MANILA, Philippines — Education Secretary Armin Luistro has challenged the student trainees of the Department of Education’s (DepEd) Special Program for the Employment of Students (SPES) to convince the out-of-school youths (OSYs) in their communities to also invest in education through the Open High School Program (OHSP) and the Alternative Learning System (ALS). Read the rest of this entry »
Luistro hurls challenge at student trainees
April 30, 2011
TUCP: Workers will not abandon demand
April 30, 2011
The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP), the country’s largest labor group, said workers would not abandon their demand for financial relief on Labor Day. Read the rest of this entry »
For small miners, life’s a gamble
April 30, 2011
PANTUKAN, COMPOSTELA VALLEY, Philippines—For Jay Celade, the chance to strike big and earn thousands of pesos in just several hours of working underground means more than the constant risk of death. Read the rest of this entry »
Women suffer most from economic crises
April 30, 2011
At the onset of the global financial crisis, 42-year-old Rosita Vergara lost her job along with some 300 workers in an export-processing zone in Calamba, Laguna. Read the rest of this entry »
Sleepy Leyte town wakes up, thanks to newly-skilled workers
April 29, 2011
MANILA, Philippines — The Kananga-EDC Institute of Technology (KEITECH) in Kananga town in Leyte has become a benchmark for alternative education and training program that has transformed unskilled youth into highly-skilled workers. It was jointly founded in June 2009 by geothermal leader Energy Development Corporation (EDC), the municipal government of Kananga, and TESDA. Read the rest of this entry »
Limestone kills worker
April 29, 2011
CEBU, Philippines – Meanwhile, a 62-year-old man was killed when limestone, locally known as “anapog,” fell on him in Sitio Pasamanos, Barangay Dawesur, Carmen, Cebu Wednesday afternoon. Read the rest of this entry »
Toyota Phils to cut production by 50%
April 29, 2011
Manila, Philippines – After shutting down its manufacturing plant for three days, Toyota Motor Philippines (TMP), the country’s largest auto manufacturer, announced it will cut its production by 50 percent and will reduce its work week to only three days as it grapple with the aftermath of the twin disasters in Japan. Read the rest of this entry »
Faulty exercise of freedom
April 29, 2011
Malacanang’s call for a halt to the heated debate on the RH bill is rather too late. This call should have been PNoy’s stance in his UP commencement speech. He would have really looked more like a Statesman and the President of all the Filipinos if he just initially declined to make a stand on the issue because there are still “continued discussions on the bill” which are necessary for them “to come up with a very reasonable measure”, as his spokesman now belatedly says. Ironically, his spokesman is now also giving the impression that the Church “looks at the government as an adversary” when it was PNoy who first said in a perceivably belligerent way, that he is willing to be ex-communicated by the Church for essentially favoring the RH bill a.k.a. “Responsible Parenthood (RP) bill. Naturally such assertion will provoke more debate and discussion. Read the rest of this entry »
OFWs call for lifting of OFW deployment ban in Bahrain
April 29, 2011
MANILA, Philippines – A group of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) yesterday demanded the full lifting of the government’s deployment ban in Bahrain to enable more Filipinos to work there. Read the rest of this entry »
BPO industry grew 30% on 1st year of global crisis
April 29, 2011
THE information technology-business process outsourcing (IT-BPO) services had provided support to the economy, despite the challenges posed by the nascent stages of global recovery in 2009, the Philippine central bank said. Read the rest of this entry »
