PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte has said he would travel to Kuwait to thank the Gulf state after the signing of the memorandum of agreement aimed at ensuring better working conditions for Filipino workers (OFW) there. “I am going…
KUWAIT has released the three Filipino diplomats detained in the oil-rich nation, a day after the Philippine government lifted the total ban on the deployment of Filipino workers. Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III made the announcement on…
President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday ordered Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III to lift the total ban on deployment of Filipino workers to Kuwait. “Upon recommendation of Special Envoy to Kuwait Abdullah Mama-o, President Rodrigo Roa Duterte tonight…
CEBU CITY– Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano on Tuesday took a jab at those who criticized the Duterte’s administration for nearly severing the country’s ties with Kuwait. He told a news conference that he met with…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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, …
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…
