Kuwait ban stays despite death sentence on maid’s killers

THE deployment ban of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to Kuwait “still holds,” Malacañang said on Monday, despite the Gulf state’s death sentence on two suspects in the murder of Filipino worker Joanna Demafelis.

Speaking to reporters, Senior Deputy Executive Secretary Menardo Guevarra said the death sentence was not the sole condition to lift the deployment ban to Kuwait.