Dr Gene Nisperos is an assistant professor at the University of the Philippines (UP) College of Medicine in the country’s capital, Manila. As a medical frontliner, he is on the priority list for vaccination against the coronavirus when the government releases its promised first vaccines next month.
But Dr Nisperos has grave doubts about President Rodrigo Duterte’s plan.
The medic is particularly critical of the government’s decision to disallow Filipinos from choosing the type of coronavirus vaccine they receive. The government has said it will buy millions of doses from China’s Sinovac despite the absence of “reliable data” and incomplete clinical trials.
January 29, 2021 THE head of civil-military operations of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) has gone on leave to pave the way for an investigation into the publication of an erroneous list of University of the Philippines (UP) students and alumni who were killed or captured during operations against the New People’s Army (NPA).
Major General Benedict Arevalo, deputy chief of staff for civil-military operations (J7), said he was taking responsibility for the actions of his staff.
“I would like to reiterate that indeed the erroneous list was a mistake committed by J7 staff, and as the chief of Office for Civil Military Operations, J7, I personally take responsibility for their actions. This is the reason why I issued a public apology and reiterated it in my succeeding interviews,” he said.
SC orders OSG to comment on Carpio motion over Parlade intimidation By NICOLE-ANNE C. LAGRIMAS, GMA News
Published January 29, 2021 10:54am The Supreme Court (SC) has ordered the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) to answer a motion by anti-terror law petitioners led by retired justices Antonio Carpio and Conchita Carpio Morales expressing concern over a military official s intimidation of their group. The court gave the OSG 10 days to comment on the petitioners manifestation and motion. Last Monday, Carpio, Carpio Morales, and law professors from the University of the Philippines urged the SC to order the OSG to explain whether a Facebook post by Lt. Gen. Antonio Parlade is an official communication from the government or a public officer.
Despite it not being the sole solution to a weakening economy, Vice President Leni Robredo underscored the importance of the government’s vaccination roll-out in stopping the country’s economy from shrinking further.
Mary Susan Zialcita
June 9, 1948 Jan. 3, 2021
Mary Susan Ziálcita née Pickard, known to her family and grandkids as Mema, passed away on Sunday, Jan. 3, 2021, of stage 4 breast cancer.
Born June 9, 1948, in Birmingham, Alabama, Susan was the eldest child and only daughter of Reverend Dr. William Pickard and Mary Ann Martin.
Along with brothers, Henry, Marshall, James and Paul, her family served as Methodist missionaries in Tuguegarao, the Philippines. While studying at the University of the Philippines on a Study Abroad Program, she met the love of her life, Lorenzo Ziálcita, on a blind date. Though they were separated for 13 years, they were reunited in 1981 and were married on Aug. 8th of that year.