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Government should seize its ceasefire with communist guerillas as an opportunity to shift men and material to its fight to bring the resurgent ISIS-affiliated Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) to its knees, Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto said. “If the truce with the New People’s Army...

Earmarking all state gambling income for the purchase of medicines “is the shot in the arm” that will boost anemic government purchases of essential drugs, Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto said. Recto said about P40 billion in Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) and...

In selling its tax proposals, the Duterte administration should attach exemptions and safety nets on each, so that a skeptical public would at least give it a fair hearing of its explanations. One of these, Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto pointed out, are the farming and...

Before it rolls out its tax proposals, Malacañang should first issue the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of the law granting tax breaks and other benefits for persons with disabilities (PWDs) and those of another law raising the tax-exempt value of balikbayan boxes. The...

Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto has urged government to match the Communist Party of the Philippines’ (CPP) declaration of a seven-day ceasefire with its own declaration of a “longer ceasefire” because “peace, even if temporary, should have a validity period longer than a...

Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto urged Malacañang to itemize in the proposed 2017 national budget the projects and programs that it plans to implement pursuant to the grant by Congress of emergency powers to President Duterte to solve the transportation crisis. “Listing them in...

In a megapolis that gets 144 days of rain in a year which turn 3,845 hectares flood-prone, any traffic plan authorized by emergency powers must include projects that will prevent monstrous gridlocks during rainy days. This was suggested by Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto who...

Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto is backing the plan of the Department of Transportation (DOTr) to manufacture car plates locally – a move, he said, “which would prevent a repeat of imported plates being seized at ports over a dispute in Customs duties.” Recto also...