Mindanao areas battling both natural and man-made calamities of flooding and bombings should receive national aid in the form of releases from the P7.5 billion Calamity Fund, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said today. While popularly known as the source of aid in times

How do you prevent resettled Metro Manila estero residents from returning to their old dangerous dwellings? Enroll them in the government’s conditional cash transfer (CCT) program with the added condition that they can only receive the monthly stipend for as long as they stay put

Taxpayers who care for their parents or tend to persons with disabilities should be able to declare them as dependents for the purpose of claiming tax exemptions. This is according to Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph G. Recto, who filed a bill seeking to remove the limitation

Simulat’s sapul consistent ang posisyon ko dyan. Gawing national ID ang national health insurance card. As early as 1995, itinadhana na ng isang batas na ang PhilHealth card ay ang de facto national ID. Republic Act 7875, the National Heath Insurance Act of 1995 which is also the

PAGASA lost another seasoned weather forecaster, Ricky Fabregas, who had reportedly accepted a P100,000 a month job in Congo. At the rate weather forecasters are leaving the Philippine area of responsibility, we may end up with no one alarming us that a typhoon is coming. If the

Share of the country’s 42,028 barangays from internal revenues will go up to P68.3 billion next year, or a P7.8 billion increase from this year’s P60.5 billion, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto revealed today. While some quarters have viewed this kitty as a major reason

The big picture is that Customs is under orders to collect P408 billion next year. That’s a P68 billion jump from their P340 billion quota this year. One peso in every five tax pesos that will be collected next year will come from the BoC. This can be viewed from another angle,

Senate President ProTempore Ralph Recto today described the proposed education budget for 2014 as a “big shopping cart of school supplies” that will close manpower and equipment gaps in public schools. Recto said the Department of Education will hire 33,194 teachers and 1,500

Inihirit ngayon ni Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto ang agad na pag-recruit ng karagdagang 400 MMDA traffic enforcers na tutulong sa pagmamando ng daloy ng trapiko sa Metro Manila mula umaga hanggang gabi. Ayon kay Recto, matagal na panahon pa ang hihintayin natin bago

The proposed budget of the Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) for 2014 is P2.65 billion, or P1.2 billion higher than this year’s P1.48 billion. It is twice bigger than the P1.36 billion it got last year. The MMDA’s budget is booked in the national budget as Allocations to