Low turnout of Migrante votes very improbable; Vote-shaving, disenfranchisement, Hocus PCOS aimed to benefit Aquino clique (0)
5/22/13 •
As the national canvassing for partylist votes resumed, Migrante Partylist declared that its very low turnout of votes in the mid-term elections is “very improbable”. Migrante Partylist attributes the very low turnout to massive vote-shaving, disenfranchisement especially in overseas absentee voting and irregularities in the automated electoral system. “Zero votes” in bulwarks Migrante Partylist exposed [...]
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Repatriation ‘bittersweet’ for returned OFWs from Saudi (0)
5/21/13 •
Recall of Saudi ambassador demanded After more than a month of camping out of PH posts in Jeddah and Riyadh, a handful of stranded overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) were finally reunited with their families over the weekend. Last Saturday, May 18, the first and second batches of OFW “campers” from Riyadh and Jeddah, respectively, arrived [...]
UPDATE: Stranded OFWs in Riyadh beaten by PH embassy officials (0)
5/17/13 •
On Day 13 of their campout, stranded OFWs inside the Philippine Embassy in Riyadh continue to experience harassment, threats and food and water blockade by embassy officials. As of 6:00pm yesterday, KSA time, the stranded OFWs, among them women and children, were driven away from their makeshift tents inside the embassy compound. Some of them [...]
Partylist nominee was in charge of operating PCOS machines in 2010 (0)
5/17/13 •
For Juan ‘Johnny’ Revilla, project manager of Placewell Manpower, a recruitment agency contracted by the Commission on Elections to man PCOS machines in the 2010 elections, “for a cunning, desperate and sly politician, there are so many ways” to cheat in automated elections. Revilla’s recruitment agency was one of three companies that won the contract [...]
OFWs slam PH gov’t's diplomatic faux pas on Taiwanese shooting incident (0)
5/16/13 •
Migrante International chairperson Garry Martinez today said that overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Taiwan should not be made to bear the brunt for the Philippine government’s callous, incompetent and undiplomatic handling of the Philippine Coast Guard’s (PCG) shooting of a Taiwanese vessel killing a 65-year-old fisherman last May 9. The migrant leader said that they, [...]
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- No kudos to faulty PCOS: Group fears massive disenfranchisement due to widespread PCOS errors
- (WITH PHOTOS) Clock is ticking: Day 34 for Jeddah, Day 6 for Riyadh, Day 11 for families; Kin of stranded OFWs set up symbolic campout at DFA anew
- (PHOTOS/VIDEO) On Day 5 of Riyadh campout, heavy rains demolish OFWs’ tents
- URGENT UPDATE: Food, water supplies withheld from stranded OFWs by PH Embassy in Riyadh
- First Jeddah, now Riyadh: Saudi OFWs intensify demand for free, immediate and mass repatriation
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