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Senators wrapped up their interpellation on the bill creating a department to handle concerns of 10 million overseas Filipinos, bringing the measure closer to approval in the Senate. Senator Joel Villanueva, chairman of the Senate labor committee, said the termination of the period of interpellation and debates “means we’re entering the last quarter of the […]
Senator Joel Villanueva expressed readiness to tackle the proposal to create the Department of Overseas Filipinos, as the Committee on Labor, Employment, Human Resources and Development is currently on standby amid the proposal to balance the bills creating new departments with the measure rightsizing the bureaucracy. “We’ve been meeting with our counterparts, and doing our […]
Former Special Assistant to the President (SAP) Bong Go has vowed to help repatriate the body of Filipina overseas contract worker (OFW) who died in Saudi Arabia in October last year. In a radio interview, Ram Corpuz had sought Go’s help for the return to the country of the remains of her mother whose remains […]