Press Releases

Whoever wins the May presidential polls should make stopping rape and all kinds of violence against women a national priority. Official reports paint a disturbing picture. A woman or a child is raped every 50 minutes. Last year, rape cases reported to the police and other law

As the no-contact traffic rules violation citation project rolls out in the National Capital Region (NCR), Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto called for the plowing back of the registration fees paid by 2.2 million NCR vehicle owners to road safety and discipline program

If the government timetable is up-to-date, select cities and towns in 12 regions will experience free broadband internet access beginning June this year. Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto said a report submitted to him by the Information and Communications Technology

El Niño, which is leaving many farms parched of water, is also affecting those who live off the country’s waters. Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto said this today in urging the government to extend its El Niño aid program “from inland places to the sea.” “Not only

For Metro Manila Development Authority’s (MMDA) no-contact policy to fully succeed, government’s “no plate available” system must end. This was pointed out today by Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto in asking government to “plug some loopholes” in what he describes as a

Kung hindi ilalabas ang El Niño funds  Hindi nalalayong maharap sa pambansang krisis ang Pilipinas dahil sa tagtuyot kung hindi agarang ilalabas ng pamahalaan ang P3.9-bilyong Calamity Fund at P6.7-bilyong Quick Response Fund (QRF) para makaabot sa mga probinsyang apektado ng El

Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto today appealed to Malacanang to download at the soonest time possible billions of pesos in Calamity Fund and Quick Response Fund (QRF) to provinces facing the wrath of the El Niño phenomenon, saying pre-emptive measures are needed to avert

Dahil 15-oras na ang trabaho sa eleksyon Dahil nadagdagan ang oras ng kanilang serbisyo, dapat lamang na tumanggap ng dagdag na P1,000 ang mga guro na magsisilbi bilang Board of Election Inspectors (BEI) sa halalan nitong Mayo. Ito ang hiniling ngayon ni Senate President

With the May 9 voting hours prolonged from 6 am to 5pm, Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto is urging the Commission on Elections (Comelec) and the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) to study the possibility of increasing by P1,000 the pay of teachers who will be on