THE Duterte administration now has an Anti-Red Tape Czar and he is Department of Finance Undersecretary Gil Beltran.

The President, it will be recalled, closed his uniquely short and practical inaugural speech with an order to all government officials to shorten their bureaucratic handling of all paperwork. He gave a limit to the bureaucrats’ time for acting on applications for licenses and permits.

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