MANILA: At least 47,000 jobs are open for Filipino seafarers and other others seeking to work aboard international cruise ships.
Labor and Employment Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said cruise ships hire people without college degrees and prefer those with working experience in hotels, casinos and spas, as well as in the fields of beauty and health, information and technology and security.
The basic skills and related requirements for jobs on cruise ships are a high school diploma, experience and proficiency in spoken and written English, she added.
Baldoz said about 47,000 jobs will be created when 15 new international cruise ships come into service this year.
“Cruise vacations are becoming more popular, so global demand is expected to increase in the next five years with new cruise ships to be put in operation,” she said.
804 firecracker injuries logged
MANILA: Active users of firecrackers comprised the majority of people injured in firecracker-related accidents on New Year’s Day.
Quoting data from the National Epidemiology Center, Health Assistant Secretary Eric Tayag said 89 percent of the 306 people injured in piccolo blasts used the firecracker.
Bystanders or passive users accounted for only 11 percent of cases, he added.
Tayag said NEC data showed that the number of firecracker-related injuries at 50 sentinel hospitals nationwide has reached 804 since December 21 up to 6am yesterday.
“Last Jan 1, we reported that the number of cases was higher (than last year’s),” he said. “But based on our latest data, the 804 cases are 90 cases or 10 percent lower compared to the same period last year.”
Firecrackers injured at least 47 people in Cagayan Valley and the Cordilleras during the holidays
Two held for Taguig killings
MANILA: Two cohorts of the gunman who shot dead three people on New Year’s Eve in Palar Village in Barangay Pinagsama in Taguig City have been arrested by police.
Southern Police District (SPD) spokesperson Supt Jenny Tecson identified those arrested as Rocilo delos Reyes and Amile Maguiling.
Tecson said the two suspects have been charged with three counts of murder before the Taguig City Prosecutors Office.
Meanwhile, the gunman, identified as retired Army Sergeant Diosdado Bacatan, remains at-large and is now being the subject of a hunt by the Taguig City Police.
Killed in the incident were Inner Port Water Distributor employees Tyrol Mortos, Enrique Goco and Ronald Mabonga.
Girlfriend raped in hotel room
MANILA: A woman claimed that her boyfriend, an Arab national, sexually abused her in Manila on Tuesday.
The victim, whose identity has been withheld, said in a radio report that she and Mustafa Alsafi had dated several times after they were introduced by a woman in a Manila restaurant.
She said that she met Alsafi in a bar last Tuesday when took her to a hotel room where he forcefully grabbed her arms and raped her. The victim suspected that the woman introduced her to the foreigner for a fee. agencies
