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President Duterte should order agencies to include in the 2021 national budget their anti-red tape pledges, “including the speed by which they will process a document,” Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said today. Recto explained that the national budget is not all...

Late is better than zero. Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto is pressing anew the DSWD to distribute the balance of P10 billion from what Congress has authorized in the second Bayanihan Law as cash aid to pandemic-affected families. “If under the worst case scenario it can...

The Department of Agriculture (DA) has been urged to look into reported low buying price of palay, with farmers taking to social media to gripe that a newly-harvested kilo is being bought at P12, “which is lower than the price of a face mask,” Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph...

Whether they are peddling fake news, or counterfeit products, or bogus services, and regardless of where they are run, these sites should have no space in social media platforms. Sham treatments harm the body, and scams rob people of money. But the most dangerous swindle are lies...

If there’s an Emmy for the UN General Assembly speeches, the one he delivered can win the prize for the best written.  The team who put policies to prose should be congratulated. What they put together is the template for presidential addresses: cohesive, coherent and...

Health share of the 2021 P1 trillion infrastructure pie is a measly “1 percent”, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said, “a kind of budget prioritization that turns a blind eye to the health facility shortages the pandemic has laid bare.” “This is pandemic denialism,”...

Before they are modernized, allow our classic jeepneys their last patrol. They once helped liberate us from invaders. Today, let us allow them to help us fight this virus which has colonized our daily lives. We do this not for sentimental reasons, but because it is based on...

Face mask manufacturing is not “rocket science,” Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said, in batting for a “Buy Filipino” policy in providing protective apparel to the general population and the frontliners.  “Not all of the things we need today should be sourced from...