At least 22 Filipino nurses and medical staffs working in Misrata City in Libya have been evacuated to safer grounds following fresh clashes between pro and anti-Gadaffi forces just 187 kilometers east of Tripoli, the Migrante-Middle East...

More Filipino workers are expected to get employed overseas with the lifting of the deployment ban in Northern Iraq and Libya. Recruitment leaders reported yesterday that more than a thousand job orders in the hotel and health...

About 1,700 jobs await Filipino nurses in Libya, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said yesterday. Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said the government would resume deployment as soon as the partial ban has been lifted. “We...

The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said on Tuesday President Benigno Simeon Aquino III approved its recommendation to lower the alert level in Libya from “4″ (evacuation/mandatory repatriation) to “2″ (restriction phase). “This lowering of the alert...

THE Philippine Overseas and Employment Administration (POEA) recommended to Malacañang the resumption of deployment of Filipino workers as well as the return of close to 10,000 repatriated workers to Libya owing to the stabilization of the security...

ALMOST a hundred Filipino workers have snuck back into Libya despite a deployment ban to the country, a recruitment consultant said on Tuesday. An estimated 50 to 80 Filipinos have returned to their jobsites in Libya, Emmanuel...

The Philippine government would still review the current security situation in Libya before coming out with a decision whether or not to lift the deployment ban on overseas Filipino workers (OFW) following the death of Moammar Ghadafi....

After weathering months of tension and uncertainty, Filipinos who stayed in Libya despite the armed conflict and destruction are willing to take part in the country’s rebuilding efforts. Regilito Laurel from Manila and Almahdi Alonto from Mindanao,...

Outside a travel agency, a Bangladeshi man slowly sweeps the steps. It could be Saudi Arabia. He wears the same blue uniform and sweeps in the same slow, methodical way, brush and pan in hand. Except that...

Filipinos in trouble at work abroad are trooping to churches, instead of embassies, to look for help. At least that’s the observation made by Church-People Workers Solidarity (CWS) spokesman Gary Martinez, regarding how many overseas Filipino workers...