MANILA – Customs officers on Friday seized over 35,000 tablets of illegal drugs worth PHP1.8 million at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA). In a statement, the Bureau of Customs (BOC) said officers discovered a total of 35,345 diazepams (Valium) and nitrazepam (Mogadon) tablets during an inspection and examination of parcels in a cargo warehouse at […]
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Davao Customs now tracing travels of container van carrying cocaine
DAVAO CITY — The Bureau of Customs Davao port is now tracing the routes of the container van which yielded 400 grams of cocaine discovered on November 30 at the International Repair Services (IRS) in Brgy. Labangal General Santos City. Customs (BOC) Port of Davao, District Collector Atty. Erastus Sandino B. Austria in a press […]
MisOr DepEd employees sent home amid ensuing encounter between PNP and NPA
ILIGAN CITY — The Department of Education on Friday afternoon has sent home the teachers and non-teaching personnel from Naawan town in Misamis Oriental, as tension broke off with the ongoing firefight between the members of the Special Forces of the Philippine National Police and the suspected members of the New People’s Army in the […]
Comelec backs bid to cancel Gabriela party-list registration
MANILA – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has upheld a government anti-insurgency body’s petition seeking cancellation of the Gabriela Women’s Party’s registration in the party-list system for violations of the election law and the Constitution. In an order dated November 27 and signed by presiding Commissioner Socorro B. Inting, the Comelec’s Second Division ruled that the […]
PNP probes Datu Piang police chief as target in attack
MANILA-— The Philippine National Police (PNP) said it is now looking into reports that Capt. Israel Bayona, police chief of Datu Piang, Maguindanao, was the target of the attack by members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) on Thursday night. “Isasama po yan ng mga imbestigador natin. Lahat po ng angle ay titingnan (Our […]
BARMM condemns BIFF attack vs. AFP, PNP posts in Datu Piang town
COTABATO CITY— The Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) has condemned the attack by members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) against military outposts in the municipal center of Datu Piang town, Maguindanao province on Thursday night. Lawyer Naguib Sinarimbo, BARMM spokesperson, said the attack has “caused damage to properties and generated fears […]
Workshops, seminars allowed in GCQ areas-IATF
DAVAO CITY — The Inter-Agency Task Force for the management of Emerging Infectious Disease (IATF-EID) has allowed the conduct of workshops, training, seminars, and other similar events in areas under the general community quarantine at 30-percent venue capacity. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque, in a statement released Friday, said the IATF has discussed the concern during its […]
P7-B worth of illegal drugs destroyed before Duterte’s eyes
DAVAO CITY —Authorities destroyed on Thursday some P7,51-billion worth of confiscated illegal drugs before President Rodrigo Duterte, making it a milestone in the government’s fight against the proliferation of illicit narcotics. A total of 1,333 kilos of methamphetamine hydrochloride (shabu), liquid shabu, marijuana, liquid marijuana, ecstasy, cocaine, and other dangerous substances were destroyed through thermal […]
‘Hatid-Tulong’ benefits 218K OFWs
DAVAO CITY — The government’s Hatid-Tulong Program, to assist and transport stranded OFWs in Metro Manila back to their respective provinces has benefited 218, 452 overseas Filipino workers. The program is in response to President Rodrigo Duterte’s order to send home the stranded OFWs from metro Manila to their provinces. As of 24 September 2020, […]
Relatives of missing teacher in South Cotabato cry for help
DAVAO CITY —The relatives of the school teacher in South Cotabato who has been missing since Dec. 2 are calling upon the officials of South Cotabato, particularly of Polomolok town, and the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) to help locate the said teacher, dead or alive. Mohatir Malo Adam, a teacher at the […]
COVID-19 hits 76 inmates, personnel in Davao City Jail
Davao City – Seventy-six inmates and personnel of the Davao City Jail Male Dormitory were infected by the corona virus disease (COVID-19) in just two weeks. Among them were 68 Persons Deprived of Liberty (PDL) and 8 personnel of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP). According to the latest report by the BJMP […]
Medical team arrives in Davao to help curve rising Covid-19 infection
Davao City — The government has sent a 25-person medical team to Davao City to help President Rodrigo Roa Duterte’s home city address the rising coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infections, said National Task Force Against COVID-19 Chief Implementer Carlito Galvez Jr. Reporting to President Duterte during a Cabinet meeting about government’s response on COVID-19, Galvez said […]
Produktong gipasigarbo MisOc makita sa Christmas Bazaar
OZAMIZ CITY — Mapalit na ang mga produktong ginama ug gipasigarbo sa Misamis Occidental sa gipahigayong Christmas Bazaar sa Department of Trade and Industry ( DTI ) ug sa pakig-alayon sa OTOP HUB Philippines ug sa Pure Gold Ozamiz. Gipahayag ni Trisha Jean Tan, ang Trade and Promotion Officer sa DTI Misamis Occidental, nga nasugdan […]