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 28th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
In reply to
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. It begins with the individual. From the government to the beggars on the street, an internal change must occur. The right values must replace the current Filipino values of shallowness, superficiality, fatalism and procrastination. All foreigner worship must disappear. Rediscover your own culture and history. Keep your language pure. Love each other. Set in place sound economic policy. Above all, seek Almighty God, because your destiny is in His hands. ”
JL’s reply >> Those are sweeping statements that can only be truly effective in dreams… Like the Cultural Revolution of China and its Close-Door Policy?? Did it really work?.. Well, youcan say that our destiny is in HIS HANDS, but today, we must be able to see that the future is in our hands…
April 25th, 2008 at 10:12 am
Why the government has no balls in stopping at least the deployment of housemaids in the Middle East?
Our domestic helpers are being treated as punching bags If not being butchered by their uncivilised Arab employers, and what our embassy officials and labor workers are doing? esp dyan sa UAE, Kuwait and Saudi.
Magbibilang lang ba kayo ng biktima at mga patay?
Bakit di nyo solusyunan ang UGAT ng problema? Bakit di nnyo itigil and paglabas ng domestic helpers maski napatuloy o halos araw araw ang pagkatay sa mga kasambahay sa Middle East?
Ano ba kayo? mga bulag? bingi? o talagang mga inutil?
April 23rd, 2008 at 11:09 pm
what would you expect when the leaders are corrupt?
April 23rd, 2008 at 7:30 pm
If Obama can’t win with working class white voters why should he be the nominee? If he cannot win PA or Ohio why should he be the nominee? If he can’t win in Florida, Michigan, California, or the states that really matters what good is he? Why can’t he close the deal? The argument that the person who wins the most states is garbage. In November the winner takes all Electoral College heavily favors Clinton. “Super Dems” be smart and choose the hill that is where you will fine a win for the houses.
April 21st, 2008 at 4:49 pm
OWWA is useless and inutile since the day it was established, it serves as milking cow for its executives and administrators. OWWA officials is notorius for using OFW funds to a numerous business ventures that fail and loss including its huge invetments in property development and technology upgrading.
A lot of our abused kababayan never been help and instead duped by those officials for processing claims.
Our institution and bureacracies is so corrupt from top down to the barangay level.
God save this once great country of ours in the hands of abusive and corrupt public officials