Media

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...

Police and military units summoned to the Senate’s probe on the Mamasapano firefight should present a “chronological sequencing” of events from the minute “A-1 intel” was received on the location of the prey to the time the body of the last police commando was plucked out of the...

“Widows, mothers and relatives” of the fallen police commandos should be the invited to the Senate probe on the Mamapasano incident so they can shed light on “the brave last moments” of their loved ones who were phoning them till the end, a senator suggested today. “The...

Postponing the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections will free up almost P7.7 billion in SK share from the Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA) of barangays this year, Sen. Ralph Recto said today. Under the law, the SKs get 10 percent of the barangays’ IRA, which is P76.7 billion for...

The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) should turn over to government authorities all its personnel involved in the killing of 44 police commandos who were serving an arrest warrant on a Malaysian bomb-maker and his Filipino cohort in Maguindanao last Sunday. Sen. Ralph Recto...

If it is true that the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) is harboring them, they should surrender a Malaysian bomb maker and his Filipino sidekick, the hunt for whom led to the massacre of 44 police commandoes in an MILF-influenced area in Maguindanao Sunday, Senate President...