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President Duterte’s order to the government to prepay the COVID-19 vaccines is correct.  Vaccines are not COD goods you can order from Lazada. They are not postpaid items, but prepaid. More so when there is a race among nations to acquire them, with the first batches already

An Act Extending The Availability Of The 2020 Appropriations To December 31, 2021, Amending For The Purpose Section 60 Of The General Provisions Of Republic Act No. 11465, The General Appropriations Act Of Fiscal Year 2020 This bill seeks to extend the availability of

Government should adopt as its “New Year’s resolution” the settlement of hazard pay and all outstanding payables to health care workers before the year ends, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said today. “On or before Christmas, bayad na. Or before the clock strikes

Concerns that PhilHealth is taking a financial hit due to the coronavirus has no basis, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said, after data on its COVID-19-related reimbursements was revealed during the Senate debate on the Department of Health’s 2021 budget. Of the state

Stepped up spending is the best calamity response, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said, “as keeping funds in the treasury is like withholding rice in the bodegas when people are hungry.” Recto said billions in unreleased balances in the 2020 national budget should now

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

An Act Extending The Availability Of Selected Appropriations In The General Appropriations Act Of 2020 And The Bayanihan To Recover As One Act Under Republic Act Numbers 11465 And 11494, Respectively, As Well As The Corresponding Allotments Intended As Response And Recovery

An Act Granting Hazard Pay To Support Workers In Public Hospitals During The Public Health Emergency As Declared In Presidential Proclamation No. 1021 S. 2020  And Appropriating Funds Therefor This bill seeks to recognize the invaluable role of support workers in government

I wish General Galvez good luck on his additional assignment as vaccine czar. No mission is tougher and no stake is higher than providing vaccines for all. But that burden is too heavy for one man to bear. This is not a job for one Superman. He has to assemble his Justice League.

Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto has urged Malacañang to appoint a “vaccine czar” who can solve the “importation to injection” challenges of getting the COVID-19 vaccine to 110 million Filipinos in a world where rich countries bankrolling their development will get them