flilil]Gss youth

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PH has highest number of depressed
people in Southeast Asia preparing
competence" but not on
a person to the
"requirements of spirifu-
By Jester Manalastas ality and immortality."
A FEMALE lawmaker 2000 to 2012. "Thus, we have Sad-
yesterday called on the According to her, the uates with big minds but
Department of Health Philippines has the higt" Lilliputian hearts. Educa-
(DoH), the Department est number of depressed tion is not programmed
of Edueation (DepEd) people in Southeast Asia to develop the will and
and Commission on and a high number of emotions but is heavily
Higher Education these cases are observed tilted towards the devel-
(CHED) to jointly ad- amongouryoungpeople, opmentof themind,'she
dress the rising cases of including career-bound said.
depression, especially 'ybung professionals Depressed youths are de-
among the youth. Robes said based on nied quality timeby their
San jose del Monte records, thereare akJeast parents due to
busy
Rep. Rida Robes, chair- 3.3 million Filipinos af- life
schedule while school
woman iof the House fected by depression. "has become source of
Committee on People's "I am alarmed that de- high level stress."
Participation, expressed pression gets to become a
alarm over the "changing
faces" of Filipino youth,
'common cold' in this
country, affecting some
?age7
with the rising incidents 3,3 million Filpinos," she
of suicide and depression said.
at young age or between In2017, a World Health
13 to 25 years old. Organization report re-
According to Robes, it vealed that suicide rates
is about time for the DoH in the country is "about
and CHED to step rp in six for males and two for
the implementaiiori of fen#bs per L00,000.
Republic Act 1,L036 or the The female solon la-
Philippine Mental Health mented that the educa,
Law. tional system in the coun-
She called on stronger try have focused efforts
health and educational. at "developing a man's
progaTTm$atbattling body q4d in{ellect by cp-
the malady that has vic- pacitatine himself with
timized 2,000 from ye* kno#fedfe' and "tecfuiical
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Tt seeks to implement, while prbbe thialteged release
House panel- addins that "It should
deterniined whether (some-
be
-order
for Sanchez.
"If such allegations are true,

o start probe one) should be accountable

for recommending Sanchez's
who processed the release
order- of Sanchez? Who aP-
release." proved the release order? UP
of Sanchez House DePutY SPeaker
Muiiv Hataman, for his Part,
i*Ut Aug. 21, BuCor and the
Deparhnent of justice officials
seemed to confirm that San-
GCTAcase said the fate of around 1L,000
inmates at the New Bilibid chez rvas eligible for release,"
said Bayan secretarY general
"By DELON PORCALLA ' Prison who are qualified for
early conditional release bY Renato Reyes.
i theii remor5e, rehabilitation He adde d, "lt was 'onlY
The iustice committee of the and sood conduct, should not after intense Public backlash
House 6f Representatives is sched- be mide to sufferonlybecause and protests from the victims'
uled to conddct its probe on the good of Sanchez. famiiies that the etigibilitY of
conduct time allowance (GCTA) law, 'They have eamed it' he Sanchez was recoisideied.
also known as Republic Act 10592' explained. It was onlY on Aug. 23 lvhen
that could have fiee* rapist-killer i'Put arrproval on hold but Malacaflang became definite
and former Calauan maYor Anto'nio processihl should contin- in its opposition to Sanchez's
Sanchez. Le- This is"a gooi law- CalI release."
"We will start first with our or- Sanclez moqste4butthe law,
a Claims about the suP-
sanizational meetine. Then it will the GCTA, should not suffe1 posed release order mll
6e followed by a biiefing bY the We can review the law, but I iust be rufitorsT Presidential
'snokesman
Department oi |ustice _(DOI) led believe we should not rePeal Salvador Panelo
by Secretary Mena!{o Guevarra," i!" Hataman added. r'"id,'as he maintained that
L-evte Rep. Vicente Veloso, chairman .The 73-yearold Sanchez he was not involved in the
of 'the H'ouse committee 9n justice, was convitted for the raPe supposed attemPt to release
said. and homicide of UniversitY Sanchez.
The inquiry, scheduled for SePt. 3, of the PhilipPines-Los Bafros Panelo, a fonrrer lawYer of
' was oto*bt"'d bv House Resolution student Eileen Sarmenta and Sanchez, stressed that the for-
250, iryhicli committee vice chairman the killing of her friend Allan mer Calauan, Laguna mayor
and Ako Bicol ReP, Alfredo Garbin Jr. Gomez in 1993. MaYor Sanchez is not qualified to be released
filed as he wanted to find out - in aid was convicted and sentenced early bicause he was charged
of leeislation - how prison authorities
withseven counts of reclusion wit6 and convicted of a hei-
ttr.li"t those in thb Bureau of Cor- perpettra by a Pasig CitY court nous crime. He also reiterated
rections (BuCor) under the DOI have' in year 1995. that he had nothing to do with
been rmplemenfrng the GCIA law
\ \ . a supposed effort to release
Veloso, a former Court of
- 'IIo release order' Sanchez early.
'Appeals justice, hinted that Guevarra has not received Further ailding to the con-
they will "most likelY raise anv information about the troversy is the NBP and Bu-
the issue qf the wasteful" Ar- ruirored release of Sanchez, Cor's iomPutation that San-
, ticle 70 of. the Revised Penal and has'been told that BuCor chez had ilready served his
Code (RPC) whidr states that director general Nicanor Fa- 49-yearjail term.
mtiltiple penalties cannot be eldon deeies having signed a The former maYor was
served simultaneously. release order for the convicted convicted in Lggs," and the
He went on to saY that while rapist and killer. Supreme Court ruled on San-
"Likewise, no rePort on ch6z's final conviction
DOI officials Ji+ll be there, onlY 20
he'll ask quesfl.Pm "because such matter has been received years in 1999.
- With Evelyn Macairan,
ago,
I wilt eilso be'fiti+g a bill that by- the DOI," Guevarra said. -
will ainend such article of the Sanchez's familY claimed
Rhodina Villanueva, Alexis
RPC,' referring to the Provi- that the former mayor was Romero, Cecille Suerte Fe-
sion that-somehow limited the supposed to be among' tlt" lipe
duratiorr
sentence.
of a convicted felon's .innnates released from the \ fl?^dT pA|€tl
New Bilibid Prison (NBP) last
Garbin, also a iawyer bY Aug. 20.
profession, noted that the frow€v€r,.of,t the daY itself'
GCfn law is a "good law as they were rePortedlY informed
it seeks to Promote rehabili- at tire NBP gate thai Sanchez's
tation in the countrY's crimi- release would have to be re-
nal justice systern - one that viewed.
s"uks to helf, rather than to Probe lelease
punish. Moreover, it seeks
to unclog overlY-PoPulated
jails." The umbrella grouP
' He warned, howeve(, that Bagong Alyansang Mak-
(Bayan) YesterdaY
there is a'need to determine abiyan
said concerned government
whether the criterion used in
implementing rules of the law agencies as well as the Sen-
aIe justice committee should
is cbnsistent with thq very law