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Special envoy to the Middle East Roy Cimatu said 100 OFWs were supposed to return home, but only 94 later went to Baghdad and boarded a chartered plane bound for Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The trip had been financed by their contractor, Prime Projects International, which is based in Dubai.


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                    [Summary] => President Arroyo suspended yesterday the deployment of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who intend to work as drivers in Iraq.


The temporary ban was among the recommendations of a report submitted to the president by special envoy Roy Cimatu, head of the Presidential Middle East Preparedness Committee (PMEPC) and the Team Iraq task force.


While the latest Filipino casualty in the Iraq conflict was the victim of a mortar attack on a US military base, drivers are considered to be at greater risk than workers employed inside such facilities.


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                    [Title] => Mass evacuation sa Iraq ikinasa
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Kumikilos na ang mga tanggapan at mga kinatawan ng Department of Foreign Affairts (DFA) at Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) hinggil sa paghahanda sa repatriation ng mga overseas Filipino workers matapos na iutos din ng Pangulo na tingnan ang kalagayan ng mga Pinoy doon at agad na pauwiin kung kinakailangan.


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Only 74 OFWs want to return from Iraq

By Marvin Sy | May 18, 2004 - 12:00am

From an initial headcount of 100, only 74 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) are now waiting to be repatriated from strife-torn Iraq, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said yesterday. Special envoy to the Middle...

Headlines

Gov’t bans deployment of Pinoy drivers to Iraq

By Marichu A. Villanueva | May 16, 2004 - 12:00am

President Arroyo suspended yesterday the deployment of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who intend to work as drivers in Iraq. The temporary ban was among the recommendations of a report submitted to the president...

Headlines

Mass evacuation sa Iraq ikinasa

May 15, 2004 - 12:00am

Inihahanda na ng pamahalaan ng agarang paglikas sa mga manggagawang Pilipino sa Iraq na kasalukuyang ipit sa nagaganap na sunud-sunod na pambobomba sa US military camp sa Baghdad. Kumikilos na ang mga tanggapan...

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