Kapihan’ tackles Pinoy housing, labour issues By: Michelle Fe Santiago First posted in www.arabtimesonline.com KUWAIT CITY, April 26: The Representative of the Home Mutual Development Fund (PAG-IBIG Fund) Mahmoud Khalil urged all Filipino workers in…
57 Undocumented Pinoys Fly Home, ‘No Detention’ Consul General Dado Thanks HH The Amir By: Michelle Fe Santiago First posted in arabtimesonline KUWAIT CITY, Oct 6: A total of 57 undocumented Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWS)…
Philippine Embassy & POLO create composite legal team By: Michelle Fe Santiago As posted in Arab Times KUWAIT CITY, May 7: The Philippine Embassy together with the Philippine Overseas Labour Office (POLO) in Kuwait have formed…
Court Acquits Filipina Of ‘Attempted Murder’ By: Michelle Fe Santiago Arabtimesonline.com KUWAIT CITY, May 6: The Kuwait Court of First Instance acquitted a Filipina Household Service Worker (HSW) who was charged with attempted murder by…
Ano pa ang silbi ng Philippine Embassy sa Kuwait? Ano pa ang silbi ng Philippine Embassy sa Kuwait? Source: PILIPINO SA KUWAIT Facebook Page Sino ba ang dapat protektahan ng Philippine Embassy sa Kuwait? Ang…
By Michelle Fe Santiago As Posted in Arab Times THE Kuwait Ministry of Health (MoH) is performing a system-wide restructuring of public health care delivery services as well as raising the standards of public health…
Kuwait Pinoys celebrate ‘Sinulog’ Festival By Michelle Fe Santiago First Posted in Arab Times The mood was all festive. Everyone was dazzling and dressed for the momentous occasion. “Sinulog Siyagit ug Kusog! Pit Senyor, Pit…
Lawyer denied from talking to Pinay rape victim By Maxxy Santiago, ABS-CBN Middle East News Bureau First posted in abs-cbnnews.com MANILA, Philippines – A prominent Kuwaiti human rights lawyer who volunteered to represent a Filipina…
By Michelle Fe Santiago Special to the Arab Times KUWAIT CITY, Aug 9: ‘Cash donations the easiest, fastest way to extend help’ Heads of Filipino organisations and individuals launched on Wednesday a fund drive to…
By: Michelle Fe Santiago Special to arabtimesonline ‘I’m Afraid My Employers May Take Me Back’ KUWAIT CITY, July 31: A Filipino household service worker who was allegedly maltreated by her Kuwaiti female employer jumped off the…
Initial Probe Reveals 70,000 Workers In Unregistered Firms Source: arabtimesonline.com PASS Reviews ‘Files’ Over Bogus Recruitment KUWAIT CITY, July 25: Some 28,000 companies have yet to register under the automation system and the Ministry of…
Source: ArabTimesonline.com KUWAIT CITY, July 19: Head of Inspection team at Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor Eng. Hussain Al-Mutairi revealed that the ministry closed the files of two companies for making their personnel work…
Kuwait: The ministry of social affairs and labor has completed the construction of the permanent shelter for expatriate workers who are facing problem with their sponsors, local daily reported.
Source: arabtimesonline.com KUWAIT CITY, Jun 29: The head of Public Relations and Citizens Service Department at Civil Service Commission (CSC) Jassem Al-Ruwais says 5,141 citizens have applied for jobs through the automated recruitment system since…
Source: arabtimesonline.com KUWAIT: There have been varied reactions following the Interior Ministry’s decision to implement a new fee structure whereby expatriates have to pay KD 500 for the first issuance of driver licenses and KD…
Source: kuwaittimes.net KUWAIT: The number of residency violators in Kuwait reached 103,000 as of Sunday, dropping from 116,000 recorded a few months earlier when the Ministry of Interior launched a series of wide scale crackdowns that…
Source: kuwaitinfoalerts.com Kuwait: Expatriates in Kuwait sent a total of $ 50.7 billion to their relatives back home from 2006 to 2010, local daily reported quoting sources. Sources revealed results of financial study conducted recently…
Source: kuwaittimes.net KUWAIT: The Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Ahmad Al-Rujaib issued a ministerial decision regulating the process of changing domestic iqamas into work permits in the private sector, taking the interior ministry rules into…
Source: kuwaittimes.net KUWAIT: In continuation of security inspection campaigns on illegal residents and violators of residency laws, a special inspection campaign was launched at dawn yesterday at Amghara scrap market. The campaign resulted in the…
Source: arabtimesonline.com KUWAIT CITY, May 30: The Ministry of Interior will approve a decision to compel foreigners leaving the country permanently to present a letter from the General Traffic Directorate, similar to clearance from the Ministry…
Source: arabtimesonline.com KUWAIT CITY, The Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor will re-open the door for domestic workers to transfer their residence to the private sector beginning June 2012, reports Al-Dar daily quoting Mohammed Al-Kandari…
Source: kuwaittimes.net KUWAIT: Two policemen face sexual assault charges following their arrests on May 21, 2012 in connection with a possible rape incident that was filed the previous night, the Ministry of Interior announced in a…