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(Eagle News) — Binatikos ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte si Senador Antonio Trillanes IV sa pagkakaugnay ng public perception sa pagbaba ng bilang ng mga drug addict na bahagi ng kampanya ng gobyerno kontra droga. Sinabi ito ng Pangulo sa kaniyang pagdalo sa isang pagtitipon sa Davao City. “Some critic, a senator, s****d Trillanes said there are no more [drug addicts] because they are dead and so? Are you not happy that I am doing it […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the Philippine National Police to remove drug addicts and “tambay” wandering the country’s streets at night. The directive came on Wednesday, June 13, during the oath-taking ceremony of the newly promoted personnel of the Philippine National Police (PNP), the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG), Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP), and the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) in Malacañang. During his speech, the President said that the […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday said the administration of the drug war would be back in the hands of the Philippine National Police if the illegal drugs proliferated again in the market. “Sabi ko, o sige (the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency) nalang. Pag magtaas nanaman, balik nanaman ang pulis. Alangan namang pabayaan ko bayan ko,” he told members of the Filipino community in Vietnam. He noted that Filipinos “never realized” the country was […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte is demanding answers from the previous Aquino administration why it had allowed the drug problem to become worse and balloon into this tragedy wherein he said four millions Filipinos are now drug addicts. “You read the crimes that were committed before the drug campaign. Look at the victims! Children who are raped, two years old, night shift workers and everybody else,” Duterte said during the groundbreaking of the […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Health has signed an agreement with the Iglesia Ni Cristo (Church of Christ) for the latter to help the government in the moral reformation of thousands of illegal drug dependents who have been rounded up by authorities, and are now undergoing rehabilitation. The partnership to morally and socially reform the so-called illegal drug suspects rounded up in the government’s anti-illegal drug operations was formalized on Thursday (February 23) […]
(Reuters) — Grace Fonollera sat beside the coffin of her 18-year-old son, Ace Bacorro, at a funeral set up across their shanty home in Manila. Her son, along with his friend Rondolph Droyon, were killed on December 6 when unidentified gunmen shot them while they were out drinking. Closed circuit television footage by the local village showed men riding on two motorcycles firing at the group in the early morning. Fonollera said her son […]
QUEZON CITY, Oct. 19 – The presence of drug addicts in the neighborhood instills fear among a vast majority of Filipinos nationwide. Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Director General Isidro S. Lapeña said this based on the Second Quarter Social Weather Survey (SWS) conducted from June 24-27, 2016. The survey, used face-to-face interview of 1,200 adult respondents (18 years old and above) throughout the country, 300 each in Metro Manila, Balance Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. “According to the survey, a record-high 82 percent […]
by Cecil Morella MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — Pedicab driver Reyjin dives into a neighbour’s house for a quick meth fix, fearful of taking a bullet to the head in Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal war on drugs but unable to quit. More than 2,000 people have died violent deaths since Duterte took office two months ago and immediately implemented his scorched-earth plans to eradicate drugs in society, ordering police to shoot dead traffickers and […]
