The signing of the total ban on the deployment of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to Kuwait does not end the national conversation about the overseas workers program, or quiet down the high anxiety of the OFWs and their families today.

This development should rather lead the nation to a wider inquiry and a more intensive discussion of a more effective program for managing the massive OFW challenge.

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