TACLOBAN CITY – Authorities have dismantled two more New People’s Army (NPA) units in Eastern Visayas. These were Platoon 2 of Island Committee 47 Levox operating in the provinces of Leyte, Biliran, and Southern Leyte, and the Elcon Platoon of Sub-Regional Committee Browser operating in the...
ILOILO CITY – Police Brig. Gen. Jack Wanky revealed his one-month accomplishment as Police Regional Office-6 (Western Visayas) chief on Monday, March 18. POLICE Brig. Gen. Jack Wanky (center) reports his one-month accomplishment as chief of the Police Regional Office-6. Behind him area (from...
CEBU CITY – Intelligence monitoring has been tightened in Central Visayas following the recent discovery of bricks of cocaine worth P106 million in Eastern Visayas. The Police Regional Office-Central Visayas (PRO-7) and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Central Visayas (PDEA-7) are checking...
ILOILO CITY – The West Visayas State University (WVSU) has ordered a retake of the College Admission Test on March 10 following the public uproar over the alleged leakage of questions. The WVSU administration and its Board of Regents announced on Friday, March 15, that it invalidated the results...
CEBU CITY – The Philippine Drug Enforcement-Central Visayas (PDEA-7) reported that 17.6 kilos of suspected shabu valued at more than P120 million have been seized in Region 7 (Central Visayas) in the first two months of the year. PDEA-7 spokesperson Leia Alcantara said that the two-month haul was...
ILOILO CITY – Crops worth more than P726.7 million have been damaged by the dry spell caused by the El Niño in Western Visayas. The Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (RDRRMC), in a report on Tuesday, March 12, that cited the Department of Agriculture (DA)-6, said...
ILOILO CITY – Western Visayas, just a month after registering the lowest inflation rate in five years, recorded a 2.7 percent inflation rate, up 0.7 percent from two percent in January. FRESH fish are sold in a stall at Iloilo Fish Port in Iloilo City. (Tara Yap) Nelida Amolar, Philippine...
CEBU CITY – Two drug groups could be behind the smuggling of huge amounts of shabu that were seized here recently, police said. Police Lt. Col. Gerard Ace Pelare said these two drug groups were identified during the custodial debriefing on arrested drug personalities. Pelare, spokesperson of...
ILOILO CITY – The Police Regional Office-6 seized more than P14-million worth of suspected shabu in Western Visayas in the second week of the leadership of Police Brig. Gen. Jack Wanky. A LADY drug pusher yields P5.5-million worth of shabu in an anti-drug operation in Estancia town, Iloilo...
ILOILO CITY – The Department of Environment (DENR) reiterated the need to preserve the six endemic species of Western Visayas region. “Everyone is called upon to do their fair share in preserving our ecosystems so that native and endemic animals and plants can thrive,” said DENR-6 Regional...
CEBU CITY – The Armed Forces-Visayas Command on Saturday, March 2, said it had dealt a major blow to the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) in the Visayas through a series of operations in the month of February. FIREARMS and other items were seized in an encounter...
CEBU CITY – Nine persons were arrested when two drug dens were raided in separate anti-illegal drug operations conducted by agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement-Central Visayas (PDEA-7) here on Friday, March 1. AN agent of the Philippine Drug Enforcement-Central Visayas examines packs...
