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Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto has urged government to match the Communist Party of the Philippines’ (CPP) declaration of a seven-day ceasefire with its own declaration of a “longer ceasefire” because “peace, even if temporary, should have a validity period longer than a

Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto urged Malacañang to itemize in the proposed 2017 national budget the projects and programs that it plans to implement pursuant to the grant by Congress of emergency powers to President Duterte to solve the transportation crisis. “Listing them in

In a megapolis that gets 144 days of rain in a year which turn 3,845 hectares flood-prone, any traffic plan authorized by emergency powers must include projects that will prevent monstrous gridlocks during rainy days. This was suggested by Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto who

Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto is backing the plan of the Department of Transportation (DOTr) to manufacture car plates locally – a move, he said, “which would prevent a repeat of imported plates being seized at ports over a dispute in Customs duties.” Recto also

The nation should learn by now to “auto-delete” the “colorful parts” of President Duterte’s pronouncements and must not always take “his antics as policies.” This was Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto’s view on how to read the chief executive’s statements which may be “shocking”

After its launch in Metro Manila next month, the five-year driver’s license will be rolled out nationwide before the end of the year, Department of Transportation (DOTr) Secretary Arturo Tugade today assured senators hearing a bill which seeks the grant of presidential emergency

Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto today welcomed government’s assurance that any hike in LRT 1 or MRT fares will only come after improvements in service that will be felt by train riders. The pledge was made by Department of Transportation (DOTr) Secretary Arturo Tugade

Plans first before powers. Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto said the congressional grant of emergency presidential powers to solve the national transportation problem hinges on the presentation of “clear-cut” plans by Malacañang. Recto said the “dimension of the emergency

There are 1.3 million drug addicts in the country today, 600,000 have reportedly surrendered to authorities, but the total number of beds in all government and private drug rehabilitation centers in the country is only 3,216. Worse, seven, or almost half, of the country’s regions