ONE way [to ease the plight of overseas Filipino workers] is to investigate the Philippine Overseas Employment Agency (POEA) and Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) regarding the anomalies unearthed by the Commission on Audit (COA).
Prosecute POEA and OWWA employees involved in the corruption unearthed by COA. Refund to OFWs or start a Foundation for OFW Benefits with whatever money that can be recovered. Make OWWA membership voluntary instead of compulsory.
– Elmer Fabros, Jubail Industrial City, Saudi Arabia (via e-mail)
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April 21st, 2008 at 6:26 am
We are under a Democratic Despensation let the Rule of Law prevail.Let the law pinpoint and punish the culprits but at the same time protect the integrity of those deducated and honest public servants.
Emmilan
Managing Director
Osaka Steels Ltd
Kaduna
Nigeria
April 20th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
i-abolish na lng ang OWWA at POEA na yan.. kahit anong investigation o kahit sino pa ang mag imbestiga wala rin mangyayari.. kung ang mga magigiting na mga magnanakaw natin mga solons naman ang mag imbestiga, pa pogi lng nman ang gagawin nila for thier self interest. wala naman saysay ang OWWA at POEA na yan.. pahirap lng sila sa mga OFW’s.
sana ang gawin na lng ng gobyerno ay magtatag ng one stop shop para sa mga OFW’s to save thier precious time and money. cguradong marami sa mga OFW’s if not all ang maging masaya pag nangyari ang ganon.
April 19th, 2008 at 3:56 am
To Lee
It looks like you work in Saudi, so why you are not the first to go home?
It’s just a blog, but still it should be a bit useful.
Eliminate all OFWs? How, force them home or just kill them? With near 8 million OFWs back home as jobless Filipinos, what would it bring except some 3 or 4 million kilo rice needed every day which is not available? Civil war and fighting for food? Military and police who have stable jobs, good salaries and benefits will get now the scarce NFA rice cheaper than the poorest people with lowest salaries. Means they would have to protect the “generous” administration, how then there would and could any real change prosper?
The country sealed, means no import and no export, how people would earn any income?
Yes, it could be a solutiuon because probably millions of Filipinos would die, for hunger or sickness. As a result, the much lower population would have enough food and jobs, but only if working hard for it, not praying and waiting until it falls from heaven. Ora et labora, pray and work, not stop working and just pray as it is very commmon now.
April 19th, 2008 at 12:29 am
“Lee Kwan Yew Says:
April 16th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
What The Philippines needs to do is eliminate OFW’s all together. No one leaves the country, no foreigners enter the country. The country is sealed off and not allowed to join the rest of the world until all problems are solved.”
WHAT???!!!!!!! you wan’t to tell this to the millions of OFWs working their butts to death just to provide a decent living for their families back home?
April 18th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
To Lee Kwan Yew:
I think that’s exactly what North Korea is doing. And look at it now.