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Rules will cover persons with mental illness The Cabinet official who will lead the writing of the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of the Expanded Persons with Disability (PWD) Benefits Law said such will be “speedily crafted,” a promise which has elated the measure’s...

The proof of the spending is in the posting. With this, Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto reminded national agencies in receipt of hundreds of millions of pesos in Calamity Fund and Quick Response Fund (QRF) to comply with a provision of a law requiring them to post in...

Gov’t earned P5.3 B in ’14 from NAIA Government collected P9.3 billion from Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) passengers and airlines in 2014, netting P5.25 billion, “which is more than enough to guarantee reliable electricity or buy emergency pow...

After signing the law granting more tax discounts to persons with disabilities (PWD), President Aquino should sign next the bill raising the tax-exempt value of balikbayan boxes, Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto said today. “One good measure deserves another,” Recto said,...

Umapela ngayon si Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto sa Palasyo at Kongreso na agarang umaksyon para mapirmahan na ang batas na magtataas sa P150,000 ang halaga ng pasalubong na puwedeng ipadala ng mga Overseas Filipinos sa kanilang pamilya. Sa oras na mapirmahan ang...

Malacañang was urged to send a “humanitarian army” to North Cotabato and other areas in the South hit by a dry spell which has parched lands and raised peasant protests against government inaction to a boiling point. “Don’t rush troops. Send in a humanitarian army instead. Let it...

Would-be scholars to get P20,000 monthly stipend Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph G. Recto is urging the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) to extend the deadline for the application to the scholarship program that would provide thousands of K to 12 displaced teachers a...

A day after the country’s corporate watchdog batted for a national identification system to ease financial transaction and combat money laundering, a proposal has been made in the Senate to elevate the PhilHealth card as the “pambansang ID.” Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph...