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(PPD photo) MANILA - A lawmaker on Friday urged the secretary of the newly-created Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) to immediately set up an online database system to track and deliver timely legal and welfare services to overseas Filipino workers (OFWs). In a statement, Camarines Sur Rep. Luis Raymund Villafuerte said DMW Secretary Abdullah Derupong Mama-o the new department should provide legal aid and other necessary assistance to distressed OFWs, especially those affected by the ongoing R...

DESPITE the anticipated brief stint of Abdullah D. Mama-O as head of the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW), expectations from migrant stakeholders for the newly reassigned Cabinet official remain high.  Migrante International chairperson Joanna Concepcion urged Mama-O to initiate the stakeholder consultation to craft the operational guidelines of the DMW, which will be responsive…

(File photo) MANILA - The law creating the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) takes effect on Thursday, a ranking government official announced. "Today, the DMW Act takes effect but then what's going to happen within the whole year, actually the subsumed agencies will be on a hold-over capacity except that we expect the president to appoint a Secretary or Acting Secretary anytime soon because there are really timelines that have to be met," Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Sarah Lou...

The House of Representatives approved on second reading House Bill (HB) 1062, which seeks to establish the Department of Economics and Development Planning (DEDP). The DEDP will effectively replace the current National Economic and Development Authority as it will have the latter’s rights, obligations, powers, functions, assets and personnel following…

We, the Alliance of Dabawenyos for Freedom and Informed Choice, respectfully submit to you the first set of signatures in support of the online petition to quash mandatory vaccinations as consolidated by Senate Bill 2422 known as “An Act Creating A Vaccine and Health Passport Program, Amending For This Purpose RA 11525...

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In the flurry of news related to the pandemic, not a lot of people were aware that a landmark law, Republic Act 11641, was signed by President Duterte last Dec. 30, 2021. “An Act Creating the Department of Migrant Workers” became a law on Rizal Day, with the President comparing Filipino migrant work

BOSTON — The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) announced that emergency regulations have been filed with the Secretary of the Commonwealth's office to...

President Rodrigo Duterte (Screengrab from RTVM) MANILA - President Rodrigo R. Duterte on Thursday signed into law the PHP5.024 trillion national budget for 2022, which will be used for the country's coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic response and recovery efforts in the aftermath of Typhoon Odette. He signed the 2022 national budget in a ceremony at the Rizal Hall in Malacanan Palace, which was witnessed by select members of the House of Representatives and Senate. Next year's...

Measure aims to improve coordination among agencies concerned with overseas Filipinos