DMW promises the return of OFW's ‘correct’ remains to Antique

SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique — The Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) is working out the return of the exact remains of a migrant worker to her family in Antique by Wednesday.

The remains of Rona Jean Gervoso were swapped with those of another overseas Filipino worker (OFW), Honeylith Zamoras, 31, of Dipolog City, Zamboanga del Norte.

Gervoso and Zamoras were inside their room when shot dead in Lebanon by the child of the latter’s employer on April 15.

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In an interview, Antique Board Member Karmila Rose Dimamay said DMW Secretary Hans Leo Cacdac relayed to the Gervoso family the instruction of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. to do everything to help her family obtain justice.

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“From what I learned, a cousin of Gervoso, who’s also working in Lebanon, was asked to identify the remains. She mistook the remains of the other OFW as her cousin, which was why there was a swap,” Dimamay, who visited the Gervoso family with Cacdac, said.

The supposed remains of Gervoso arrived in Barangay Esperanza II, Sibalom on June 12, but her husband, Fausto, found out that it was not her wife’s.

The DMW had extended financial assistance of P100,000 to the Gervoso family, while the Antique provincial government and the offices of Senator Loren Legarda and Rep. Antonio Agapito Legarda each gave P20,000. /apl

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