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The Department of Health will no longer hand out pink slips to thousands of nurses and other field personnel next year after its officials assured senators that it will observe the status quo in its Rural Health Practice Program (RHPP), which was originally programmed to shed

Because only a third of the slots in its Doctors to the Barrios program are filled for lack of applicants, government has no choice but to produce its own doctors under a program in which scholars will repay tuition and other schooling expenses by serving in their hometowns for

The Senate minority wants the P188 billion unspent government share from Malampaya and other energy projects “firewalled” from being used to finance the restarting of the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP). Minority Leader Ralph Recto said there should be “no funding

Change the people, but do not abolish the body. Improve it, reform it, but do not dismantle it. Change the software, upgrade the hardware. Then reboot. The ERC must stay to police the electricity market. Somebody should blow the whistle on anti-competitive practices in an

Senators have crossed party lines to boost the Philippine National Police’s equipment budget next year by P5 billion, so that policemen, in the words of Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto, “will be able to meet its guarantee of a 15-minute maximum response time to all distress

Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto is urging Malacañang to extend Calamity Fund assistance to thousands of homeless families in fire-razed communities in Metro Manila. “When an entire community is burned to the ground, then it should qualify for national assistance,” Recto said,

With less than 40 days before Christmas, release papers of old, sickly and infirm prisoners should now be on their way to Malacañang, Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto said in appealing anew to President Duterte to give “the gift of clemency” next month to frail prisoners who

President Duterte’s threat to pull out from the International Criminal Court (ICC) “is just one of his trademark ‘thinking out loud’ moments which spice up his public speeches.” This is Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto’s take on the Duterte’s statement that the Philippines may

The long-awaited rules that will implement tax breaks for persons with disabilities (PWDs) and their kin who care for them will be signed on Dec. 1, Department of Social Welfare and Development officials said in reply to a query from Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto during