Campaign against drugs intensified

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Chito O. Aragon 06/29/2016

As President-elect Rodrigo Duterte starts his six-year term at noon today, police officers expect to move their campaign against criminality to a higher level. “There will be more aggressive police actions particularly against illegal drugs and other…

Mandaue City Jail launches anti-drug campaign

Norman V. Mendoza 06/24/2016

The Mandaue City Jail launched yesterday an anti-drug campaign. Chief Insp. Gil Inopia, jail warden, said they initiated this activity after receiving a memorandum from the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) Central Office to conduct…

Anti-Marcos leader gets online death threat

06/19/2016

Heated exchanges in social media arising from political developments continue to turn nasty and further divide Filipinos. Zena Bernardo Bernardo, one of the leaders of an online community group opposing President-elect Rodrigo Duterte’s pronouncement on the impending…

Hontiveros vows to defend an ‘independent’ Senate

Carmel Loise Matus 06/19/2016

Senator-elect Risa Hontiveros vowed to push for a “strong and independent” Senate that could not be stopped by President-elect Rodrigo Duterte from conducting inquiries. “I am one of the senators who are saying: ‘But that’s part of…

Duterte meets with US, UK envoys

06/13/2016

DAVAO CITY—President-elect Rodrigo Duterte on Monday met with Ambassadors Philip Goldberg of the United States and Asif Ahmad of the United Kingdom at the so-called Malacañang of the south. Goldberg and Ahmad paid their courtesy calls on…

Garcia expects better deal for co-ops from Duterte

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 06/12/2016

  SAYING that the Aquino administration gave Philippine cooperatives a “raw deal,” former Deputy House Speaker and Cebu governor Pablo Garcia expects a “better deal” if not “a new deal” for PH cooperatives. Garcia said this in…

Davide: shifting alliance ‘normal’

Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Nestle L. Semilla 06/10/2016

AS local allies of the Liberal Party (LP) made a beeline for the Partido Demokratikong Pilipino-Laban ng Bayan (PDP-Laban) of President-elect Rodrigo Duterte, Cebu Gov. Hilario Davide III decided to buck the trend. However, he said, it…

Tempest

Raymund Fernandez 06/07/2016

I wish President-Elect Rodrigo Duterte well. The last thing I wish for is that this country becomes ungovernable. It would be a waste if we went from hereon into a period of instability. And yet, the forces…

Carnap suspect surrenders

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 06/04/2016

For fear of what would happen to him when President-elect Rodrigo Duterte assumes office, a carnapping suspect who hid for two years in Tanauan town, Leyte surrendered to an official of the Cebu City Police Office (CCPO)…

MTRCB can’t censor Duterte’s cussing on live TV interview

05/28/2016

Reacting to queries on presumptive President-elect Rodrigo Duterte’s cussing on live interviews and press conferences, the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) yesterday clarified that it could not censor live media briefings and on-the-spot news…

Duterte’s tirades

05/26/2016

Having won the elections with an impressive margin, President-elect Rodrigo Duterte didn’t have to rub it in the noses of the Catholic bishops who clearly opposed his candidacy via statements and pastoral letters to their faithful. But…

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