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filipino globe
the city
June 2008
Auditor
ANGBANSA
jailed for
Cebu
An official of the Department
indecent
of Environment and Natural
Resources in Region VII said
massive planting of jatropha
assault
could ensure enough supply
of biofuel as an alternative
for petroleum diesel with the
on helper
skyrocketing prices in the world
market.
But regional director Isabelo
Montejo warned against
converting corn and rice lands
Jose Marcelo in Hong Kong to jatropha plantation as this
will prolong the food crisis.
A Hong Kong national has been
He said DENR has committed
sentenced to five months in prison
to convert four million
after being convicted on three counts
unproductive uplands in the
country for biofuel production.
of indecent assault and three counts
He said rather than maintaining
of criminal intimidation against her
these unproductive uplands,
Filipina domestic helper.
landowners should produce
Chan Chow-wing’s lawyers had
commodity that will “help us
pleaded for a lighter sentence on the
Succesful examinees show their certificates after results of the licensure exam in Hong Kong were announced. stabilize our economy”.
grounds that the 46-year-old auditor
“We need energy. We need
had no previous criminal record biofuel in order to stabilize our
and was cleared of any deep mental
problems following a psychological
examination.
Teacher hopefuls
economy,” Montejo said.
Defense lawyers also told the
Zamboanga
Sha Tin court that Chan’s wife
of 20 years had forgiven him and
Six female entertainers who
that his two children had already
been shamed before friends
and classmates by their father’s
make the grade
claimed to have come from
San Jose Del Monte, Bulacan
were rescued by police before
they could leave for Sabah on
conviction.
promises of good paying jobs.
During sentencing, Magistrate
Timothy Casewell acknowledged Successful examinees headed for home or overseas
They said two men, whom
they know only by nicknames,
that Chan had worked hard for
offered them the jobs.
his professional license and will The women aged 22 to 31,
most likely lose it because of the Jose Marcelo in Hong Kong pines graduate with a master’s degree arrived in Zamboanga City by
conviction.
BY THE NUMBERS
in Arts and Literature from Dela Salle
But Casewell stressed that the Inside a room filled with laughter
Proportion of examinees, in per cent,
who has had teaching stints in Saudi
employer had on three occasions not and chatter at the Bayanihan Centre
who passed the recent licensure exam
Arabia, Sydney, Beijing, Shenzhen
only indecently assaulted the maid compound in Kennedy Town, Mary and the Philippines.
but also threatened her, thus meriting Glo Dappit clutched her professional “Malaking bagay sa akin ang teach-
a prison sentence. teacher’s license like it was her ticket ing license for promotion and rank-
The court heard home. ing purposes as well as sa upgrading
that the 24-year-old In effect, it was. “Uuwi na po ako,”
20
ng salary,” said the 53-year-old, who
Filipina was barely said the 26-year-old domestic helper currently teaches at the Kit Sam Lam
three days into the job from Candon, Ilocos Sur. Bing Yim secondary school in Lok Fu
plane and checked into two
when the assaults and “Tatapusin ko lang itong huli ko na said. “Ngayon puwede na akong and, as expected, topped the exams
rooms at a local hotel, a block
grave threats started. kontrata. By next year, babalik na ako bumalik. Iba pa rin ‘yung teacher ka, for the secondary level.
away from the central police
Between January sa atin.” siyempre.” The 20 per cent passing rate this
station.
18 and 21, the maid Dappit was one of 80 Hong Kong- One of them, Libby Pino, had to year was higher than the 7 per cent
Two of them began to
was assaulted on three different based workers who passed the licen- wait a lot longer. The 38-year-old (49 out of 687) recorded the last time doubt their recruitment and
occasions: once when Chan took her sure examination for teachers con- from San Fabian, Pangasinan flunked the LET was held in the territory in complained to the police.
to a park after shopping, again while ducted by the Professional Regulation the exam just fresh out of college in 2004, but well below the high of 49 Initially, the other entertainers
the maid was tidying up the masters Commission on April 6. 1991 and did not get another shot at it per cent in 2001.
quarreled with their two
bedroom and again when he took her Each one of them had a happy story until she joined 398 other examinees There could have been more suc-
companions until police
to a karaoke bar. to tell, mostly of how business left un- last April. cessful examinees, according to Nopti
investigators managed to
Her employer, the maid told the finished when they went to work over- Her success washed away the frus- president Lolit Brana, who said that
convince the other women that
court, had during those occasions seas had finally been fulfilled after the tration of the past 17 years. “Na-dis- most of the 11 applicants who failed
they were about to be shipped
kissed her face, touched her breasts LET was brought to the territory for appoint kasi ako noong hindi ako to show up for the daylong examina-
to Malaysia and could possibly
and asked her to be his girlfriend. tions were discouraged from doing so
end up in brothels, working as
the fourth time under the initiative of pumasa kaya nag-domestic helper
sex slaves.
The employer threatened to send the National Organization of Profes- na lang ako,” said Pino, who is set by their employers.
her home after the first assault and sional Teachers Inc. to leave for London anytime next “Hindi naman daw sila mga teachers
threatened to kill her if she told the The women see their licenses ei- month. “Masayang-masaya ako dahil kundi mga domestic helpers, which is
Bulacan
incident to his wife. After fending ther as a fallback in case their work last chance ko na ito. Kasi sa bansang unfortunate,” said Brana.
At least 15 laborers were
off his advances a third time, the as domestic helpers in the territory pupuntahan ko, wala ng board exam “Hindi nila na-realize na as teach-
injured when a series of
victim reported the matter to her do not pan out, a new window of op- doon. ers, these women are really very ca-
powerful explosions rocked a
employment agency which in turn portunity, or in the case of Dappit, a “Sana kung hindi pa ako paalis, pable when they tutor their children.” fireworks factory in barangay
asked for police assistance. chance to be reunited for good with babalik pa ako sa pagtuturo sa atin. Brana said about 400 of the suc- Pinacpinacan, San Rafael,
The victim also told the court that her family. Pero kung magiging resident ako sa cessful examinees in 2001 were able Bulacan.
she had found a check for $20,000 “First time kong nag-take ng board London at may chance magturo, bakit to land teaching jobs back home un-
Dragon Fireworks, owned
among her belongings when she exam noong 2003. Pagkatapos noon hindi.” der the Balik-Turo program initiated
by Joven Ong, is one of
moved to a boarding house after umalis na ako papuntang Hong Kong The test has also benefited Tony by the late former Education secretary
the pioneering and biggest
filing the police complaint. kaya hindi na ako naka-retake,” she Mendoza, a University of the Philip- and senator Raul Roco.
fireworks companies in the
country. Its products are
sold in big malls and major
pyrotechnics stores.
UP prof to appear as expert witness for Pinay
Police said four buildings of
the Dragon Fireworks were hit
by explosions and razed to the
ground around 11.30am on
FROM PAGE 1 Two socio-anthropologists – one on January 17 when she kissed and day later.
Friday.
from UP and another from Ateneo touched his jee-jee (a Cantonese Dulatre is a mother to two boys
Reports said an accident
that the conduct is considered
– have already sent written reports children’s word for a boy’s private aged nine and 10 years who is into
in one of the company’s
entirely normal and socially
which the defense submitted to the parts). her first job as a domestic helper
buildings caused an explosion
acceptable in the Philippines.
court on June 5. The maid, the boy told police, overseas.
that triggered a series of
Dulatre, her lawyers told the court,
The boy told the police during a again wanted to kiss his private parts When the two incidents happened,
blasts in adjacent buildings,
was also not aware that such practice
where workers were reportedly
video interview that the defendant, and asked if it was okay, so ‘I said the maid was barely a month under
might be considered objectionable in
making Dragon fireworks
who he said he usually calls “older no.’ the Chinese family’s employ.
other societies.
products.
sister,” was changing his clothes The second incident happened a The case continues.
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