28 Caubian drug users to undergo community-based treatment

Futch Anthony Inso 09/07/2022

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines — A total of 28 drug users in Barangay Caubian in Lapu-Lapu City have qualified for the Community-Based Treatment and Drug Rehabilitation Program (CBDRP) of the city. Caubian, an islet of Olango Island and…

PDEA-7: Arrest of mechanic-alleged drug peddler makes Mantalongon roads safer

Pegeen Maisie M. Sararaña 02/19/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The arrest of a 25-year-old mechanic, who allegedly sells illegal drugs to habal-habal and tricycle drivers in Barangay Mantalongon, Dalaguete town in southern Cebu, will make it safer for commuters to travel in…

Lapu, USAID ink MOA for establishment of community-based drug rehab program

Futch Anthony Inso 06/03/2021

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines — Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Junard “Ahong” Chan signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on Thursday afternoon, June 3, 2021, for the establishment of a Community-Based…

Cebu COSAP to strengthen rehabilitation of drug users and pushers

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 03/16/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — There remains a lot to be done to address the drug problem in Cebu City. This was the statement of Mayor Edgardo Labella after the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in Central Visayas (PDEA-7)…

Drug pushers, users in Lapu-Lapu told: Despite ECQ, war on drugs continue

Norman V. Mendoza 04/03/2020

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines — Despite the implementation of the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ), Lapu-Lapu City police will continue to go after those involved in the illegal drug trade. Police Colonel Clarito Baja, Lapu-Lapu City Police Office director,…

Carmen police identify man with skinned face, 2 suspects in his killing

Alven Marie Timtim, Paul Lauro 01/11/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines —Police in Carmen town already identified the man, whose face was skinned and who was found dumped in a grassy lot in Barangay Puente early on Friday, January 10, 2020, with the help of…

Sinas: Talisay still ‘infested’ with drugs

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 07/25/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Police Brigadier Debold Sinas, the director of the Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO-7), said that Talisay City had continued to be infested with illegal drugs even with the continuous anti-illegal drug…

More drug users arrested than pushers in 2018

Morexette Marie B. Erram 01/02/2019

  Cebu City, Philippines – The Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) said it has arrested more drug users than pushers in 2018. In a press conference on Wednesday, January 2, 2019, CCPO director Senior Superintendent Royina Garma…

Children as suspected drug users

Editorial 06/25/2018

While nearly anything is possible in this world, we have to ask the reading public if they had ever heard or learned of any confirmed case of 10-year-old children using drugs, let alone a Grade 4 student…

8 persons fall, ‘shabu’ worth P4 million seized in anti-drug operations

Nestle L. Semilla 12/29/2016

AUTHORITIES arrested eight persons and seized packs of suspected shabu estimated to cost over P4 million in separate anti-drug operations in Cebu City and Minglanilla town, southern Cebu. Over a kilo of suspected shabu worth P4.180 million…

Walking towards a new and better life

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 11/20/2016

It is not too late to change for the better. This was what Martha (not her real name) said to herself, the moment she decided to quit the habit a year after starting it upon the influence…

A different kind of Tokhang

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 09/26/2016

When Fe Barino and the family-owned business Duros Development Corporation donated a 1,000-square-meter lot in Barangay Yati, Liloan for religious and civic programs of the family-run foundation and Love of God charismatic community, little did she know…

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