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Government should attach a “performance target” to the six-month closure of Boracay “so there will be measurable outcome” of the island’s mandatory shutdown, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said today. “What are the countable outputs after 6 months? Ilang kilometro ng...

Manila should recognize the “Maranao’s culture and resilience as the strongest building blocks” in the reconstruction of Marawi City, and treat them “as active partners and not mere passive receivers” of rebuilding plans. This was stressed by Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph...

President Duterte should whip his “compartmentalized rice team” to get their act together because “rice is a volatile political commodity” in which the “slightest perception of shortage” could shoot prices up and hurt the poor most, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto sai...

Let us not make the already twice-postponed October 2016 barangay elections the most aborted in history. As it stands now, the COMELEC is ready, the communities are ready, the candidates are ready, the country is ready, for the scheduled May 14 elections. Only some congressmen...

There is no debate as to the need to plow back the coco levy collections to the people. The divergence is on how to do it. I want a quicker disbursement schedule, which will disburse bigger amounts in a shorter time. If the industry is in ICU, it should get a massive infusion,...

Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto today backed plans for the Philippines to jointly prospect for oil in the West Philippine Sea with “China and other countries” for as long as it is “between private parties and that we won’t be giving away the deed to the area.” Recto said...

Government should see to it that rice prices will not spike by flooding the market with the fourth quarter bumper palay harvest, because that is the only way to calm the public that TRAIN has not triggered an uptick in the prices of goods, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto...

Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto is backing the Labor department’s recommendation to President Duterte to form an anti-illegal recruitment task force, “if such would improve the conviction rate on illegal recruitment cases, which in 2016 was a dismal 5.3 percent.” Of the...