LABOR Secretary Silvestre Bello suspended on Friday the deployment of workers to Kuwait following the deaths of seven Filipinas from alleged abuse by their employers.

Bello directed the Philippine Overseas Employment Agency (POEA) to stop processing the employment certificates of Kuwait-bound workers.

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