OFW in Kuwait tortured, burned with cigarettes by employer

Inquirer.net 03/13/2018

AN ALMOST incomprehensible Bretchielyn Magsayo faced the camera to relay her story of abuse in the brutal hands of her employer in Kuwait, and her desperate pleas to be rescued. In a harrowing Facebook video by a…

OFW dies in Kuwait; body returns to PH with missing internal organs

Inquirer 01/13/2018

A SERIES of gruesome photos recently went viral on Facebook, showing the corpse of a woman covered in bruises and sliced, starting from the bottom lip down to her navel. The photos were uploaded on Facebook in…

Kuwait to PH: Deport arrested IS member

Inquirer.net 04/10/2017

The Kuwaiti government has asked the Philippine government for assistance to speed up the deportation of Hussein Al-Dhafiri, one of two arrested alleged members of the Islamic State (IS). Al-Dhafiri, together with Syrian female Rahaf Zina, was…

2 ISIS ‘members’ arrested in PH

Inquirer.net 04/06/2017

Two foreign nationals with suspected links to Islamic State (IS) were arrested in Bonifacio Global City in Taguig last week. A military report obtained from a source said that the foreign couple — identified as Hussein Azo…

Kuwait sets minimum wage for domestic helpers

07/15/2016

Kuwait City — Kuwait has set a minimum wage for its hundreds of thousands of mostly Asian domestic staff, the first country in the Gulf to do so, local media reported on Thursday. A decree issued by…

OFW seeks help over hacked FB account

Chito O. Aragon 12/05/2015

A FEMALE  Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) from Balamban town, midwest Cebu sought the help of police  after sexy photos  of other women were uploaded on her Facebook account. Lita (not her real name),  a caregiver in Kuwait, …

Helping Filipinos find opportunities

Vanessa Claire Lucero 07/06/2015

For more than a decade now, Pinoycare Visa Center Inc. has been helping Filipinos find better job opportunities overseas. Prisca Niña O. Mabatid, president and chief executive officer, said she started the business in 1999 with just…

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