Senator Risa Hontiveros is calling for Senate inquiry on the “unabated” killings during police operations, particularly the deaths of children and teenagers. Senator Risa Hontiveros (Senate PRIB) The opposition senator issued the appeal Friday, June 18, following the death of another teenager,...
Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) agents arrested six alleged drug pushers including two Nigerian nationals who yielded P204,000 worth of suspected crystal meth (shabu) and other drugs in a buy-bust operation in Dau, Pampanga on Thursday night, June 17. Director-General Wilkins Villanueva...
Administration ally Senator Francis Tolentino on Thursday, June 17, hit the credibility of International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda after the latter sought a formal investigation into the alleged murders committed under President Duterte's "war on drugs". Senator Francis...
Archdiocese of Manila Apostolic Administrator Bishop Broderick Pabillo welcomed the international criminal court’s investigation into the Philippine government’s deadly war on drugs saying it’s a step to stop the "culture of impunity" in the country. Bishop Broderick Pabillo (CBCP NEWS / FILE...
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...
The government has challenged the International Criminal Court (ICC) to probe the atrocities committed by the communist rebels instead of the "legitimate" anti-drug operations in the country. President Rodrigo Duterte holds a meeting with the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Emerging Infectious...
Opposition lawmakers on Tuesday, June 15 applauded the decision of International Criminal Court prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to seek authorization to proceed with an investigation into the alleged the killing of thousands of suspected drug users and pushers in the “war on drugs” campaign of the...
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...
The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) has vowed to continue supporting programs and initiatives that help address the problem of substance use and drug addiction in the country by funding health-related research initiatives. (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) DOST Secretary Fortunato T. de la...
The announcement made by International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to open an investigation on the bloody war-on-drugs campaign in the country preempts the prerogative of her successor and undercuts the attractiveness of the Rome Statute to States that may be considering...
The Philippine National Police (PNP) is not covered by the decision of the Court Appeals to remove Leyte Rep. Vicente Veloso III from the list of the alleged politicians involved in illegal drugs activities in the country. In a statement issued on Thursday, June 10, the PNP stated that Veloso has...
A notorious supplier of illegal drugs and a Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) village leader were arrested by anti-narcotics operatives in a buy-bust operation in Pasay City on Monday night (June 7). ELEONOR ODTUHAN (PASAY CITY POLICE / MANILA BULLETIN) Police identified the suspects as Eleonor Odtuhan,...
