{"id":58633,"date":"2018-02-12T06:18:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T06:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=58633"},"modified":"2018-02-12T06:18:14","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T06:18:14","slug":"philippines-says-more-than-2200-citizens-in-kuwait-want-to-go-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/philippines-says-more-than-2200-citizens-in-kuwait-want-to-go-home.html","title":{"rendered":"Philippines says more than 2,200 citizens in Kuwait want to go home"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Philippines says more than 2,200 citizens in Kuwait want to go home<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">More than 2,200 Filipinos are ready to take up President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s offer to repatriate workers from Kuwait due to reports of abuse, the Philippine labor minister said on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Duterte asked Philippine Airlines and Cebu Pacific on Friday to provide flights for Filipinos who want to leave Kuwait, after a the body of a Filipino worker was found in a freezer of an abandoned apartment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">\u201cWe have been informed that as of Friday there were 2,200-plus Filipinos who are willing to go home,\u201d Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III told Reuters, adding that some of them had overstayed their visas and applied for an amnesty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">The airlines have arranged free charter flights, and Bello said almost 500 Filipino workers were due to arrive soon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">The Philippines suspended sending workers to Kuwait in January after reports that abuse by employers had driven several to suicide. Duterte said on Friday that suspension would remain indefinitely.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Kuwait\u2019s Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled al-Jarallah expressed \u201csurprise and sorrow\u201d at Duterte\u2019s remarks in January, saying that legal proceedings had been taken in the cases of the four suicide cases mentioned by the president.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">More than 250,000 Filipinos work in Kuwait, the Philippine foreign ministry estimates, most as domestic helpers. There are also large numbers in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">The government would help repatriated workers look for jobs, Bello said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">\u201cWe are into a re-integration program, we have a program in place for them,\u201d he told the ANC news channel. \u201cThey will be given a livelihood.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">\u201cWe are now in the process of looking for alternative markets. One of them is China and even Russia,\u201d he said, without elaborating.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 8pt\">Source:-\u00a0https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-philippines-kuwait-labour\/philippines-says-more-than-2200-citizens-in-kuwait-want-to-go-home-idUSKBN1FV0PZ<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/philippines-says-more-than-2200-citizens-in-kuwait-want-to-go-home.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philippines says more than 2,200 citizens in Kuwait want to go home More than 2,200 Filipinos are ready to take up President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s offer to repatriate workers from Kuwait due to reports of abuse, the Philippine labor minister said on Sunday. 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