Couple admits killing Filipina maid Victim crushed to death by car

KUWAIT CITY, July 17: Detectives belonging to Ahmadi CID have unraveled the murder mystery of a Filipino woman whose corpse was found near horse stables area in Kabad on Thursday.
Sources say the sleuths managed to identify the victim as a housemaid who worked for a Kuwaiti family. The family had returned the maid to a domestic workers’ office over three months ago.

Officers came to know that another Kuwaiti woman had hired the maid using a stolen ID card and fictitious phone numbers. The woman, who stays in Salwa, later confessed that she and her husband maltreated the maid on a daily basis. When they feared that the maid would die, they took her in their car to the stables area and crushed her under their vehicle to give an impression that she was run over by a motorist. The woman’s husband also corroborated her confession.

Earlier, when officers reached the address the woman gave at the domestic workers’ office, they found another woman who had no clue about the victim. They then discovered that the suspects stole the ID card of the woman to employ the victim. After a lot of effort, investigation men finally managed to reach the suspects and arrested them. Officers found out that the woman had earlier maltreated several other housemaids.

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ABU DHABI – The outgoing Philippine Ambassador to the UAE, Libran N. Cabactulan, was given a warm farewell on Thursday by the Filipino Community and the St. Joseph Church.

He will depart from the UAE this week to take up his new assignment as president of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Preparatory Committee.

Philippine Ambassador Libran Nuevas Cabactulan receiving a gift from leaders of Filipino community in UAE]At a farewell party, he told the gathering that his new assignment will take him to countries that are members of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM).

Cabactulan, who finished his six-year tenure in UAE, was endorsed by the Philippine Government in July 2008 to be president of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Preparatory Committee. By April this year, the 118 member-countries of NAM endorsed his candidature and in May the 198 countries involved in the treaty elected him president during their third preparatory conference in New York. Popularly known as the father of the Filipino Expatriates Inc, a foundation he helped set up to assist the Filipinos in need of financial, medical and legal support in UAE, Cabactulan urged all Filipinos to do their best to get the FilEx going, calling it as “his legimitate son that should bear fruit for everyone.”

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Manama Bahrain May 31, 2009

NEW Philippine Ambass-ador to Bahrain, Corazon Yap-Bahjin, has made history by becoming her country’s first female Muslim ambassador.

According to the Department of Foreign Affairs, other career Muslim diplomats who headed Philippine missions abroad are former Philippine Ambassador to Turkey and currently Assistant Secretary DFA-Mindanao Bahnarim Guinomla, Philippine Consul General and Deputy Chief of Mission to Dhaka Usop Kadatuan, former Philippine Ambassador to Oman Candidate Gutoc, and former Philippine Ambassador to Libya Mukhtar Muallam.

The appointment was confirmed on May 20, but the Philippine Foreign Affairs Department said yesterday that she was the first Muslim wo-man to hold the rank.

In 1979, she also became the first Fili-pina Mus-lim to pass the Foreign Service Officers (FSO) exam – said to be one of the toughest examinations in the Philippines and a requirement for joining the Philippine foreign service.

She succeeds former ambassador Eduardo Pablo Maglaya who left Bahrain in March.

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DUBAI (AFP) (“ca.news.yahoo”)- Playing loud music, dancing, nudity, kissing and even holding hands in public is considered inappropriate behaviour under new guidelines laid down by the authorities of Dubai, a report said Saturday.

Arabic-language daily Al Emarat Al-Youm said the Dubai Executive Council had urged residents of Dubai, where foreigners make up more than 80 percent of the population, to respect the customs of the Muslim majority country and avoid inappropriate behaviour.

The rules, which apply to all public places, include a ban on all forms of nudity, playing music loudly and dancing, exchange of kisses between men and women — and even on unmarried couples holding hands.

Any breach of the guidelines, by nationals or expatriates, carries a possible prison penalty, the paper said.

The guidelines also stipulate that anyone caught under the influence of alcohol — even small amounts — outside designated drinking areas is liable to being fined or imprisoned, the paper added.

Dubai, a member of the seven-emirate United Arab Emirates, has a diverse culture as it is home to a foreign population made up mainly of low-skilled workers from Asia and Western professionals.

Unlike most of its neighbours in the conservative Gulf region, the emirate tolerates a relatively relaxed dress code and hosts dozens of hotels that have bars and clubs, where alcohol is legally served.

However, a series of incidents, including crackdowns on cross dressers and the expulsion of two British expats found guilty of having sex on the beach, has thrown into the limelight the sometimes clashing local and foreign cultures.