There’s no excuse for the Metro Rail Transit (MRT) not to buy handrail straps – to prevent its riders from falling like dominoes as its aging coaches are becoming prone to sudden stops – as their P2.25 million cost is a drop in the bucket of its farebox income and government

Sen. Ralph Recto today challenged the government’s peace czar to allocate a fraction of her almost P8 billion budget this year in building a concrete bridge over the river in Mamasapano town near where 44 police commandos died in a gun battle with Moro rebels. “That rickety foot

The Senate will not be “blackmailed into rubber-stamping” the approval of the MILF-drafted proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) as the bill is “littered with policy landmines which must be defused,” Sen. Ralph Recto said. “It cannot pass in its present form. It has to undergo

Star for All-Seasons and Batangas Governor Vilma Santos-Recto receives the Ani ng Dangal Award 2015 for winning best actress in the 2014 Dhaka International Film Festival for her very moving portrayal of a bit actor in Jeffrey Jeturian’s critically acclaimed and commercially

Senator Ralph Recto today thanks the President for signing the bill adjusting the ceiling of the 13th month pay and other benefits excluded from the computation of gross income tax, from P30,000 to P82,000. “The law is meant to provide economic relief to workers both private and

Republic of the Philippines Congress of the Philippines Metro Manila Sixteenth Congress Second Regular Session Begun and held in Metro Manila, on Monday, the twenty-eighth day of July, two thousand fourteen. [REPUBLIC ACT NO. 10653] AN ACT ADJUSTING THE 13TH MONTH PAY AND OTHER

Senator Bongbong Marcos, chair of the Committee on Local Government, together with Senate President Pro-tempore Ralph Recto and Jv Ejercito conduct a public hearing on the separation of Batangas City from the Second Legislative District of Batangas and the conversion of the

Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph G. Recto, chair of the Senate Committee on Science and Technology, asks resource persons for their views and insights on the proposal to reorganize the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) by creating a Department of

Senate President Pro-tempore Ralph Recto carefully studies the documents presented to the Senate panel before the start of the hearing. (PRIB Photo by Romy Bugante) The Committee on Public Order and Dangerous Drugs, chaired by Senator Grace Poe, is continuing the inquiry on the

Police and military units summoned to the Senate’s probe on the Mamasapano firefight should present a “chronological sequencing” of events from the minute “A-1 intel” was received on the location of the prey to the time the body of the last police commando was plucked out of the