Posted by Mai on 30th October 2007
ABS-CBN Interactive
UK Pinoy caregivers face deportation
Filipino caregivers in the United Kingdom threatened to stage a rally following a British Home Office directive that states work permits will not be renewed if their contracts are less than five years.
ABS-CBN Europe News Bureau reported that the Home Office’s refusal to renew Filipinos’ work permits will affect more than 1,000 caregivers, including their dependents.
Bureau chief Danny Buenafe said in his report that a number of British lawmakers, as well as Unison, the biggest trade union in the UK, have expressed their support for the protest action, which has been scheduled on November 3.
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Posted by Mai on 30th October 2007
Philippine Star – Articles – -
Erap men among Palace nominees to Comelec
By Sheila Crisostomo
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Lawyer Rene Saguisag and Cagayan de Oro Rep. Rufus Rodriguez, two vocal critics of the Arroyo administration, are among the seven Malacañang nominees to four vacancies at the Commission on Elections (Comelec), including the position of chairman.
Comelec acting chairman Resurreccion Borra said the other nominees are former senator Wigberto Tañada, Howard Calleja of the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV), Dean Amado Valdez of the University of the East-College of Law; Comelec law department chief Alioden Dalaig, and one Severo Maluenda.
Sought for comment, Saguisag said he would never accept any Comelec position, either as chairman or commissioner.
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Posted by Mai on 30th October 2007
Manila Bulletin Online
El Shaddai, Iglesia welcome grant of pardon
David Cagahastian
Two of the country’s biggest religious groups have lauded the decision of President Arroyo to grant executive clemency to former President Joseph Estrada.
In a letter dated Oct. 26, 2007, El Shaddai leader Bro. Mike Velarde and Iglesia ni Kristo spokesman Bro. Bienvenido Santiago said “the pardon will significantly help in promoting national unity and political stability that our country and people badly need to improve our economic and security conditions.”
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Philippine News — Manila Standard Today
Sison: Door open for talks
By Toby Sterling
UTRECHT—The door is open for a resumption of peace talks between the Philippine government and communist rebels who have been waging a nearly 40-year insurgency, an exiled former rebel leader said.
Jose Maria Sison, 68, living in The Netherlands since the mid-1980s, says he believes the conflict will be resolved in his lifetime and he will return to his homeland—though it may not be during the presidency of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, due to end in 2010.
He says he has been preparing for a resumption of talks since his arrest in August by Dutch authorities—and swift release for lack of evidence—for allegedly ordering killings in the Philippines.
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Posted by Mai on 30th October 2007
INQUIRER.net
UN report: RP strategy to blame for spate of killings
By Michael Lim Ubac
Inquirer
MANILA, Philippines — A United Nations official has blamed the Philippine government’s counterinsurgency strategy, and a distorted criminal justice system, for the continuing spate of extrajudicial killings in the country.
In a 21-page report to the UN General Assembly on Friday, Professor Philip Alston, the Commission of Human Rights’ Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions stuck to his findings earlier this year that leftist leaders in some parts of the Philippines were “systematically hunted down.â€
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Posted by Mai on 30th October 2007
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‘It won’t take 24 hrs to seize Erap assets’
The Sandiganbayan on Tuesday assured that it would not take the sheriff more than 24 hours to start reclaiming the plundered riches of former president Joseph Estrada once the anti-graft court orders their forfeiture.
Sheriff Ed Urieta said his office is still waiting for the issuance of a writ of execution from Sandibangayan justices for the forfeiture of the former president’s more than P500 million cash or the equivalent amount of property.
“We will immediately act in less than 24 hours. Immediately, that is our job,” Urieta told a radio dzMM interview.
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