The name of another slain Filipino journalist, Ruby Garcia, will be enshrined on the Journalists Wall as part of the Newseum Institute’s annual rededication for individuals who offered their lives in the pursuit of their profession. Garcia was shot dead in front of her 10-year-old granddaughter in their home in Bacoor City, Cavite province, on April 6 last year, reports Inquirer.net.
Japanese lawmakers are trying to create new laws that will ease the employment of Filipino nurses and caregivers. Philippine Communications Secretary Sonny Coloma said this was the commitment made by lawmakers belonging to the Japan-Philippines Parliamentarians Friendship League who met with President Aquino at the sidelines of his state visit to Japan, reports ABS-CBN News.
The government has more money than it knows how to spend cleanly, stunting economic growth, Budget Secretary Florencio “Butch” Abad admitted. He said the government has become very efficient at collecting revenues in the past five years. Getting the money moving through the bureaucracy, however, has proved more challenging, reports Inquirer.net.
Over a thousand Filipinos are still in Iraq despite the call of the Philippine government for a mandatory repatriation following the attacks on two hotels there last week, reports ABS-CBN News. "Jenny," not her real name, has been working in Baghdad for about three years. The car bombing attacks last Friday was just near her employer's home. But Jenny said they are used to it already.
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has honored two Filipino staff members of the consular section at the British Embassy in Manila -- Vice Consul Victoria Buenaventura and Pro-Consul Joanna Teh -- for their exemplary work in the aftermath of super typhoon Yolanda (international name: Haiyan) in 2013, reports GMA News. Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) is an honor given to individuals “for a significant achievement or outstanding service to the community” or those who have performed “local ‘hands-on’ service which stands out as an example to other people.”
The death sentence handed to a Filipino in Qatar for spying was reduced on appeal by a Doha court to life imprisonment. Two other sentences of life imprisonment against another pair of defendants, also from the Philippines, were reduced at the same time by Qatar's Court of Appeal to 15 years in jail. All three had been convicted last year on charges of espionage and passing on Qatar military and economic secrets to the Philippines government, reports ABS-CBN News.
LONDON — Hundreds of National Health Service nurses, predominantly Filipinos and their supporters, on Saturday, May 30 demonstrated outside the Daily Mail headquarters here to protest the newspaper’s “racially abusive coverage” of Filipino healthcare workers and nurses following the conviction of Philippine-born nurse Victorino Chua for murdering several patients, reports Inquirer.net.
A Filipina from Queens, New York, Cherliyn Darilag, filed a $10 million class action lawsuit at a New York superior court for canceling a scheduled flight allegedly without providing sufficient accommodations for passengers. The May 17 flight was cancelled due to maintenance checks, reports ABS-CBN News.
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