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(Eagle News) — The Alliance of Concerned Teachers on Tuesday, March 12, announced the filing of a complaint for alleged electioneering against Philippine National Police units in Region 8. In a press conference, ACT Rep. Antonio Tinio said the complaint before the Commission on Elections stems from what he said were the regional police’s social media posts of campaign materials against ACT, the Makabayan partylist and Makabayan senatorial candidate Neri Colmenares. He said the regional […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of the Interior and Local Government on Tuesday, March 5, slammed as “an exercise in politics in aid of re-election” the Alliance of Concerned Teachers’ appeal of a Court of Appeals decision against a halt order on supposed police profiling. “The original petition was already dismissed and yet ACT PL (party-list) wishes to beat a dead horse,” Interior spokesperson Jonathan Malaya said in a statement. According to Malaya, the court’s […]
(Eagle News) — Citing “infirmities,” the Court of Appeals junked the petition filed by the Alliance of Concerned Teachers to stop what it said was the police’s profiling of its members. In a four-page resolution dated Feb. 4, the eleventh division said in the first place, the petition was not accompanied by “certified true copies” of the Philippine National Police memoranda that allegedly ordered the “profiling” and which the group was assailing. ACT had argued […]
(Eagle News)–The Alliance of Concerned Teachers on Monday, Jan. 28, filed charges against Philippine National Police chief Director General Oscar Albayalde, Interior Secretary Eduardo Año and several others over their alleged profiling of the group’s members. Año, Albayalde and others face charges for electioneering, and for alleged violations of the Data Privacy Act, the Code of Conduct for Public Officials, and the Magna Carta for Public School Teachers. Administrative charges for oppression, misconduct, and conduct prejudicial to […]
(Eagle News) — The Alliance of Concerned Teachers and its other affiliate groups has asked the Court of Appeals to stop what it said was the implementation of Philippine National Police memoranda directing the police to “conduct an inventory of all public and private school teachers” who are aligned with their organizations. In seeking for a temporary restraining order and/or writ of preliminary injunction, the ACT, represented by its national chair Joselyn Martinez, the ACT […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (Reuters) — British researchers say their newly revealed method of predicting people’s ‘brain age’ could act as a wake-up call to those deemed at increased risk of poor health and early death. Dr James Cole, research associate at Imperial College London’s Department of Medicine, led the study which combined the publicly available data sets of at least 2,000 magnetic resonance imaging scans with machine learning algorithms. The technique helped Cole’s team provide […]
