Tag: cauldron

Duterte says no corruption issue in P50 million SEA Games cauldron designed by nat’l artist

  (Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte said he did not see anything wrong in the building of the SEA Games cauldron which costs P50 million saying the structure was designed by a national artist and the cost of his work was for him to name. Duterte said that the work of the late National Artist for Architecture, Francisco ‘Bobby’ Mañosa, and there was no corruption in the case. “Mañosa was commissioned by the government […]

House Speaker Cayetano defends P50-M spent for “SEA Games cauldron”

  (Eagle News) — For the first time, House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano faced the Senate budget hearing and defended the P50-million cost of the so-called “golden cauldron” built for the 30th Southeast Asian Games. Cayetano, co-chairman of the Philippine Southeast Asian Games Organizing Committee (PHISGOC), the private group which is handling preparations Philippine hosting of the SEA Games this year, insisted that the SEA Games cauldron which was designed by the late National Artist […]