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If somebody tells you that Japan is now hiring Filipino nurses and caregivers, he's probably pulling your leg. Labor Secretary Patricia Sto. Tomas says employment negotiations between Japan and the Philippines are still ongoing. The Freeman

UAE Jobs Plentiful

UAE's modern buildings, skyscrapers and luxury hotels need highly skilled Filipino labor, says Labor Secretary Patricia Sto. Tomas. 44,000 OFWs were deployed in UAE this year.
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Health Workers

240,000 gov't health workers said to face layoffs

Christian V. Esguerra
Inquirer News Service

SOME 240,000 government health workers are set to be laid off notwithstanding the unabated exodus of doctors and nurses to other countries and the slash in the budget of already cash-strapped state hospitals that has adversely affected the delivery of health services.

The Health Alliance for Democracy (HEAD), a national organization of doctors, nurses and other health professionals, said the Department of Health is set to implement Executive Order No. 366 which would streamline the bureaucracy to save money.

Dr. Gene Nisperos, HEAD secretary general, said the layoffs would affect key government hospitals which already lack medical personnel as a result of budget problems.

The Philippine Orthopedic Center, for instance, should have 1,100 employees but is actually short by 99 people, he said.

The National Center for Mental Health and the San Lazaro Hospital, the government's primary treatment facility for victims of rabies, also lack medical personnel, he said.

The NCMH has only 1,570 employees while San Lazaro has 826 even if they should have 1,870 and 890 workers, respectively.

Another vital government hospital, the Jose Reyes Memorial Medical Center in Manila, has a bed capacity of only 450 but admits around 600 patients daily, excluding 1,400 out-patient cases.

"What price is exacted from health personnel who are expected to provide quality health care?" Nisperos asked.

The Alliance of Health Workers on Friday predicted that the country's health care system would collapse in two to three years if doctors and nurses continued to leave for higher paying jobs abroad.

From 2000 to 2003 alone, the group said the country lost 51,850 nurses.

Some 5,000 registered doctors also left in the last four years while around 4,000 are now taking up nursing, according to the group.

Nisperos said President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was not doing enough to address the serious problems besetting the health care system.

"She has remained blind to the deteriorating state of public hospitals and remained deaf to the pleas of health workers for just wages and better working conditions," he said.

Nisperos' group was dismayed after the Arroyo administration cut the budget of the Tondo Medical Center last year to only P20 million a month compared to nearly P28 million monthly in 2002.

Two Nannies

Commentary : The Filipina nannies as surrogate parents

Isabel Escoda
Inquirer News Service

IT'S not often that a Filipino nanny becomes like a mother and father to the foreign child she cares for. This happened recently to two Filipinas who worked for a wealthy American family in Hong Kong. When the father was murdered, his wife was accused of killing him. Soon after the murder of investment banker Robert Kissell in Nov. 2, 2003, his wife Nancy was taken into custody. The couple's three small children were then whisked away by relatives to the United States, along with their two nannies, Conchita and Maximina Macaraeg.

The incident highlighted the image of the Filipino nanny as a substitute parent to her charges. The sensational trial of this high-profile murder case recently ended in Hong Kong's Court of First Instance, with the jury unanimously declaring Nancy Kissell guilty of murder and the judge meting out a life sentence. Presented during the 67-day trial was overwhelming evidence that she had murdered her husband.

Robert Kissell was a top executive of the Merrill Lynch investment bank. He was an archetypically ambitious, hard-driving individual, whose marriage had been unraveling before his murder. He had told friends he planned to divorce his wife Nancy because of her affair with a man in the United States. In early 2003, during the SARS epidemic in Hong Kong, she fled with her children and a nanny to their home in Vermont. There she started an affair with a handyman hired to repair their TV set, something that continued by telephone after she returned to Hong Kong-their numerous extended calls were later traced by investigators.

The trial, which transfixed Hong Kong's expatriate community, saw Nancy admitting to killing her husband in self-defense, because he had repeatedly threatened and abused her. Accused during questioning of having drugged Robert before bludgeoning him, she would often lapse into amnesia.

It's presumed that Robert's parents will arrange for the future care of the Kissell children (two girls and a boy aged 9, 6 and 3 at the time of the murder) while custody is being discussed. And it seems natural that Conchita and Maximina would continue to be involved in their care.

During the trial, the two Filipinas were summoned back to Hong Kong to testify. With the help of an Ilocano interpreter, Conchita said she saw no signs of violence between the couple (a testimony which didn't support Nancy's claim of abuse), but she noted that the couple were having problems with the marriage because "there was no sweetness anymore" between them. She also reported that during their stay in Vermont, the handyman would go to the house in the evenings, supposedly to check the TV, and would spend the night-she revealed that one of the girls once woke her up at night, unable to find her mother.

The most damning part of Conchita's testimony was about Nancy telling her not to tidy up the master bedroom, which was kept locked for the next three days after Robert's "disappearance." Nancy apparently spent two nights with her husband's corpse, wrapping it in a carpet and removing traces of blood from the room, after which she called for workmen to move the tied rolled-up carpet to an outside storeroom.

The Kissells were a wealthy Jewish couple, and Robert's job earned him top wages at his bank, which entitled them to live in one of Hong Kong's most luxurious complexes. His shocked Merrill Lynch colleagues declared he was a devoted father, while Nancy's friends said she was equally devoted to her kids-though one revealed that she was a spendthrift and had once paid HK$5,000 to have her hair styled.

Hong Kong newspapers kept the public riveted on the steamy murder saga as the trial unfolded with testimonies and evidence. One of the Kissells' neighbors mentioned having taken his daughter, on the day of the murder, to play with the Kissell girls. He was given a milkshake by Nancy, who had also made one for Robert. He said the drink tasted strange and caused him to pass out briefly by the time he returned home.

The prosecution painstakingly marshaled the evidence, showing how Nancy had laced the milkshakes with drugs; after he passed out in their bedroom, she bludgeoned Robert to death with a metal heirloom. She later claimed she had used it in self-defense because he had tried to rape her and then attack her with a baseball bat-a piece of evidence presumed to have been planted by her later in the bedroom.

During her grilling, Nancy claimed she was often sodomized by Robert. She made a point of going to the doctor some days before the murder, and went to the police on the day of the murder to claim she had been beaten up by her husband who, she said, had disappeared. Her lawyer's defense did not sway the jury.

After the trial, the dead banker's father said his younger granddaughter read the news of the murder on the Internet and told him, "Mommy killed Daddy. I don't want to see her again." Soon after the murder, he said he cried with his eldest granddaughter, then 9, after he informed her that her "Daddy had died" after her parents had had a fight.

The Kissell kids are now in the temporary care of the estranged wife of Robert's brother in Connecticut, who is himself in jail, having been charged with embezzlement. The fact that Conchita and Maximina are the kids' link to their past life in Hong Kong is obvious. They probably have children of their own in the Philippines (Maximina is Conchita's sister-in-law), but they may henceforth be fully engaged in the crucial care of their charges, helping them survive and minimize their trauma. It's a burden the two Filipinas will surely bear with much love.

Isabel T. Escoda has written about Filipinos in Hong Kong in her books, "Letters from Hong Kong," "Hong Kong Postscript" and "Pinoy Abroad," her latest.

Brunei's Job-Seekers

Brunei Remains ‘Promised Land’ For Job-Seekers In Philippines By Rosli Abidin Yahya
Bandar Seri Begawan - The Sultanate continues to be - for some Filipino jobseekers - the promise land of gold, after one illegal recruiter was arrested by police in Zamboanga after she was allegedly found to have taken hefty processing fees from six victims with promised jobs of salesladies in Brunei Darussalam - but left them stranded in Zamboanga instead.
The victims arrived in Zamboanga, southern Philippines, from Isabella and Manila, supposedly to continue their journey onward to Brunei. However, they were left stranded by the recruiter, MindaNews reported.
The police arrested the alleged illegal recruiter last Wednesday after complaints were brought against her by two of her victims from General Santos City, Mindanao.
The two told the police that they were recruited last February in General Santos City and were abandoned by the suspect upon arrival in Zamboanga. The victims said the suspect "recruited" them to work as salesladies in Brunei and asked the victims to pay a fee of P20,000 (B$625) each.
Recently nine Filipinos returned home after they were abandoned by their recruiters in Brunei who collected hefty processing fees from them with promised of jobs. -- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin

Macau's Fake Jobs

Filipinos warned against seeking jobs in Macau

Inquirer News Service

LABOR Secretary Patricia Sto. Tomas warned Filipinos planning to go to Macau as tourists with the intention of looking for jobs not to be enticed by disreputable recruiters or agencies. They could end up as sex workers, she said.

Sto. Tomas cited a report by Macau-based labor attaché Carlos Sta. Ana, who said more Filipinos were arriving there as tourists and were finding it difficult to find jobs in the Chinese peninsula.

According to Sta. Ana's report, tourists are allowed to stay in Macau for 30 days. During this time, they become vulnerable to people offering to look for jobs for them in exchange for money. But the jobs seldom materialize.

Sta. Ana said those who run out of money are forced to sell their passports and unused return tickets to overstaying Filipinos.

Some resort to theft or the sex trade, while others go to mainland China to get a 37-day visa extension and look for jobs there, he said.

Sto. Tomas explained that despite the booming economy of Macau, Filipinos would have a hard time finding jobs there because the Chinese prefer to hire workers from the mainland.

"It is very risky for tourists to look for employment in Macau since they can easily be eased out by mainlanders," she said in a statement.

Filipinos who want to work in Macau should also verify the existence of the job offers with the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration, she said.

Macau is a former Portuguese colony that became the Macau Special Administrative Region of China in 1999. China's socialist economic system is not practiced there, but the "one country, two systems" policy is observed. It is an open economy and is enjoying rapid growth with the expansion of its tourism industry.

Labor Dispute

At Large : The ISM dispute

Rina Jimenez-David
Inquirer News Service

BY TODAY, we should know if the scheduled auction of the International School of Manila (ISM) has transpired and who the buyers, if any, are. The auction was ordered by the Department of Labor and Employment in fulfillment of a "Writ of Execution" in response to a ruling by the Supreme Court granting the demand of Filipino teachers in the school for payment of back wages and retirement pay adjustments in the wake of a judgment that Filipino or Philippine-based teachers were entitled to "parity" in wages as their colleagues who were hired abroad.

I'd written on this issue some months ago, and before I write anything else about the dispute between the teachers' union and the school administration, I'd like to address, however belatedly, an allegation raised in the wake of that column.

Shortly after the column came out, the ISM Board of Trustees published an open letter, in the form of a full-page advertisement in this paper, responding to and contradicting some of the contents of the columns of this writer and of former Supreme Court Justice Isagani Cruz. I won't go into the alleged "mish-mash of half-truths and false assertions" that my esteemed colleague and I are supposed to have peddled. Let me go directly instead to a statement at the end of that "open letter" that I feel needs some response, even if months late.

In the last paragraph of that "open letter," the ISM Board of Trustees accused the ISAE, the teachers' union, of "waging a media storm, with the help -- paid or unpaid -- of its contacts and connections."

* * *

I WAS abroad at the time the ad came out, and though friends told me that I had been mentioned, no one saw fit to show me the ad itself (to be fair, I wasn't all that curious, either) or to point out the sly insinuation at the end. In fact, upon my return to the country, when I agreed to meet with ISM superintendent David Toze and the ISM board president, lawyer Chuck Medel, in the home of a mutual friend, who's an ISM parent, no one among them sought to clarify whether I was "paid or unpaid" by the ISAE teachers, even after I told them that while I'd heard about the ad, I hadn't seen it yet.

Well, for the record, let me state here that ISAE president Raquel David Ching, who's no relation, as well as the ISAE did not and have not paid me for meeting with them or writing about their case against ISM. For the record, let me state here that all the "payment" I got was an excellent dinner at the Embassy Restaurant and then again just last week at Le Soufflé, both at the Fort. Oh, and I might add that ISAE member Neni Sta. Romana Cruz also threw in a free copy of her new book on Filipino names.

You might say this accounting proves I'm either an honest journalist or a very cheap buy, but I assure you, I don't need to even be fed to write about issues I really care about. Messrs. Toze and Medel would know that to be true, since they didn't have to pay me either, or even spring for the cake that my friend served the afternoon we met.

* * *

A TWO-PART series in the business section on the planned auction of ISM had for the headline of the second installment that the school "only had itself to blame."

I'm inclined to agree with this assessment. After all, if the ISM board had only obeyed the ruling of the Supreme Court in June 2000 granting equal pay to Philippines-hired teachers and resolving the 1995 CBA deadlock they would not now be facing an enormous cash obligation.

While Filipino and other locally hired teachers indeed began to enjoy "pay parity" with the foreign hires, the ISM persisted in questioning the ISAE's position that the decision was retroactive to 1995, when the case was filed.

Indeed, in my talk with Toze and Medel and in their full-page open letter, the ISM authorities persisted in painting the teachers' actions as selfish and greedy, to a point that they would even endanger the existence of the school.

Ching poo-poohs the cries of distress of ISM, cries that the foreign business chambers have apparently swallowed hook, line and press release. "They need to prove that they are in financial distress first," Ching says of the school's protestations that it could not possibly meet its obligations to the teachers' union without putting their continued existence at risk.

In a position paper, Ching asserts that "with an average annual enrollment of 1,800 students at $10,000 per child, the School generates an average annual revenue of about $18 million. The School will not find difficulty in complying with the award which it has successfully stalled for the past five years."

Indeed, the "auction" of the school grounds and property were ordered by labor department only after years of failed negotiations and ISM's staunch position that the Supreme Court's ruling on retroactivity was "wrong."

* * *

AT THE TIME we talked, Ching said they were in talks with the ISM board, with labor department representatives as mediators. Saying they are perfectly willing to negotiate the terms of payment, she stressed though that "we cannot negotiate something without honor ... The School must respect the Department of Labor and Employment's Writ of Execution."

While they might be willing to negotiate a schedule of payments and installments, "it has to be within a reasonable time frame," Ching adds.

Google in RP

Google looking for Philippine head

Erwin Lemuel Oliva eoliva@inq7.net
INQ7.net

INTERNET search engine firm Google is looking for qualified candidates to become its country representative to the Philippines.

The country representative will be responsible for leading strategic and operational initiatives critical to the ongoing growth of the company," according to an online advertisement found at http://www.google.com/jobs/international.html#crom_ph.

Google indicated that the ideal candidate should have demonstrated leadership in marketing, sales or general management for an Internet or technology company and/or management consulting, and have graduated at or near the top of their class from a leading graduate academic institution. It prefers applicants with MBA degrees.

"We are looking for self-starters who can work in a rapidly changing industry, tolerate ambiguity and demonstrate leadership with limited oversight. Fluency in English and Tagalog is required," the advertisement added.

Google however noted that this position is a temporary job, and he or she will be based in Manila.

This job will focus on developing and executing operational and strategic initiatives of Google, as well as plan, gather and synthesize relevant data for the company.

The company is also looking for similar candidates to fill in the same job description in other countries, including several areas in Latin America, the Carribean, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and most countries in Southeast Asia.

Google is now the world's top internet search engine and is listed at the NASDAQ. It has over 4,000 employees.

Pinoy Accent

Passion For Reason : Job discrimination against 'thick Filipino accent'

Raul Pangalangan
Inquirer News Service

THIS week, "Linggo ng Wika" [Language Week], we celebrate our national language, Filipino, as the most honest expression of the Filipino soul, fully knowing that it is not the most effective idiom for competing in the global market. In the age of business outsourcing, "call centers" and the export of migrant labor, English proficiency is our comparative advantage.

Along the way, another tongue has actually emerged: Filipino English. Homegrown Filipinos may not be aware of it, but the US Supreme Court sometime ago upheld the non-hiring of an otherwise excellent job applicant because of his heavy Filipino accent in Fragante v. City and County of Honolulu, in a decision handed down in 1990.

Fragante was a combat veteran who fought as a guerrilla against the Japanese and served a 23-month tour of duty in Vietnam. He retired from the Philippine military, became a naturalized American, and applied for a job with the Department of Motor Vehicles and Licensing. A US law professor described him thus: "Horatio Alger gained fame writing about men like Manuel Fragante, who faced adversity with resilience, self-reliance, intelligence and hard work."

Fragante topped the written examinations. But as soon as he entered the interview room, the interviewers were floored by his "very pronounced accent which is difficult to understand." He wasn't hired.

He filed suit under US civil rights laws that prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, religion and national origin. He would construe accent as a "proxy criterion" for "national origin," because accent is nearly immutable -- at a certain age, you simply can't shake it off, try hard as you may -- and is functionally equivalent to discrimination on the basis of foreign origin.

But the courts held that his thick accent affected his job performance. Oral ability to communicate was a legitimate job qualification, and was therefore not discriminatory. Just by way of example, if you imagine the voice of your typical "atorni" in that context ("Ay eeem rreedi tu prrusid, yurrrahhnar"), perhaps he would have to repeat himself just to be understood, and might take twice as long to accomplish the same work as those who spoke in more familiar accents.

The irony was that during the trial, Fragante testified for two straight days in English, in nearly perfect grammar and syntax. His counsel had argued that it wasn't a question of "linguistic deviation"; if he wasn't easily understood, it was because his hearers automatically tuned off as soon as they detected his accent. It wasn't that his tongue wouldn't cooperate, but that other people's ears-and minds-closed up when they heard him. His ineffectiveness at his job lay, not in the stubbornness of his tongue, but in the callousness of his listeners' hearts. When "listener prejudice" is seen as a neutral test for job effectiveness, the court ratifies and becomes an instrument, an extension, of other people's biases.

But Filipinos shouldn't be surprised that language is more than just a way of talking, but a way of fixing a pecking order. Historians tell us, for instance, that the national hero Emilio Jacinto, who rebelled against Spain, actually affected a Spanish accent in speaking Tagalog as a young man, a mark of his being better educated than his peers.

So, before you demonize Fragante's tormentors, first admit that back here at home, we inflict and endure "listener prejudice" among ourselves. All of us speak English with an accent, yet there is a hierarchy even among those accents. Where is it written that a Manila accent is superior to an Ilocano accent? Both are equally foreign-sounding to native English speakers, whether British, American, or Australian. Teachers and job recruiters favor students who speak in the confident accent of the classy Catholic schools, and pick on those who sound "promdi" [provincial]. Yet this distinction has nothing to do with the language itself; it has all to do with our own local, class-based bigotry.

Irony of ironies, the burgeoning job market for call centers in Manila seeks American-sounding natives. These centers have apparently brought accent-conditioning to the level of a science, which should weaken Fragante's argument about accent immutability. Consider finally those telephone companies that advertise international long distance with Filipino operators. Would the job vacancy say "Genuine Filipino accent only"? (The foolproof test is to make job applicants read the vacancy notice. If they say "jinwayn," they're in!) Perhaps for certain jobs, an accent requirement is no different from a language requirement-you need a Spanish speaker to translate "Noli Me Tangere," a connoisseur of Filipino English to ask, "Collect ho ba 'to?"

When I was a student activist at the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon cityC I noticed that activists who had hitherto spoken English regularly, suddenly stopped or tried to sound as "authentic" as possible, rolling their r's and blunting their short a's. It just wasn't politically correct otherwise. I couldn't have imagined that decades later it would be economically necessary and academically indispensable in the Philippines to speak the colonizer's language in the colonizer's style.

Language then is not just about power. For the poor bright kid who dreams of one day landing a well-paying job at a call center, it is about dreams. Learning English, for him, can very well make the difference between languishing in the same slum where he came from, and moving onward to a bright world where toilets don't stink, people say "Good morning" to one another, and yes, a decent paycheck awaits every payday. I will not begrudge him his dreams.

OFWs' Dollars

BRINGS 6-MONTH INFLOWS TO $4.9B
OFW remittances surged 32% in June
Doris C. Dumlao
Inquirer News Service

REMITTANCES from the country's migrant workers surged by 32.1 percent in June to $935 million from a year ago due to the higher deployment of skilled workers and improved access to banking channels, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas reported.

BSP Governor Amando Tetangco Jr. said the sustained double-digit growth in overseas Filipino workers' (OFW) remittances had brought the first-semester inflows to $4.9 billion, which was 21.5 percent higher than the year-ago level of $4 billion.

The bulk of the fund transfers came from the United States, Saudi Arabia, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates.

Citing data from the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration, Tetangco said the total number of deployed Filipino workers for the first semester rose by 6.8 percent to 527,573.

Land-based workers increased by 6.1 percent to 402,332 from a year ago while deployed sea-based workers rose by 9.2 percent to 125,241.

"The demand for both land- and sea-based Filipino workers has continuously grown on account of the value-enhancing training provided to local workers prior to deployment (such as multi-lingual proficiency, information technology literacy) to develop and hone their capabilities as well as boost their competitiveness and marketability," Tetangco said.

The top destinations of OFWs were Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong, the United Arab Emirates, and Japan.

It also helped that higher paid and professional workers were being deployed, Tetangco said.

For the first quarter of 2005, POEA data indicated that production-related, professional/technical and service providers comprised the bulk of the deployed workers.

"Banks continue to intensify their efforts in extending banking services to overseas Filipino workers by increasing the number of remittance centers abroad, introducing innovative means of remittance transfer and establishing ties with foreign financial institutions," Tetangco added.

In a survey by the National Statistics Office in 2000, about 7.25 percent of Filipino households or approximately 1.1 million derived their main source of income from cash and other assistance from abroad.

Given the large magnitude of these OFW flows, these cash transfers have been fueling economic growth in the past couple of years and have been partly responsible for the growth of such sectors as real estate and telecommunications.

"Remittances are important in providing the economy with foreign exchange resources, helping ease foreign exchange liquidity constraints and contributing to a stronger balance-of-payments position," Tetangco said in a recent speech.

These cash transfers also contributed in increasing disposable income and thus lead to increasing consumption, which had been a consistent source of economic growth. Moreover, remittances allowed resources to be available and mobilized where investments are needed.

Government Unions

Registration rules for gov't unions

Inquirer News Service

THIS is in response to the letter of Annie Enriquez-Geron, secretary general of the Public Services Labor Independent Confederation (PSLINK), published last July 27. It appears that she mixed up the requirements for registration and accreditation of public sector unions.

We would like to clarify: Under the Amended Rules of EO 180, for purposes of registration, a public sector union must have as members at least 30 percent (this used to be 10 percent) of the rank-and-file employees in its organizational unit. The increase in the membership requirement was made upon the recommendation of the employees' duly elected representatives to the Public Sector Labor-Management Council (PSLMC).

The requirement of a higher percentage, which comes close to the "majority-support" requirement for the accreditation of employees' organizations, was made to enhance the mandate of employees' organizations and to strengthen them.

The minutes of the PSLMC meetings will attest to this. Likewise, in the Amended Rules, regional offices of a department, agency or office continue to be recognized as appropriate organizational units for purposes of registration.

To avoid confusion, the Amended Rules of EO 180 used the term "organizational unit" in relation to the registration of employees' unions; and "negotiating unit" in relation to accreditation. It, however, retained the definition of "organizational unit" found in the old rules.

Furthermore, the majority requirement (50 percent plus one of the rank-and-file employees of the agency) for the purpose of accreditation is required under EO 180 itself. The requirements for accreditation enumerated in the Amended Rules merely reiterate the provisions of EO 180 and other previously issued rules and regulations. Hence, for purposes of accreditation as the sole and exclusive negotiating agent, a registered employees' union must show proof that it has the majority support of the rank-and-file employees in the negotiating unit.

More importantly, it must be stressed that the Amended Rules of EO 180 was thoroughly discussed in the council meetings where the employees' representatives actively participated.

Finally, we would like to assure Geron that the commission and the PSLMC steadfastly adhere to the policy of promoting the free and responsible exercise of the right of government employees to self-organization. We also recognize the role of public sector unions as partners in improving public service delivery. This is amply illustrated by the fact that employees' unions were given representation in the PSLMC, even only in an observer capacity, pending the enactment of a law including them as regular members of the council.

Thank you and we hope that with this reply, we have clarified the matter.

ANICIA MARASIGAN-DE LIMA, director IV, Personnel Relations Office, Civil Service Commission, (chair, PSLMC Secretariat)

Jueteng Jobs

As I See It : How to create a million more legal jobs

Neal Cruz opinion@inquirer.com.ph
Inquirer News Service

WOULD you believe that President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's anti-"jueteng" [illegal lottery] czar is a former jueteng lord, that the man she assigned to stop the illegal numbers game was a jueteng operator himself? As the saying goes, it takes a thief to catch a thief. But Puerto Princesa Mayor Edward Hagedorn, Ms Arroyo's anti-jueteng czar, has admitted that he is through with jueteng, that he quit cold turkey, just like a drug addict who realizes his addiction is a shortcut to ruin and decides to quit, period. Puerto Princesa is now one of the few cities and municipalities that are jueteng-free. And if he can do it, Hagedorn told the Kapihan sa Manila last Monday, other mayors can do it, too. All that is needed is the will to stop.

That is why the President chose Hagedorn, who is chair of the League of City Mayors, to be her anti-jueteng czar. He doesn't like the monicker, noting that the last Russian czar and his family were massacred by the Bolsheviks. Besides, he doesn't have any police muscle, just him and a few others tasked with eliminating a long-running cancer that is now in the terminal stage. So instead of using police muscle, he is going to use "friendly persuasion" on his fellow mayors. Jueteng cannot survive in any place if the mayor doesn't want it, he said. Which is an indirect admission that many mayors are involved in the numbers game.

So instead of arresting jueteng lords and their thousands of "cabos" [overseers] and "cobradores" [collectors] (who will impoverish the government that has to feed and build more jails for them), Hagedorn will persuade his fellow mayors to finally stop jueteng in their localities because that is the right thing to do. In fact, that is the first of the three recommendations he will submit to the President early next week. The second is to find alternative livelihoods for the thousands of cobradores and cabos who will be rendered jobless by the elimination of jueteng. The third is to suspend the mayors of cities and municipalities found to still have jueteng.

Sorry to inform all the jueteng coddlers, but legalization is not one of Hagedorn's recommendations. His assignment against jueteng, he said, is a four-letter word: STOP. So he will stop it, not legalize it. And his assignment involves stopping only jueteng, not other forms of gambling. So don't blame him if, after jueteng, other forms of gambling proliferate.

In fact, Commissioner Michael Coronel of the Anti-Jueteng Task Force told the Kapihan sa Manila forum that when jueteng was first reduced a few years ago, drug-dealing and addiction increased. The displaced jueteng workers have to turn to other means of livelihood to support their families, he said. They may turn to agriculture next, it was suggested, planting a crop called marijuana.

What he did in Puerto Princesa, Hagedorn said, was to give other jobs to those displaced by the stopping of jueteng operations. He employed them as members of Bantay-Dagat [Sea Watch], Bantay-Gubat [Forest Watch], etc.; hence, they have become more useful citizens. Other mayors can do the same thing, he said.

Those who argue that jueteng provides employment are only half-right, Hagedorn said. Jueteng saps the economy of any locality where it thrives. Far from jueteng money recirculating in the city or municipality, three-fourths of it is actually taken out of the locality.

Of the day's collection of bets, Hagedorn explained, half goes out of the area to pay government officials and policemen as bribes. One-fourth is taken by the operator as his profit. Only one-fourth goes back to the people in the form of winnings of bettors and commissions to the cobradores and cabos. This one-fourth gets smaller and smaller every day as more and more money are taken out of the locality.

One more thing: the bettors must be given an alternative to jueteng, otherwise they would just turn to "masiao," "monte," "sakla," "cara y cruz" and other forms of gambling. Jueteng actually gives the poor people "hope." After they place their bets in the morning, they are sustained the whole day by the hope that, when the cobrador comes that afternoon, he would bring the good news that they had won. When they don't win today, there is always tomorrow.

Isn't lotto of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office just another form of jueteng with another name? I asked. Except that it cannot replace jueteng for several reasons:

1. The lowest bet in lotto is P10, whereas a peso or even 50 centavos will do in jueteng.

2. One has to go to a lotto outlet in town to place his bet whereas a jueteng cobrador goes to your house, even your bedroom or kitchen, to get your bet.

3. Although a lotto prize can be in the millions of pesos, you have to wait for weeks or months to have a winner. In jueteng, however, there are scores of winners every day. And that is what sustains the jueteng bettors -- the hope that before the sun sets that day, they will be richer by a few thousand pesos for the few pesos that they bet that morning.

Is it not possible for the PCSO, I asked, to lower the price of a lotto ticket to P1 and employ the displaced jueteng collectors to sell tickets house to house on commission basis? That way, the collectors will continue to have a means of livelihood.

A great idea! Hagedorn exclaimed, adding that he would recommend that to the President and talk to the PCSO people about it right away.

He estimated that about a million people are employed by jueteng. Instead of creating jobs, Ms Arroyo will eliminate a million jobs. "With your proposal," he joked, "GMA [President Arroyo] can claim that she just created a million more jobs."

OFWs Prefer Saudi

POEA: Saudi Arabia remains top Filipino workers destination

Veronica Uy
INQ7.net

THE KINGDOM of Saudi Arabia remains the top destination of overseas Filipino workers, employing 55,957 or 27 percent of the 209,293 land-based workers registered with the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration during the first quarter of the year.

The number is slightly lower than the 58,355 OFWs deployed to the oil-rich Middle East country during the same period last year, according to POEA records.

Labor Secretary Patricia Sto. Tomas said Saudi Arabia has traditionally been the top OFW destination because of its many "massive development projects" since the 1970s.

Next on the list of top overseas Filipino destinations are Hong Kong with 28,006 or 13.4 percent of land-based workers, United Arab Emirates with 19,817 or 9.47 percent, Japan with 17,213 or 8.22 percent, Taiwan with 12,222 or 5.8 percent, Kuwait with 10,216 or five percent, Singapore with 8,660 or four percent, and Qatar with 7,193 or 3.4 percent.

Qatar also posted the highest increase of OFW deployment at 50 percent. During the same period last year, the country had only 4,793 Filipino workers.

Other countries with marked increases in entry of land-based OFWs are: Bahrain, 49 percent (from 1,810 to 2,693); Kuwait, 24 percent (8,213 to 10,216); Malaysia, 21 percent (1,748 to 2,114); UAE, 15.4 percent (17,172 to 19,817); United States, 13.6 percent (1,074 to 1,220); and Singapore, 12.8 percent (7,678 to 8,660).

Sto. Tomas said increases in these countries more than made up for the decline in Saudi, Japan, United Kingdom, Italy, and Libya.

She said the net five percent increase in deployment is equivalent to 209,293 OFWs deployed during the first quarter of this year, compared to 199,272 for the same period last year.

Philippine Overseas Employment Administration

Gloriagate Blogs

Posted by Alecks Pabico
PCIJ

LET a thousand (journalist) blogs bloom.

No doubt about it, the current political crisis rocking the Arroyo administration has made blogging, for all its unmediated, instantaneous and personal nature, an attractive reporting medium for Filipino journalists. Of course, the case for blogging journalists has already been made by the likes of Manuel L. Quezon III, Jove Francisco (By Jove!), Chin Wong ( Digital Life), Erwin Oliva (cyberbaguioboy), to name a few, even before we at the PCIJ started venturing into the blogosphere ourselves.

Recent welcome additions to the journalist blogging community are GMA Network's Howie Severino (Side Trip with Howie Severino), who has a blog on blogs today, and Philippine Daily Inquirer's editorialist John Nery (Newsstand). Much earlier, we also saw GMA reporters coming out with blogs of their own — Tina Panganiban-Perez ( crimson page) and Joseph Morong (Essays and Other Lullabies). The media network is said to be encouraging its reporters to go into blogging.

Another journalist has also been blogging anonymously since May at The Early Edition.

While the mainstream media based in Metro Manila seem slow in grasping the potential of blogging as an important addition to the journalistic toolkit, interesting developments have happened elsewhere. In Cebu, Sun.Star has spiced up its coverage of "Gloriagate" by launching the Citizen Watch: The Arroyo Presidency blog. There's also dyAB, the first radio station (as far as I know) that is complementing all its programs with blogs ( dyAB Abante Bisaya). 

Download Garci Ring Tone From TxtPower

June 17, 2005
Here are Mp3 and wav files of the Hello Garci ring tone:

Server Mirror 1:
"Hello Garci" ringtone, MP3 format (360KB)
"Hello Garci" ringtone, WAV format (197KB)

Server Mirror 2:
"Hello Garci" ringtone, MP3 format (360KB)
"Hello Garci" ringtone, WAV format (197KB)

Server Mirror 3:
"Hello Garci" ringtone, MP3 format (360KB)
"Hello Garci" ringtone, WAV format (197KB)

To save, right-click on the file and click save as.

Many thanks to Yuga of PinoyBlog and Ploghost for hosting the files.

Links to the entire tape are at the PCIJ blog.

Alternative Arroyo Download

Posted by Alecks Pabico

PCIJ
 

THE tsunami-like surge in bandwidth usage due to the unprecedented download requests for the controversial tapes has already forced the shutdown of one of our servers and those of the mirror sites that have been generously shared to us. However, thanks again to some of our fellow bloggers' initiatives, the files can still be downloaded via the following links:

Three-Hour Tape

• BitTorent: http://mininova.org/tor/55762 (160MB)
• RapidShare:
  1. Audio Set 1 (01-11) - 48.7MB
  2. Audio Set 2 (12-20) - 45.6MB
  3. Audio Set 3 (21-29) - 46.8MB
  4. Audio Set 4 (30-33) - 20.5MB

Paguia Tape

• BitTorent: http://mininova.org/tor/55788 (31MB, including text file of transcript)
• Windows Media Video: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=12LP7M2J (with subtitles)

Gloria's Alleged Conversations

You can download the three-hour-three-CDs audio recording of the alleged telephone conversation between Pres. Arroyo and Comelec Commissioner Virgilio Garcillano through these 33 separate MP3 files provided by PCIJ:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33

 

For first-timers:  You can download by right-clicking on the links above and save each one to your hard disk.

Kapamilya Run

Registration Centers:

• Ayala Center (beside the Activity Center)
• Aboitix Express in E-Mall
• SM City (beside the Supermarket)
• Cebu City Sports Commission (Cebu City Sports Center)
• ABS-CBN Broadcast Complex, Jagobiao, Mandaue City

The P100 registration fee entitles each runner singlets, snacks and giveaways.

 

Wanted Security Guards

     SOUTHERN CROSS SECURITY AGENCY

           is in need of

           SECURITY GUARDS
         for immediate posting!

      pls. bring  your 201 Personal File folder
       and submit it to:

       Capt. Edgardo Chan Cagalitan, PCGA
       Manager, Southern Cross Security Agency
       1-93 FROED Bldg. J. Osmena Ext. CC   or

       or:  @ Tonieng's  Clotheir
              fronting MGM Supermart
              Sanciangko St.CC

Pulso sa DYAB Abante Bisaya, Maayong Buntag, Kapamilya ug TV Patrol Central Visayas

Tagbaw ka ba sa pagpatuman sa gobyerno sa iyang sports programs?

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Typhoon Dante Is Here

Typhoon "DANTE" was estimated based on satellite and surface data at 1,080 kms east of Visayas (12.1°N 135.4°E) with maximum sustained winds of 150 kph near the center and gustiness of up to 185 kph. It is forecast to move west northwest at 19 kph. Intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) affecting Mindanao. Southwesterly surface windflow prevailing over Western Luzon.

Metro Cebu: Cloudy with rainshowers and thunderstorms, winds will be light to moderate blowing from the south and southwest, coastal waters will be slight to moderate, temperature range 24 to 30°C (75 to 86°F).
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ABS-CBN In Europe

 

 

 

 

 

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Uyon ka ba sa pagtukod sa AFP og beach houses sa Boracay?

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Weather Update

 

Frontal system affecting Luzon. Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) affecting Southern Visayas, Mindanao and Palawan.

Metro Cebu: Mostly cloudy skies with rainshowers and thunderstorms, winds will be light to moderate blowing from the southwest, coastal waters will be slight to moderate, temperature range 24 to 32°C (75 to 90°F).
 

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Balloon Champs

 

Hot-air balloons fly above Debrecen, 226 kms east of Budapest, Hungary, during the 14th European Hot-Air Balloon Championships organized by the Federation Aeronautic International (FAI). Eighty-one teams from twenty-four countries took part in the competition.

Weather Update

 

Frontal system affecting Luzon. Intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) affecting Mindanao and Western Visayas including Palawan.

Metro Cebu: Mostly cloudy skies with rainshowers and thunderstorms mostly in the afternoon or evening, winds will be light to moderate blowing from the south and southwest, coastal waters will be slight to moderate, temperature range 25 to 33°C (77 to 91°F).
 

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Weather Update

 

Tail-end of a cold front affecting Luzon. Intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) affecting Mindanao including Palawan.
Metro Cebu: Mostly cloudy with rainshowers and thunderstorms mostly in the afternoon or evening, winds will be light to moderate blowing from the south and southwest, coastal waters will be slight to moderate, temperature range 24 to 34°C (75 to 93°F).
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Pulso sa DYAB Abante Bisaya, Maayong Buntag Kapamilya ug TV Patrol Central Visayas

Kon mag-plebisito karong adlawa, uyon ka ba sa pagtukod sa bag-ong tulo ka probinsiya sa Sugbo?

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Weather Update

Frontal system affecting Extreme Northern Luzon. Intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) affecting Mindanao including Palawan.

Metro Cebu: Partly cloudy to cloudy with rainshowers and thunderstorms mostly in the afternoon or evening, winds will be light to moderate blowing from the south and southwest, coastal waters will be slight to moderate, temperature range 24 to 34°C (75 to 93°F).

 
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Weather Update

Intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) affecting Mindanao. Frontal system affecting Northern and Central Luzon.

 
Metro Cebu: Mostly cloudy with rainshowers and thunderstorms mostly in the afternoon or evening, winds will be light to moderate blowing from the southeast, coastal waters will be slight to moderate, temperature range 24 to 34°C (75 to 93°F).
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Pulso sa DYAB Abante Bisaya, Maayong Buntag, Kapamilya ug TV Patrol Central Visayas

Makaayo ba ang pagbuakbuak sa Sugbo?

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Weather Update

Intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) Mindanao. Frontal system affecting Northern Luzon.
Metro Cebu: Mostly cloudy with rainshowers and thunderstorms mostly in the afternoon or evening, winds will be light to moderate blowing from the southeast and south, coastal waters will be slight to moderate, temperature range 26 to 34°C (79 to 93°F).
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Weather Update

Intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) affecting Southern Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.

Metro Cebu: Mostly cloudy with rainshowers and thunderstorms, winds will be light to moderate blowing from the southeast and south, coastal waters will be slight to moderate, temperature range 26 to 34°C (79 to 93°F).
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Weather Update

 

Intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) affecting Southern Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.
Metro Cebu: Mostly cloudy with rainshowers and thunderstorms, winds will be light to moderate blowing from the southeast and south, coastal waters will be slight to moderate, temperature range 26 to 34°C (79 to 93°F).
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Star Cinema

The many years of quality movie-making by Star Cinema are now online!

Jean & Eula

An Interview with the Former Kontrabidas Eto na ang pinakaaabangang pagbabalik sa teleserye ni Jean Garcia at Eula Valdez

Manny Talks

Manny Pacquiao: People's Champ Narito ang interview namin sa kampeon ng mga Pilipino.

Jomari's Back

Jomari: Balik Kapamilya!

Weather Update

Intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) affecting Visayas and Mindanao.
Metro Cebu: Partly cloudy to cloudy with rainshowers or thunderstorms in the afternoon or evening, winds will be light to moderate blowing from the east and southeast, coastal waters will be slight to moderate, temperature range 26 to 36°C (79 to 97°F).
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Wanted Clerk

POSITION: OFFICE CLERK

QUALIFICATIONS:

Female; at least 25 years old; College Graduate; Knowledgeable in MS office; proficient in Written and Oral English; Organized; Can work with minimum supervision; Pleasing personality; Can speak Japanese a big plus.

Soft copy of application letter and resume is prefered. They can send their application and resume at o.lim@maxtronix.net .

Octavio P. Lim
Sales/Engineering Manager
Maxtronix Inc.
#2 Sulpicio Tunacao Apt.
Pusok, Cemento
Lapu-lapu City
Tel.: 6332-3408607
Fax: 6332-3408608
mobile: 0917-8138935
web site: www.maxtronix.net
" MAKE IT HAPPEN "

Phone health risks worse in countryside

According to a report published in the journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine by a team of Swedish scientists, people who live in rural areas may face an increased risk of developing heath problems associated with mobile phones.

HOTS: DYAB International Job Fair (April 29, 2005)

FIL - HR MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT SERVICES SPECIALIST CORP.
Bejasa, Julius – Cook
Disucatan, Mary Ann – Nursery Teacher
Alfar, Ma. Alma – Cook
Artates, Ravel – Draftsman
Ahog, Marleth – Domestic Helper
Gumahin, Joni Florence – Domestic Helper
Paskulado, Richard Estom – Driver
Zamora, Giovanni – Draftsman/Fashion Designer
Anjado/Alejado (?), Marietess – Secretary
Concepcion, louise Mary – Physical Therapist
Codilla, janet – Cook
Macabinlar, Mana Lethell – Teacher
Casa, Molatshe (?) – Social Worker
Sacil, Walter S. – Cook
Bacatan, Ryan – Laborer
Ladonga, Faith – Secretary
De Soto, Elizabeth – Nursery Teacher/Tutor
Capablanca, Shelyn – Cook
Raganas, Juvelyn – Secretary
Balagtas, America – Secretary
Balagtas, Maria Estrella – Lady Driver/Cook
Senorio, Herbert – QA/QC Coordinator
Pupa, Alma – Cook
Manlangit, Gerlie – Cook
Cabrillas, Rennelie – Private Tutor
Flores, Jemar – Furniture Carpenter
Compra, Lary – Secretary
Basalan, Nestor – QC Coordinator
Cajuquiran, Ariel – Automotive Mechanic
Abiso, Pio – Electrician
Cabrera, Rolando – Laborer
Gasta, Marilou – Secretary
Tobes, Janice Joy – Nursery Teacher
Perez, Domingo Jr. – Truck Driver/Mechanic
Gerado, Glenn – Electrician
Libre, maria Lessondra – Physical Therapist
Aparri, Felipe Jr. M. – Electrician
Desucatan, Ildefonso – HR Manager – Furniture
Monderondo, Leo – QA/QC Coordinator
Ceniza, Lemuel – QA/QC Coordinator

NON-STOP OVERSEAS EMPLOYMENT CORPORATION
Ogaob, leila – Domestic Helper
Ortis, Mary Grace – Domestic Helper
Arante, Ma. Irna – Domestic Helper
Ygot, Josefina – Domestic Helper
Rendon, Daniza – Domestic Helper
Gonzalez, Lodie – Domestic Helper
Alsola, Jolyn – Domestic Helper
Gonzaga, Ma. Jessica – Domestic Helper
Matondo, Marissa – Domestic Helper
Rivera, Dorothy – Domestic Helper
Gloria, Mildred – Domestic Helper
Soliven, Ann – Domestic Helper
Despi, Sharon – Domestic Helper
Bustamante, Stella – Domestic Helper
Bejona, Gina G. – Sales Lady
Camposo, Alma – Domestic Helper
Melancolico, Miraflor T. – Baby Sitter
Peresores, Dycel – Domestic Helper

SKILLS International
Kadusale, Evelia – Staff Nurse
Musa, Vilma – Nurse
Badal, Sherwin Raymund – Staff Nurse

MOTHERS WAY OVERSEAS MANPOWER SERVICES
Soriano, Lora Mae – Domestic Helper
Villamor, Fredelyn – Domestic Helper

GRAND PLACEMENT
Mistula, Suzette – Operator

CDK MANPOWER
Catalan, Dandy – Waiter

INFINITY
Robie, Sarlyn L. – Electric Operator

Ikaw ang Lahat sa Akin: May 16 na!

ABS-CBN proudly presents its newest teleserye, Ikaw ang Lahat Sa Akin,
set to premiere on a prime evening slot on Monday, May 16.

Ikaw ang Lahat Sa Akin stars teleserye princess Claudine Barretto,
cast for the very first time alongside one of today's most popular
screen teams, John Lloyd Cruz and Bea Alonzo. Also heading this
exceptional cast are Angelika de la Cruz, Shaina Magdayao, and Diether
Ocampo.

An emotional story about love and life that can happen to any one of
us, Ikaw ang Lahat Sa Akin is considered by many as a return to form
for the teleserye format that ABS-CBN pioneered and perfected.

Directed by Eric Reyes (Sana'y Wala Nang Wakas) and Jerome Pobocan
(Hiram), and costarring acclaimed actors Hilda Koronel, Tirso Cruz
III, Jaclyn Jose, Noni Buencamino, and Carmi Martin, with Kathleen
Hermosa, Vanna Garcia, Marla Boyd and Glaiza de Castro, Ikaw Ang Lahat
Sa Akin centers on the story of three young women whose journeys
intersect in the most unexpected of ways.

Nea Cruz Fontanilla (Claudine Barretto) and Jasmin Cruz Fontanilla
(Bea Alonzo) are sisters, although they haven't seen each other since
Nea was five – when Nea's father Larry (Noni Buencamino) abandoned her
and her mother Elena (Jacklyn Jose) to live with the rich Yolanda
(Carmi Martin).

Suns 127, Mavs 102

PHOENIX -- The Phoenix Suns are just too fast to gather any rust.

With Amare Stoudemire powering for career playoff highs of 40 points and 16 rebounds, the Suns blew past the Dallas Mavericks 127-102 on Monday night in Game 1 of the Western Conference semifinals.

Phoenix had not played in eight days after sweeping Memphis, but the Suns came out rested and running against the Mavericks, who were coming off a 40-point victory over Houston in Game 7 of their first-round series Saturday night.

Joe Johnson had 25 points and Shawn Marion 23 points and 11 rebounds in a game the Suns never trailed.

Steve Nash, going against the team he left after six seasons when Mavericks owner Mark Cuban refused to come close to the five-year, $65 million he got from the Suns, was presented the league's most valuable player trophy by NBA commissioner David Stern before the game, holding it high above his head for the cheering crowd.

Then Phoenix was off and running, scoring the first eight points, leading by as many as 18 in the second quarter and 26 at the end of three.

Bida Eskuwela Promo

Pulso Sa DYAB Abante Bisaya ug TV Patrol Central Visayas

Uyon ka ba sa paghatag sa Kongreso ni Presidente Arroyo og standby authority sa pag-uminto sa Value Added Tax (VAT)?

Please text your answer to DYAB REACT (opinion) and send to 2366.

Pulso Sa DYAB Abante Bisaya ug TV Patrol Central Visayas

Uyon ka ba sa paghatag sa Kongreso ni Presidente Arroyo og standby authority sa pag-uminto sa Value Added Tax (VAT)?

Please text your answer to DYAB REACT (opinion) and send to 2366.

Welcome To DYAB Abante Bisaya's Jobs Blog

If you're an applicant, you can post your skills and work experience here. If you're an employer, you're more than welcome to post your job vacancies. Just click the comment button to submit your posts and we'll do the rest. Good Luck!