Bagong Bayani Awards to 12 Overseas Filipino Workers
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo conferred Wednesday in Malacañang the most coveted Bagong Bayani Awards to 12 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) for their outstanding achievements, including their remarkable contribution to the country’s economy.
Organized by the Bagong Bayani Foundation Inc., the Bagong Bayani Awards is an international search for the country’s outstanding overseas workers. This year’s awards were given to OFWs in four categories, namely: Bagong Bayani Awards for Most Outstanding Employees, Bagong Bayani Awards for Community and Social Service, Bagong Bayani Awards for Culture and the Arts, and the Blas F. Ople Award Para sa Natatanging Bagong Bayani.
Those who received the Bagong Bayani trophy from the President in a simple ceremony held at Malacañang’s Rizal Hall this afternoon are Chitael R. Carmona, Vito S. De Raya, Cuadrato Gidoc Gaspi, Eduardo G. Gulmatico, Rolando B. Ocampo, Hazel H. Reposo, Jesus C. Sumook, Mary Jane Pajarillo Tupaz, Josefina Villarey, Roberto A. Abella, Francisco R. Roque and Richard G. Gabriel.
Labor Secretary Arturo Brion, Bernardo Ople, brother of late Senator Blas F. Ople, and Capt. Gregorio S. Oca, president of the Bagong Bayani Foundation, assisted the President in the presentation of trophies to the OFWs awardees.
The Blas F. Ople Award para sa Natatanging Bagong Bayani was presented by the President to Mary Jane Pajarillo Tupaz, 41, of Puis, New Washington, Aklan, presently working as director of nursing at the Mohammad Dossary Hospital in Saudi Arabia.
Tupaz was unanimously nominated for the award by the Philippine Labor Office in Alkhobar, her employer and co-hospital staff for her persistence and hard work and for helping a bleeding pregnant woman of four months on board an airplane from Dhahran to Manila in 2006.
The awardees for the Most Outstanding Employees were: Chitael R. Carmona, 54, of Bacolod City and presently working as superintendent of Refrigeration Industries and Storage Co. (RISCO) in Kuwait; Vito S. De Raya, 58, of Cavite, now employed as education officer/senior lecturer of the College of Nursing, Ministry of Education in Brunei Darussalam;
Capt. Cuadrato Gidoc Caspi, 48, of Sorsogon, a master mariner of Wallem Ship Management Ltd.; Eduardo G. Gulmatico, 55, of Tangub, Bacolod City, a senior house officer of Technip/NPCC Corporation in the United Arab Emirates; Rolando B. Ocampo, 53, of Bacoor, Cavite, a restaurant manager in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia;
Hazel H. Reposo, 30, of Iloilo City, a housekeeper in the United States of America; Jesus C. Sumook, 35, an able seaman of the Day Star Shipping Ltd. in Sweden; and Josefina Villarey, 46, of Quezon City, a housekeeper and personal secretary in Kuwait.
The recipients of Bagong Bayani Awards for Community and Social Service were Roberto A. Abella, 65, a project and senior engineer of the First Engineering Group of Companies in Libya, and Francisco R. Roque, of San Jose City, Nueva Ecija, a landscape engineer at the Public Authority in Agriculture Affairs and Fisheries Resources in Kuwait. The Culture and the Arts award was given to Richard G. Gabriel, 42, of Arayat, Pampanga, a sculptor, artist and painter in Italy.
Organized by the Bagong Bayani Foundation Inc., the Bagong Bayani Awards is an international search for the country’s outstanding overseas workers. This year’s awards were given to OFWs in four categories, namely: Bagong Bayani Awards for Most Outstanding Employees, Bagong Bayani Awards for Community and Social Service, Bagong Bayani Awards for Culture and the Arts, and the Blas F. Ople Award Para sa Natatanging Bagong Bayani.
Those who received the Bagong Bayani trophy from the President in a simple ceremony held at Malacañang’s Rizal Hall this afternoon are Chitael R. Carmona, Vito S. De Raya, Cuadrato Gidoc Gaspi, Eduardo G. Gulmatico, Rolando B. Ocampo, Hazel H. Reposo, Jesus C. Sumook, Mary Jane Pajarillo Tupaz, Josefina Villarey, Roberto A. Abella, Francisco R. Roque and Richard G. Gabriel.
Labor Secretary Arturo Brion, Bernardo Ople, brother of late Senator Blas F. Ople, and Capt. Gregorio S. Oca, president of the Bagong Bayani Foundation, assisted the President in the presentation of trophies to the OFWs awardees.
The Blas F. Ople Award para sa Natatanging Bagong Bayani was presented by the President to Mary Jane Pajarillo Tupaz, 41, of Puis, New Washington, Aklan, presently working as director of nursing at the Mohammad Dossary Hospital in Saudi Arabia.
Tupaz was unanimously nominated for the award by the Philippine Labor Office in Alkhobar, her employer and co-hospital staff for her persistence and hard work and for helping a bleeding pregnant woman of four months on board an airplane from Dhahran to Manila in 2006.
The awardees for the Most Outstanding Employees were: Chitael R. Carmona, 54, of Bacolod City and presently working as superintendent of Refrigeration Industries and Storage Co. (RISCO) in Kuwait; Vito S. De Raya, 58, of Cavite, now employed as education officer/senior lecturer of the College of Nursing, Ministry of Education in Brunei Darussalam;
Capt. Cuadrato Gidoc Caspi, 48, of Sorsogon, a master mariner of Wallem Ship Management Ltd.; Eduardo G. Gulmatico, 55, of Tangub, Bacolod City, a senior house officer of Technip/NPCC Corporation in the United Arab Emirates; Rolando B. Ocampo, 53, of Bacoor, Cavite, a restaurant manager in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia;
Hazel H. Reposo, 30, of Iloilo City, a housekeeper in the United States of America; Jesus C. Sumook, 35, an able seaman of the Day Star Shipping Ltd. in Sweden; and Josefina Villarey, 46, of Quezon City, a housekeeper and personal secretary in Kuwait.
The recipients of Bagong Bayani Awards for Community and Social Service were Roberto A. Abella, 65, a project and senior engineer of the First Engineering Group of Companies in Libya, and Francisco R. Roque, of San Jose City, Nueva Ecija, a landscape engineer at the Public Authority in Agriculture Affairs and Fisheries Resources in Kuwait. The Culture and the Arts award was given to Richard G. Gabriel, 42, of Arayat, Pampanga, a sculptor, artist and painter in Italy.
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