TRECE MARTIRES CITY, Cavite: A former overseas Filipino worker (OFW) in Taiwan was arrested after claiming 8 kilos of imported shabu amounting to P55,200,000 during a controlled delivery operation in Barangay Hugo Perez here on Tuesday, December 19.
Rep. Duterte advocates for amendment to illegal recruitment syndicate classification under RA 8042 to combat exploitation of OFWs. The proposed House Bill 8360 seeks to redefine a syndicate as two or more individuals, aiming to strengthen penalties and deter scammers. Recent scams in Italy and the closure of an illegal recruitment agency in Pasay City highlight the urgency of this amendment to protect vulnerable overseas Filipino workers. Stay updated with the latest developments on this crucial legislative move.
LINGAYEN, Pangasinan: The overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and family association of Burgos town received this year s top prize in the first-ever Bolun Awards during a ceremony on December 5 at the Pangasinan Training and Development II here.
COMMITTED to forging meaningful connections for Filipinos worldwide, PLDT Global Corp. (PLDT Global), the international arm of the Philippines largest integrated telco, PLDT Inc. (PLDT), is cultivating collaboration with the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) to empower and advocate for the welfare of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs).
GAYE Vergara, a native of Baguio City who has been working as a medical technologist for 27 years in the United States, has been collecting Christmas houses since she started working abroad in 1996.
“When I went to the States I started to buy collectible Christmas houses. I told myself they are beautiful and soon I will display them in a diorama but because I stay alone in a small condominium apartment and the busy life I had did not allow me to fix them, they stayed in boxes,” she said.
Her collections have been in boxes until during the pandemic when she remembered how happy Christmas is in the Philippines.
To cope with the loneliness of being alone during the holidays, and in the middle of the pandemic at that, Gaye, who did not want to meet with friends and families given her exposure to the virus because of her job, the Baguio native brought out her collections accumulated for decades.
“I made mini bricks, miniature roads, and walls for the Christmas diorama I had in min