Deployment ban to Kuwait 'stays permanently' - DUTERTE

DAVAO CITY - President Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday made clear his stance that Kuwait deployment ban stays permanently in the wake of a diplomatic spat between the Philippines and the Gulf state.

200 distressed OFWs from Kuwait to arrive Monday night

MANILA - Two hundred overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) from Kuwait are scheduled to arrive in Manila on Monday evening.

Principal suspect in Demafelis murder now in custody

The principal suspect in the gruesome murder of overseas Filipino worker Joanna Demafelis in Kuwait more than a year ago is now in the custody of authorities in Lebanon, the Department of Foreign Affairs announced today.

President Duterte condoles family of Joana Demafelis

SARA, Iloilo (22 Feb 2018) - President Rodrigo Roa Duterte condoles with the bereaved families of Joanna Demafelis, in a wake visit at Barangay Ferraris in Sara, Iloilo on February 22, 2018. 

First batch of 400 repatriated Kuwait OFWs arrive upon order of President Duterte

KUWAIT International Airport (12 Feb 2018) - Around 400 of our kababayans in Kuwait will be reunited in a few hours with their loved ones after President Rodrigo Roa Duterte ordered the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Department of Labor and Employment to start to bring our workers there home.

 
The first batch of some 240 Filipino workers who availed themselves of the Kuwaiti Government's amnesty program left for Manila this afternoon via Philippine Airlines.


Shortly after, another batch left Kuwait for the Philippines on board two Gulf Air flights that transited through Manama.


More of our kababayans will be repatriated in the coming days by the Philippine embassy and the Philippine Overseas Labor Office in Kuwait. [Elmer G. Cato]