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If unsupported by facts, the claim is slanderous. It has the effect of devaluing the heroism of the SAF 44. Those who are peddling a revisionist take on what happened in Mamasapano should come up with solid proof. Because if what they are alleging will be later proven false, the...

Almost a quarter-million more indigent senior citizens will receive the P6,000 annual pension from the government next year, the chair of the Senate Finance Sub-Committee that reviews the budget for that program said today. Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph G. Recto, who...

One in seven incoming shipments that will be inspected by the Bureau of Customs (BoC) next year could be seized, Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph G. Recto said, citing the agency’s performance target for 2016. Recto said that in the proposed 2016 national budget, BoC stated as...

The cat is out of the bag. The additional charge that the Bureau of Customs (BOC) has imposed on a container of balikbayan boxes is now out in the open. First it has been confirmed that the amount of duties and taxes on a shipping container has been increased from P80,000 to...

The House of Representatives approved yesterday the Senate-version of the PAGASA Modernization Bill, foreclosing any need to convene a Bicameral Conference Committee, and sending the bill to President Aquino’s desk, Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph G. Recto said today. Recto...

Despite President Aquino’s order to the Bureau of Customs to stop inspections of balikbayan boxes, Sen. Ralph Recto said “outdated rules” on OFW-sent packages must be changed. “The order of the President is very laudable and time-on-target,” Recto said. “But what the OFWs want is...

Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph G. Recto is set to file a BBL – or Balikbayan Box Law – that will raise the tax-exempt value of the contents of a balikbayan box to $2,000 from the present $500. “If the Bureau of Customs (BOC) is insisting that it is just implementing existing...

The chair of the Senate Finance Subcommittee reviewing the Bureau of Customs (BOC) budget said agency officials will be grilled on the status of non-intrusive inspection techniques, which could detect contraband goods without opening tens of thousands of balikbayan boxes sent...