{"id":60528,"date":"2015-09-01T21:47:18","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T13:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=60528"},"modified":"2015-09-01T21:47:18","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T13:47:18","slug":"leaders-of-ofw-groups-to-attend-probe-on-balikbayan-box-inspection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/09\/01\/leaders-of-ofw-groups-to-attend-probe-on-balikbayan-box-inspection\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaders of OFW groups to attend probe on balikbayan box inspection"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_59662\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59662\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/shutterstock_176998874.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-59662\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/shutterstock_176998874-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/shutterstock_176998874-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/shutterstock_176998874.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-59662\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 OFW representatives are set to attend the congressional investigation into the Bureau of Customs (BOC)\u2019s planned inspection of the balikbayan boxes this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we welcome every opportunity to hold a dialogue with the BOC, we decided to consolidate our concerns and include all these in our presentation before members of the Senate and House of Representatives in the presence of BOC and other stakeholders,\u201d John Bertiz, spokesperson for the coalition of OFWs groupssaid in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>He added the groups are currently preparing proposals in order to prevent the incident from happening again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are preparing our proposals for our legislators and for the BOC to note and consider. The legislative hearings offer a fair, transparent, open, and constructive platform for long-term solutions so that the balikbayan fiasco would never happen again,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The hearing will be conducted by the House committee on overseas workers affairs on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate ways and means will also conduct a separate public hearing on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 OFW representatives are set to attend the congressional investigation into the Bureau of Customs (BOC)\u2019s planned inspection of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":59662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}