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(Eagle News) — An Overseas Filipino Worker died after she allegedly fell from a building in the United Arab Emirates last week, the Department of Foreign Affairs said. Based on a report from Consul General Paul Raymond Cortes of the Philippine Consulate General in Dubai, the Filipina, who was not identified, was believed to have fallen from the third floor of a building in Ajman on Nov. 23. She was declared dead on arrival at the […]
(Eagle News)—–President Rodrigo Duterte said he may send a senator or Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano to Jordan to “fix” the situation of undocumented Overseas Filipino Workers there. Duterte made the announcement on Thursday, Sept. 6, after his meeting with Jordan’s King Abdullah II during his official visit to the Kingdom. “Kaya matagal kami nag-usap about you…kayong lahat. Pag-usapan lang is ‘yung undocumented dito…Wala kayong dapat taguan,” he said. Duterte appeared to express optimism […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte is welcomed by Jordan’s King Abdullah bin Al-Hussein at the Al Husseinieh Palace on Thursday, Sept. 6, in ceremonies where the Philippine president was given full military honors and the Philippine National Anthem was played for the first time at the Royal Palace of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. This is the first time that a Philippine president has visited this Middle East country. President Duterte and Jordan’s […]
(Eagle News) — Living in a foreign land with the dedication of true public servants, the Philippines’ foreign service personnel who are assigned in various Philippine embassies and consulates around the world, do heroic deeds which — more often than not — are untold. They work behind the scenes doing their best to help Filipinos in need, something that they do selflessly. They do it without fanfare; it is part of their work, their […]
Poland, whose right-wing government opposes taking in migrants, may have to look to Filipino workers to cover a growing labor shortage hurting the economy, a senior official said Saturday. “We are on course to conclude an agreement. I hope that in the autumn we will be able to at least sign a preliminary accord” with the Philippine authorities, Deputy Labor Minister Stanislaw Szwed said according to a PAP news agency report. Szwed noted that Poland and […]
(Eagle News) — A group has accused Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III of refusing to help an Overseas Filipino Worker and of corruption. But Bello, in an interview over dzbb, dismissed the allegations of Alie Dizon, secretary general of Kilusang Pagbabago National Movement for Change, who said he received P1.5 million from a recruitment agency, and refused to help one “Mercy,” who was deployed abroad through that agency but was made to return home following a […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Leila de Lima on Saturday, July 6, reiterated her proposal for the deployment of human rights attachés to countries where Overseas Filipino Workers were “most vulnerable in the hands of foreign employers.” In making the suggestion, De Lima, chair of the Senate Committee on Social Justice, Welfare and Rural Development, noted reports on the abuse of OFWs, including a Filipina working in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia who committed suicide after her employer’s son reportedly made sexual […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday, June 3, issued an apology to Kuwait for the “harsh language” he said he used at the height of the strained relations between the two countries. “That was a result of an emotional outburst, but I’d like to apologize now. I’m sorry for the language that I was using..,” he said in a speech before Filipinos in South Korea. According to the President, he was “very satisfied […]
(Eagle News)–The remains of the Overseas Filipino Worker found in a septic tank in South Korea have arrived in the country. The plane carrying Michael Angelo Claveria’s remains arrived at 9:30 a.m. at the Iloilo International Airport, almost two months after they were found. Authorities have yet to arrest the suspect in the killing, although they have zeroed in on only one from the four people they were initially monitoring. The suspect, who has not […]
By Meanne Corvera Eagle News Service The guidelines for the deployment of Filipino household service workers to Kuwait will be released next week. Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III made the revelation in a hearing by the Senate committee on labor on Wednesday, May 23, a day after President Rodrigo Duterte said he had yet to see “guarantees” on the conditions agreed upon by the Philippines and Kuwait in a signed pact on May 11, before […]
(Eagle News)– President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday, May 22, heaped praises on Kuwait, saying the Gulf state “showed courage when it met the Philippines’ “challenge.” But according to Duterte, he would sign the order to lift totally the ban on the deployment of Overseas Filipino Workers to Kuwait if the conditions were “guaranteed.” Earlier, the labor department already announced the total lifting of the ban, following the signing of an agreement on the protection of […]
(Eagle News)—The three diplomats who came under fire in Kuwait following a controversial rescue of distressed Overseas Filipino Workers there are back in the Philippines. The Kuwaiti government had planned to charge the diplomats, who were not identified, over the rescue it said was illegal, but the plan was apparently aborted after successful talks between the two countries that resulted in Kuwait agreeing to allow them to return home, and in the signing of an […]
