Toronto, Ontario Eliza Lazaro preyed on her own kababayans By Ted Alcuitas A woman who came to Canada from the Philippines as a live-in caregiver has been jailed for exploiting would-be immigrants in a stiff sentence designed to thwart a wave of bogus immigration consulting, The National Post reported. Eliza Lazaro was convicted just a […]
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OFWS exempted from fee InterAksyon.com The online news portal of TV5 MANILA – Returning Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) whose tickets were purchased abroad will be exempted from paying airport terminal fees starting March 2017. Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA) General Manager Ed Monreal said airlines have agreed to automatically relieve OFWs who purchased their return
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Updated Vancouver, B.C.
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Migrant workers shut out of secretive closed door immigration consultations Posted on July 6, 2016 By Ted Alcuitas A coalition of migrant workers today slammed the government’s secretive consultations on immigration policy. The Coalition for Migrant Worker Rights Canada, the representative body of migrant workers released a statement denouncing the exclusion of migrant workers from
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Death row Filipino not on Indonesia’s next batch of prisoners to face firing squad, migrant group says A Philippine alliance of migrant workers have expressed confidence that Mary Jane Veloso, a Filipino woman on Indonesia’s death row, will not be among the 16 convicts set to be executed after the Islamic month of
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Press Release Vancouver – Today, on June 16 International Domestic Workers Day, local caregivers and their advocates will hold a rally at the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) office in Downtown Vancouver to highlight their call to end “Project Guardian”, a program that conducts raids and deportations of foreign caregivers. The groups will also launch
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Man who trafficked Filipina caregiver faces new trial By Ted Alcuitas Vancouver, B.C.- Franco Orr, the first person convicted for human trafficking under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act began his second trial on Monday, June 13 at B.C. Supreme Court. Orr launched a successful appeal of his conviction in March 2015 and a three-judge
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Temporary workers tell of exploitation By Ted Alcuitas Vancouver, B. C. _ The Coalition for Migrant Workers Rights Canada today calls on the government to admit temporary foreign workers as permanent residents and give them open work permits. In a press conference at the B.C. Teacher’s Federation offices, the group press anew their demand for
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Surrey, B.C. Another Pinay caregiver killed in ‘hit and run’ accident By Ted Alcuitas Less than a week after the death of a caregiver hit by two cars in Vancouver, another one died in a ‘hit and run’ crash in Surrey, B. C. Josie Belcourt, 57, was hit on March 14 by a grey 2010
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