Senate Committee on Banks, Financial Institutions and Currencies hearing on the Financial Institutions Strategic Transfer (FIST) Act August 26, 2020 While the FIST Act seeks to help banks and other financial institutions clean up their books of bad loans and free up their capital

President Duterte should order government agencies to add the most important column in their monthly publication of funds spent, and that is for “goods and services delivered to the people.”  “Spent” is a broad term, and is often used to disguise delays in the delivery of

The President has spoken. It should be read as a cease-and-desist order in big, bold letters by those pushing for this dangerous experiment.  The call of the hour is not for rev gov, but government to rev up its response to the pandemic. A rev gov is not a vaccine against

The barrier to common sense has finally been lifted. No IATF rule triggered the greatest resistance and launched the most jokes. And the fact that they stonewalled for a long time and stubbornly defended it, despite evidence to the contrary, inflicted damage on their reputation.

After asking questions from the Board of PhilHealth, the following points were deduced by Senator Ralph Recto: PhilHealth’s financial status is okay, with roughly P200 billion in cash and investments. “May panlaban pala tayo sa pandemya,” Recto said. PhilHealth’s Board or the so

Senator Ralph Recto discusses the problems hounding the PhilHealth. “It is unfortunate that PhilHealth is imploding in the midst of the pandemic,” he said. Given the limited budget, Recto said the government should beef up our health frontline by hiring more health workers,

The postponement of K-12 classes should give the Department of Education (DepEd) “breathing space” to print self-learning modules (SLM) for 21.5 million public school students, which Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said “could be around 100 billion pages.”  “My

They stand shoulder to shoulder with medical staff in public hospitals, but because of their status as private service providers, janitors and security guards are not entitled to hazard and hardship pay despite facing the same health risks.  Taking up the cudgels for them,

Resources ng gobyerno dapat ibuhos sa gyera laban sa COVID-19 upang maayos na mabuksan ang ating ekonomiya Problema sa PhilHealth hindi sana lumala kung nagabayan ng Board o “Big Brothers” na binubuo ng Secretaries of DOH, DOF, DBM, DOLE, DSWD ang mga polisiyang pinatupad sa

How fast it can reimburse hospitals for COVID-19 screening is the “new speed test” that PhilHealth should pass to debunk mounting complaints that it had been slow in paying frontline facilities.  This challenge was hurled by Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto at