Windfall for honest Filipino cabbie
A taxi driver who returned the belongings left by an Australian businessman last week was gifted with scholarships for his children and a job offer in an unnamed Australian firm.
Reggie Cabututan, 30, said he was surprised by the gesture of the owners of the Calle Uno building, where Australian Trent Shields was dropped off on January 17.
“All I did was go back and return [Shields’] belongings when I realised he left them at the back seat of the taxi cab,” Cabututan said after he was honoured by the city government in its Monday flag ceremony.
The scholarships and the job offer were announced in the ceremony by Ace Estrada II, managing director of Calle Uno. He said Shields’ equipment and belongings were worth 1 million pesos (Bt708,000).
Cabututan lives in Rosario, La Union province, and travels to Baguio in northern Philippines to work.
