By Mary Noll Christine P. Caadyang PRESIDENT RODRIGO Duterte on Tuesday advised Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) in Japan to “be assertive” against government officials who subject them to extortion.
In his speech at the Filipino Community Meeting in Tokyo, Duterte told OFWs to slap police, customs, or immigration officers asking for money upon return to the Philippines.
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By Mary Noll Christine P. Caadyang THE CATHOLIC Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) called on President Rodrigo Duterte to grant executive clemency to elderly and sick prisoners.
In a letter addressed to Duterte on Oct. 17, the CBCP Episcopal Commission on Prison and Pastoral Care (ECPPC) said prisoners are “longing to be free” and sought the Church’s help for their freedom behind bars. By Mary Noll Christine P. Caadyang SEN. LEILA de Lima proposed on Tuesday Senate Bill 1197 ordering police to use a megaphone for warning suspects before arresting them in operations.
The bill, also known as the “Anti-Extrajudicial Killing Act of 2016” (Anti-EJK Act), stated that a warning before conducting arrest shall be issued by the police through a megaphone. By Mary Noll Christine P. Caadyang and Justine Kirk J. Santos SENATOR JOEL Villanueva has called for the end of job-skills mismatch and the practice of the “endo” or contractual labor in the country—two of the underlying causes of unemployment of Filipinos.
In his first privilege speech on Sept. 14, Villanueva said more than the lack of jobs, the real problems in unemployment in the country is the mismatch between workers’ skills and the labor market requirements affecting laborers from many parts of the world. By Mary Noll Christine P. Caadyang and Pauline Faye V. Tria LAO PEOPLE’S Democratic Republic (PDR) Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith on Thursday extended his firm belief and support in the chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) 2017 under President Rodrigo Duterte.
Sisoulith said amid the closing ceremony that Lao PDR will continue to cooperate with the Philippines’s ASEAN Chairmanship, the ASEAN Member States and external parties to strengthen the ASEAN Community. |
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