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Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto has urged Malacañang to appoint a “vaccine czar” who can solve the “importation to injection” challenges of getting the COVID-19 vaccine to 110 million Filipinos in a world where rich countries bankrolling their development will get them

A theoretical extra day of voting in the May 2022 presidential elections will cost at least P2 billion, twice the Commission on Elections’ initial estimate, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said. “If the virus will still linger by then, that casting the ballot becomes

The temporary absence of Red Cross testing distorts the national COVID picture. One in four RT-PCR tests is done by the PNRC. The absence of PNRC deflates the infection rate, making any dip in the reported number of verified cases an artificial decline. If PNRC stops testing

Solicited Message on Secretary Leonor Briones’ Book Launch and Birthday 16 October 2020 I was engaged to The Star of All Seasons when Ma’am Liling, the Teacher for All Seasons, came into my life. I have since been mentored by these two great ladies in a continuing education

The Senate-approved bill mandating a gradual tripling to P10,000 of the annual Teaching Supplies Allowance (TSA) is “fiscally-responsible, which makes it veto-proof by the President,” Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto, principal author, said today. “Any contention that

President Duterte’s promises of new equipment for “his beloved uniformed services” are being betrayed by the Philippine International Trading Corporation’s (PITC) “failure to deliver them on time or deliver them at all.” The intent of another branch of government – Congress –

This is just a pit stop in Alan’s long career. He will be back—I doubt if he’ll ever leave the political scene as a leading voice. It will be ages before we will come to read the requiem for this heavyweight. Not today. His stint as House leader may be short, but it was

The plight of Reina and River should not be allowed to happen again. Their tragedy should be a teachable moment for all of us – that a jailed mother should not be denied to visit her terminally sick child. A Person Deprived of Liberty should be allowed to comfort a loved one

At least 242 towns have no fire stations or fire trucks, but a Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)-attached corporation—whose competence is to import goods— has not been able complete even one of the 98 fire stations it was contracted to build for P892 million. The undelivered