KAKAMMPI News

ABS-CBN News Posted at  Jan 20 2020 01:19 AM MANILA - His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the United Arab Emirates shared his message of support to the Philippines as the country reels from the effects of the eruption of the Taal Volcano. In a  post  on his personal Twitter page, Sheik Mohamed said the people of UAE stands in solidarity with the Philippines during these tough times. "Our hearts go out to the people of [the] Philippines after the eruption of the Taal volcano. We pray that these tough times are over with the least losses. The UAE stands in solidarity with the Philippines in these difficult times and is ready to provide all support and assistance," he wrote. Sheikh Mohamed also posted the same message in Filipino. محمد بن زايد ✔ @MohamedBinZayed Ipinapaabot namin ang pakikiramay sa mga mamamayan ng Pilipinas sa pagputok ng Bulkang Taal. Ipinagdarasal naming matapos ito nang may kaunting pinsala. Nakiki...

Published  January 19, 2020 1:43pm When 36-year-old Rodora flew to Saudi Arabia in 2018, she did so with confidence that things will work out well, just as they did when she was a domestic worker in Singapore and Macau. The contract that Rodora signed with her recruitment agency stated that she will work for a family of four in Riyadh. However, when she received her plane ticket from the agency, she became wary because the flight was for Jeddah. The agency allayed her fears and assured her that she will be picked up by her employers from Jeddah and brought to Riyadh. Upon meeting her new employers in Jeddah, Rodora was again shocked when she was taken to Bisha, a far-off province in Saudi Arabia, because she had apparently been sold to two different families.

Two Filipinas who were trafficked into Iraq are expected to arrive in the Philippines on Friday, as the government continues to repatriate Filipinos in the Middle East amid tension between the United States and Iran. In a statement, the Department of Foreign Affairs said the two Filipinas were due to arrive in the afternoon at the NAIA Terminal 3. "The DFA will be receiving the two repatriates, both females and victims of human trafficking in Iraq. The two left Baghdad yesterday evening local time," the statement read. Due to the security threats in the Middle East, Alert Level 4 was raised on January 8, triggering a mandatory repatriation. On January 3, Tehran’s elite Quds Force commander and architect of its growing military influence in the Middle East, Qassem Soleimani, was killed in a US airstrike in Baghdad. Iran on January 8 struck back firing rockets at Iraq's bases, where US forces were located. On the same day, at least 176 passengers were kill...

President Rodrigo Duterte supports the decision of labor officials to impose a total deployment ban to Kuwait following the death of Filipino household worker Jeanelyn Villavende, Malacañang said Friday. “The Palace wishes to inform the public that President Duterte has approved the recommendation of Labor and Employment Secretary Silvestre Bello III on the total deployment ban of Filipino workers in Kuwait,” presidential spokesperson Salvador Panelo said. Panelo maintained that the ban would remain until the memorandum of agreement between the two countries that was signed in 2018 is “fully implemented and the terms contained therein are incorporated in every labor contract” of overseas Filipino workers. Skilled workers and professionals who have unexpired contracts and are set to return to Kuwait as well as those who will be cleared by the Secretary of Labor are not covered by the total deployment ban, according to the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration. ...

Published  January 17, 2020 3:13pm More than 100 Filipinos with illnesses in Kuwait had been assisted by the Philippine Embassy through its Medical Response Team (MRT), the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Friday. Aside from attending to 108 sick Filipinos, the MRT also helped in facilitating the medical repatriation of 27 other Filipinos. “The Embassy’s Medical Response Team is here to provide any assistance needed by Filipinos in Kuwait, such as medical referrals to hospitals and clinics, regular hospital visits, as well as the facilitation of Filipino patients’ hospital expenses, and their repatriation to the Philippines, if deemed necessary,” Chargé d’Affaires Mohd Noordin Pendosina Lomondot said in a statement. “The Embassy’s MRT also serves as the bridge between Filipino patients and their families in the Philippines, who wish to ascertain the condition of their loved ones in Kuwait," he added. The MRT also regularly trains to contin...

By  WILLIAMOR MAGBANUA KIDAPAWAN CITY —A local official of the Matalam town in North Cotabato is coordinating with the Philippine Embassy in Bahrain for the repatriation of the remains of an Overseas Filipino Worker who died in the Persian Gulf state last September 2019 after supposedly falling from a 3-storey apartment building. Matalam town’s Vice Mayor Cheryl Valdevieso-Catamco told GMA News Online that she went to the Department of Foreign Affairs in General Santos City to follow up on the case of her constituent Raihana Mataya, 34, of Barangay Central Malamote, who allegedly died in last year's falling incident. On September 25, 2019, Mataya fell from the 3rd Floor of the apartment in Bahrain that she was renting .  But the family of the victim informed Matalam authorities only last Tuesday (January 14). “Had the family informed us right away, we would have extended assistance for the immediate return of the victim's remains,” Vice Mayor Cata...

January 04, 2020   By Cristina Lee-Pisco   People's Journal THE Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has called on all Filipinos to cancel any travel to Iraq until further notice, in view of the current tensions in that country. In its advisory issued late Friday night, Filipinos in Iraq were strongly advised to coordinate closely with the Philippine Embassy and their employers in the event mandatory evacuation will be necessary. Foreign Affairs Assistant Secretary Eduardo Meñez said crisis alert level 3 or voluntary repatriation is still being imposed for all areas in Iraq except for the Iraqi Kurdistan region which remains under Alert Level 1 (pracautionary phase). There are 538 undocumented and 1,190 Filipino workers in Iraq, half of them in relatively safer Kurdistan region and about 847 in Baghdad area, Meñez said. He said those in Baghdad are mostly working for US and other foreign facilities. Others in Erbil are employed by regular co...