PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte is setting aside for now the plan to shift to a federal form of government as the government veers its full attention to taming the soaring prices of commodities, Malacañang said yesterday.

ENVIRONMENT Secretary Roy Cimatu is a good soldier and a talented leader. This is why many supported his appointment to his present post. But as we know it, he can’t please everybody including a priest who thinks the official is doing something wrong.