OFW FORUM Jun Concepcion Several groups are now earnestly campaigning in social media to get party list seats in Congress in the upcoming May 2022 polls. Their principal objective is clear: get a party list slate so their top representatives get to become members of the House of Representatives. Of...
OFW FORUM Jun Concepcion Hundreds of thousands of OFWs, including those who voted for President Duterte in 2016, are likely to be very much dejected when he steps down from office at end-June this year. Why so? Because he will leave behind a certain high-profile legacies aimed at OFWs which are...
OFW FORUM Jun Concepcion Taking advantage of people desperate to take up high-paying jobs abroad is as easy as grabbing a piece of candy or lollipop from a one-year- old child and simply walking away. It doesn’t really take much to lure people keen to escape the hardships of carving a living in...
OFW FORUM Jun Concepcion Numerous OFWs are overjoyed whenever they are addressed by this seemingly magical phrase – modern heroes of the land. And they are driven into a mass hysteria and frenzy if they are fed key phrases apparently aimed to give them a euphoric high not necessarily fueled by...
OFW FORUM Jun Concepcion Distressed OFWs are often a pathetic and heart-rending lot. Seriously maltreated OFWs in Saudi Arabia, Qatar or Jordan can’t end immediately their misery and go back home even if some have reached their breaking point. More often than not, they suffer for months before...
OFW FORUM Jun Concepcion The pathetic plight of Filipinos caught and still trapped in war-torn Ukraine is by no means the first time for overseas Filipinos to find themselves in civil wars abroad. Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, name any other strife-torn part of the world, and chances are Filipinos are...
OFW FORUM Jun Concepcion Strategies and measures that the government now uses to bring home Filipinos in war-torn countries, including those in Ukraine that Russia may attack soon, border on laughable and absurd. Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Brigido Dulay’s remarks to the media last week sums...
OFW Forum Jun Concepcion Returning home for good from overseas and finding a steady replacement income need not be a Mission Impossible. While work abroad often entails a monthly salary substantially higher than what’s available back home, returning home need not always mean dire economic...
OFW FORUM Jun Concepcion After working in Hong Kong for over 20 years, partners Anette and Lito are both anxious and excited to go back home for good. “We’ve identified projects that we believe offer bright prospects of success,” says Anette. Just like them, tens and even hundreds of...
OFW Forum Jun Concepcion Governor Benjamin Diokno said last month that the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas would conduct an investigation into complaints of dozens of Banco de Oro depositors who claimed to have lost varied sums in their savings accounts. BDO, the country’s largest universal bank, has...
OFW FORUM Jun Concepcion Understandably, advocates of the rights and welfare of overseas Filipino workers, notably Eli Mua in Saudi Arabia, cheered President Rodrigo Duterte’s signing on Dec. 29 of a new law that creates a new department exclusively for overseas Filipinos. They believe firmly...
OFW Forum President Duterte’s signing on Dec. 29 of a law that created the Department of Migrant Workers brought lots of joy and hope to advocates of the rights and welfare of overseas Filipino workers, notably Eli Mua in Saudi Arabia. Hope that after more than 50 years of deploying workers to...
