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The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has a budget of P3.2 billion this year. Last year, it collected P1.01 billion every day. This year it has revenue goal of P436.6 billion or P1.2 billion per day. With this amount of money, it can certainly pay for a CCTV system, or what we can call...

Based on the 2016 Budget of Expenditures and Sources of Financing (BESF), government “training and scholarship expenses” will jump from this year’s P27.12 billion to the proposed P32.75 billion for next year, a figure almost double of last year’s P17.51 billion. But Senate...

I am looking forward to working with the youngest member of the Senate. With our agenda full, hard labor awaits him here.  With his experience, he can certainly enrich the discussions on the budget and the BBL. It is also worth noting that his liberty came on the 70th anniversary...

Car plates and stickers for brand-new cars issued within seven days Registration of old cars, complete with car plates and stickers, done within two hours New driver’s license processed within four hours Old driver’s licenses renewed within 60 minutes These are the “performance...

The national government is setting aside P50.6 billion in the proposed 2016 national budget for the salary hike of its 1.3 million workers, details of which will be fleshed out in a bill the Palace will later send to Congress. Although the Palace is still mum on the bill’s...

A bill making the caring of a person with disability (PWD) tax-deductible nears approval in the Senate after it was reported out for floor debates Monday. One of the measure’s authors, Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph G. Recto, explained in his sponsorship speech that the bill...

Sen. Ralph Recto is calling for an increase in the P500 million assistance fund to K to 12 displaced college teachers and workers which the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is proposing in the 2016 national budget. “This should be augmented because if there will be...

To stop all speculations, the PNP should state what will be awarded, who will be awarded, and when will it be awarded – and make sure that when the date is set, it will push through “time on target.” They must make the announcement soon before someone nominates them for a Medal...