Beating the scourge that breeds OFWs

President Rodrigo Duterte’s ban on Kuwait-bound OFWs and 72-hour deadline from Friday to repatriate the remaining, mostly maltreated, Filipino workers from the Arab country only heighten the need for expediency to formulate a well thought out government program to absorb millions of them back into the local economy.

President Duterte made business and political leaders squirm in their seats during The Manila Times 7th Business Forum held in Davao City on Friday when he showed photos of the swollen, scorched body of a Filipino household service worker in Kuwait, burned with a searing flatiron by an angry employer.