The joint Senate Committees on Justice and Human Rights and Public Order and Dangerous Drugs has recommended to impose stiffer penalties against schools that would be involved in hazing-related activities. Sen. Francis Tolentino (Senate PRIB Photo) Sen. Francis Tolentino, in presenting...
New Bilibid Prisons (MB file photo) Senator Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa on Sunday, August 6 said he will ask authorities of the New Bilibid Prisons (NBP) why they allowed persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) to accept food deliveries through online apps like GrabFood and...
ILOILO CITY – Seventy-one persons were rescued from human trafficking across Western Visayas region by a council under the auspices of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in 2022. “Majority of them were women,” said Xzyrabelle M. Servento, secretariat of the Regional...
The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) on Wednesday, August 2 assured legislators they are moving to address the gaps in its inspection of Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGOs). Sen. Risa Hontiveros, head of the Senate Committee on Women, Children, Family Relations and...
Senators on Wednesday, August 2, grilled members of the Philippine National Police’s Anti-Cybercrime Group (PNP-ACG) over the alleged lapses in the raid they conducted on a Philippine Offshore Gaming Operator (POGO) hub in Las Piñas City last June. Senators Raffy Tulfo and Risa Hontiveros grill...
Senator Nancy Binay on Tuesday, August 1 pressed the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to require the personal appearance of applicants at consular offices as a non-negotiable prerequisite for some categories of electronic visas or e-visas....
Bureau of Immigration (BI) Commissioner Norman Tansingco has called for heightened vigilance in Philippine waters due to reports of human trafficking victims utilizing the southern backdoor. Tansingco expressed concern over traffickers using small boats to smuggle victims through informal ports and...
The Antipolo City government continues to give assistance to victims of human trafficking and sexual exploitation as part of its Recovery and Reintegration Program for Trafficked Persons (RRPTP). Antipolo City Mayor Jun Ynares said under the program, individuals who fell victims to human trafficking...
Families can have some fun playing in The Lolliday Arcade this weekend (Image from Chupa Chups/ Sandro Paredes and Kyla Olives Laurel) Families will have a reason to go out and have fun this weekend as Chupa Chups celebrates Lolliday with The Lolliday Arcade located at the Trinoma Activity Center....
Bureau of Immigration (BI) Commissioner Norman Tansingco has urgently requested police and other law enforcement agencies to bolster security measures at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) in a bid to combat human trafficking. Tansingco's plea comes in the wake of an alarming discovery...
CEBU CITY – The pain is unbearable. This was how Rochie Tocmo Poblacion described what she and her family are going through after her younger sister Rhea Mae Tocmo was brutally killed by still unknown perpetrators. RHEA Mae Tocmo (FB) Rochie broke down several times when she arrived at a funeral...
CEBU CITY – The Police Regional Office-Central Visayas (PRO-7) “condemned to the highest degree” the brutal killing of a 19-year-old woman from Panabo City, Davao del Norte. TOCMO (FB) Police Lt. Col. Gerard Ace Pelare, spokesperson of Police Brig. Gen. Anthony Aberin, chief of PRO-7, said...
