Jailed Couple's Children Sent Back To Philippines
By Rosli Abidin Yahya

Bandar Seri Begawan - The Philippine Ambassador to Brunei Darussalam, Virginia H Binavidez, expressed her sincere thanks to relevant agencies in the Sultanate for helping to send three Filipino children home as their parents are serving jail terms here for violating the Immigration Act.

Their father Albino De Castro Comisa, 36, and their mother, Elsa Gordove Secretario, 41, were jailed for five months, including three strokes of canes for the father, after they both pleaded guilty to overstaying before the Magistrate's Court last Sept. 17.

Ambassador Binavidez thanked the Immigration and National Registration Department, Ministry of Home Affairs for issuing clearance for the children to leave for Manila without facing prosecution for overstaying with their parents.

She also thanked the Prisons Department for allowing the three children to visit their mother at Jerudong Prison as well as their father at Maraburong Prison before they left for home.

Accompanying the three children, aged ten, eight and three to Manila Tuesday evening was their auntie who works as a nurse here.

Their Royal Brunei Airlines air tickets were provided by the embassy with the help of the Philippine Government.

Ed M Matibag, an administrative officer at the Consulate Section of the Philippine Embassy said the children will be joining their parents in Manila when the couple has served their sentences on Dec. 28, 2005. -- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin

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