{"id":22832,"date":"2014-08-19T20:56:55","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T12:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=22832"},"modified":"2014-08-19T22:08:57","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T14:08:57","slug":"ph-says-sorry-to-malta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/19\/ph-says-sorry-to-malta\/","title":{"rendered":"PH says sorry to Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15732\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15732\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/dfa-building.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15732\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/dfa-building-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"DFA Building \/ Wikipedia photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/dfa-building-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/dfa-building-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/dfa-building.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15732\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">DFA Building \/ Wikipedia photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 The Philippines issued an apology\u00a0to the government of Malta after an overseas Filipino worker (OFWs) evacuated from Libya missed the flight to the Philippines and was left in their country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have expressed our regrets for what happened through a note verbale to the government of Malta,\u201d Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) spokesman Charles Jose said in a press briefing Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Maltese authorities are investigating the case of Rodrigo Andres, the OFW evacuated from Libya who failed to board the second chartered flight from Malta last August 16. The Philippine government is extending its full cooperation in the investigation until its final resolution,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>But Andres was not the only OFW suffering from civil wars in other countries. He was among the thousands who have already decided to evacuate their strife-torn situation.<\/p>\n<p>Andres was among the more than 700 OFWs evacuated from strife-torn Libya by ship and brought to Malta where two Philippine Airlines (PAL) chartered flights flew them back to Manila.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have labor and welfare and DFA officials who can check his whereabouts at the airport,\u201d Antonio told reporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 The Philippines issued an apology\u00a0to the government of Malta after an overseas Filipino worker (OFWs) evacuated from Libya &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":15732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[2124,1479,3417],"class_list":["post-22832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-malta","tag-ph","tag-sorry","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}