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Utos na arestuhin ang Pilipina, kinansela

Posted on 24 April 2023 No comments


Kinansela ang warrant of arrest laban sa isang Pilipinang nag-overstay nang humarap siya kanina sa Shatin Magistracy dahil nakakulong na pala siya.

Ipinaaresto si Marie Chris Parane, 33 taong gulang at asylum seeker, matapos na hindi siya sumipot sa nakalipas na pagdinig ng kanyang kaso.

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Pero kinansela ni Acting Principal Magistrate Cheng Lim-chi ang arrest warrant nang magpaliwanag ang abogado ni Parane na hindi siya nakapunta sa huling pagdinig dahil nasa ilalim siya ng administrative detention ng Immigration Department.

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Dahil sa paliwanag, hindi na rin kinumpiska ang nauna na niyang inilagak na $500 bilang piyansa.

Pinayagan din siyang ituloy ang bisa ng nauna niyang piyansang $500 para makalaya – sakaling pakawalan siya ng Immigration --hanggang sa susunod na pagdinig ng kanyang kaso sa May 8.

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Kinasuhan si Parane ng breach of condition of stay nang mag-overstay siya ng apat na buwan, mula April 9, 2022 hanggang Sept. 9, 2022.

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Alok ng Pilipina na piyansang $3,000 tinanggihan

Posted on 21 April 2023 No comments

Walang pagbabago sa kaso, kaya hindi pinagpiyansa ang Pilipina.
 

Tinanggihan ng Eastern Court kanina ang alok ng isang Pilipina na maglagak ng $3,000 bilang piyansa upang pakawalan siya sa kasong droga at overstay.

Sinabi ni Principal Magistrate Ivy Chui na walang nabago sa katayuan ng kaso ni Janice Sahagun, 41 taong gulang, upang makubinse siyang tanggapin ang alok nitong cash. Kasama sa alok ang pangakong magre-report siya sa pulis araw-araw at hindi aalis ng Hong Kong hanggang hindi natatapos ang kaso.

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Sinabi ni Magistrate Chui na pwede siyang umapela sa Court of First Instance ng High Court na baliktarin ang kanyang desisyon at payagan siyang mag-piyansa.

Pero iginiit ng abogado ni Sahagun ang karapatan niyang humingi ng bail review, kaya itinakda ang susunod na pagdinig niya sa April 28 upang pag-usapan muli ang hiling niyang magpiyansa, at ang regular na pagdinig sa June 9.

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Kinasuhan si Sahagun ng overstay, o paglabag sa kondisyion ng kanyang visa, dahil na-terminate siya noong March 10, 2023 at dapat ay nakaalis na pagkalipas ng 14 araw, o noong March 24, o halos isang buwang overstay nang mahuli siya noong April 12.

Kinasuhan din siya ng possession of dangerous drug matapos makita sa kanyang gamit ang bawal na gamot nang masita siya sa harap ng gusali sa 9 Sai Yuen Lane sa Sai Wan noon ding April 12.

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Hindi pa ibinunyag ng taga-usig ang uri at dami ng bawal na gamot dahil ito ay sinusuri pa sa Government Laboratory.

 

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Baguio bet wins Ms. Barkadahan ’23 pageant

Posted on 21 February 2023 No comments

 

Ms. Barkadahan 2023 Maricel "Icel" Minez Miranda, Candidate #4,  (center) is flanked by 2nd runner up: Rexcel "Butterfly" Rolan De Jesus (#3) and 1st Runner Up: Melissa "Mels" Sabico Ablao (#11)

Maricel "Icel" Minez Miranda of Baguio City bested 11 other finalists to become the Ms. Barkadahan 2023 in the biggest beauty pageant for OFWs, held last Sunday at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center in Wanchai.

Miranda, 30, won prizes amounting to P500,000 in the return of the biggest pageant for OFWs in Hong Kong after a three-year break due the the Covid-19 pandemic. 

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She took the top prize after going through three phases of the event: opening production number, talent (singing and dancing where the girls performed as two groups), and swimsuit competition, which included the question and answer portion.

Emerging as the pageant’s 1st runner up was Melissa "Mels" Sabico Ablao (Candidate #11) and 2nd runner up was  Rexcel "Butterfly" Rolan De Jesus (Candidate #3).

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Barkadahan sa SmarTone, the sponsor of the pageant, also gave away P500,000 worth of load vouchers in a raffle that had 10 winners from the audience: five winners of P10,000 and one winner each of P25,000, P50,000, P75,000, P100,000, and the grand prize of P200,000.      

The pageant capped a three-month search that began with an audition on Dec. 4, 2022 and was decided by the audience by voting for their favorite candidate with their tickets.

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“With all those who participated here, winners or not, they developed their self-confidence, communication skills, poise, character, overcoming shyness and many others. Total makeover is the result when you join this biggest and longest running pageant,” Barkadahan sa SmarTone said.

Featured in the program was the internet influencer DJ Loonyo, who sang and performed some of the dance moves that made him a TikTok star. He was supported by a host of local Filipino talents, cheered on by a crowd made up of Barkadahan subscribers.

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In  keeping with with the pageant theme of flight, the contestants were in cabin crew outfit in their opening dance number. Alvin Dayrit of Smartone and his two co-hosts were also wearing pilot outfits, the ticket looked like a boarding pass, and the venue was designed to make the audience feel they were in an airplane with all the sound and visual effects.

The pageant began with the candidates, dressed as flight attendants, introducing themselves and explaining their choice of destination.

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Ms Barkadahan Icel’s dream destination is South Korea. “Since I was young I’ve loved watching Korean dramas. And I am a fan of Korean actors and actresses. That’s why I want to meet them in person and see how beautiful their place is,” she said.

Mels, 37 years old who hails from Puerto Princesa, Palawan, chose Canada. “Because it is a multicultural country with a rich diversity and because of the wildlife and no pollution,” she explained.

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Butterfly, 33, of Bacolod City chose Israel “because when it comes to photogenic destinations Israel is the place to go for its historical and natural sites. It is also known as the Holy Land for it is home for some of the world’s holy sites.”

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Filipina fails to have her illegal work conviction overturned

Posted on 08 January 2023 No comments
Filipina's case ends at the High Court

A Filipina who questioned the conclusion of a magistrate who found her guilty of working illegally, has failed to convince the High Court to overturn the verdict, for which she was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment.

Yolanda Palayon,  a domestic helper, had claimed that Shatin Magistrate Norton Pang erred in concluding that she was illegally working in a car wash in Pat Heung, New Territories, when she was arrested by Immigration officers on July 26, 2021.

Palayon was one of three domestic helpers who were arrested for working in the car wash and charged with breach of conditions of stay, in violation of the Immigration Ordinance. 

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One of them pleaded guilty and had her sentene reduced by a third, while the other was convicted along with Palayon after trial at the Shatin Courts.

Only Palayon appealed her conviction to the High Court, asserting that the magistrate “erred in finding that the prosecution had proved the charge beyond reasonable doubt.”

But Deputy High Court Judge Amanda Jane Woodcock, in a decision dated Dec. 29, 2022, found “no basis to interfere with the magistrate’s findings”.  

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Judge Woodcock summarized the key points that led to the magistrate’s decision: “There was no dispute by the defence that the appellant stood next to a vehicle with a blue towel in her hand.  Where she was found was in a car wash where people pay to have their cars washed and she was observed washing a car.  One of the owners or proprietors was present at the material time.  There was no evidence that she was cleaning the car as a favour or out of friendship.  In any event, the defence evidence was that she was there to prepare food for a party which would not include wiping a car.”

She also cited the testimony of the Immigration officer who arrested Palayon, that she and her co-defendants took their handbags from a cabinet inside the car wash, when the officers asked for their identity cards.

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She added that Magistrate Pang was correct in disregarding as self-serving the testimoney of the lone defense witness, the owner of the car wash, who asserted that the three domestic helpers were in his shop to help prepare food for a party to be held there that evening and not to wash cars.

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“I am satisfied the magistrate fairly and properly considered the issues.  He rejected the evidence of the defence witness with good reason,” Judge Woodcock said.

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High Court rejects Filipina’s appeal against conviction in 2 immigration cases

Posted on 17 December 2022 No comments

 

High Court judge confirms Filipina's conviction.

A Filipina’s appeal against conviction for two charges of breach of condition of stay has been dismissed by a Court of First Instance judge who ordered her to now serve her 12-month sentence.

“The appeal is dismissed.  The sentence of the Magistrate stands.  The appellant must return to carry out her sentence forthwith,” said Judge Audrey Campbell-Moffat in a decision released Friday by of the High Court.

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Jasmin Andaya, a former domestic helper and former wife of a Hong Kong resident, had been convicted of overstaying from October 2005 until she was arrested on Jan 2, 2020 in an Immigration raid on a restaurant in Tai Hang, and of illegally taking up employment as an odd job worker in that restaurant.

For the first charge, she was sentenced to 12 months in jail by Magistrate Frances Leung  at the Shatin Magistrates’ Courts; for the second, she was sentenced to three months. Both sentences will run at the same time.

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The judge supported the magistrate’s conclusion that Andaya had overstayed,

“The learned magistrate analyzed the evidence in a simple and straightforward manner….  The appellant, was, as a matter of fact, an over-stayer who was not allowed to work.  There was no evidence before her to suggest otherwise,” Judge Campbell-Moffat said. 

“She found, contrary to the defence case, that the appellant, on her own admission, knew that she had been a visitor in Hong Kong but had overstayed and that she was not allowed to work.”

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She dismissed Andaya’s claim to have paid income taxes to prove that she believed she could lawfully work and that she was allowed to remain after October 2005. “The argument that she had paid salaries tax did not affect her status as a visitor nor her conditions of stay.  She remained in breach of them.,” the judge added.

The case began when Andaya was arrested in a raid by Immigration officers on Jan 2, 2020 on Palki Restaurant on Tsing Fung Street, Tin Hau. She failed to present identity documents but a check with the Immigration Department database showed that she had been overstaying since 2005.

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The Immigration officer who arrested her testified that she admitted she worked at the restaurant as a waitress and said she had done so for less than a year.  She maintained that she was paid $400 per day.

In the recorded interview that followed, where Andaya was assisted by an Ilocano interpreter, she admitted that Immigration refused her application for a dependant visa after she and her husband separated and he refused to sponsor her.

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She thus became a visitor and was allowed to stay in Hong Kong until October 2005.  “I knew I cannot work in Hong Kong.  I should leave before October 2005,” she said in the recording.

She added that she stayed in because she was hoping she and her husband would reconcile. She has  since lost her passport and Hong Kong ID card, and did not replace them,

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Judge Campbell-Moffat also dismissed Andaya’s lawyer’s assertion that because she lied about having worked at the restaurant for less than a year, when she had in fact worked there since 2014, all her other admissions should therefore be treated as lies.

The lawyer did not present evidence or submissions to disprove that she was overstaying from October 2005 onwards, she said.

 “The applicable law is trite.  Section 41 of the IO (Immigration Ordinance), Cap 115 (“s41”), requires the prosecution to prove that the appellant was subject to a condition of stay which was contravened and that the appellant knew of the relevant condition,’ she said.

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