Senator Ralph Recto said that based on National Greening Program’s P38.9 billion total budget from 2011 to 2019, a total of 1.807 billion trees in 2.141 million hectares of land should have been planted until December 2019. “After counting the number of trees planted, it is time

Itinuturing natin na isang malaking “investment” ang pagdagdag sa teachers’ chalk allowance (teaching supplies) kung saan ang kabataan ang “end beneficiaries.” • Senate Bill No. 466: P10,000.00 Across-The-Board Increase In The Basic Monthly Salary of

If the executive branch will not comply, the Senate will. If the Supreme Court has ruled that government nurses should occupy Salary Grade (SG) 15 position and not SG 10 and 11, and if such can only be enforced through an act of appropriation, then the Senate will do its part.

Not one of the nurses presently employed under the DOH Nurse Deployment Program will lose their jobs next year on account of the projected budget cuts. RN pa rin sila, Retained Nurses. This is the assurance made on record and in the open by Senator Go, the sponsor of the DOH

The administration pressed Congress to pass the National ID Law, designating it a national project of the highest priority, certifying that funds are available for its implementation, and no wonder Congress complied. That was two years ago, when we passed the law certified as

At a time when a crudely-done images, in which their falsity is obvious, can lead many people to believe them as real, then sophisticated videos in which the likeness of a person is seamlessly integrated can have troubling effects on society if used to foment lies. Ngayon pa lang

Taxes paid for road use must end up in projects seen on the road. Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto stressed this point following the passage in the Senate of a bill setting a day to remember road crash victims and a bill almost doubling the road users’ tax in the Hous

Sa ilalim ng proposed 2020 national budget, dodoblehin ang budget for tree planting – mula sa kasalukuyang P2.6 billion to P5.15 billion. The DENR’s National Greening Program is one of the very few programs that will be gifted with almost a 100% budget increase. Budgets for

Increased defense spending should be accompanied by more purchases of locally-made defense and police equipment, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said. “There should be local dividends from the equipment shopping spree,” Recto said. He cited the quality of the products of

Mag-di-Disyembre na, ni anino ng Salary Standardization Law V wala pa. Malamig na simoy ng hangin, wala pa rin ang panukala na nagtataas ng sahod ni titser ang ating naamoy. When will it come out of the Palace kitchen? “Please expedite” is not one marginal note we would like to