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May 3rd
Filipinos who are also holders of dual citizenship will be accorded a more level playing field under an Aquino administration in the event that they decide to put up businesses in the Philippines instead of working abroad.
Under an LP administration, overseas Filipinos who want to settle down and invest businesses here will find it easier to transact business in a graft-free and reform-oriented government. No longer will they have to contend with the usual graft and corruption and red tape.
Under Aquino’s platform of transparency and good governance, more investment possibilities will be offered to overseas Filipinos holding dual citizenship.
Filipinos who More >
Reduce remittance fees of OFWs this Christmas
Nov 24th
With the Christmas season just around the corner I call on Malacanang anew to fulfill its long-standing promise to reduce remittance fees shouldered by millions of overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) and their dependents.
The government can start with the scrapping of 1.5 percent Documentary Stamp Tax on remittances even as he noted the slow but steady increase in the remittances of OFWs to the Philippines.
The Central Bank reported this week that remittances by OFWs rose by 8.6 percent to $1.45 billion in September as more and more Filipino workers are finding jobs abroad as nurses, sailors and housekeepers amid a global More >
Where have all the OWWA funds gone?
May 1st
I ask this as I demand an audit of the P10-billion Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) funds in the face of increasing need to assist displaced Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) who lost their jobs due to the global financial slowdown.
As we celebrate Labor Day today, it is only appropriate that the OWWA makes a full public accounting of its funds and its performance in assisting displaced OFWs so far.
There had been a lot of complaints over the alleged lack of transparency in the handling of OWWA funds under the Arroyo administration and it is time that a public audit be conducted to More >
