Gov’t’s plan to put on hold additional excise tax on fuel lauded

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/16/2018

LOCAL business leaders in Cebu welcomed the government’s pronouncement that it will be putting on hold the additional excise tax to be levied on fuel products starting January 2019. The move, according to businessmen, will not only…

Mandaue gov’t’s food for work program: Free rice for cleaning surroundings

Jessa Mae O. Sotto 09/30/2018

FOUR kilos of free rice in a month for indigent families in Mandaue City in exchange for ensuring the cleanliness of their surroundings. This is the condition for those in the marginalized sector to avail of the…

Agri chief: Intensified illegal fishing drive like gov’t’s war on drugs

USJ-R Journalism Intern 07/24/2018

Aside from the war against illegal drugs, the government is also waging an intensified campaign against illegal fishing in the country’s seas. Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol said this in the sidelines of Tuesday’s (July 24) Philippine Agriculturist…

CCPO to join govt’s campaign against recruitment of youth in rebel groups – Devaras

Benjie Talisic 04/03/2018

THE PHILIPPINE National Police (PNP) will now be helping the military deter the possible recruitment of minors in Cebu City to join the New Peoples Army (NPA). Superintendent Ryan Devaras, Chief of the Investigation and Detective Management…

PDEA-7, top office in gov’t’s drug war

Benjie Talisic 05/12/2017

THE Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in Central Visayas (PDEA-7) has been named as the agency’s best regional office in the campaign against illegal drugs in the first quarter of the year. Director Yogi Filemon Ruiz attributed the…

Lacson: Time to change gov’t’s anti-drug tactics

Inquirer.net 04/19/2017

While saying the government’s war on drugs was effective, Senator Panfilo Lacson believes that law enforcers should now make some adjustments in their tactical offensive as the summary killings and other methods have already become “too predictable.”…

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