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The Senate is nearing approval of a measure that would extend financial assistance like student loans to cash-strapped but deserving college students until they finish their chosen courses in either private or public university. Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph G. Recto today...

I strongly condemn the murder of Mei Magsino who gave Batangueños an image of what a crusading and courageous journalist should be. As a member of the press, Mei practiced her craft with guts and grit, her prose and insight as sharp as balisong, which she used to peel the...

Sen. Ralph Recto today urged government to focus on one big school backlog which if not addressed will torpedo a key objective of the K to 12 program to produce employable graduates. Recto said the lack of technical-vocational (laboratories) in the country’s 7,917 public high...

The Senate will soon begin floor debates on a bill upgrading PAGASA’s equipment, staff pay, research capabilities and communication reach which its author says “is the best birthday gift on the weather bureau’s 150th year.” Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said the bill...

President Aquino’s signing last Wednesday of Republic Act 10656 which moves anew the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections to Oct. 2016 creates the opportunity for channeling P7.7 billion in SK funds toward anti-hunger projects, Sen. Ralph Recto said today. The P7.7 billion...

What about the Fallen 27,000? As the country observes World TB Day today, Sen. Ralph Recto called on government to plowback a portion of its good fiscal numbers in fighting tuberculosis, a scourge which claims the lives of 27,000 Filipinos a year. “It kills 75 a day, more than...

One “good side effect” of creating a Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) is that the present Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) will be streamlined into a Department of Transportation whose sole focus is fixing the nation’s...

As government rolls out free Wi-Fi hotspots in 967 towns, Metro Manila and 14 key cities this July, the senator who sponsored the project’s P1.4 billion funding in the 2015 national budget urged its implementor to ensure that the project will get “more bytes and benefits out of...