After lobbying by nurses’ groups, Labour Secretary Silvestre Bello said he will recommend to the national coronavirus task force on Thursday that the cap is raised.
Nurses are among the more than 10 million Filipinos who work and live overseas, with annual remittances in excess of $30 billion — a key driver for the country’s consumption-driven economy.
“There are reasons to allow health workers to seek good jobs abroad,” Bello told a news conference. “We will make sure we will…
SYDNEY, Australia — All across the Asia-Pacific region, the countries that led the world in containing the coronavirus are now languishing in the race to put it behind them.
While the United States, which has suffered far more grievous outbreaks, is now filling stadiums with vaccinated fans and cramming airplanes with summer vacationers, the pandemic champions of the East are still stuck in a cycle of uncertainty, restrictions and isolation.
In southern China, the spread of the Delta variant led…
In 1973, Eduardo Galeano wrote what was then a groundbreaking book, “Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent.” Galeano carefully detailed and beautifully summarized how colonialism and then capitalism, specifically U.S. capitalism, overtook the Americas by chicanery and force to rob and plunder the people of this hemisphere for over five centuries.
If anyone now believes that the migration of children and youth from primarily Central America is divorced from that history, they are…
The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld ObamaCare against the latest Republican challenge, preserving the landmark law and its key protections for millions of people with preexisting health conditions.
The justices ruled 7-2 that the GOP challengers lacked standing to sue, in a decision that marks the third major challenge to ObamaCare, or the Affordable Care Act (ACA), to be rebuffed by the Supreme Court in roughly a decade.
The case arose after 18 Republican states brought a legal challenge in…
BOGOTA, June 15 (Reuters) – Colombian protest leaders on Tuesday said their organizations would suspend anti-government demonstrations which have caused political and economic upheaval during the last six weeks, but warned their fight for solutions to a range of social and economic demands would continue.
Protests began at the end of April, sparked by opposition to a now-withdrawn tax reform, and later expanding to include demands for opportunities for young people and an end to police violence.
“We’ve decided to…
Colombia’s Health Ministry reported a record number of 588 daily COVID-19 deaths on Monday as medical organizations warned this number could rise to 800.
Coronavirus infections and deaths have been rising since mid-March and reached their highest levels since the beginning of the pandemic over the past week.
President Ivan Duque on Friday blamed ongoing protest against his increasingly tyrannical regime for the surge.
The president and his health minister previously claimed that the surge was due to the arrival…
Bogotá, Colombia — Friday marks a month since the beginning of protests that have roiled Colombia, causing fuel and food supply shortages, unemployment, infrastructure damage, forcing businesses to close and hurting local economies.
Negotiations between the government and demonstrators have made little progress and protester demands are growing.
Although turnout numbers seem to be dwindling, protests and unrest are still a daily occurrence and another major national strike is expected Friday.
Disruptions have been most evident in Colombia’s third-biggest city,…
