Recto: Hackers-RCBC connection key to money laundering mess

16 March 2016, Comment are Off
No doubt it’s a grand conspiracy, but the Senate needs to uncover the connection between a group of hackers and high officials of the Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC) if it wants to solve the $81-million money laundering mystery that rocked the country’s...

With SC OK of K-12, DepEd must ready 43,000 new rooms, 62,320 new teachers by June

16 March 2016, Comment are Off
Government should press full speed ahead in acquiring needed K to 12 classrooms, equipment and teachers after the Supreme Court (SC) rejected several pleas seeking to stop the implementation of the program adding three years to the basic education curriculum. With classes in...

To curb pork smuggling, Recto urges PNoy to sign Customs reform law

14 March 2016, Comment are Off
President Aquino was urged to sign into law a bill reforming customs and port procedures which one of its authors say would help stamp out smuggling like the kind the country’s hog raisers are protesting against. Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto said the proposed Customs...

If we can subsidize MRT riders, why can’t we buy bikes for kids in far-flung schools? –Recto 

12 March 2016, Comment are Off
Because lack of transportation or high fares is a leading cause of school absences, government must include bicycles for poor kids in its education shopping cart, Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto said today. Recto said there is already funding for the purchase of “bancas...

Presidentiables urged: Suspend campaign during Salonga memorial

11 March 2016, Comment are Off
Senator Salonga was sui generis, a class of his own. Any senator who serves in the Senate will have to be measured by the Salonga standard. This titan of nationalism left giant footprints which have impacted our nation for good. I respectfully suggest that with the family’s...

Recto: PH needs Cyber-SAF to protect banking system from hackers

11 March 2016, Comment are Off
Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto today called on Malacañang to expedite the signing into law of a recently-approved bill creating the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), saying the country needs “Special Action Forces” in cyberspace...

Recto calls for return of “Buy Philippine Made” policy in gov’t purchases

08 March 2016, Comment are Off
Six hundred thousand pieces of imported car plates would not have passed through the port of Manila, where Customs officials seized them, if they were only manufactured locally. Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto cited the above case in underscoring the need for government...

Women’s dignity kits now mandatory in evac centers; Recto calls for early purchase

06 March 2016, Comment are Off
The distribution of women’s “dignity kits” during disasters and emergencies is now mandatory, pursuant to a Department of Health (DOH) order released last month, Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto said today. The kit must contain 22 items of women’s personal care,...