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Pinoy cancer patient gives money back
Donations to be given to other sufferers after immigrant wins two-year work permit and public funding
After receiving what he said was “the given me will instead be used to help night, but when she eventually heard his plight, the NZ$40,000 he received tors at the hospital to discuss starting
best news ever”, cancer sufferer Rod- others like me,” he said. the news, she just couldn’t stop crying was still way under the NZ$150,000 treatment and also to find out if it was
erick Catuday now wants to give the Catuday, an immigrant from the tears of joy.” deposit Auckland City Hospital need- fully funded publicly.
money he has received in donations Philippines, was told that he had He was diagnosed with acute my- ed to start chemotherapy treatment on “All the excess money will be given
to new Zealand’s Cancer Society to been granted a two-year work per- eloid leukaemia while waiting for his him. Besides New Zealand and Aus- to charity,” he said.
help others in the same situation as mit, which meant he could get pub- permit to be approved from Immigra- tralian citizens and residents, only Although Catuday said he had
himself. lic funding for the vital treatment he tion New Zealand, and his applica- those with at least a two-year work many people to thank, as a Christian,
“I now know how stressful and dif- needed for his leukemia. tion was rejected when the authorities permit could get access to public God took top priority. Close family
ficult it is for people who don’t have “My wife Emelita was wondering found out about his illness. health funding and friends gathered at Mr Catuday’s
enough money to treat their illnesses, why my children and I were smiling Although donations have poured in Catuday said he was in the process Henderson home for an evening of
so I hope the money that people have when she got home from work last since the Weekend Herald reported of making appointments to meet doc- prayer in thanksgiving.
Seamen
NEWSBITES
OBSCENE CALLS
home after
A Romanian man has been
fined for making 6,442 profane
phone calls to an emergency
Somali
number, police said.
The 24-year-old man, who
lives in a village in southern
hijacking
Romania, was identified in
February and fined US$223 in
April after a checkup showed
he was mentally sound,
Six Filipino seamen of the French
said Daniela Salaoru, police
yacht Le Ponant were reunited with
spokeswoman for Ialomita
county police.
their families five days after they
Police did not identify the
were released by Somali pirates who
caller. But the Evenimentul
hijacked the luxury vessel on April 4
Zilei newspaper said he was a
off the Somali coast.
well-digger, and reported that
The Filipino crewmen, who he called the 112 emergency
were among 30 hostages that also number from November
included 22 French on board Le to January to swear at the
Ponant, arrived home on Wednesday.
operators. He used a prepaid
Government officials headed
mobile phone, which does not
by Department of Foreign Affairs
immediately make it possible
Undersecretary for Migrant Workers
to identify the caller.
Affairs Esteban Conejos facilitated
CHICKEN MARIJUANA
their return.
In Arkansas, police say it
“We would like to thank the
wasn’t the fried chicken in
French government for the safe and
Savalas Vantoli Stewart’s car
fast release of the hostages including
that gave off a funky smell.
our six countrymen,” Conejos said in
Instead, officers who pulled
a press briefing. over Stewart say they found a
Gilbert Glorioso, a 30-year-old side dish of marijuana hidden
waiter of Le Ponant, said at least President Arroyo is shown with Kuwait’s Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah during a meeting last year.
in a recently purchased box of
11 Somali pirates participated in
chicken.
the hijacking but added they were
GMA in last-minute bid to save helper
The 33-year-old faces a
treated well during their seven-day
misdemeanor marijuana
ordeal.
possession charge and felony
drug possession charge.
”What they [hostage takers]
President Arroyo gave her assur- held this week the death penalty of after visits to Madrid and London,
wanted only is money. They’ve
ance that the government will press Vecina, 28, who would be hanged en route to Manila, had a brief stop-
FOUR AT A TIME
asked for a US$5 million ransom but
talks with the Kuwaiti government for murdering her employer’s over in Kuwait to personally seek
A Maryland woman has
I have no idea if the Somali pirates
to save the life of May Vecina, a youngest son Salem Sulaiman Al- clemency from Emir Sheikh Sabah given birth to a rare set of
were paid,” Glorioso said.
Filipina domestic helper who was Otaib on January 6 ,2007. al-Ahmad al-Sabah for another quadruplets in which three of
Aside from Glorioso, the other
sentenced to death after being con- She also tried to kill his employ- Filipina domestic helper, Marilou
the four boys are identical.
rescued Filipino crew members were
victed of killing her ward. er’s 13-year-old brother Abdulla by Ranario.
The boys were born 11
Domingo Barayang, Victor Rebanal,
Arroyo said the Department of cutting his throat and stabbed his Ranario had been sentenced to
weeks premature.
Gary Caingat, Alexander Hibi and
Foreign Affairs, through Undersec- 17-year-old sister Hajer. death for murdering her employer
The parents plan to introduce
Marisol Abalos, a 25-year-old cabin
retary Esteban Conejos, had been The court ruling was final and and faced execution.
themselves and their boys at a
stewardess and the only woman in
news conference.
given the sole authority to talk about only needs the signature of Kuwait’s Justice Secretary Raul Gonzales
the group.
There are fewer than 100
Vecina’s case so as not to “jeopar- Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al- said Arroyo might send Vice Presi-
Glorioso said the Le Ponant
documented cases of “identical
dize” on-going negotiations. Sabah to be implemented. dent Noli de Castro to Kuwait to
triplets plus one” in the United
management has expressed its
The Kuwaiti Supreme Court up- In November last year, Arroyo, make a last-minute appeal.
States, hospital officials said.
intention to hire them anew.
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