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Any doctor will tell you never to take expired medicine, but here the DOH is leading the way in letting taxpayer-bought medicines expire in bulk. In a nation where many resort to halving tablets for lack of money to buy the full prescribed dosage, the recently-released 2019 COA...

At least 1,797 public schools have been utilized as quarantine facilities during the pandemic, with 573 about to be used, which could bring to 2,370 the number of schools requisitioned in the fight against COVID-19. “This proves once again that DepEd is indeed the Department of...

Kakaunti lang ang local governments na may surplus na pera na pwedeng ipambili ng palay. Wala nang laman ang kanilang salop ng pera. Matagal nang inubos ng Covid. Hindi pwedeng i-pasa load ang problemang ito sa mga local government frontliners. Malaking gastos ang pagpapatakbo ng...

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...