CALAPAN CITY, Oriental Mindoro – Two alleged big-time distributors of shabu in Metro Manila were arrested in a buy-bust operation by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA)-Oriental Mindoro in Barangay Dangay, Roxas town, Oriental Mindoro province, on Saturday, Nov. 30. TWO big-time...
ILOILO CITY – Suspected shabu valued at P3.4 million was seized and a drug pusher was arrested in a buy-bust operation in Molo District here on Wednesday night, Nov. 27. A SUSPECTED drug pusher was arrested and shabu valued at P3.4 million was seized in Iloilo City. (ICPO-CDEU) The Iloilo City...
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is calling on individuals, who have knowledge about the crimes committed in the Philippines during former president Rodrigo Duterte's bloody war on drugs, to submit to them any information on the anti-drug campaign. Through the ICC Witness Appeal on ICC's...
From left: UnionBank Head of Consumer Banking, Manoj Varma; UnionBank Head of Card and Loans, Mukul Sukhani; Mercury Drug President, Vivian Que-Azcona; Mercury Drug Assistant to the President, Steve Azcona. UnionBank of the Philippines, in partnership with Mercury Drug, one of the nation’s major...
Photo from Pixabay The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an advisory announcing the inclusion of additional medicines for cancer, diabetes, and mental health in its list of products exempt from value-added tax (VAT). In its advisory released on Monday, Nov. 25, the FDA explained the new...
Vice President Sara Duterte on late Sunday night, Nov. 24, called on Filipinos to demand accountability and “genuine public service” from the government. Vice President Sara Duterte (OVP photo) Speaking during a livestream on Facebook, wherein she also thanked her supporters for...
CEBU CITY – Fifteen kilos of suspected shabu valued at P102 million were seized in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Buaya, Lapu-Lapu City on Friday, Nov. 22. SUSPECTED shabu worth P102 million was seized from a 42-year-old man in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Buaya, Lapu-Lapu...
The parents of Mary Jane Veloso, a Filipino domestic worker on death row in Indonesia, have appealed to the Philippine government to detain their daughter in a safe facility upon her return to the country as they fear that the drug syndicate that tricked her to smuggle drugs abroad will still go...
The Philippine National Police (PNP) has started recalibrating its strategies in the campaign against illegal drugs, which it said, will be anchored on respect for human rights. PNP chief Gen. Rommel Francisco Marbil said the new strategy, dubbed as Anti-Illegal Drug Campaign Roadmap 2024-2028, is...
Mary Jane Veloso, a Filipino domestic worker who is facing drug charges in Indonesia, was set to be executed in April 2015. But the last-minute reprieve granted to her by former Indonesian president Joko Widodo saved her life. And now, 14 years after her arrest in the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta,...
Senator Raffy Tulfo on Wednesday, November 20 commended President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr. for maintaining strong diplomatic ties with Indonesia and eventually paving the way for the possible return of Filipino domestic worker Mary Jane Veloso back to the Philippines. This, after...
Drug den dismantled by the authorities in Bacoor on November 19 (Photo from PDEA Calabarzon/MANILA BULLETIN) CAVITE – Authorities collared seven drug personalities in a buy-bust operation in Bacoor on Tuesday, Nov. 19. The joint operation conducted by the Philippine Drug Enforcement...
