Chan to give incentives to two drug-cleared Lapu barangays

Futch Anthony Inso 07/08/2021

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Cebu—Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Junard “Ahong” Chan will give cash incentives to Barangays Tingo and Baring on Olango Island after having been declared drug-cleared barangays. Earlier, the Regional Oversight Committee granted the declaration of Barangays Tingo…

Two more Lapu barangays declared ‘drug-free’

Futch Anthony Inso 07/02/2021

  LAPU-LAPU CITY, Cebu—Two Barangays here were declared drug-cleared by the Regional Oversight Committee headed by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in Central Visayas (PDEA-7). Garry Lao, head of the City of Lapu-Lapu Office of Substance Abuse…

PDEA-7: Cooperation made drug clearing of 2 barangays in Cebu City possible

Pegeen Maisie M. Sararaña 05/22/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Two barangays in Cebu City recently declared as drug-cleared are examples that the drug clearing program is possible in barangays penetrated with illegal drugs especially in highly urbanized cities like Cebu City. Leia…

Barangay Anti-Drug Abuse Council member caught with P2.1 million worth of illegal drugs

Benjie Talisic, Morexette Marie B. Erram 02/01/2019

Cebu City, Philippines – A member of the Barangay Anti-Drug Abuse Council (BADAC) in Barangay Suba, Cebu City is now in hot water after she was arrested for possession of illegal drugs.  Operatives from the Pardo Police…

Anti-drug chief not agreeable to suspending polls

Izobelle T. Pulgo 03/29/2017

The provincial government’s anti-drug chief isn’t keen about President Rodrigo Duterte’s plan to postpone the barangay elections and appoint barangay officials on his own. “I am not totally agreeable in terms of the appointment of barangay officials.…

CPADAO endorses 128 barangays in Cebu Province as drug free

Fe Marie Dumaboc 03/08/2017

  At least 120 barangays out of the 1,066 barangays in Cebu Province will move a step closer to being declared as drug free barangays. This developed after the Cebu Provincial Anti-Drug Abuse Office (CPADAO) endorsed 128…

Taptap officials working on papers to make village city’s 1st drug-free barangay

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 12/19/2016

CEBU CITY–The mountain village of Taptap can be the first “drug-free” barangay in Cebu City. Senior Supt. Joel Doria, director of the Cebu City Police Office (CCPO), said village officials of Taptap are processing the requirements so…

Mandaue City employee caught in ‘pot session’

Julit C. Jainar 07/13/2016

A job order employee of Mandaue City Hall and his female companion were arrested on Tuesday noon at his residence during the Oplan Tokhang (toktok hangyo) conducted by the operatives of Centro Police Station 1. According to…

Ex-con shot down in Mandaue

Norman V. Mendoza 07/07/2016

AN ex-convict was shot down by policemen at barangay Tingub, Mandaue City at 11 am Thursday. Amelito Mahinay, a 40-year-old resident of sitio Toril, barangay Tingub died on the spot after sustaining a gunshot wound in his…

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