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The chair of the Senate science and technology panel said a consolidated version of five bills creating a Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) will be reported out for floor debates before Holy Week. “Our timetable in the Senate is to pass it before it...

Energy officials better ensure that May 3 is “National No Brownout Day” as any outage anywhere will turn them into “punching bags” by people who would be deprived of watching on TV the mega-fight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather. Sen. Ralph Recto said the executive...

Sen. Ralph Recto said proposed changes to the draft Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) are not meant “to mangle the bill but mend it” so the final version will be acceptable to the “country, the citizenry and the Constitution.” “When we propose revisions, it is out of the desire to...

Sana maisauli din ang mga personal effects ng SAF 44 tulad ng cellphone, relo, wedding rings, pitaka na naglalaman ng mga litrato ng kanilang mga mahal sa buhay. Iba kasi ang pag-aari ng gobyerno na na-issue sa kanila at ang kanilang personal na kagamitan. Para sa mga naulila,...

There’s no excuse for the Metro Rail Transit (MRT) not to buy handrail straps – to prevent its riders from falling like dominoes as its aging coaches are becoming prone to sudden stops – as their P2.25 million cost is a drop in the bucket of its farebox income and government...

Sen. Ralph Recto today challenged the government’s peace czar to allocate a fraction of her almost P8 billion budget this year in building a concrete bridge over the river in Mamasapano town near where 44 police commandos died in a gun battle with Moro rebels. “That rickety foot...

The Senate will not be “blackmailed into rubber-stamping” the approval of the MILF-drafted proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) as the bill is “littered with policy landmines which must be defused,” Sen. Ralph Recto said. “It cannot pass in its present form. It has to undergo...

Senator Ralph Recto today thanks the President for signing the bill adjusting the ceiling of the 13th month pay and other benefits excluded from the computation of gross income tax, from P30,000 to P82,000. “The law is meant to provide economic relief to workers both private and...