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...
OFW FORUM Jun Concepcion Nearly 450,000 overseas Filipinos (OFs), mostly from the Middle East, have returned home as of February this year after losing their jobs abroad due to COVID-19, according to Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) officials. They expect the number to increase further --...
The Bureau of Immigration (BI) says the trafficking of underaged overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) continues as it revealed the interception of two young women who falsified their dates of birth to make it appear that they were qualified to work in the Middle East. (File photo / MANILA BULLETIN) In...
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) reported that no Filipino overseas died due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on Saturday, June 5. (DFA) The total number of COVID-19 deaths among Filipinos abroad is still at 1,194. According to the DFA, the number of Filipinos overseas affected by the...
The Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA) will lead the establishment of an inter-agency task force that will oversee the streamlining of the processing of blood money claims. ARTA Director-General Jeremiah Belgica during the meeting with officials from ARTA, the Department of Foreign Affairs-Office of...
Manila Economic and Cultural Office (MECO) Chairman Angelito Banayo on Friday confirmed that three overseas Filipino workers have tested positive for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) following an outbreak at a factory in a southwestern county in Taiwan. Manila Economic and Cultural Office Chairman...
Volunteers of the Office of the Vice President (OVP) expressed their gratitude for the “big inspiration” and “hope and faith” that programs like the Bayanihan E-Konsulta (BEK), a free online medical teleconsultation, brought them. Vice President Leni Robredo shared on her personal Facebook...
President Duterte has certified as urgent the Senate Bill creating the Department of Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipinos (DMWOF) that aims to oversee all policies protecting the welfare of Filipinos abroad. Some of the stranded OFWs at NAIA on Friday morning, May 28, 2021. (Ariel Fernandez /...
Department of Transportation (DOTr) Secretary Arthur P. Tugade has told contractors of the agency's projects to hire more people from the transport sector or overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), particularly those who were left jobless by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. DOTr Secretary...
OF FORUM Jun Concepcion If not for more foreign loans, where else can the government turn to for huge funds needed in its fight against COVID-19 and to mend the country’s battered economy? Unknown to many, overseas Filipinos (OFs) hold a strategically vital key. How so? Fairly simple, easy –...
The World Health Organization (WHO) should “step in” and resolve the problems caused by some countries’ preference for certain coronavirus vaccines, Vice President Leni Robredo said on Sunday, May 30. Without naming the vaccine brand, the vice president also stressed the importance for the...
The MARINO Party-list has called for the immediate acquisition of Johnson and Johnson’s single-dose vaccines for Filipino seafarers and other land-based overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to expedite their deployment. In this file photo taken on February 23, 2021, vials of the CoronaVac vaccine,...
