Compensation for Zamboanga school

The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has pleaded with the Saudi Arabian government to treat in a humane manner Filipino workers arrested for overstaying in that Arab country.

Some overstaying Filipino workers who came home from Saudi claimed they were treated like ordinary criminals—worse, even like animals—while they were detained prior to their repatriation to this country.

If the DFA and Malacañang think their pleas will be heeded by Saudi Arabia, they have another thing coming.

The only country that Saudi Arabia respects is the United States. All other countries are of no consequence to its government.

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One of these days, Saudi Arabians will reap the consequences of their actions.

They will experience the same treatment they now accord foreign workers who come from poor countries like the Philippines.

The universal law of karma will soon catch up with that oil-rich country sooner than later.

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In Saudi Arabia, a foreigner who goes to court after being bumped by a local who drove carelessly has little chance of getting justice.

The Saudi court will more often rule that the accident would not have happened if the foreigner hadn’t come to their country.

Many Saudis look down on people of other nations who work for them.

If you don’t believe me, try asking the thousands of Filipinos who used to work in Saudi Arabia

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The Department of Justice has granted the petition of psychiatrist Elizabeth de Guia-Godino, coursed through “Isumbong mo kay Tulfo,” to have her car theft case reviewed.

This means the car theft case that Dr. Godino’s husband, millionaire businessman William Godino, filed against her has been returned to the Parañaque Prosecutor’s Office.

With the granting of Dr. Godino’s petition for review, there is no reason for Parañaque Judge Noemi Balitaan to continue to hear the case.

I would like to thank Justice Secretary Leila de Lima and Prosecutor General Carlos Arellano to whom I took Dr. Godino’s petition.

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The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is going to compensate the American Career Training School in Zamboanga City for the damage  it caused the school and the  loss of its equipment.

This much I gathered from the AFP whose soldiers made the school a command center during the siege of the city by the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF).

This column on Saturday cited the damage to the school premises and the loss of its equipment.

Before the item about the school came out, the AFP had ignored the pleas of its owners, Michael and Norida Patrick, for a just compensation.