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Government will be spending P850 million next year to finance the studies of 3,201 scholars taking up masteral and doctoral degrees in science, engineering and mathematics. Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph G. Recto said the allocation, booked under the budget of the Department...

This is the longest political courtship in recent years. Good things await those who have the patience to wait. Leni is the perfect match and a great catch for Mar. If Gringo will join the fray, Leni will be the fourth Bicolano to throw her hat into the vice presidential ring....

Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph G. Recto today called for the “clustering” of all airport-related “performance guarantees” pledged by government agencies operating in NAIA and other major gateways for 2016. Under the new budgeting scheme, agencies are required to enumera...

With five senators vying for higher posts, including three partymates for one position, Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph G. Recto hopes that the 2016 contest among the five “will not be a take-no-prisoners bruising fight” but something that is “fierce but friendly, intense but...

Why not include the spotting and cleaning of mosquito breeding places as among the “conditions” in the government’s Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program? Sen. Ralph G. Recto today said that “merely tweaking” the conditions of the P62 billion Pantawid Pamilya Pilipino Program...

The Senate is set to approve a law that would reform a multi-billion fund financed by tariffs collected from rice and sugar imports to make sure that funds would go to legitimate farmers and fishermen. Sen. Ralph G. Recto said the bill being debated on the Senate floor “will not...

The 2013 Firearms Law says that if you are a public official and you plant a bullet in the person or property of an individual for the purpose of framing him up, you go to jail for life. Isang bala lang, hindi ka na sisikatan ng araw sa tagal mo sa bilangguan. Section 38 of...

When Pope Francis flew into town, we closed the airport for hours. When His Holiness left, we shut down the airspace above NAIA for almost half a day. And that was for one head of state only. How much more if 21 heads of state would descend on our congested, single-runway airport...