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By MICHAELA DEL CALLAR Published October 18, 2022 11:11am Canada's Saskatchewan province on Tuesday announced a plan to hire hundreds of healthcare workers from the Philippines over the next two years. The move is part of Saskatchewan's long-term scheme to recruit, train, incentivize and retain more healthcare workers to strengthen its provincial healthcare system, a Canadian Embassy statement said. Full-time jobs will be offered to registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, continuing care assistants and medical laboratory assistants. “We want to spread the word to health-care workers in the Philippines that our province is a place of great opportunity,” Saskatchewan’s Minister of Health Paul Merriman said. “We would love to welcome into our friendly Saskatchewan communities health-care workers from the Philippines who are interested in coming to work and live here along with their families,” he added. Saskatchewan is the first province in Canada to pilot an accele...

By GMA News Published October 17, 2022 8:49pm Filipinos flocked to a recruitment event in Mandaluyong where representatives from US hospitals are taking part to fill their huge need for nurses. According to Mark Salazar's report on "24 Oras", hundreds of applicants went to the event to try and be picked to fill up the reported 2 million vacancies for nurses in the US. Filipinos are reportedly preferred to be hired because of their proficiency in speaking English. One of the nurses applying for a job in the US said she was earning P30,000 a month which she said was no longer enough "for a single mother with dependents." Another said that she could earn P500,000 a month with the hourly rate of $35 an hour for nurses in Florida. It was much more than what she's earning as a call center agent in the Philippines. "We can honestly say talaga na mas appreciated ng ibang bansa yung mga nurses kaysa dito sa Pilipinas," she said. —NB, GMA News

By RICHA NORIEGA, GMA News Published October 15, 2022 4:57pm The Philippine Embassy in Italy advised Filipinos to remain vigilant following the eruption of Mt. Stromboli. advertisement In an advisory, the Philippine Embassy cautioned Filipinos in the affected areas and other nearby localities to continuously monitor the news after the Italian government issued warnings. The embassy said Mt. Stromboli erupted on Monday, October 10, at 4 a.m. as recorded by Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV). The Italian civil protection authorities also raised the alert level from yellow to orange. “While the Italian Department of Civil Protection indicated that monitoring parameters are ‘normal with a persistent activity of the Strombolian type and of ordinary intensity,’ all Filipino nationals in the affected areas and other nearby areas are advised to continuously monitor the news,” the embassy said in a statement released on Friday. The embassy said Filipinos m...

By RICHA NORIEGA, GMA News Published October 14, 2022 2:32pm The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) on Friday said it will make its certifications verified by the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) and Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) to avoid proliferation of fake certificates. At the public briefing, TESDA Deputy Director General Aniceto Bertiz III said this was discussed in the recent meeting with the DMW officials in order to prevent Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWS) becoming victims of fake national certificates from TESDA. “Napagusapan yung mga kababayan na nabibiktima ng mga pekeng national certification ng TESDA. Kaya po we will make our certifications na pwede po siyang iverify ng POEA or ng DMW in regards the veracity of the certificate na hawak po ng mga workers,” Bertiz said. (The meeting also discussed the problems among OFWs who were victims of fake national certifications from TESDA. So we will make our certifications t...

By JOJO DASS Published October 13, 2022 11:01am DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A single mother, working as chef here, was the latest Filipino to win in the Mahzooz weekly draw, bagging AED100,000 (approximately P1.6 million) – a part of which, she said, will be used to finish work on her house under construction and donate to a charity group for persons with disabilities back home. advertisement “Masaya siyempre. Ilang years ko ring pag-iipunan (yung ganung halaga pero) instant na andyan na,” 43-year-old “Carrol,” who hails from Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu in central Philippines, told GMA News Online. “Saka…nag-pledge ako na once na manalo ako, magdo-donate ako sa charity para sa mga PWD po sa Pilipinas,” Carrol, who’s making around AED6,000 a month in her job, added. [I’m happy, of course. I don’t know how long will it take me to raise such fund, but right now, it’s here. I’ve pledged that once I win, I will donate to a charity institution helping PWDs in the Philippines.] Carrol said ...

By SUNDY LOCUS, GMA News Published October 11, 2022 5:56pm The Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) closed down on Tuesday an immigration consultancy firm in Makati City over its alleged illegal recruitment operations. advertisement DMW Secretary Susan Ople and the Makati City police went to the consultancy firm in San Lorenzo to personally issue the closure order. “[Ito ay] example ng consultation agency na nagpapanggap na recruitment agency,” Ople told reporters in an ambush interview. (This is an example of a consultation agency that poses as a recruitment firm.) “‘Di siya lisensyado ng POEA [Philippine Overseas Employment Administration], naninigil siya, nangongolekta ng resumes ng mga workers. Nagpapaasa [sa] mga worker na makapag-work sila sa abroad pero alam naman natin na ang pwede lang magpa-alis ng mga workers natin ay mga lehitimong recruitment firms,” she said. (It is not licensed by the POEA but it will charge fees, and collect resumés. It gives empty promises to w...

However, the DMW said in JP Soriano's Saturday's "24 Oras Weekend" report that everything depended on the talks with Germany. “Hintayin natin ‘yung bunga ng talks with Germany. Tinginitignan namin ibang occupational skills hindi lang ‘yung sa health workers so on-going yung talks ngayon,” said DMW Secretary Susan Ople. — Sherylin Untalan/DVM, GMA News