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In a country that sits atop the earthquake corridor and is the doormat to the typhoon alley, it is but inevitable that disasters become macroeconomic assumptions of the national budget. Typhoons, floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions do not only rearrange the lay of the land,

If the DTI-attached Philippine International Trading Corporation (PITC) is the designated COVID-19 vaccine buyer, then it should waive its customary 1 percent to 4 percent service fee. This is not the time to reap a pandemic windfall. When private corporations are waiving fees

Breaking down next year’s P4.506 trillion national budget on a daily basis reveals “the gravity and the gaps” which the pandemic has wrought upon government spending, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said. “We are budgeting P4.506 trillion next year, of which only P2.717

Some of the important “mission orders” of newly-appointed Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Debold Sinas are spelled out in the “performance guarantees” that the PNP has attached to its P190.8 billion budget request for 2021, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said.

Government’s tree-planting drive next year should join other grassroots jobs initiatives, as mobilizing “plantreetos and plantreetas” could shield its proposed P5.1 billion budget from wastage and delays. This is just one of the proposals of Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph

Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto today called for “an accelerated program” to equip officers and patrol cars of the PNP with dashboard and body cameras. “If food delivery guys wear them or have them on their bikes, why can’t our police officers and cars have them too?”

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 –

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

Any doctor will tell you never to take expired medicine, but here the DOH is leading the way in letting taxpayer-bought medicines expire in bulk. In a nation where many resort to halving tablets for lack of money to buy the full prescribed dosage, the recently-released 2019 COA