May 20, 2012

Category Archives: Columns

Students List 10 Outstanding Public Servants

Nov. 26, 2002 Manila Bulletin Sen. Aquilino Pimentel and National Labor Relations Commission Chairman Roy V. Señeres led 11 public officials who have been chosen as the Philippines’ “Outstanding Public Servants” for the year 2002 by the National Student Consensus (NSC), an inter-school student organization. NSC President Hermie S. Aban said yesterday that the 11 [...]

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The Price of Working Abroad: Abandoned Wives, Orphaned Children

INQUIRER Global Nation By Ambassador Roy V. Señeres INQUIRER.net First Posted 11:01:00 02/07/2010 MANILA, Philippines–I believe there is another kind of calamity that has been causing more havoc upon the lives of millions of Filipinos both here and abroad than the natural calamities that visit the Philippines regularly. It has been going on for four decades [...]

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Graft and Corruption and the OFWs

By: Roy V. Señeres (Published by the GRAPHIC on 27 October 1997 and the Manila Bulletin on 23 November 1997) Time and again the World Bank would tell the whole world that the Philippine government is corrupt because 30 percent of its annual national budget goes to the pockets of crooks in the government. Our [...]

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