The former overseas worker whose wife died 30 minutes after being admitted to the Mandaue City District Hospital sought help from the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to investigate the incident. Cesar Coliflores personally went to the…
A Filipino engineer who came home to attend the funeral of his mother was placed under quarantine by local health authorities after officials found out that he came from Sierra Leone, one of the countries that was…
With an expanded list of preferred skills for immigrant visas in Canada including vocational training, a Cebu-based consultancy firm said it is “almost impossible” for Filipinos wanting to go to Canada not to get a visa. In…
DAUIS, BOHOL — Nothing beats Christmas at home. This was how 31-year- old Eden Olango felt as she celebrated Christmas with her family and son — their first in two years. Eden, an overseas Filipino worker (OFW),…
ABOUT 29 Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) from Cebu arrived in the country after getting repatriated from strife-torn Libya, an official from the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (Owwa) in Cebu City has revealed. The first batch of 27…
Thousands of Filipino overseas workers refuse to leave strife-torn Libya despite an urgent call from the Philippine government to get out while they still can, warning that the remaining exit routes are closing fast. The Department of…
Cebu City Hall will now serve a one-stop shop for overseas Filipino workers (OFW) concerns following Monday’s launching of its Pag-Amoma (Pag-alagad ug Gugma Alang sa Mga OFWs ug Migrante Abroad) program. Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama…
With Asean integration happening next year, Malaysian hoteliers are keen on tapping Cebu’s manpower pool in the hospitality sector by offering schools here with a four to six month on-the-job (OJT) program in Malaysia for students. Representatives…
Lindelea Bacon still believes that her husband can change for the better even after holding her and their two children hostage at gunpoint in their house in Tinaan, City of Naga last Saturday. Lindelea said that Veroni,…
Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama said he is tapping former labor undersecretary Josephus Jimenez as a consultant to come up with a program for Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) in the city and their families. Rama said he…
OVERSEAS remittance flows to the Philippines will likely expand at a faster pace of 8 to 8.5 percent in 2014 on improved global growth prospects and post-supertyphoon Yolanda reconstruction, according to the British bank Standard Chartered (Stanchart).…
