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Filipina denies stealing employer’s $259 bracelets

Posted on 24 April 2019 No comments
Kowloon City Court


A Filipina domestic worker pleaded not guilty on Apr 23 to a charge of stealing a pair of bracelets from her employer worth $259.
The charge sheet read in Kowloon City Court alleged that C.B. took the two bracelets on an unknown day between Mar 15 and 25 this year in her employers’ flat in Baker Court, Hung Hom.

The prosecutor said the bracelets belonged to the maid’s employer, Ms Chan.
The prosecution said it would call two witnesses to give evidence. In contrast, the lawyer for C.B. said there would be no witness for the defense.

Magistrate Raymond Wong scheduled the trial for Jul 9.
The defendant, who was accompanied to court by Mission for Migrants case officer Esther Bangcawayan, said she had been employed by Chan for just a month.

She had previously finished her two-year work contracts with two different employers. – Vir B. Lumicao


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'Overvoter' files protest

Posted on 23 April 2019 No comments
It's another slow day at the polls after the 4-day holiday

A male voter has filed a protest after he was deemed to have voted more than the allowed number of candidates in the ongoing overseas voting for Filipinos at the Bayanihan Centre in Kennedy Town.

Consul Paul Saret told a media briefing earlier today, Apr 23, that the male voter had vehemently claimed he shaded exactly 12 circles corresponding to his chosen senatorial candidates.
The voter’s protest was immediately forwarded by the election secretariat to the Commission on Elections in Manila.

According to Consul Saret, the same voter had earlier tried to take a photograph of his ballot but was told off by members of the Special Board of Election Inspectors as the act is prohibited by law.
But for that over-voting incident, the vote-counting machines worked smoothly today, according to the inspectors and poll watchers, who said it could be because of the fine weather.


About 320 voters cast their ballots during the day, bringing the total for the first 11days of overseas voting beyond the 10,000 mark.
The day’s total was less than half of about 750 voters who trooped to Bayanihan Centre yesterday, which was a public holiday.

Poll inspectors say the polling center could become inordinately busy if or when Iglesia ni Cristo members cast their votes en masse.

Members of another big religious group, Jesus Is Lord church, have already begun voting, presumably for party-list group Cibac (Citizens’ Battle Against Corruption), which was founded by their spiritual leader, Eddie Villanueva. – Vir B. Lumicao

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Filipino tourist acquitted of in-flight indecent assault

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Defendant was accused of committing the alleged crimes on a 

By Vir B. Lumicao

Not guilty. This was the verdict in the case against a Filipino software company executive charged with three counts of indecent assault against a 13-year-old fellow passenger during a flight from New Zealand to Hong Kong last December.

Rodolfo Domingo Jr’s acquittal on Apr 23 in West Kowloon Court came after a one-day trial six days earlier.
Magistrate Edward Wong said the prosecution did not have sufficient evidence to nail down Domingo on the allegations of the Hong Kong boy, identified in court only as “X” and a student.

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The magistrate cleared the Filipino on all three charges.

Domingo, who had been out on bail but was not allowed to leave Hong Kong since his arrest on Dec 9, 2018, immediately left the courtroom with his private lawyers and friends after the verdict.
The magistrate cited the boy’s own admission in his evidence from New Zealand via an audio-video linkup that he was asleep when the alleged indecent assaults took place, leaving room for doubt.

Domingo and the boy were seated next to each other on an Air New Zealand flight from Auckland to Hong Kong on Dec 8-9 last year. The boy claimed he was awakened three times when the defendant put his hand on his knee, and then on to his private part.
On the third occasion, the boy complained to his parents who were seated nearby, and Domingo was arrested on arrival at Hong Kong International Airport.

The incident allegedly happened as the boy was traveling home with his family during a  school break.

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Walang kaligtasan sa dagdag na pagpiga

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“Piga pa more!” Ito ang pakutyang sinasabi ng mga OFW sa napipintong pagpapatupad ng pamahalaan sa Universal Health Care Act na ipinasa ng Senado noong Okt 11 at pinirmahan ng Pangulong Duterte noong Peb 20.

Maganda ang batayang layunin ng nasabing batas – ang pagkakaloob ng gobyerno sa lahat ng mamamayang Pilipino ng health insurance coverage upang maipapagamot nila ang kanilang karamdaman.

Ang pagsasabatas ng panukalang iyan ay bunsod ng katotohanang maraming Pilipino ang namamatay sa sakit nang hindi nakapagpagamot dahil hindi nila nakakayanan ang mataas na bayad sa pagpapagamot.

Ayon sa Pangulo, sa pamamagitan ng awtomatikong paglilista sa mga mamamayan sa National Health Insurance Program at pagpapalawak sa saklaw ng PhilHealth, ginagarantiyahan ng batas ang pagkakaloob ng de-kalidad at murang serbisyong pangkalusugan sa lahat.

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Sa ilalim ng bagong batas na iyan, isasama sa saklaw ng PhilHealth ang libreng konsultasyon at pagsusuri sa laboratoryo at iba pang mga diagnostic test.

Itinatadhana rin ng Universal Health Care Act na isasali tayong lahat na mga Pilipino, kabilang na ang mga OFW, sa PhilHealth na popondohan ng kontribusyon ng mga OFW sa nasabing programang pangkalusugan.

Dahil sa itinatakda ito ng batas, hindi makaiiwas ang mga OFW sa sapilitang pagkaltas sa kita nila upang mapondohan ang nasabing programa. Dahil dito, asahan nating lalaki nang ilang ibayo ang kinakaltas na taunang kontribusyon ng mga OFW sa PhilHealth.

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Ang isang OFW na miyembro ng PhilHealth ay nagbabayad sa ngayon ng PhP2,400 bawat taon. Sa pagpapatupad ng Universal Health Care Act, iyan ay magiging PhP6,864 bawat taon, ayon sa komputasyon ng isang tagapagtaguyod ng mga OFW.

Ang mga skilled worker, na kinabibilangan ng mga magdaragat, ay magbabayad naman ng PhP16,500 sa PhilHealth sa isang taon.

Ayon kay Susan Ople ng  Blas Ople Center sa kanyang tudling sa Business Mirror, nakita niya sa isang balangkas ng komputasyon ng PhilHealth premium na pagkaraan ng limang taon, ang magiging taunang kontribusyon ng isang OFW ay PhP12,480.

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Kakayanin kaya ng mga kasambahay na patungong Kuwait o Saudi Arabia ang halagang iyon? tanong ni Ople.

Ang katanungan ay kaugnay ng isang rekisito sa panukalang implementing rules ng bagong Social Security System Law na hindi bibigyan ng Philippine Overseas Employment Administration ng OEC ang isang OFW hanggat hindi siya ganap na bayad sa mga ambag sa SSS.

Nakakainit ng ulo kung isipin ang iba’t ibang mga sinisingil sa mga OFW bago sila umalis sa kanilang bansa upang maghanap-buhay. Ayaw man aminin ng pamahalaan, ito ay pamimiga sa mga migranteng manggagawa bago pa lang sila makapagsimula sa kanilang mga trabaho sa ibang bansa.

Hindi na nga sila maprotektahan sa paniningil ng mga employment agency nang labis-labis bago sila makaalis, ngayon ay idinagdag pa sa pasanin ng mga OFW ang mga bagong patakaran sa SSS at Universal Health Insurance.

Ang masaklap ay ang pagiging “mandatory” ng mga patakarang ito na isa lamang ang ibig sabihin: hindi makaliligtas ang OFW sa karagdagang pamimiga.

Kung itinuturing ng mga lider ng bansa at mga pulitiko ang mga OFW na mga “bagong bayani,” bakit ginagawa silang gatasan ng mga ahensiya ng pamahalaan samantalang sila ay nag-aambag ng malaking halaga sa kabuhayin ng bansa?

Malinaw na pang-uuto lamang sa mga OFW ang pagturing sa kanila bilang mga bayani kung garapalan naman ang pagpiga sa kanila. -- Vir B. Lumicao
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