Second fiddle

Editorial 02/05/2017

No amount of push-ups nor public scolding from PNP Director General Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa will do the work of cleansing the Philippine National Police (PNP) of scalawags who were responsible for the kidnapping and murder of…

P6M shabu seized; 4 nabbed in Talisay drug bust

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 02/04/2017

The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in Central Visayas (PDEA-7) hit their first high-level target for the month and confiscated a kilo of suspected shabu worth at least P6 million during a buy-bust operation in Barangay Bulacao, Talisay…

NBI is out, too

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Inquirer.net 02/02/2017

Just days after the National Bureau of Investigation scored against illegal drug in Cebu, President Rodrigo Duterte barred the NBI from conducting anti-illegal drug operations, saying that he had lost his trust in the bureau. “The bureau…

Ermita leadership vacuum

Editorial 02/02/2017

There is some merit in the proposal to allow the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) to temporarily take over Barangay Ermita in Cebu City for six months. After all, it is the President who will…

Police radio frequencies tapped by drug operators

Nestle L. Semilla 01/31/2017

THE Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA-7) confirmed that suspected drug pushers Manuel and Janice Godinez tapped the frequency of the Lapu-Lapu City Police Office (LCPO) and other police stations in neighboring cities. PDEA 7 director Yogi Filemon…

Ermita officials start serving 6-month preventive suspension

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 01/31/2017

CEBU CITY—The signing of documents has been withheld in a village in Cebu City following the suspension of all its officials pending investigation on the allegation that they didn’t cooperate during a raid on a “shabu tiangge.”…

The big purge

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Izobelle T. Pulgo 01/30/2017

  There will be no more police-led anti-drug operations in the country — at least for the next couple of weeks or so after Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director General Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa indefinitely suspended,…

New drug gang

Nestle L. Semilla 01/29/2017

It was in October last year when police arrested Evacuito Opeña in a drug buy-bust operation in Barangay Suba, Cebu City. But who would have thought that the operation that only yielded packs of shabu (methamphetamine) worth…

Dumpit willing to accept acting village chief post

Izobelle T. Pulgo 01/28/2017

Despite spending a good part of his professional life in field duty, SPO1 Adonis Dumpit wouldn’t mind hitting the streets anew, this time as a barangay chairman. “It’s okay I guess. If it would be approved by…

PDEA agents arrest former wife of slain bigtime drug suspect Tongol and her new husband

Nestle L. Semilla 01/28/2017

CEBU CITY—The widow of a slain drug lord and her new husband were arrested after P6 million worth of shabu and a high-powered firearm were seized from them in a buy-bust operation inside their house in Lapu-Lapu…

Outgunned, outnumbered

Editorial 01/25/2017

His family and friends may believe and proclaim his innocence, but there’s no turning back the clock for Niño Rodel Taboada who died at the hands of agents of the regional Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in…

CHR requests investigation on call center agent’s death

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 01/24/2017

The Commission on Human Rights in Central Visayas (CHR-7) has requested the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in Central Visayas (PDEA-7) to identify its agents involved in the operation that led to the death of a 21-year-old call…

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