OWWA exec: OFW trust fund to be protected when Congress forms migrant workers dept

Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2019 07:41:00 +0000

The migrant workers’ trust fund would be protected once Congress organizes a department for overseas Filipino workers (OFW)

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House stalwarts push for creation of dep’t for OFWs, foreign recruitment

Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 06:13:21 +0000

The idea to create a government department that will solely tackle issues concerning OFWs is moving at the lower chamber.

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BI on alert against human trafficking

Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2019 06:58:48 +0000

Bureau of Immigration officers stationed at the Naia have been ordered to be on alert as reports surfaced that syndicates are active in recruiting minors to work abroad.

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Church to OFWs: Vote for ‘honest, helpful, industrious’ bets like you

Credit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2019 07:28:02 +0000

THE Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines-Episcopal Commission on Migrants and Itinerant People (CBCP-ECMI) advised overseas Filipino voters to weigh the candidates in the midterm elections in May against the…READ

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Duterte ‘powerless to protect our OFWs’ — Hontiveros

Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 07:14:49 +0000

President Duterte just admitted he is “powerless to protect our OFWs” when he said that rape “comes with the territory,” Senator Risa Hontiveros said on Friday.

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Isabela-based OFWs back Bello, slam his accusers

Isabela-based OFWs back Bello, slam his accusers

Migrant workers from Isabela expressed their support for Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III in a manifesto issued here on Friday (July 27). The workers blasted the people who accused him of graft.

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3 women caught with R3.4-M shabu

By JEAN FERNANDO Three women, two of them former Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW’s), were arrested after members of Las Piñas City police and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) confiscated from them R3.4-million worth of shabu during a buy-bust operation Sunday afternoon. Police identified the suspects as Laila Dolly Kamsa, 29; Momina Kiaban Kusin “alias […]

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