{"id":42,"date":"2008-03-08T23:35:19","date_gmt":"2008-03-08T13:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=42"},"modified":"2008-03-08T23:35:19","modified_gmt":"2008-03-08T13:35:19","slug":"boxers-go-awol-may-be-in-trouble-with-immigrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"Boxers go AWOl, may be in trouble with immigrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by <strong>Jaime K. Pimentel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Three Filipino boxers, here on temporary sports visas, were reported missing or absent without leave (AWOL) from their quarters in Sydney&#8217;s southwestern suburb of Liverpool this week.<\/p>\n<p>Junior-lightweight Walrito Paderna, welterweight Jason Oyao, and junior-welterweight Arnel Balicuatro are now being sought by Green Valley police and Australian immigration authorities alerted by their manager Dido Bohol, of Bohol Boxing Stable where the boxers reside with seven others.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Philippine Consulate General in Sydney and the Philippine Embassy in Canberra will also be advised of this development, Bohol said. Oyao went missing on December 2, 2007, Balicuatro on January 6, 2008, and Paderna on February 12. They are on six-months renewable visas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I  am  worried  for  them because they may  be breaching a contract they signed with conditions of their stay in Australia\u201d Bohol   said.  \u201cA breach may result in their immediate deportation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If the three boxers decided  not  to return  to  their base and forced   Australian  immigration   authorities   to   seek   and deport  them,  it may  also  put  in jeopardy opportunities for other    Filipino   boxers    in   the  Philippines  to   come   to Australia to ply their trade.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It would give Bohol Boxing Stable a bad name in the eyes of Australian Embassy officials in Manila,\u201d Bohol said. \u201cI am hoping that Paderna, Oyao and Balicuatro decide to return and honour their contracts, and to eventually return to the Philippines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For the sake of our reputations as Filipinos, and to help facilitate travel of other Filipino boxers to Australia to campaign and earn a living, I plead with these three to make things right&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Jaime K. Pimentel Three Filipino boxers, here on temporary sports visas, were reported missing or absent without leave (AWOL) from their quarters in Sydney&#8217;s southwestern suburb of Liverpool this week. Junior-lightweight Walrito Paderna, welterweight Jason Oyao, and junior-welterweight Arnel Balicuatro are now being sought by Green Valley police and Australian immigration authorities alerted by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,65],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}