54 SL expatriates stranded in Kuwait arrive in SL

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A group of 54 Sri Lankan expatriate workers including 53 housemaids and a male household servant, who were staying in Kuwait illegally without visas, arrived in Sri Lanka this morning.

The Sri Lanka Embassy in Kuwait made arrangements for their return.

They were from Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa, Galle, Matara and Moneragala districts.

They had fled their places of employment agreed upon and found employment elsewhere for higher wages. However, they had been compelled to return to the county due to illnesses, family problems and the expiry of their visas.

The Sri Lankan Embassy which intervened had provided them with temporary passports and extradited them.

On arrival at the Katunayake airport, the Sri Lanka Foreign Employment Bureau provided them with transport expenses to leave for their areas. (T.K.G. Kapila)

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no english free education Thursday, 17 August 2023 04:26 AM

There is quite a demand for Sri Lanka's manual labour force in the Middle East that very soon there won't be many job opportunities left for our housemaids. Judging from where these housemaids come from I think it is a direct result of our so called Sinhala only free education.

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Punchi Thursday, 17 August 2023 07:24 PM

In Dawn website I was reading that Islamist foremost education system was educating Pakistanis only suitable for driver and construction workers overseas. Our education system is the same. Rarely do our educated people walk into same jobs overseas. They need to do additional certifications and work in positions below what the did in our homeland. And when they work in Arab countries they encounter apartheid type employment conditions which they inflict on minorities in our paradise

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