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Filipino seafarers get to keep EU jobs

WHENEVER April comes, especially in the last three years, we are reminded of the first line of the poem 'The Wasteland' by T.S. Eliot: 'April is the cruelest month,' quite fittingly, because Eliot wrote the poem during the Great Influenza pandemic that ravaged the world from 1918 to 1920.

This year, however, although we are still continually advised to be mindful and cautious, restrictions are being lifted and things are beginning to look up.