Palace honors first DMW chief Toots Ople

More than two years after her death, former Migrant Workers Secretary Maria Susana “Toots” Vasquez Ople was conferred the Order of Lakandula with the rank of Grand Cross (Bayani) by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. The posthumous award was received by Ople’s family in a ceremony held at the Palace on Tuesday, which coincided with Rizal