No cop chiefs, no escorts

08/15/2016

For critics of Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña, specifically Team Rama, the decision by the National Police Commission (Napolcom) to strip him of his operational authority over the Cebu City police and the transfer of some of…

War on drugs not just Digong’s fight alone

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 08/15/2016

We can rant all day about how dirty and bloody the current war on drugs has become, but we cannot deny the fact that only President Rodrigo Duterte has shown utmost resolve and political will to do…

Loot: There’s nothing there

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 08/14/2016

RETIRED Police General Vicente Loot, who is currently the Daanbantayan mayor, said he did not know the Cordova police officer, who had linked him to illegal drugs in an entry in a police blotter before the police…

Drug trade behind bars

08/14/2016

Last Saturday’s 1 a.m. raid in both the Cebu City Jail and the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) may have justified the decision of President Rodrigo Duterte to transfer the police officials formerly assigned in…

End of a bromance?

Lloyd Suarez 08/14/2016

Nyor Gamay (NG): Unsa man ning “bromance”, Nyor? Nyor Daku (ND): Kombinasyon na sa “brother” ug “romance”, maong “bromance”. NG: Incest? ND: Ay lang sad i-literal kaayo, Nyor. Ang brother mahimo mang brotherhood. Basta lang kay mga…

Rama thanks backers, reveals plans to go on vacation

Nestle L. Semilla 08/12/2016

AFTER he was named by President Rodrigo Duterte in an early Sunday morning announcement as among the politicians who were drug protectors, former Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama said during a gathering late Friday afternoon at the…

Digong’s martial law threat an exaggeration

08/11/2016

No reason to fear. That was the reaction of political analyst Prof. Clarita Carlos after President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to declare martial law should the Supreme Court impede his anti-drug campaign. In an interview with Radyo Inquirer…

ESPINOSA RESIDENCE

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Chito Aragon 08/11/2016

Police raid empty house, recover 11 kilos of shabu Joint police teams from the Regional Public Safety Batallion (RPSB), the Albuera police and the Leyte Provincial Office raided the ancestral house of Albuera Mayor Rolando Espinosa Sr.…

Provincial gov’t supports emergency powers for Digong

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 08/11/2016

THE Cebu Provincial Government supports the granting of emergency powers to President Rodrigo Duterte to address traffic congestion in the country. In fact, provincial officials want the emergency powers to also benefit Cebu which is experiencing a…

US ‘concerned’ by violent Philippine war on drugs

08/10/2016

WASHINGTON, United States — The United States expressed concern Monday over the extrajudicial killings of drug suspects in the Philippines, a key US ally whose newly elected president has launched a bloody war on crime. President Rodrigo…

PALMA QUESTIONS DRUG LIST

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag, Nestle L. Semilla 08/09/2016

Ill-advised and half-baked. This was how Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma described the decision of President Rodrigo Duterte to publicly identify the local officials allegedly involved in the illegal drugs trade. While he supports the President’s campaign to…

Don’t surrender sans arrest warrant

08/09/2016

Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno cautioned the judges identified by President Rodrigo Duterte as those with links to the illegal drug trade not to surrender to any police officer in the absence of a warrant of arrest.…

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