Male teacher refuses drug test as more than 60 undergo screening

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 09/12/2017

ABOUT 67 teachers, four workers and one security guard of Alaska Elementary School and 26 teachers of Alaska Night School in Barangay Mambaling, Cebu City underwent a random drug test on Tuesday. The drug test facilitated by…

57 barangay chiefs take drug tests

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 03/22/2017

They were called to a meeting, but 57 Cebu City barangay captains instead found themselves peeing for urine samples that were to be given in a surprise drug test conducted on them. Association of Barangay Councils (ABC)…

Banilad execs cleared of drug use

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 03/14/2017

ALL 76 barangay officials and employees of Banilad in Cebu City tested negative of illegal drugs use, the Cebu City Office for Substance Abuse Prevention (Cosap) said yesterday. Dr. Alice Utlang, Cosap chief, said Banilad is the…

Another drug test for tanods, loaders

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 02/22/2017

TANODS and garbage loaders of Barangays Sawang Calero, Suba and Duljo-Fatima in Cebu City underwent a surprise drug test conducted by City Hall yesterday morning. The testing conducted by the Cebu City Office for Substance Abuse Prevention…

Personal validation

Editorial 12/12/2016

Exactly what reason is behind former Cebu City mayor Michael Rama’s challenge to Mayor Tomas Osmeña to take a drug test with him last Saturday remains the stuff of speculations of a local sort. After being identified…

Busay official demands public apology after confirmatory drug test turned out negative

Inna Mejia 12/02/2016

BUSAY Barangay Captain Amilo Lopez is demanding a public apology from Cebu City Office for Substance Abuse Prevention (Cosap) head Dr. Alice Utlang for allegedly revealing that he tested positive for drug use even before a confirmatory…

Village chief’s drug tests ‘invalid’

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/27/2016

CEBU City Hall won’t honor the results of a drug test which Busay barangay captain Amilo Lopez took in a private hospital that found him negative of illegal drugs use. Dr. Alice Utlang, chief of the Cebu…

Present meds, village chief told

Margarette Managaytay 10/24/2016

The Cebu City barangay official who initially tested positive in a drug test conducted during last Thursday’s barangay assembly was told to present a list of medications that he took for maintenance. “I called him (Busay barangay…

Rehabilitation of surrenderers in rehab centers takes priority

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/23/2016

The bulk of the P50- million budget proposal for Cebu City’s campaign against illegal drugs will go to the rehabilitation of the drug surrenderers in the different barangays of the city, who can now be sent to…

Busay barangay captain surprised at being found positive for illegal drug use

Jhunnex Napallacan 10/21/2016

CEBU CITY—A village chief was surprised when he was tested positive for illegal drug use. Amilo Lopez, chairman of Barangay Busay, was the only one found positive among the 60 village chiefs who undertook the drug tests…

Surprise drug test for barangay officials during assembly

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/20/2016

WHEN 60 barangay chairpersons of Cebu City went to the New White Gold House Restaurant yesterday morning, they expected to attend a general assembly. A few hours later, the officials were called out of the room in…

Vice mayor, 17 dads negative for drug use, says Cosap chief

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 09/06/2016

THE 169 people who undertook the surprise drug test during yesterday’s regular session of the Cebu City Council were found negative of using drugs. Dr. Alice Utlang, Cebu City Office for Substance Abuse Prevention (Cosap) head, told…

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