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1.6 Million Students to Benefit From Free Tuition – RECTO

  After both houses of Congress ratified the reconciled version of the bill making tuition in public colleges free, Malacañang should include the cost of the program in the 2018 national budget. The call was made by Senator Ralph Recto, author of the bill, who said that without funds to bankroll it, the bill, even […]

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Humanitarian Army Must Be Sent to Marawi – RECTO

  Malacañang has been urged to rush a “humanitarian army” to Marawi City and to nearby places where the “spillover of a massive wave of evacuees” are straining local resources to grant them comfort and aid, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said. Recto said there are billions of pesos in unspent Calamity Fund waiting […]