk to the Federation of Free Farmers National Manager, Raul Montemayor.
03:26Good morning to you and welcome to Balitang Hali.
03:29Yes, good afternoon.
03:32It's still morning.
03:34For you sir, is it proper to declare a food security emergency for rice?
03:40There's no problem with the supply but the price is too high.
03:45The intention is good and we support the intention of declaring a food emergency.
03:53That's why their basis for declaring that emergency.
03:56We are a bit confused because according to their explanation,
04:04the price increase happened in 2023.
04:08But why are they declaring the emergency now?
04:13It's been a long time since they declared a food emergency but they just issued an alarm.
04:18What can you see as the reason why the price increase happened in 2023 and they will just declare it now?
04:29It's true that rice is still expensive.
04:33Their plan is to issue the NFA stocks.
04:38They can do that if there's an emergency declaration by the way.
04:42That's their legal basis.
04:45When they sell it at a low price, I understand it's already P35, not P38.
04:51They can lower the price and they can lower the price of private traders.
04:59But the P35 is too low and the private sector cannot afford it.
05:08Okay. Does that have an effect on our local farmers?
05:13That's our problem because at P35 per kilo of retain,
05:20it's equivalent to P17 per kilo of rice.
05:24At that price, half of the farmers will lose money.
05:29Yes.
05:30Half of them will earn less.
05:33But if it's not a declaration of food security for rice,
05:39what is the step that you see as the right thing to do to lower the price of rice?
05:45One step that they are not doing is to force the importers.
05:51It's clear that when they lowered the price of rice in July last year from 35 percent to 15 percent,
05:59the importers saved P6 to P7 in paying the price of rice.
06:05That's why the price of rice went down.
06:08In addition to that, the international price went down.
06:12There's no reason why it didn't go down except if the traders increased their earnings.
06:18Okay. I also talked to Secretary Tew Laurel earlier.
06:22He mentioned that he doesn't believe that there's a big cartel in rice
06:27Meanwhile, there are comments from those who want to earn from the traders or those who are selling rice.
06:35What is your comment on that?
06:36That's right. We're not talking about cartel.
06:39We're talking about profiteering.
06:42The importers were able to import rice at a low price.
06:46Yes.
06:47They didn't increase the savings tariff.
06:52The wholesaler still sold more to the retailer.
06:58The retailer still sold more to the consumer.
07:02The savings tariff didn't reach the end.
07:08All right. Thank you very much for your time, sir.
07:13We will also monitor your activities.
07:16Thank you. Thank you.
07:17That was Federation of Free Farmers National Manager Raul Montemayor.
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