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Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto today called for the itemization of Yolanda reconstruction projects in next year’s proposed P37.2 billion Calamity Fund “in order to complete all rehabilitation work by end of 2017.” “There is still much work to be done in Eastern Visayas but...

Here’s what Duterte should do in the opening days of the Trump era. First, send a nice congratulatory letter. And declare a moratorium on cursing. He should stop dropping F-bombs on the White House occupant. Those intercontinental expletives he fires do no good. Second, tap VP...

The thwarted sale of assault rifles to the Philippine National Police (PNP) should prompt the government to jumpstart a program to locally manufacture arms and military equipment, Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto said today. “It is a wake-up call for us to stop totally relying...

Magpa-Pasko na, wala pa ring implementing rules? Seven months after it was signed into law, Republic Act 10754, which grants persons with disabilities (PWDs) goods discounts and tax breaks, remains in limbo after the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) has yet to be issued...

Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto said he will “not oppose” President Duterte’s plan to “in effect, mothball the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA)” but the Philippines should be ready to “finance and fill” whatever “logistical void” is left by American troops. “The...

With the third anniversary of the onslaught of Yolanda days away, Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto said reconstruction pace seems to crawl based on the low utilization of the P18.9 billion appropriated this year to repair damages wrought by the strongest typhoon in history....

The Calamity Fund posted an unspent balance of P37 billion as of August 31, foreclosing the need to solicit foreign aid to help victims of typhoon Lawin, Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto said today. “The challenge is to open the floodgates of domestic aid funds and not to ask...

Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto is urging the Duterte administration “to hack away” at the red tape slowing down the flow of rehabilitation funds to disaster-hit areas. Recto said “complicated rules” governing the request, release and use of national calamity funds result in...