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One arrested (Eagle News) — Authorities seized P13.8 million worth of shabu in a buy-bust operation in Cebu on Friday morning, the Philippine National Police said. According to the PNP, also arrested in the operation in Sitio Saac II, Barangay Mactan, Lapu-Lapu City at 9:45 a.m. was Mark Gil James Dangarang alias “James,” 22. The PNP said apart from the 2,033 grams of shabu with an estimated Dangerous Drugs Board value of P13,824,400.00, recovered from […]
More areas placed under MECQ (Eagle News)–Cebu City and Mandaue will remain under an enhanced community quarantine starting today, May 16. According to Resolution No. 37 released by the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases on Saturday, Bataan, Bulacan, Nueva Ecija, Pampanga, Zambales, and Angeles City in Pampanga are also placed under a modified ECQ, which means some restrictions have been eased. Metro Manila and Laguna, however, remain under MECQ as […]
(Eagle News)–The cities of Cebu, Mandaue and Lapu Lapu have asked the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases they be allowed to remain under an enhanced community quarantine. A joint statement from Mandaue Mayor Jonas Cortes, Cebu City Edgardo Labella and Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Junard Chan said while easing restrictions would mean a “semblance of normalcy,” it would “not be logical” since based on initial estimates, approximately 90 percent of cases […]
(Eagle News) — The 17-year-old suspect in the killing of Christine Silawan is back in Department of Social Welfare and Development custody. This was after President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the boy’s “re-arrest” following his release by a prosecutor who had ruled the police failed to justify a warrantless arrest. Under the Rules of Court, a warrantless arrest is valid under three circumstances: when, in the presence of the policeman, the person to be arrested has […]
(Eagle News) — Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra has ordered the National Bureau of Investigation to probe the killing of 16-year-old Christine Silawan. Guevarra gave the order in Department Order No. 117 dated March 15. In ordering the NBI to also conduct a case build-up, Guevarra cited Republic Act No. 10867 or the NBI Reorganization and Modernization Act, which gives him the authority to do the same “when public interest so requires.” “Further, (NBI) Director (Dante) […]
(Eagle News)—The Lapu-Lapu government has announced a P1.6 million reward for any information that will lead to the arrest of the killers of 16-year-old student Christine Silawan. Of the P1.6 million, P1 million will reportedly come from the local government; P500,000 from a Leyte resident; and P100,000 from the Advisory Council of the Police Regional Office in Central Visayas. Silawan’s body was found in a vacant lot in Lapu-Lapu on Monday, March 11. Her head […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte honored security forces killed in separate clashes with the New People’s Army (NPA) in Camarines Sur and Camarines Norte last week, as he conferred the order of Lapu-Lapu with the rank of Kalasag to the three policemen killed in the ambush. The President arrived on Tuesday, Oct. 23, at the Camarines Sur Police Provincial Office to visit the wake of PO1 Ralph Jason Vida, one of the three policemen […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte is set to issue an order banning portraits of himself and those of other government officials, noting that the portraits of heroes should be placed there instead. “I intend to issue a decree. Ipatanggal ko ‘yung mga litrato namin, lalo na ‘yang litrato ni… Tapos litrato, pagpasok niya, litrato niya. Na-buang man ‘yung mga ganun na tao,” he told soldiers in a speech on Tuesday. He noted that when […]
