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Pre-need
firms’ ills add to OFWs’ worries
BATAAN – OVERSEAS Filipino workers (OFWs) are worried over
the difficulties in paying for their children's tuition due to
the apparent financial difficulties that pre-need firms College
Assurance Plans (CAP) and Pacific Plans Inc. (PPI) are in. CAP
has been charged by the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) in court
for tax evasion, as it also got suspended by the Securities and
Exchange Commission (SEC) to sell pre-need education plans. PPI,
for its part, filed for corporate rehabilitation at the Makati
Regional Trial Court after admitting it cannot pay for planholders'
tuition due to liquidity problems. ISAGANI DE LA PAZ reports
for the OFW Journalism Consortium, Inc. (with reports from contributor
REA GLAIZA REYES from Bataan.
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Seafarers’
group leader-priest OKs closing maritime schools
MANILA – THE DIRECTOR of the non-government group Apostleship
of the Sea (AOS)-Manila acknowledges the annual increases in deployment
of sea-based workers, but points out that many students fail to
board vessels since they can't meet the skills required by the labor
market that their schools should equip them with. Scalabrinian Father
Savino Bernardi believes if this is the case in the country’s
maritime schools, these schools “should close and teach something
else”. Contributor ALEXIS DOUGLAS ROMERO reports
for the OFW Journalism Consortium, Inc.
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OWWA
tries to span digital divide among OFWs
PASAY CITY – MICROSOFT Philippines Inc., the local subsidiary
of the world's largest software company, is now trying to bring
Filipino contract workers home through a computer training program
it has launched in partnership with the Overseas Workers Welfare
Administration (OWWA). Launched in August last year, the program
called Tulay (bridge) has helped bring Filipinos in Singapore and
Malaysia to their families and the world at large. JULIE
JAVELLANA-SANTOS reports for the OFW Journalism Consortium,
Inc. (with reports from contributor MA. CASSANOVA BELGA)
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Samareño
fund-raiser for road saves government money
VILLAREAL, Samar – POOLED money and cement bags from Samareños
here and abroad to construct an eight-kilometer provincial road
would allow the local government to save millions of pesos for this
poor cluster of villages in southern Philippines. In the Consortium’s
reprint of a story by CHITO DE LA TORRE for Samar News (www.samarnews.com),
pooled resources and volunteerism of Samareños across the
Philippines and some countries around the globe can save the local
government some P 65.6 million. Full
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