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Tuesday, September 23 2008 |
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EDITORIAL
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New chief must repair OWWA’s image
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The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration’s image among overseas
Filipino workers (OFWs) is rather bad. This, despite claims of its
officials that it does its work well in such critical areas as
repatriation for distressed OFWs, on-site welfare assistance and
legal aid to those facing court cases. Its core services include
insurance and health care program for OFWs and their families,
academic and vocational scholarships for workers’ dependents,
livelihood and loan program, seafarers upgrading and the Tulay
computer literacy project.
Under its insurance program, an OWWA member who
dies of natural causes entitles his or her family to an indemnity of
P100,000. The indemnity for accidental deaths is P200,000. Its
scholars are allowed to take up four-year or five-year academic
courses or a skill course for six months or one year through the
Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda). Its
loan program gives as much as P200,000 capital to qualified
borrowers at 9 percent interest.
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O T H E R C O L U M N S A
N D F E A T U R E S
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POLICY
PEEK
By Ernesto F. Herrera
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Come clean about the damage
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Sen. Loren Legarda recently urged the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas,
the Insurance Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission
“to promptly ascertain and address any aftereffect that the
collapse of US investment bank...
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EAST
WEST
By Julius F. Fortuna
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Lozada should apologize to
victims
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Mr. Rodolfo “Jun” Lozada said on Wednesday that he won’t
apologize to those he unfairly charged, despite the decision by the
appellate court that there was no abduction that occurred early this
year.
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MISSION
IMPOSSIBLE
By Marit Stinus-Remonde
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Peace, productivity in
multi-cultural Koronadal…for now
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Passing on the highway from Koronadal City to General Santos City,
the monotony of scattered huts is suddenly interrupted by a huge,
imposing church building.
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MEN&EVENTS
By Alito L. Malinao
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Propaganda war amid calls
for peace in Mindanao
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Some do-gooders, particularly those from Muslim peace advocacy
groups, are calling for the resumption of talks between the
government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).
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Building peace and
security through democracy
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Security as a function of democracy
Democracy is not the privilege of the strong:
security is not the luxury of the rich.
Democracy and security are the birthright of all
peoples; the entitlement of every nation.
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VIRTUAL
REALITY
By Tony Lopez
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Making suckers out of US
taxpayers
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The United States government is about to spend $700 billion in
bailout money to buy so-called “toxic” mortgage-related or
troubled assets of commercial banks and investment banks based on
America.
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LETTER
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Nemesis of textbook
errors forced to retire
Manila Times editors, grace and peace be with
you!
I would like to thank your writer James Galvez
for mentioning my name in the article “DepEd stops schools from
using misleading books” (August 30, 2008).
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