Behind enemy lines I could never imagine the sacrifice our medical frontliners are going through during this pandemic in order to save lives as they risk their own, as well as their families’ health. Supporting our frontliners’ efforts in this arduous battle are the unsung heroes and heroines...
SUPPORT OUR FRONTLINERS Health workers embracing one another as they cope with the stress from the global pandemic (Photo from AFP) We all have heard, learned, and studied about pandemics before, but who knew it would happen in our lifetime? We have been fighting this deadly disease for the past...
Vice President Leni Robredo is not alone in the household with coronavirus vaccines. Her domestic helpers are joining the herd, too. Robredo posted photos of her Facebook page last weekend showing two of her household workers being vaccinated with their first COVID-19 dose in Quezon City. One of...
OFW Forum Jun Concepcion Kaisylyn Cuya Lopez, a Filipino domestic helper in Saudi Arabia and a single mother of a four-year old boy, desperately needs help. While safe for now under the care of Philippine embassy staff, she constantly fears getting jailed or even beheaded under stringent Muslim...
Vice President Leni Robredo on Sunday, June 13, called on the government to give health workers what they deserve as some nurses are demanding the release of the hazard pay the Department of Health (DOH) promised since the coronavirus outbreak last year. Robredo, an opposition leader, highlighted...
Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Secretary Mark A .Villar knows how to give credit where credit is due. (Photo from Mark Villar's Facebook) Villar, the driving force behind the Duterte administration's "Build, Build, Build" program, gave a nice shout-out to the construction workers...
A group of health workers hailed the reversal of a circular by the Department of Budget and Management (DBM), which raised the salary of entry-level nurses but consequently demoted long-serving senior nurses. (AFP / MANILA BULLETIN) While the DBM Circular No. 2020-4 issued on July 17, 2020,...
Presidential spokesman Harry Roque said that work-from-home workers in “temporary work arrangement” are included under the A4 category or frontline personnel in essential sectors in the government’s COVID-19 vaccination program. (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) “Pero ‘yung mga nasa work from...
Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Silvestre Bello III blasted private hospitals in the Philippines on Monday, June 7 for supposedly driving away home-grown nurses to countries abroad because of their "exploitative" practices. (Photo from DOLE Facebook page) In an online press...
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), through the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA), signed on Monday, June 7 three memoranda of understanding (MOU) with three separate agencies as a "present" of sorts for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs). (Screengrab from Zoom meeting) "I am...
National Task Force (NTF) Deputy Chief Implementer and Testing Czar Vince Dizon said on Monday, June 7, all employees who need to go out for work are part of the A4 priority group. (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) Dizon revealed this as he hailed the expansion of priority vaccination of essential...
The Taguig City Vaccination Task Force has opened the registration for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination for the A4 priority group, or essential workers. It said it has received the guidelines for the vaccination of the A4 category, “defined as all individuals who are required to go out...
