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Liza Maza calls for immediate repatriation of 19 distressed women OFWs

Submitted by mkbyn on Fri, 04/09/2010 - 11:42am

NP senatorial candidate Rep. Liza Maza called for the immediate repatriation of 19 distressed women workers unduly held in the Annasban company barracks in Abha, in southwestern Saudi Arabia.

"Lagpas 3 buwan na kami rito sa barracks, pero di pa rin kami napapa-uwi,” (We've been here in the barracks for more than 3 months now but we have yet to be repatraiated),” Maza quoted Monaliza Paje, 34 years old of Butuan City, as saying in an urgent message to Migrante International's Middle East regional coordinator John Leonard Monterona.

Paje's fellow co-workers are Susana de la Roca, Maribel Remetio, Vicky Jaruda, Mercy Santos, Rachel Baroy, Shiela Marie Barreto Ventura, Florencia Monte, Sarah Jane Abad, Elisa Mendoza, Margarita Viray, Normalia P. Daraid, Maileen Martinez, Anna Mae Comia, Sherhina Abdulla, Nemia Gallantes, Shirley G. Martinez, and Liezel A. Caballes.

Next admin should eradicate corruption and set proper budget priorities instead of increasing VAT - Maza

Submitted by mkbyn on Wed, 04/07/2010 - 4:55pm

“Eradicating the age-old problem in corruption and setting proper budget priorities are what the next administration should pay attention to in order to solve the country's fiscal problem, instead of increasing the tax and thereby adding burden to the Filipino people.”

This was the statement of Makabayan-Nacionalista senatorial candidate Liza Maza slamming Finance Secretary Margarito Teves' proposal for the next Congress to raise Value Added Tax (VAT) from 12% to 15%.

Maza slams Arroyo's 12% VAT on Toll Fees

Submitted by mkbyn on Tue, 03/30/2010 - 2:16pm

Makabayan-Nationalista Senatorial bet Liza Maza hit Bureau of Internal Revenue's (BIR) declared imposition of 12% Value-Added Tax on toll fees starting on April 1, Maundy Thursday, calling it an added burden on the heavy cross the Filipino motorists are already carrying.

"This current administration indeed shows no penitence in the suffering it has caused to the people. Ito na mismo ang nagpapako sa mamamayan sa krus ng paghihirap at krisis," Maza said.