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COVID’s greatest damage may have been in incarcerating millions of children and sending the educational system to the ICU, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto has warned. These kids may end up as the “lost generation,” Recto said, if the return to normalcy will be “slowed

Wednesday evening’s botched entrapment which killed four anti-drug operatives in a gunfight among themselves should speed up the implementation of a “may bodycam sa dibdib, may dashcam sa sasakyan” rule in the PNP, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said.  “It is again

The Senate has the power and the prerogative to investigate the PDEA-PNP shootout. And with two ex-PNP chiefs in the chamber, I have no doubt that it will be able to uncover the truth. An investigation is in order, as there have been alarming cases of friendly fire casualties of

Here’s an assignment for the Department of Education: Set up laboratory schools that will test the safety of limited face-to-face classes.  “That is the science lesson DepEd should study,” said Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto, adding that “debates on whether to open

Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said the “supply squeeze and price hikes” of food should prompt the immediate passage of the Bayanihan III Law. “If hunger is a great motivator, then it should push the government to package a third round of aid centered on helping

It is “wrong and misleading” to attribute all road accidents to poorly maintained vehicles, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said, in shooting down a “favorite selling point” of owners of Private Motor Vehicle Inspection Centers (PMVICs). “Yes, accidents are caused by

The slew of LTO fees “slaps taxes on the pandemic-hit people without basis in law nor approval from agencies and creates confusion, something which could have been avoided if the agency did not commit reckless speeding in implementing them.” This is how Senate President Pro

While the government’s global hunt for COVID vaccines has not yet led to deliveries to the hardest-hit country in the Western Pacific, it should, in the meantime, stock up on vaccination supplies such as syringes, which are available in the market. The call was made by Senate

The first vaccines to arrive in the country must possess higher efficacy and effectivity rates as these will be given to medical frontliners, “and hence serve as body armor to those in the line of fire,” Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said today. “Regardless of the

Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto today welcomed the proposal to set up an indemnification fund for Filipinos who may be harmed by COVID-19 vaccines, but stressed that “the focus should be on strengthening emergency response to the very, very few who may suffer side