Since the time we approved this bill on second reading last week, there have been 1786 vehicular accidents – in Metro Manila alone. Of this, 282 were injuries, and about five were fatalities. We extrapolated this from last year’s data. It is safe to assume that the ones for this

Naaprubahan na ang Senate Bill No. 1076 o Malasakit Centers Act, na siyang makapagbibigay ng mas mabilis at maayos na serbisyong medikal para sa mga Pilipino, at lalo na para sa mga mahihirap at indigent. Ito ay sa tulong ni Senator Ralph Recto at ng iba pang mga mga lumagda para

Explanation of Vote: ESTABLISHING MALASAKIT CENTERS IN ALL DOH HOSPITALS Mr. President: For most of our countrymen, hospitalization is a luxury they cannot afford. The body may be willing, but the pocket is not. The result is that six in ten deaths in this country are unattended

Mr. President, my dear colleagues:I would like to begin with a confession: I am a gun owner. This is so because the Rectos are a family of shooting athletes who fought under the flag and brought home medals. My father was many times a Philippine champion and was an Olympian. Two

Mr. John was a national flag carrier who planted Filipino greatness in other lands and in the minds of his people that yes, a poor promdi like him can. We can tally the jobs his business created, the taxes paid, and the earnings it generated, but the inspiration he gave our young

Government should create a “digital map” of government projects and programs that will be implemented next year, to include “livestreaming” of big-ticket public works projects. “Projects should be geo-tagged, and there should be an app in which the status of a project is just a

Government should end the scourge of “artificial spending” by preventing the transfer of allotments from one agency to another in order to cover up the failure to spend.Ang nangyayari kasi ngayon, para lang masabi na “obligated” na ang allotment ay pinapasa ito sa ibang ahensya.

While every literature states that P4.1 trillion is the national budget for 2020, in reality, it is not. The real amount is P4,316.3 trillion, P216.3 billion higher than what is commonly stated. The P216.3 billion represents the Unprogrammed Appropriations (UA). While the release

ROAD CRASHES HAVE BECOME A RAGING NATIONAL EPIDEMIC Five days ago, 40 Cagayano farmers clambered aboard a truck at the break of dawn to go to Tuguegarao to claim the corn seeds the DA was giving them for free. By nightfall, 19 of them lay dead after their rented ride plunged into

DepEd’s school-building budget for 2020 should be augmented in the light of the damage sustained by the 500 classrooms and 700 school buildings during last month’s earthquakes in Southern Mindanao. Congress cannot be impervious to a tragedy which threatens the schooling of