Mary Jane Veloso was not a drug lord. She was not even a user. On the contrary, she was used to smuggle drugs without her knowledge. She was going to Indonesia to work as maid, not knowing that she was already a mule. If she was a conscious, willing participant in transporting

Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto is seeking today the condonation of all unpaid amortizations of agrarian reform beneficiaries, saying such a move will not only spare farmers from piling debts but also spur agricultural productivity all over the country. Recto urged President

The Senate minority will push for the restoration of the P800 million cut in the 2017 budget for feeding programs for malnourished children and the tripling of the budget per meal to P30. Minority Leader Ralph Recto said he will also demand assurance that the incompetence shown

Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto is urging the Department of Transportation (DOTr) to include in its P1.15 trillion wish list of traffic solutions the purchase of ambulances and tow trucks “so that emergency teams could rush to accident sites to help victims and clear traffic

While gains have been made in cutting teacher and classroom shortages, focus should now shift to addressing the lack of water, sanitation and electricity in thousands of public schools, Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto said. With one in four schools without clean water and one

The Department of Health (DOH) is slashing by one-half the number of doctors and by one-third the number of nurses it plans to deploy to the grassroots next year, Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto revealed today. The DOH also intends to send out fewer dentists to public health

Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto said it would be up to the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) and other agencies to “legally prevent” barangay officials who coddle or are in cahoots with drug lords from enjoying a one-year extension in office. “Those who are

How much would the land-sea-air traffic improvement measures cost? P1.15 trillion. And that’s just the minimum, according to Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto, as many proposed projects in the menu submitted by the Department of Transportation (DOTr) to the Senate “are still

I support the declaration of a state of lawlessness. But I have my reservations on one that is indefinite. I am for a national emergency which has an expiry date for the simple reason that it injects a deadline to be met in quelling lawless violence. By stating when the emergency

Built on a shared past and bound by a common vision, US-Philippine relations are strong enough that it cannot be weakened or wrecked by a wayward quote. An unprovoked tirade will not drain the deep reservoir of goodwill between Filipinos and Americans. This is the time to remind