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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 Russia-Ukraine conflict and the latest surge of Covid-19 in Hong Kong. "The DMW's online dat...

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 Arriola said during a Blas F. Ople Forum on Thursday. Arriola said a department order on the use of...

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...