MARINA deals another oppressive card to our seafarers

FILIPINO seafarers are among that great body of more than 10 million men and women who are heroes of our nation and Republic. The Overseas Filipino Workers or OFWs remit the bigger portion of their income abroad to their families back home here in the Philippines. Thanks to that our country has one of the world’s largest foreign currency holdings.

That, together with other economic indicators showing ours to be a stable state full of human talent and capital as well as natural resources, has made us a so-called emerging tiger economy.