BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA
ILOILO City – A domestic helper from Calinog, Iloilo died in Hong Kong. Did she commit suicide? Or was she a victim of foul play?
It has been more than one week but the family of Arlene Carbon, as well as the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) Region 6, is still puzzled about the real cause of her death.
“We are still waiting for the official report from the Hong Kong police. As of now, we have no advice yet from our consulate officer in Hong Kong,” Welfare Case Officer Jack Arroyo said.
Carbon, 43, was from Brgy. Tahing, Calinog.
According to Arroyo, Carbon allegedly fell from the 43rd floor of the Promenade, a condominium, on Tai Hong Street, Sai Wan Ho, Hong Kong on June 30.
Allegedly, she was suffering from depression and committed suicide.
However, siblings were suspicious of the real cause of their sister’s death.
Ninfa Carbon believes her sister was intentionally pushed to death from the said condominium.
Arroyo, however, said she had noticed something was wrong with Carbon when she was processing her papers for the renewal of her contract.
She mentioned that her mother died 12 years ago, when in fact it was her child who died; her mother died 34 years ago.
A friend of Carbon, also an overseas Filipino worker in Hong Kong, said over DyFM Bombo Radyo Iloilo that days before Carbon’s death, she had told her that she was depressed and could not sleep because her sister was asking for money to redeem their pawned lot.
Sheryl Cervas, the friend, also does not believe that there was foul play in Carbon’s death because she had not heard any single complaint from Arlene against her employer.
She added it was even Carbon’s employers who had offered her to go home because “she looked cheerless.”/PN
