CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – The Bureau of Custom on Friday confiscated loads of smuggled cigarettes from China. The Customs uncovered that the container earlier declared as used furniture turned out to be smuggled cigattes. The Customs is a statement said the shipment, estimated to be worth P8 million, was intercepted at the Mindanao Container Terminal (MCT) subport in … [Read more...] about Customs confiscates P16m worth of smuggled cigarettes
PDEA destroys P14m expired meds, illegal drugs
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – Authorities here destroyed more than P14.145 million worth of confiscated illegal and expired medicines on Friday, December 3. In a cermAt the drug destruction ceremony, PDEA-10 said more than two kilos of “shabu” or crystal meth and marijuana, along with various expired medicines, were incinerated at the crematorium. These drugs had already been … [Read more...] about PDEA destroys P14m expired meds, illegal drugs
Medical director killed in Cagayan de Oro City
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – A medical doctor was shot dead by motorcycle-riding gunmen in broad daylight in Barangay Nazareth, this city, Thursday morning, Dec. 2 while on his way to the hospital from his residence in Barangay Macasandig. Police identified the victim as Dr. Raul Winston Andutan, a urologist was a medical director at Maria Reyna Xavier University Hospital (MRXUH) … [Read more...] about Medical director killed in Cagayan de Oro City
‘Lanzones Festival’ kicks off in Camiguin Island
MAMBAJAO, CAMIGUIN – Despite the threat of the coronavirus disease and the scarcity of the sweet lanzones fruit, the provincial government opened the annual Lanzones Festival here via online on Sunday October, 24, 2021. Camiguin Governor Jurdin Jesus Romualdo said they celebrate the event "to show the people of Camiguin that there is still hope amid the pandemic and low … [Read more...] about ‘Lanzones Festival’ kicks off in Camiguin Island
Cong Rodriguez unfazed by grenade-throwing incident
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – The grenade-throwing incident in his family's ancestral house on Wednesday will not deter House Deputy Speaker Rufus Rodriguez to pursue his bod to join the mayoralty race here come 2022 national and local elections. Rodriguez issued the statement after a still-unknown assailant lobbed a grenade on his family's ' ancestral house in Barangay Nazareth … [Read more...] about Cong Rodriguez unfazed by grenade-throwing incident