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Inaapela ng PAO ang pag abswelto sa mga dentista na tumanggi sa pasyenteng may HIV

Carlo Juancho Funtanilla
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Inaapela ng PAO ang pag abswelto sa mga dentista na tumanggi sa pasyenteng may HIV

Isinampa ng Public Attorney’s Office (PAO) kahapon sa Supreme Court ang isang discrimination suit sa ngalan ng isang indibidwal na infected ng human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) na tinanggihang gamutin ng kanyang mga dentista.

Sa isang petisyon, hiniling ng PAO sa High Tribunal na repasuhin ang desisyon ng Court of Appeals (CA) na tumanggi sa apela ng complainant sa desisyon na ibinigay ng Taguig City Metropolitan Trial Court (MeTC) hinggil sa criminal complaint na inihain niya laban kay Dr. Sarah. Jane Mugar at Dr. Mylene Guevarra-Igrubay.

Nagsampa ng reklamo ang lalaking residente ng Makati dahil sa diumano ay paglabag sa Sec. 40 ng RA 8504, o mas kilala bilang Philippine AIDS Prevention and Control Act, sa harap ng Taguig court, na nagpawalang-sala sa dalawa.

Ipinapakita ng mga rekord ng korte na ang nagrereklamo, noong Valentine’s Day ng 2017, ay nagsadya ang pasyente upang ipagamot ang kanyang kaliwang molar, at pagkatapos ng paunang pagsusuri ay natukoy na ang molar ay kailangang bunutin. Gayunpaman, ipinaalam sa kanya na kailangan muna niyang sumailalim sa clotting o bleeding diagnostic test.

Sa kanyang pagbabalik, pagkatapos makumpleto ang mga test,sinabi sa kanya ng mga dentista na hindi sila maaaring magsagawa ng molar extraction dahil wala silang ultraviolet-type sterilization equipment.

“Obviously, mahirap paniwalaan ang excuse na binigay ni Dr. Mugar at Dr. Guevarra-Igrubay considering that EDC (the dental clinic) boasts of advance dental equipment on its website. (The complainant) were even asked to secure a clearance so that Ang isang appointment ay maaaring gawin. Ang dahilan para sa pagtanggi ay maliwanag – ito ay dahil (ang nagrereklamo) ay may HIV,” ayon sa PAO.

Sinabi sa reklamo na “sa Pilipinas, ang mga batas tungkol sa anti-discrimination ay nakalatag na. Ngunit maliban kung ang batas ay nagpapatupad at kinikilala ng estado ang mga pagkilos sa diskriminasyon, ang diskriminasyon ay hindi matatapos.”

Ang HIV ay isang impeksyon na nakukuha sa pakikipagtalik ngunit maaari ding kumalat sa pamamagitan ng pakikipag-ugnayan sa nahawahang dugo at paggamit ng mga nahawahang karayom ​​gayundin mula sa ina hanggang sa anak sa panahon ng pagbubuntis, panganganak o pagpapasuso.

On the Marcoses and historical revisionism

DC Alviar
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On the Marcoses and historical revisionism

Is the current president eligible for estate tax amnesty? He is not eligible according to law, the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) replies. The hashtag #NeverForget is advanced yet again, but this time by the government itself in a House of Representatives hearing last Monday. 13 months ago the BIR confirmed that they sent out a written demand letter to the Marcos family to settle the estate tax.

The propaganda for the Marcoses has been run for decades and it seems that it is more of the same in the coming years. Even if another Marcos won the Philippine presidential election in 2022, there is no stopping the revisions of Marcos’ history of bad governance, poor economics, abysmal human rights records, and historical distortions that go with it. (Amnesty International, 2022)

Fortunately, though not enough, fact-checkers and the business of truth-telling are very assisting. Courageous journalists from the tri-media and the top 3 broadsheets in the Philippines – Inquirer, Bulletin, and Star – continue to let their readers know what transpired during the Marcos dictatorship, the Imeldific lifestyle of the Marcoses then and now, and how their PR manipulators distort history. Nobel laureate Maria Ressa and Rappler followed suit, leading the international print and online media in unearthing more lies about and from the Marcoses in the last decade.

That the Marcoses stole money from the Filipino people is an understatement. The Filipinos suffered economically, and emotionally, and even lost lives as a result of the almost non-stop and notorious 20-year rule. Unluckily for the Marcoses, the international community does not buy the idea that the Marcoses are “just humans born to make mistakes” like anybody else. In the course of some 50 years, they lied in order to perpetuate themselves in power. There is truth to the saying that power corrupts and that absolute power corrupts absolutely (Lord Acton, n.d.). Marcos loyalists abound and that critically hurts the democratic processes, institutions, and law and order. Even Jovito Salonga’s votes were smaller than Imelda Marcos’ in the 1992 presidential election. Ferdinand Marcos Jr. may have lost twice – in the Senate in 1995 and in the VP derby in 2016 – but he continues to tell people that the Marcoses have just been judged unfairly and did not even concede his defeat with Leni Robredo, but instead filed a very costly electoral protest eventually to add to his list of defeats. The Supreme Court, like any other unbiased institutions, had other things in mind: “He who comes to court must come with clean hands. Otherwise, he not only taints his name, but ridicules the very structure of established authority.” That’s “FERDINAND R. MARCOS II, PETITIONER, VS. COURT OF APPEALS, THE COMMISSIONER OF THE BUREAU OF INTERNAL REVENUE AND HERMINIA D. DE GUZMAN, RESPONDENTS” in the SC decision on June 5, 1997.

Another significant legal defeat the Marcoses encountered here (here, meaning, there were court defeats abroad) was in an SC decision which read in part, “The admission of respondent Imelda Marcos only confirmed what was already generally known: that the foundations were established precisely to hide the money stolen by the Marcos spouses from petitioner Republic. That’s “REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES, PETITIONER, VS. HONORABLE SANDIGANBAYAN (SPECIAL FIRST DIVISION), FERDINAND E. MARCOS (REPRESENTED BY HIS ESTATE/HEIRS: IMELDA R. MARCOS, MARIA IMELDA [IMEE] MARCOS-MANOTOC, FERDINAND R. MARCOS, JR. AND IRENE MARCOS-ARANETA) AND IMELDA ROMUALDEZ MARCOS, RESPONDENTS” on July 15, 2003.

Marcos Jr., by the way, ran a successful presidential campaign last year via massive dis/misinformation, according to scholars. Simply put, the academe is entirely Anti-Marcos per the incisive analysis of a DLSU professor/columnist who was not a Robredo supporter anyway.

Without telling some backgrounder knowledge of the Marcoses in the narrative above, it would be quite difficult to enlighten people – the Filipino people – what historical revisionism is and what historical distortions are.

Historical revisionism is not entirely wrong – that “the earth is flat” is a thing of the past thanks to that kind of revisionism. Most of the time, however, historical revisionism is an effort exerted by individuals so that they get benefited from it, never mind social consequences, including the common good. Ferdinand Marcos Sr. and Jr., Imelda, Imee, and Irene, and their supporters, including the so-called Marcos cronies and loyalists, and lately their troll armies, are widely perceived to be utilizing historical revisionism. Marcos Jr.’s absences in presidential debates are a proof he and the Marcoses have so many things to hide.

Which now leads us to the more accurate term, historical distortion. Movie and press people can, in one way or another, distort history. Maid in Malacanang, for instance, was written and directed by a movie director who gets a lot of funding from Imee Marcos, the movie executive producer. What is entirely wrong in this “art,” according to historians, lies in the control of the narrative. It rests on the idea that when movie people are out to destroy others’ reputations and/or spin-doctor a family’s image, chances are that some may believe in them. All in the name of the art of the one who backs and produces it.

Dale Russakoff wrote in 1986: “Other preconceptions about the Marcos era also crumbled under the weight of the documents. While Philippine observers had said corruption began in earnest when Marcos declared martial law in 1972, the documents dated it earlier.

“In 1968, two years after he took office on a vow to fight corruption and capital flight, Marcos and his wife had set up Swiss and U.S. bank accounts to hide assets, according to documents obtained by Salonga and others.

 “’They were depositing money in Swiss banks using code names such as Jane Ryan and William Saunders,’ Salonga said in an interview. ‘They authorized the practice under the signature of both Imelda Marcos and Ferdinand Marcos.’”

Russakoff’s “The Philippines: Anatomy of a Looting” hit the nail on its head in Filipino parlance: “Ang sinungaling ay kapatid ng magnanakaw.” Fast forward to 2023, the lies and deceptive historical revisionism and historical distortions continue; the tax evasion conviction is nothing but a suggestion, not something to be paid nor executed legally; and the ill-gotten wealth are all upon us no thanks to the very influential and dynastic families, particularly that of Ferdinand E. Marcos.

The scripture says that the truth shall set us free, which also means that it will be beneficial for our generation and generations to come if we value our sense of history and fight for it, rather than doing nothing or being on the safe side of neutrality.

(I thank a group of students from Liceo de San Pedro for interviewing me last April 21, 2023. Everything I believed and felt during the interview is summed up above.)

The saga of a great writer and poet

Melinda Bagsic Evangelista
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The saga of a great writer and poet

(7th of a series)

Prior to the involuntary dissolution of TIKBALANG, the original members were able to elect officers and had their grand induction at the Tierra de Oro Resort owned by Sps. Marius and Mila Zabat.  It was an affair to remember for all the members because there was so much fun – drinking, dancing and singing up to the wee hour of the night.  The off-key duet rendered by Nelson Cornista and Tony Valencia who sadly are both in heaven now brought everybody on their knees laughing out loud. 

Without me knowing it, the top officers headed by the then City Councilor Dante B. Amante, Brgy. Chairman Macario ‘Ayong’ Almario and Dr. Edgardo ‘Egay’ Adajar already had a plot to match me with Palasig who was then too shy to dance with me.  Dr. Egay announced that there had to be a dance competition and the winners shall receive a gift of sorts to which everybody agreed.  When the soft music played, Palasig approached me in a gentleman’s manner and asked if I could be his partner.  I was a bit adamant at first but I was pushed by Joy Cabrera Gonzales, the beauteous wife of Fiscal Ante Gonzales to go ahead and dance.

When we were already dancing in the middle of the ballroom, everybody gathered around us clapping their hands and chanting “Yehey!  Kasalan na!”.  I slightly pushed Palasig away from me but he pulled me closer to him and held me tightly.  He then touched my hair and whispered “hayaan mo mga ‘yan…inggit lang sila”.  I knew I blushed yet I managed to smile and finished dancing with the music.  I did not dance again till we went home.

The following day, Palasig visited me at the office accompanied by Teresita “Tita Tikya”Pacia with a half gallon of ice cream which I shared with the staff of the Assisting Court under the late Judge Adelardo S. Escoses to whom I was the Acting Clerk of Court. That was the beginning of his regular visit at the office which I simply took as a gesture of friendship because he just lost his wife. We became close friends sharing personal stories about our past and some plans for the future. From his words I can honestly say that he was a good family man – a loving father and a doting grandfather to his grandchildren, Francis Ferdine and Florence Ferdinelli ‘Dindin’ Rosete.

Having used to seeing him everyday at the office or at the Capitol site, I started to miss his funny anecdotes or shalI I say, his presence  when he was not around. I felt some sort of invisible attachment to him which I could not explain. It was like a magnetic pole pulling me towards him then suddenly both of us found out that we were into a mutual understanding that we were meant for each other.  To avoid gossip, we would spend our lunch time and coffee breaks together at the house of his bosom friend Venus Penaflor which was just a stone throw away from my office. 

(To be continued)

Tokyo company: ‘High probability’ spacecraft crashed on moon

Venus L Peñaflor
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Tokyo company: ‘High probability’ spacecraft crashed on moon

A Japanese company’s spacecraft apparently crashed while attempting to land on the moon Wednesday, losing contact moments before touchdown and sending flight controllers scrambling to figure out what happened.

More than six hours after communication ceased, the Tokyo company ispace finally confirmed what everyone had suspected, saying there was “a high probability” that the lander had slammed into the moon.

It was a disappointing setback for ispace, which after a 4 1/2-month mission had been on the verge of doing what only three countries have done: successfully land a spacecraft on the moon.

Takeshi Hakamada, founder and CEO of ispace, held out hope even after contact was lost as the lander descended the final 33 feet (10 meters). Flight controllers peered at their screens in Tokyo as minutes went by with only silence from the moon.

A grim-faced team surrounded Hakamada as he announced that the landing likely failed.

Official word finally came in a statement: “It has been determined that there is a high probability that the lander eventually made a hard landing on the moon’s surface.”

If all had gone well, ispace would have been the first private business to pull off a lunar landing. Hakamada vowed to try again, saying a second moonshot is already in the works for next year.

Only three governments have successfully touched down on the moon: Russia, the United States and China. An Israeli nonprofit tried to land on the moon in 2019, but its spacecraft was destroyed on impact.

“If space is hard, landing is harder,” tweeted Laurie Leshin, director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “I know from personal experience how awful this feels.”

Leshin worked on NASA’s Mars Polar lander that crashed on the red planet in 1999.

The 7-foot (2.3-meter) Japanese lander carried a mini lunar rover for the United Arab Emirates and a toylike robot from Japan designed to roll around in the moon dust for about 10 days. That’s how everything else on the mission was supposed to last.

Named Hakuto, Japanese for white rabbit, the spacecraft had targeted Atlas crater in the northeastern section of the moon’s near side, more than 50 miles (87 kilometers) across and just over 1 mile (2 kilometers) deep.

It took a long, roundabout route to the moon following its December liftoff, beaming back photos of Earth along the way. The lander entered lunar orbit on March 21.

Flight controllers were able to ascertain that the lander was upright as it used its thrusters to slow down during Wednesday’s final approach. Engineers monitoring the fuel gauge noticed that as the tank approached empty, the lander picked up speed as it descended and communication was then lost, according to ispace. That’s what leads them to believe the lander crashed.

Founded in 2010, ispace hopes to start turning a profit as a one-way taxi service to the moon for other businesses and organizations. The company has already raised $300 million to cover the first three missions, according to Hakamada.

“We will keep going, never quit lunar quest,” he said.

For this test flight, the two main experiments were government-sponsored: the UAE’s 22-pound (10-kilogram) rover Rashid, named after Dubai’s royal family, and the Japanese Space Agency’s orange-sized sphere designed to transform into a wheeled robot on the moon. The UAE was seeking to extend its presence to the moon, already in orbit around Earth with an astronaut aboard the International Space Station, and in orbit around Mars.

The moon is suddenly hot again, with numerous countries and private companies clamoring to get on the lunar bandwagon. China has successfully landed three spacecraft on the moon since 2013, and U.S., China, India and South Korea have satellites currently circling the moon.

NASA’s first test flight in its new moonshot program, Artemis, made it to the moon and back late last year, paving the way for four astronauts to follow by the end of next year and two others to actually land on the moon a year after that. Pittsburgh’s Astrobotic Technology and Houston’s Intuitive Machines have lunar landers waiting in the wings, poised to launch later this year at NASA’s behest.

Hakuto and the Israeli spacecraft named Beresheet were finalists in the Google Lunar X Prize competition requiring a successful landing on the moon by 2018. The $20 million grand prize went unclaimed.

Drug for rare form of Lou Gehrig’s disease OK’d by FDA

EDGARDO HERNAL
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Drug for rare form of Lou Gehrig’s disease OK’d by FDA

Washington. Food and Drug Administration regulators on Tuesday approved a first-of-a-kind drug for a rare form of Lou Gehrig’s disease, though they are requiring further research to confirm it truly helps patients.

The FDA approved Biogen’s injectable drug for patients with a rare genetic mutation that’s estimated to affect less than 500 people in the U.S. It’s the first drug for an inherited form of ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a deadly disease that destroys nerve cells needed for basic functions like walking, talking and swallowing.

Approval came via FDA’s accelerated pathway, which allows drugs to launch based on promising early results, before they’re confirmed to benefit patients. That shortcut has come under increasing scrutiny from government watchdogs and congressional investigators.

The FDA is requiring Biogen to continue studying the drug in a trial of people who carry the genetic mutation but do not yet have ALS symptoms.

ALS patients hope the decision could lay the groundwork for more expedited approvals to fight the disease, which affects 16,000 to 32,000 people in the U.S. The FDA has long used accelerated approval to speed the availability of drugs for cancer and other deadly conditions.

The drug, tofersen, is designed to block the genetic messengers that produce a toxic form of protein that is thought to drive the disease in about 2% of ALS patients. Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Biogen will sell it under the brand name Qalsody. Patients receive three initial spinal injections of the drug over a two-week period, followed by a monthly dose. The most common side effects linked to the drug were pain, fatigue and increased spinal fluid.

Biogen’s 100-person study failed to show that the drug significantly slowed the disease compared with a dummy treatment. Patients were tracked for more than six months using a scale that measures the decline of basic movements, including writing, walking and climbing stairs.

But those who received tofersen showed significant changes in levels of the toxic protein and a second neurological chemical that is considered a key indicator of the disease’s progression.

“The findings are reasonably likely to predict a clinical benefit in patients,” the FDA said in a statement announcing the approval.

Last month an outside panel of FDA advisers voted unanimously that those changes warranted granting conditional approval while more data is gathered to confirm the drug’s benefit. The same panel said Biogen’s current data, including the failed patient study, wasn’t strong enough to warrant full approval.

FDA regulators have the authority to pull accelerated approval from drugs that fail to live up to their expected promise, though until recently, they rarely used that power. In recent years, the FDA has stepped up efforts to force unproven drugs off the market, amid criticism that too many expensive, ineffective medications remain available for years.

At the same time, the FDA has shown increased “regulatory flexibility” in approving drugs for rare and debilitating neurological diseases, including Alzheimer’s and ALS.

In September, the FDA granted full approval to another ALS drug based on one small, mid-stage study in which patients appeared to progress more slowly and survive several months longer. Normally, the FDA requires two large studies or one study suggesting a “very persuasive” improvement in survival.

Some insurers have limited access to the new drug, Relyvrio, citing its uncertain benefit and $158,000-per-year cost.

Biogen did not announce a price for its drug Tuesday but said it will be “comparable to other recently launched ALS treatments.”

The ALS Association and other patient groups hailed the approval.

“This is the second time in less than a year our community gets to celebrate the approval of a new drug to treat ALS and we have great hope for the future,” said Calaneet Balas, the group’s president and CEO.

Since last year’s approval of Relyvrio, ALS patients and advocates have continued to press the FDA to consider more treatments for the disease. That includes an experimental stem cell treatment from tiny drugmaker Brainstorm Cell Therapeutics.

In a rare move, the FDA recently agreed to hold a public meeting on the treatment, despite previously refusing to consider the company’s application, citing failed results from its principal study.

The FDA has now approved four medications for ALS, only one of which has been shown to extend life. The disease gradually destroys nerve connections needed for basic movements and — eventually — breathing. There is no cure and most people die within three to five years of diagnosis.

Gem Castillo Amante receives recognition from AmerAsia International Awards

Venus L Peñaflor
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Gem Castillo Amante receives recognition from AmerAsia International Awards

Hollywood, California. Gem Castillo Amante was chosen to be this year’s Most Outstanding Filipino for Humanitarian awards during the fourth AmerAsia International Awards held last April 22, 2023 at the Celebrity Center International, Franklin Avenue, Hollywood in California, USA.

On Facebook, the celebrity mom expressed her gratitude for the AmerAsia International Awards for choosing her as the most charitable woman of the year.

“Thank you very much AmerAsia for this… to Mr Alfred Yumul and Mr Jayvee Pacifico and Mr Lhar Santiago,” according to gem in a telephone interview.

The That’s Entertainment star also thanked her family and supporters who never left her ever since she started her career in philanthropy.
“Gusto ko ring pasalamatan ang aking pamilya, kaibigan at taga suporta sa ipinagmamalaki kong San Pablo City. I want to share this great honor with my husband Mayor Vic Amante and my children, Alexandra, Cassandra, Alondra and Vicente Jr. To God be the glory,” according to Gem.

Aside from being a businesswoman, housewife, and a mother, Gem is also working as the first lady of San Pablo City, not an elected position, carries no official duties, and has no personal remuneration. Nonetheless, she manages the Mayor’s residence, and represents the mayor at official and ceremonial occasions. She organizes and attends official ceremonies and functions of the local government.

Actress singer Gem’s political career has been nothing short of inspirational!

80 lechon baboy, baka pinagsaluhan sa Nueva Vizcaya

Venus L Peñaflor
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80 lechon baboy, baka pinagsaluhan sa Nueva Vizcaya

Muling ipinagdiwang sa Nueva Vizcaya  ang ika-apat na taon ng ‘Lechonan sa Bayan’ bilang bahagi ng kanilang 292 Founding Anniversary.

Ayon kay Mayor Timothy Joseph Cayton, ang isinagawang ‘Lechonan sa Bayan’ ay simbolo ng progreso ng bayan, ng pagkakaisa at pagpapakita ng pagtutulungan ng mga mamamayan at LGU officials matapos nilang malampasan ang negatibong epekto ng COVID-19 Pandemic.

“Bagama’t natigil ang taunang pagsasagawa nito dahil sa COVID-19 Pandemic, ipagpapatuloy namin itong muli bilang bahagi ng selebrasyon ng aming kapistahan,” ayon kay Cayton.

Mahigit 80 na ‘lechon’ ang pinagsaluhan ng mga mamamayan mula sa 15 barangay ng bayan, kabilang ang iba’t-ibang civic organizations na dumalo sa nasabing selebrasyon.

Dumalo din  ito ni Senator Francis Tolentino bilang panauhing pandangal kung saan tumanggap siya ng pormal na adoption rites bilang isang respetadong  ‘Dupajeno’ ng bayan.

Sa kanyang mensahe, pinuri ni Tolentino ang mga opisyal at mamamayan ng Dupax del Norte dahil sa kanilang pagsisikap at nagpupumilit na tumayo matapos ang hagupit ng COVID-19 Pandemic.

Ayon kay Tolentino, isa itong magandang halimbawa sa mga LGUs dahil nagpapakita ito ng determinasyon at dedikasyon na harapin at malampasan ang anumang hamon ng panahon.

Dagdag pa ng Senador na handa siyang magbigay ng tulong sa Dupax del Norte bilang katuwang, kaibigan at anak ng bayan sa Senado.

Ang adoption kay Senator Tolentino bilang isang mamamayan ng Dupax del Norte ay pinagtibay ng isang resolusyon ng Sangguniang Bayan ng Dupax del Norte.

WHO says ‘high risk of biological hazard’ after Sudan laboratory seized

Venus L Peñaflor
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WHO says ‘high risk of biological hazard’ after Sudan laboratory seized

Doctor in Sudan sounds alarm over ‘huge biological risk’ related to occupation of central public lab

The World Health Organization (WHO) Representative in Sudan reportedly warned Tuesday of a “high risk of biological hazard” after one of the sides fighting in the conflict seized a central public laboratory with samples of measles and polio, creating an “extremely, extremely dangerous” situation.

Dr. Nima Saeed Abid, assigned to the post of WHO Representative in Sudan, effective Aug. 4, 2020, addressed reporters in Geneva, Switzerland, via video link. 

“There is a huge biological risk associated with the occupation of the central public health lab… by one of the fighting parties,” Abid said, according to Agence France-Presse. 

Abid added on the call that at least 459 people had been killed in fighting in Sudan and 4,072 injured, Reuters reported. 

Late Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that he had helped broker a new 72-hour cease-fire. 

The truce would be an extension of the nominal three-day holiday cease-fire. The Sudanese military, commanded by Gen. Abdel Fattah Burhan, and the rival Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary group led by Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, said Tuesday they would observe the cease-fire. 

In separate announcements, they said Saudi Arabia played a role in the negotiations.

“This cease-fire aims to establish humanitarian corridors, allowing citizens and residents to access essential resources, healthcare, and safe zones, while also evacuating diplomatic missions,” the RSF said in a statement.

The army announcement used similar language, adding that it will abide by the truce “on the condition that the rebels commit to stopping all hostilities.”

The claims were immediately undercut by the sound of heavy gunfire and explosions in the capital of Khartoum, and fighting reportedly continued. Residents said warplanes were flying overhead, according to the Associated Press. 

4 pulis nahatulang ‘guilty’ sa tangkang pagpatay sa trike driver

Arman B. Cambe
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4 pulis nahatulang ‘guilty’ sa tangkang pagpatay sa trike driver

Gumaca, Quezon. Pagkatapos ng halos limang taon na paglilitis, sa wakas ay nakamit na ng isang tricycle driver ang hustisya matapos mapatunayan sa korte na “guilty” ang apat na pulis sa pagtatangka na i-salvage siya sa Atimonan, sa Quezon noong Nobyembre 1, 2018.

Sa pamamagitan ng video conferencing, nagbaba ng desisyon kamakalawa si Judge Michael Vito ng Gumaca Regional Trial Court Branch 172 ng “guilty verdict” laban sa mga akusadong sina dating SPO4 Wilson Villegas, SPO3 Noel Malabayabas, SPO2 Bryan Novo at PO2 Jhaymar Espedido, mga dating nakatalaga sa Agdangan Municipal Police Station.

Ang apat na pulis ay nahatulan na makulong ng lima hanggang 10 taon.

Ayon sa record ng korte, ang biktima na si Roger Herrero ay dinukot ng mga suspek sa isang barangay sa Agdangan, Quezon noong Nobyembre 1, 2018. Sapilitan siyang isinakay sa isang van at dinala sa Atimonan, Quezon.

Sa Atimonan, isinailalim siya sa interogasyon ng mga pulis at inakusahang magnanakaw. Isa sa mga akusado ang bumaril sa mukha sa biktima at iniwanan siya sa tabing kalye sa pag-aakalang siya ay patay na

Sa kabutihang palad ay nakaligtas sa kamatayan ang biktima nang matagpuan ng mga bystander at dinala sa ospital.

Noong Nobyembre 29, 2018 ay nagsampa ng kasong frustrated murder sa tanggapan ng Ombudsman ang biktima laban sa mga suspek na naging daan upang sila ay sumailalim sa paglilitis.

SIM registration, pinahaba pa ng 90 araw

Carlo Juancho Funtanilla
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SIM registration, pinahaba pa ng 90 araw

Pinahaba pa ng Department of Information and Communications Techno­logy (DICT) ng 90 araw ang deadline ng SIM card registration matapos ang makipagpulong sii Pangulong Ferdinand Marcos Jr. sa mga opisyal ng DICT at kay Justice Secretary Crispin Remulla kahapon sa Malacanang.

Ngayong araw, Abril 26 sana ang deadline ng SIM card registration.

Ayon kay Remulla, pahahabai ang deadline upang mabigyan ng pagkakataon ang publiko na mag register ng kanilang SIM card.

Kaugnay nito, nagbabala si Remulla, sa mga hindi pa rin makakapag register ng ang kanilang sim number hanggang sa ibinigay na ekstensyon ay puputulan na ng koneksyon.

Nagpaalala si Remulla na samantalahin na ng mga phone users ang ekstensyon at kung hindi pa rin magagawa ay maaaring maputol ang kanilang access sa telepono at social media.

Iniulat ng National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) na hanggang noong Abril 23, 2023, mahigit 82 milyong SIM ang nairehistro, na kumakatawan sa 49.31 porsiyento ng mahigit 168 milyong aktibong SIM sa bansa.

Mula sa 82 million re­gistered SIM, higit 37 million ang Globe subscribers, mahigit 39 million ang Smart subscribers at mahigit 5 million ang Dito subscri­bers.

Target ng DICT na mairehistro ang 70% ng mga aktibong SIM sa loob ng 90-araw na extension.

Ang Republic Act No. 11934 o ang SIM Registration Act na nilagdaan ni Marcos noong Oktubre 10, 2022 ay naglalayong pigilan ang nakakaalarmang pagkalat ng mga spam message at scam sa pamamagitan ng short messaging services (SMS) o text sa bansa.

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