A total of 19 barangays in Metro Manilave have been declared as drug-free based on the parameters set by the government in its campaign on community-clearing of illegal drugs influence, the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) said on Wednesday, June 16. NCRPO director Maj. Gen. Vicente...
Malacañang rejected suggestions that crimes against humanity were committed in the course of President Duterte's bloody drug war, saying they were merely "collateral damage." Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque (OPS / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque made the...
President Duterte is not at all worried by attempts to put him on trial before the International Criminal Court (ICC) over the alleged killings linked to his war on drugs. President Rodrigo Duterte holds a meeting with the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) core...
The Philippine government is determined to assert the country's sovereignty when it has refused to cooperate with any probe into the war on drugs by the International Criminal Court (ICC). President Rodrigo Duterte (File photo/Malacañang) According to Presidential spokesman Harry Roque, the...
Opposition senators on Tuesday welcomed the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) move to seek full investigation into the killings being linked to the Duterte administration’s drug war as a possible case of “crime against humanity of murder” under the Rome...
Lawyer Neri Colmenares believes that the case filed against President Duterte before the International Criminal Court (ICC) is strong enough to convict him for human rights violations over his administration’s bloody war on drugs. In an interview on Teleradyo, Colmenares assured that they...
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and the Wallstreet Courier Services Incorporated (Ninja Van) signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) on Tuesday, June 15, in a bid to address the problem of drug trafficking using the courier service providers. Ninja Van is a technology company that...
The Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) has welcomed the request of outgoing International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to open an investigation on the Duterte government’s war-on-drugs campaign. (Photo courtesy of BAYAN Secretary General Renato Reyes) “We welcome ICC...
President Duterte warned human rights advocates that they might find their names in the list of police informants if he made public the country’s anti-drug records. President Rodrigo Duterte delivers his public address on June 14, 2021. (Malacañang photo) In his taped public address on Monday...
President Duterte wanted the speedy completion of the study on the efficacy of the antiparasitic drug ivermectin against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), saying many people have been waiting for it. President Duterte (Malacañang photo) In his pre-recorded weekly public address on Monday...
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) said Thursday night, June 10, that it will seek the advice of the Office of Solicitor General (OSG) after th e Court of Appeals (CA) ordered the removal of Leyte Third District Rep. Vicente Veloso from the list of the Inter-Agency Drug Information...
House lawmakers on Wednesday grilled the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on why it accepted funding from the Bloomberg external international groups, in exchange for the issuance of pre-defined policies against the tobacco industry, which is prohibited under the law. During the House Committee...
