3 incumbent councilors to join Ruiz’s slate

Futch Anthony Inso 04/03/2024

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Cebu — Three incumbent Cebu City councilors have expressed their intention to join the slate of former Customs Commissioner Yogi Ruiz in the upcoming 2025 midterm elections. However, Ruiz refused to disclose their names, citing…

Yogi Ruiz plans to form own political party

Futch Anthony Inso 02/27/2024

CEBU CITY, Philippines- Former Customs Commissioner Yogi Ruiz plans to create a new local political party in Cebu, aiming to join the mayoral race in the 2025 midterm election. Ruiz stated that the political party, dubbed “Partido…

Torion to spearhead Yogi’s ‘Sports for All’ basketball program 

Glendale G. Rosal 02/18/2024

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Former PBA star Jimwell Torion will oversee the basketball program of the soon-to-be-launched “Sports for All” advocacy of former Customs Commissioner Yogi Filemon Ruiz. Ruiz has officially announced that he will be launching…

One for all, all for one

Nestle L. Semilla 08/25/2017

CRIMINALITY, ILLEGAL DRUGS, TERRORISM As the war on illegal drugs and all forms of criminality escalates, law enforcers in the region turned to other government agencies and local government units for help. The Armed Forces of the…

Suspected drug lord surrenders to Nalzaro

Nestle L. Semilla 03/22/2017

Suspected drug lord Joshua Bucog, who evaded arrest numerous times, has surrendered to media personality Bobby Nalzaro on Wednesday morning. Bucog, 25, an alleged drug lord who evaded arrest twice, went to the office of GMA-7 in…

DEADLY DAY FOR DRUG PUSHERS

Nestle L. Semilla, Norman V. Mendoza, Rene F. Alima 03/14/2017

Barely 24 hours after the Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO-7) resumed their anti-drug operations, an alleged big-time drug pusher, who allegedly got his supply from a Lapu-Lapu City Jail prisoner, was killed along with his…

LEGASPI IN, MACATO OUT

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Izobelle T. Pulgo 03/01/2017

The Cebu provincial jail, already burdened with almost double the number of inmates it is supposed to accommodate, yesterday lost its warden as it continues to be wracked with controversy over how it is being managed. In…

PDEA sets March 15 deadline for village drugs list

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 02/28/2017

BARANGAY chiefs in Cebu City have until March 15 to submit the list of drug personalities in their respective areas to the regional Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA-7). So far, only 14 of the 80 barangays in…

PDEA 7 demands explaination from Carreta barangay captain

02/10/2017

The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in Central Visayas (PDEA-7) has sent a letter to Carreta Barangay Captain Eduardo Lauron asking him to explain why a drug den was operating right behind the barangay hall. “What was he…

Next to Ermita, Carreta — PDEA goes after Calamba

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 02/08/2017

After a string of successful operations in the drug-prone barangays of Ermita and Carreta, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in the region (PDEA-7) is now training its sights on another drug-prone village in Cebu City — Calamba,…

Minor arrested in drug bust

02/08/2017

Agents of Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in Central Visayas (PDEA-7) arrested a 14-year-old boy in a drug bust along A. Lopez Street in Barangay Calamba, Cebu City past 3 a.m on Wednesday. Mario (not his real name)…

‘TOKHANG FOR RANSOM’ IN CEBU?

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Fe Marie Dumaboc, Inquirer.net 02/01/2017

Senator Panfilo Lacson has asked the top police officials in Cebu to validate reports that there are “Tokhang for ransom” incidents in Cebu City. Lacson, on Wednesday, said he sent a text message to Chief Supt. Noli…

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