'The real lessons of the events for students and workers today can only be drawn through a critical examination of the political forces involved, particularly the CPP'
MANILA, Feb. 5 Following the sustained biosurveillance efforts of the government, the Department of Health (DOH), the University of the Philippines-Philippine Genome Center (UP-PGC) and the UP-National Institutes of Health (UP-NIH) confirm the detection of eight (8) additional COVID-19 cases positive for the B.1.1.7 variant (UK variant). This brings the total B.1.1.7 variant cases in the country to 25. The DOH, UP-PGC, and UP-NIH further report that no other variant of concern has been detected.
Three (3) of the 8 additional cases are from Bontoc, Mountain Province. Of the 3 cases, two (2) females aged 25 and 54 were identified as close contacts of a previously reported B.1.1.7 variant case who is part of the Bontoc cluster. The third case is a 31-year-old male whose link to the Bontoc cluster is still being verified. To date, the 54-year-old female has already recovered, while the remaining two are active cases and are currently being managed.
Justice Secretary Menardo I. Guevarra said the alleged vagueness in the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) of 2020 has been addressed in its Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR).
Tonyo Cruz
These times, one may think that the idea that “civilian authority is, at all times, supreme over the the military” is no longer relevant or fashionable, considering the growing role of retired and active generals in our national life.
In this time of rampant red-tagging, some might even go as far as claiming that that idea of civilian supremacy over the military is an activist, radical, socialist, or communist belief. But the thing is, it is a principle contained in the Constitution, the same Constitution that the military and civilian officials swear to obey, defend, and uphold.
In most democracies, military officials refuse to be dragged into overt political issues, especially partisan ones. In fact, in most jurisdictions, they are prohibited by law and by tradition from engaging in politics, because they are the armed forces of the republic or commonwealth that established it not of any party, prime minister, or president. Their loyalty is to the constitution,