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The principal sponsor of the bill creating the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) remains optimistic that President Aquino will sign the measure into law “sa tamang panahon.” “I think the Palace is searching for the best day for a signing ceremon...

As La Nina looms, PAGASA has only P4.2 M for warning systems in 18 major river basins As the rainless El Niño swings to the other extreme of a rainy La Niña, the government was urged today release funds for the equipment upgrade of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and...

One unfinished business of the 1986 EDSA revolution is how to plowback the billions in coco levy funds to the millions of farmers who paid them, Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto said. “Thirty years have passed and the farmers are still waiting for the money, the fund is...

Thousands of government employees won’t be able to fully enjoy the pay hikes recently ordered by Malacañang unless the share of barangays, towns, cities and provinces from national tax collections will be increased, Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto said today. Recto said...

Executive Order (EO) 201 makes the provisions of the deadlocked bill on SSL IV permanent. It does not merely implement the congressionally-authorized funding for the first tranche but prescribes a new pay classification system, which must be funded in the coming years. This...

Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto today asked the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) to “scrape the bottom of the barrel” just to ensure that funds are released this year to make the administration of the new Negros Island Region (NIR) operational....

Recto: BUB, bigger IRA, budget support needed to collect 15 billion kgs of trash yearly National government must throw a lifeline to towns and small cities drowning in garbage so the latter can sanitarily handle the estimated 14.6 billion kilos of garbage Filipinos will produce...

I am grateful for my inclusion in the Miriam-BongBong senatorial ticket. I am expressing my thanks because good manners require me to acknowledge such a kind gesture. Politeness must trump partisan politics any time Senators Santiago and Marcos are esteemed hardworking colleagues...