Senate report affirms family’s belief that slain Leyte Mayor was ‘silenced’

Joey Gabieta 03/13/2017

TACLOBAN CITY-The family of slain Mayor Rolando Espinosa Sr. of Albuera town in Leyte felt vindicated by the Senate report that his killing was meant to “silence” him. Speaking on behalf of the family, lawyer Jonah John…

‘One time, big time’ nets 70

Fe Marie Dumaboc 02/09/2017

AT least 70 individuals were arrested by the Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) in a “one time, big time” operation on Thursday. All eleven police stations in the city participated in the operation dubbed as “Oplan Pokemon.”…

Court orders release of woman mistaken for human trafficking convict

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 01/25/2017

CEBU CITY–A Regional Trial Court (RTC) judge in Cebu City on Wednesday ordered the release of a female detainee who was arrested by agents of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group in Central Visayas (CIDG-7) after she…

Female CIDG chief: Don’t mess with me

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 01/17/2017

Davao cop pushes war against drugs, wants to arrest Ecleo The Criminal Investigation and Detection Group in Central Visayas (CIDG-7) has its first female director who assumed her post last Jan. 4. President Rodrigo Duterte appointed Supt.…

P31.9M SHABU HAUL

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Norman V. Mendoza 12/16/2016

Wanting to have money for Christmas, two men agreed to deliver a paper bag whose contents they claimed they did not know. Upon giving the “gift” to the recipient along 6th Street at the North Reclamation Area…

CIDG-8 Chief Marvin Marcos is related to late former president Ferdinand Marcos

Joey Gabieta, Vicky Arnaiz 12/11/2016

Tacloban City — He got his mestizo looks from his paternal grandfather who was an American. But it was from his grandmother who gave him a more famous family name. Supt. Marvin Marcos, the controversial chief of…

Presidential protection

Editorial 12/11/2016

What to do when the people you’re prosecuting is being protected by the president of the republic? That predicament facing the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) is now being shared by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI)…

Breaking and bending the law

Stephen D. Capillas 12/08/2016

On hearing President Rodrigo Duterte talk about not allowing the Albuera police officers to land in jail for the death of Albuera Mayor Rolando Espinosa Sr., I was reminded about the confession scene in the 1989 action…

Complaint needed at PB to probe Loot

Nestle L. Semilla 11/24/2016

WITH no complaint filed, the Provincial Board could not investigate Daanbantayn Mayor Vicente Loot on his alleged links to the drug trade of alleged drug lord Roland “Kerwin” Espinosa Jr. Vice Gov. Agnes Magpale said that the…

Kin fear Kerwin might be killed, too

Joey Gabieta, Robert Dejon 11/18/2016

NOW that the alleged biggest drug lord in Eastern Visayas is back in the country, the family of Kerwin Espinosa fears that he will follow the fate of his father, slain Mayor Rolando Espinosa Sr. of Albuera…

PALMA WANTS ANSWERS

Izobelle T. Pulgo 11/13/2016

Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma has joined the growing call for an impartial investigation into the death of Albuera, Leyte Mayor Rolando Espinosa Sr. which a number of senators have described to be a premeditated killing by a…

PROBE LAUNCHED

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Izobelle T. Pulgo 11/11/2016

Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales has constituted a panel to investigate the death of Albuera, Leyte Mayor Rolando Espinosa Sr., on the heels of a Senate investigation that called the killing a premeditated act of the police. “We, in…

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