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MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Bagaman nagpatupad na ng total ban sa deployment ng mga Overseas Filipino Worker (OFWs) sa Kuwait, nangangamba pa rin ang minority bloc sa Kamara sa posibleng patuloy na pag-abuso sa ating mga kababayan ng mga illegal recruiter. Ito ay matapos na payagan ng Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) ang ibang OFWs na bumalik sa kanilang mga kumpanya sa Kuwait partikular na ang mga nagbakasyon lang sa bansa at ang […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Labor and Employment has qualified the government’s total ban on overseas Filipino workers to Kuwait, saying this only referred to “all types of workers being deployed for the first time for overseas employment in Kuwait.” Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III clarified the “general coverage” of department issued Administrative Order No. 54 regarding the total ban on the deployment of OFWs in Kuwait. “The deployment ban covers all types of […]
(Eagle News) — The Bureau of Immigration on Wednesday said that Overseas Filipino Workers in Kuwait who are only currently on vacation in the Philippines can leave and return to their jobs. BI Commissioner Jaime Morente made the announcement after the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) issued a directive exempting “Balik Manggagawa” passengers from the total deployment ban of Filipino workers to the Middle Eastern country. According to Morente, he has instructed Marc Red Mariñas, BI […]
KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait — Kuwait’s foreign minister on Tuesday condemned what he called an “escalation” by Manila after the Philippines expanded a ban on its nationals working in Kuwait. Manila on Monday officially announced a “total ban” on new employment in Kuwait, including Filipinos who had already obtained employment permits but had not yet left for the Gulf country. The measure came after President Rodrigo Duterte angrily lashed out at Kuwait over reports of Filipino […]
Duterte also thanks Gokongwei family for offer to deploy aircraft for distressed Filipino workers (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte appeared to have reconciled with Lucio Tan on Tuesday night, after the business tycoon who was once publicly slammed by the chief executive for his airline’s then-unpaid debts offered one of his planes for use by Overseas Filipino Workers being repatriated from Kuwait. “(Tan) called yesterday offering another plane..Nabayaran mo naman na taxes mo, at […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Bureau of Immigration said it will strictly implement the total ban on the deployment of Overseas Filipino Workers to Kuwait, and would look out for those who would attempt to go to the Middle Eastern country to work, in all the international airports and seaports nationwide. “All immigration officers have been directed to prevent the departure of all OFWs bound for Kuwait,” BI port operations division chief Marc Red […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — Presidential Spokesman Atty. Harry Roque said that the government was looking at other countries where Overseas Filipino Workers repatriated from Kuwait could go. Roque said that Oman and Bahrain were two countries that were being considered. “President Rodrigo Roa Duterte has given priority to the right to life of our OFWs and will not allow further inhumane treatment to be inflicted on our OFW’s in Kuwait,” Roque said in […]
(Eagle News) – Over 300 Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) who were granted amnesty in Kuwait arrived in two flights at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 1 in Pasay City on Monday, February 12, 2018. The 317 OFWs were welcomed by officials from the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA). OWWA Administrator Atty. Hans Leo J. Cacdac told the OFWs the government would shoulder their travel expenses. “Mayroon po […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Labor and Employment has officially ordered a total ban on the deployment of Overseas Filipino Workers to Kuwait. Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III signed on Monday the administrative order that puts in place the ban, which came after the discovery of the gruesome death of Joanna Demafelis. Demafelis was found inside the freezer of an apartment left abandoned since 2016. It also came amid investigations into the deaths of […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Nananawagan sa gobyerno ang pamilya ni Joanna Daniela Demafelis ng hustisya matapos na makita ito sa loob ng freezer sa isang abandonadong apartment sa Kuwait noong nakaraang linggo. Giit ng isa sa mga kapatid nito na si Joy Demafelis na hindi nila mapapalampas ang sinapit ng kanilang kapatid sa ibang bansa. Samantala, iniimbestigahan na ni Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) Administrator Hans Leo Cacdac ang maaaring naging kapabayaan ng Philippine […]
(Eagle News) — The government is about to ink an agreement with China to allow for the deployment of Overseas Filipino Workers there. Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III made the revelation in an interview over dzbb on Saturday, a day after a visibly angry President Rodrigo Duterte said the ban on the deployment of Filipino workers to Kuwait would stay. This was after the body of a Filipina was discovered in an apartment freezer in […]
President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday pledged government help to evacuate Filipinos wanting to leave Kuwait, blasting the Gulf state for “inhuman” treatment of migrant workers after reports of a gruesome killing in the country. Duterte, who last month temporarily banned citizens from traveling to Kuwait to work, said 120 workers had died in the country last year and that the body of one Philippine woman had been found stuffed into a freezer in recent days. […]
