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Philippines, 25th January 2023: Senators suggest #Kuwait deployment ban after killing of #OFW   #MANILA, #Philippines  — Senators on Tuesday raised the possibility of suspending worker deployment to Kuwait again over the killing of an overseas Filipino worker whose burnt body was found in the desert over the weekend.   Senators suggest #Kuwait deployment ban after killing of #OFW The Department of Migrant Workers, however, said that the executive branch is only considering a review of the 2018 bilateral labor agreement with Kuwait, which is similar to what they did with the country’s agreement with Saudi Arabia. "I think we need to reimpose the deployment ban against Kuwait because while we have mentioned [some of] those who died while they were working there, there were many others who also died while working in the Gulf state," Sen. Jinggoy Estrada, chair of the labor committee, said. Senate Majority Joel Villanueva also noted that the Senate sho…