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(Eagle News) — Over 100 more Filipinos have been repatriated from Saudi Arabia amid the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the Department of Foreign Affairs, the 179 distressed Filipinos were repatriated on December 23 via a Philippine Airlines (PAL) chartered flight, and arrived in Manila the following day. Of the total passengers, four are minors, including one infant, two were pregnant women, and one a medical case. The DFA said the rest were distressed Filipinos, many […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Foreign Affairs said it repatriated over 3,000 overseas Filipinos during the third week of January. Of the 3,288 Filipinos abroad repatriated, the DFA said 470 were seafarers while 2,818 were land-based. The DFA said some of those repatriated this week overseas Filipinos with a medical condition, those coming from Singapore and Oman, and a seafarer from Brazil. The DFA also safely brought home an undocumented overseas Filipino from Brunei, […]
(Eagle News)–The government has recently repatriated over 300 Filipinos from Barbados, the Department of Foreign Affairs said on Saturday, June 6. According to the DFA, the 345 Filipinos who were all crew members of the Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines arrived at Clark International Airport via Philippine Airlines flight PR 8117. Upon arrival at Clark International Airport, the repatriates underwent proper documentation procedures, RT-PCR COVID-19 testing and a briefing on current safety protocols prescribed by the […]
MANILA, Feb. 24 — The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) recently said that majority of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs), 107 of 163, who returned to the Philippines in the past two weeks and were provided assistance under the Assist WELL program, came home on account of various contract violations, and not due to the depressed oil price in the global market. “We thought initially that because of the hype about the decline in the global price […]
