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KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait (AFP) — Kuwait’s emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, regarded as the architect of the nation’s modern foreign policy, died on Tuesday at the age of 91, according to the royal court. “With great sadness and sorrow, we mourn… the death of Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of the State of Kuwait,” said Sheikh Ali Jarrah Al-Sabah, the minister in charge of royal affairs, in a televised statement. State television had cut […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine Embassy in Kuwait has suspended its on-site services after one of its employees tested positive for COVID-19. In a statement, the embassy said the suspension, effective July 2 and which will last until July 16, was in accordance with the protocols of the World Health Organization and the Kuwaiti Ministry of Health which require people in close contact with a COVID-19-positive to undergo a 14-day quarantine. Those with scheduled appointments […]
KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait (AFP) — Kuwait wants to slash the migrant proportion of its population from 70 to 30 percent, state media said Wednesday, with the prime minister vowing to “resolve the demographic imbalance”. Like its Gulf Arab neighbors, oil-rich Kuwait has a large foreign population mostly made up of Middle Eastern and Asian workers. Out of 4.8 million inhabitants, some 3.3 million are foreign nationals, said Prime Minister Sabah Al-Khaled al-Hamad al-Sabah. “The ideal […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) will scale down the processing of overseas employment certificates (OEC) of all Filipinos seeking to work in Kuwait because of the additional requirements asked by the Arab estate on Filipino workers. Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said on Wednesday, March 4, that OEC processing for all overseas Filipinos going to Kuwait will be slower because of this. Kuwait had announced travel restrictions for the […]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AFP) — Kuwait and Bahrain confirmed on Monday their first novel coronavirus cases, health ministries in the two Gulf states announced, adding all had come from Iran. Kuwait reported three infections and Bahrain one. “Tests conducted on those coming from the Iranian city of Mashhad showed there were three confirmed cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19),” the Kuwaiti health ministry said in a statement posted on Twitter. It said the cases were […]
by Salam FARAJ BAGHDAD, Iraq (AFP) — Iraqi and Kuwaiti authorities were on high alert Friday after banning travel the previous day to and from Iran, where authorities say the death toll from the new coronavirus has hit four. Iran’s health ministry Friday reported two more deaths among 13 newly diagnosed cases of the COVID-19 virus, doubling the total number of deaths in the Islamic republic and taking the total number of diagnosed infections there […]
(Eagle News)–The Department of Labor and Employment has lifted the ban on Overseas Filipino Workers to Kuwait. Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said this was after the Kuwaiti government agreed to implement the conditions set by the Philippine government to protect OFWs in a meeting held on Thursday, Feb. 13. These conditions included the filing of charges against the employers of Jeanelyn Villavende. The total lifting of the ban came days after the Philippine Overseas […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace on Tuesday, Jan. 28, welcomed the filing of murder charges against the Kuwaiti employers of slain Overseas Filipino Worker Jeanelyn Villavende, but noted that the temporary ban on the deployment of OFWs to the Middle Eastern country stays. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo issued the statement hours after Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III informed a Senate labor committee hearing on the maltreatment of Filipino workers abroad that Villavende’s employers had been […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte supports a total deployment ban on Overseas Filipino Workers to Kuwait. This is according to Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo, who issued a statement after the Philippine Overseas Employment Agency formally approved the ban recommended by Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III over the death of OFW Jeanelyn Villavende. A National Bureau of Investigation autopsy of her remains showed she had been sexually abused. Panelo reiterated the ban would remain until the memorandum […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace on Thursday, Jan. 16, said the total ban on the deployment of Overseas Filipino Workers in Kuwait will remain until the terms in the agreement on the protection of OFWs signed between the Philippine and the Middle Eastern country’s governments are followed. “Until such time [that] the terms of the MOA [memorandum of agreement] are incorporated in each labor contract between the employer and the employee, the [total deployment] ban […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine government has imposed a total ban on the deployment of Overseas Filipino Workers to Kuwait. The Department of Labor and Employment announced the ban in a statement after the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration Governing Board signed a resolution for the same. The ban was imposed after an autopsy report found that Jeanelyn Villavende, who was killed in the Middle Eastern country, had been sexually abused. Prior to the release of […]
(Eagle News)-There were clear indications the Overseas Filipino Worker who was killed in Kuwait was sexually abused, Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said. According to Guevarra, this was based on an autopsy conducted on the remains of Jeanelyn Villavende, which arrived in the country last week. He said the body was autopsied by the chief of the National Bureau of Investigation’s medico-legal division, Ricardo Rodaje, on January 10 in Cotabato, near Villavende’s residence. Guevarra said there […]
