Free training for OFWs

05/11/2016

INFORMATICS Cebu is offering IT-related short-term courses to overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and their dependents for free. Available short courses include the following: computer hardware servicing, programming and web design and development, among others. Those who are…

Councilor duped

Apple Ta-as 03/26/2016

A 55-year-old municipal councilor of Moalboal town lost last Wednesday P50,000 cash to a swindler. Luisa Manayaga told police that she received a call from a certain James Kho informing her that her relative, Mario, had been…

Report: HK maids in ‘forced labor’

03/16/2016

TENS of thousands of foreign maids in Hong Kong are in “forced labor,” according to a new report that fuels growing criticism of the city’s treatment of its army of domestic workers. The study by the Justice…

Body of dead OFW now in Toledo

Rene F. Alima 03/16/2016

The remains of the Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW), who died in a tunnel accident in Doha, Qatar last month, arrived in Cebu on Tuesday. The body of Juanito Pardillo was kept frozen inside a sealed wooden box…

Delay in arrival of OFW’s remains

Rene F. Alima 03/08/2016

THE family of a Cebuano overseas worker who died in an underground railway tunnel project in Qatar last Feb. 28 will have to wait longer for the arrival of his remains back in the country. This after…

‘Bright future’ for PH, Cebu

Marites Villamor Ilano 03/08/2016

An economist sees a “bright and rosy” future for Cebu and the Philippines, in general, as central banks in the US, Japan and some European countries impose negative interest rates. “If you’re looking for bad news, it…

Capitol offers assistance to dead OFW’s family

Juli Ann M. Sibi, Rene F. Alima 03/02/2016

THE Cebu provincial government invited the family of the overseas worker who died in an underground tunnel accident in Qatar last Sunday to seek their assistance in bringing his remains back home. “If they need any help,…

Toledo worker dies in tunnel accident

Rene Alima 03/01/2016

TOLEDO City native and overseas worker Juanito Pardillo would have turned 38 this March 8. Instead, his family learned that he died after being buried by falling boulders while excavating  an underground tunnel at the Doha Metro…

Decline of oil industry, opportunity for PH co-ops

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 02/14/2016

Window The threat of millions of OFWs losing their jobs in the Middle East due to shrinking oil revenues paints an ominous economic picture, but before we all jump on board the dreadful scenario, it is good…

Family wants to know cause of OFW’s death, approves autopsy

Victor Anthony V. Silva 02/09/2016

THE family of overseas worker Lotis Camocamo wants to know the real cause of her death before she is finally laid to rest. The father, Saturnino Yu, said the family is thankful her remains have been brought…

OFWs lose a champion

Rina Jimenez-David 02/09/2016

At Large Certainly coming as a shock is the news about the passing of former presidential candidate and OFW Family partylist Rep. Roy Señeres. Señeres, who had announced his withdrawal from the presidential race just a few…

Cebuano in Taiwan: ‘We ran for our lives’

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 02/06/2016

Machine operator Wilnar Ochada Paradiang was on graveyard shift at the second floor of Sumika Technology building in Tainan, Taiwan yesterday when the building shook. Paradiang, 29, said his first thought was to get out of the…

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