Day: May 2, 2022

The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) said Monday it is backing the candidacy of Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte as vice president, days after the group also declared support for the presidential bid of Vice President Leni Robredo. “Yes, the MILF is supporting Mayor Sara Duterte’s vice presidential bid,” lawyer Naguib Sinarimbo, secretary-general of the […]

A total of 88,405 infants who are 0 to 23 months old have been vaccinated against vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs) in April, a health official said Monday. The infants from 36 areas nationwide got vaccinated last April 28 to 29, during the Chikiting Bakunation Days, an annual vaccination drive that aims to reach at least one […]

Drug enforcement teams of Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) arrested four persons and seized PHP3.06 million worth of suspected shabu in two separate buy-busts over the weekend, reports on Monday showed. On Sunday, Christian Oliveros, 21, a high-value individual (HVI), was apprehended by operatives of the City Drug Enforcement Unit (CDEU) in Purok Lampirong, Barangay […]

Government agents seized some PHP14 million Cebu-bound worth of smuggled cigarettes and arrested two persons during an anti-smuggling operation here, a top police official said Monday. Col. Alexander Lorenzo, Zamboanga City Police Office (ZCPO) director, said the smuggled cigarettes were intercepted around 1:50 a.m. Sunday in front of the ZCPO Station 4 office along Maria […]

Lt. Gen. Vicente Danao, the Philippine National Police’s (PNP) No. 4 man as chief of the PNP Directorial Staff, will take over as Deputy Chief of Operations (DCO) officer-in-charge while retaining his current post, Interior Secretary Eduardo Año confirmed Monday. Danao is replacing Lt. Gen Ferdinand Divina who reached his mandatory retirement age of 56 […]

Vice President and presidential aspirant Leni Robredo called for the release of detained Senator Leila de Lima following witnesses taking back their testimonies. In a statement on Monday, Robredo said in the five-year detention of de Lima, not a single gram of illegal drugs or other documentary evidence have been brought against the senator. “Patunay […]