PDEA claims successes in drug war

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 12/07/2017

  Eighteen months into President Rodrigo Duterte’s relentless war on illegal drugs, the price of shabu (methamphetamine) has become extremely high. Director Emerson Margate of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in Central Visayas (PDEA-7) said a gram…

UN war crimes convict claims to have taken poison in court

AP 11/29/2017

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The final hearing at a United Nations war crimes tribunal was dramatically halted Wednesday when a former Bosnian Croat military chief claimed to have taken poison. Slobodan Praljak yelled, “I am not a…

TENSION IN TUBURAN

Morexette Marie B. Erram 10/17/2017

Lagon claims barricades being set up in front town hall; Not true, says Diamante Is this the calm before the political storm in Tuburan town in northwest Cebu? The supporters of Mayor Democrito Diamante of Tuburan were…

Landslide in upland Cebu City claims life of a boy

JOSE SANTINO BUNACHITA 09/29/2017

An 11-year old boy from Purok 3 of the mountain Barangay of San Jose in Cebu City died after his house was hit by a landslide at almost 9 p.m. on Friday. The boy, identified as Kyle…

BFP probes claims illegal drugs caused Barangay Calamba fire

Benjie B. Talisic, Fe Marie D. Dumaboc 08/30/2017

1,158 VICTIMS, 223 HOUSES Fire investigators are looking at arson as the cause of Wednesday’s early morning fire that gutted 223 houses and left 286 families homeless in Barangay Calamba, Cebu City. Reports reaching them claimed that…

BOC CEBU CHIEF IN ‘TARA’ LIST

Christine Avendaño, Inquirer.net 08/23/2017

Lacson claims Faeldon leads pack of officials, employees involved in ‘systematic’ corruption in BOC The Customs collector in Cebu is allegedly included in the long list of Bureau of Customs (BOC) personnel who received bribes from smugglers.…

Broker claims paying P1M weekly to BOC’s ‘Davao group’

Inquirer.net 08/22/2017

Private broker Mark Taguba II on Tuesday claimed that he paid as much as P1 million a week to the “Davao group” of the Bureau of Customs (BOC). During the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee hearing on the…

Osmeña tells Rama to pay architects’ claims

Inna Gian Mejia 08/18/2017

  “LET Mike Rama pay their P33.3 million money claims.” This was Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña’s response to payment claims made by Espina, Espina-Perez & Associates, the engineering and architectural firm that prepared the design and…

160 employees displaced

Jhunnex Napallacan 08/07/2017

Japanese company claims to have suffered from financial difficulties A locator of the Mactan Economic Zone (MEZ) 1 closed shop on Saturday leaving at least 160 of their employees jobless. The management of Cebu Nisico Corporation (CNC)…

Prosecution witness claims being asked not to testify

Nestle L. Semilla 07/19/2017

  A WITNESS in the killing of Bien Unido Mayor Gisela Bendong-Boniel has claimed that he was approached by an emissary of Bohol Provincial Board Member Niño Rey Boniel, the principal suspect in the crime, and asked…

Gabriela asked to substantiate rape claims in Marawi City

Inquirer.net 06/26/2017

THE Philippine National Police (PNP) yesterday challenged a women’s rights group to show proof that would support their claims that government troops have been threatening to rape women if they would not leave Marawi City. “The answer…

Hart’s and Callamard’s preposterous claims on drugs

Atty. Ruphil F. Bañoc 05/18/2017

If I were one of those who personally heard the claim of African-American Professor Carl Hart as cited by United Nations Special Rapporteur Agnes Callamard that there is no evidence that shabu leads to violence and brain…

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