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Absentee Voters Registration
Pasuguan Ng Pilipinas
Embassy of the Philippines-Wellington
The Commission on Elections has advised all Philippine Foreign Service posts to conduct a registration of all Filipino Citizens over 18 years of age abroad on 10 May 2010, the day of the Presidential election in the Philippines.
The end of registration has been set for 31 August 2009.The Philippines election will be on the 10th May 2010 but the period for Filipino citizens abroad will be from 10 April 2010 until 3 pm Philippine time 10 May 2010.
All applicants have to report to the Philippines Embassy in Wellington.If there are 200 or more applicants in your locality, the Embassy people may schedule an onsite registration of overseas absentee voters.
For more information email the embassy at
embassy@wellington_pe.co.nz or visit
www.philembassy.org.nz
Coping up with Recession
Despite politicians being mum in saying the R word, accept it or not everybody knows that the world economic downturn is much worst that what is expected. The dollar falling below the 50 cents mark is a clear sign. The construction industry particularly on the private sector is crumbling, job losses, businesses are closing.
Here are some tips to cope up with the recession:
Filipino Workers in NZ
The Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) in New Zealand are in a better position than those in Australia.
Based on the pre-economic meltdown foreign exchange rates, the AUD have diminished almost 30% of its value against the USD compared to 23% for the NZD.
This means that for the same earning capacity during the pre-meltdown times, now the Filipinos in New Zealand earn more comparatively.
Do you still plan to go to Australia?
Government plans to counteract job layoffs
The Kiwi economy is not getting any better. Lay off of workers is on the rise that's why the Labour government has laid out its plans to keep people in work if the economy slips further, listing three main areas in which government spending will be brought forward.
The Prime Minister said she would bring forward a $1 billion project to insulate older homes and other energy saving measures, give local bodies more money for road works and public transport projects, and start the rollout of superfast Internet broadband early if necessary to create jobs.
Labour however, is also planning to cut immigration numbers to protect Kiwi jobs. With less than 200,000 work permits issued in the year to July to cope with a skills shortage, it sees plenty of reasons to turn the tap off in trades such as building and the hospitality industry if work begins to drop off.
The government predicts that about 50,0000 people could be jobless the economic downturn starts to bite - a prospect that has National and Labour focused on the likely fallout.
