Press Releases

What’s the use of a barrier when couples hold hands in going to the motorcycle, and kiss each other goodbye after the ride?  As a virus shield, it is as effective as installing a concrete road divider on the matrimonial bed. Isn’t the protection offered them by the

NAIA’s immediate problem is not its signage, but its bottomline, as travel lockdown may cut its 2020 revenues by as much as P10 billion—barely enough for the country’s gateway to keep payroll and the lights on, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said.  “NAIA is a

Sending them home by boat was no Dunkirk-like evacuation, and yet it failed. The huddled, hungry, drenched stranded travellers painstakingly complied with all the health and police requirements, only to be denied boarding because of a new requirement. Their dreams of going home

Pride marches celebrate equality so only the tone-deaf will respond to its commemoration with violence and intolerance. It is an internationally celebrated activity and it is only in lands ruled by bigotry that a Pride march and all the ideas it espouses are repressed – by

Never were brilliant ideas articulated by a beautiful voice. Ask any old timer in Batasan, and Tony Cuenco’s voice was the most beautiful to ever reverberate in the halls of the House. His was also one of the most brave. It was heard loud and clear during the era when contrarian

The police should be “unburdened” of the duty to issue travel passes, “a clerical job which draws them away from their far more important responsibilities,” Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said. “The most important requirement is the medical certificate issued by a

Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto today called for a “1 book to 1 student” ratio in public schools, saying that a complete set of textbooks at home is needed by children to cope with online classes. “Broadband learning does not cancel the need for books. On the contrary—

I wish Maria Ressa victory on her appeal and hope that her conviction will be overturned. That is also the clarity the nation wants to see in the application and interpretation of a law with ambiguities and frightening consequences on our freedom. Democracy thrives when truth can

But SMC’s decision to give more than P1 billion in the national pandemic fight, in ways longer than its product catalogue, was the corporate implementation of Danding’s philosophy to help the needy. It was this trademark of giving which drove SMC to donate gas to frontliners; to