MEMBERS of the Regional Oversight Committee on Barangay Drug Clearing (ROCBDC) in Zamboanga del Norte deliberate prior to declaring one municipality and 19 barangays in the province as drug-cleared. (DILG-9 photo) ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Regional Oversight Committee on Barangay Drug-Clearing...
San Juan City Mayor Francis Zamora said the city is soon to be the National Capital Region’s (NCR’s) first drug-cleared city after all 21 of its barangays have been provisionally declared drug-free by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA). Zamora made the announcement in an interview...
San Juan City Mayor Francis Zamora said the city is soon to be the National Capital Region's (NCR's) first drug-cleared city after all 21 of its barangays have been provisionally declared drug-free by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA). Zamora made the announcement in an interview with...
ZAMBOANGA CITY -- Four more barangays in Zamboanga City have been declared drug-cleared by the Regional Oversight Committee on Barangay Drug-Clearing (ROCBDC) during a deliberation on Monday, Nov. 21, at the Zamboanga City Hall. Mayor John Dalipe, PDEA Regional Director Emerson Margate and other...
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – Police have considered two recent high-profile crimes in this city in which two people were killed as case cleared. Lawmen said Wednesday, July 27, that the case of 24-year-old Cris Semaña, the delivery rider who was stabbed to death July 17 on Coastal Road, Barangay...
CEBU CITY – More areas in Central Visayas have been declared drug-cleared. In the July 6 to 7 deliberation of the Regional Oversight Committee on Barangay Drug Clearing (ROCBDC), 114 barangays in Region 7 were added to the list of drug-cleared areas, said Leia Alcantara, information officer of...
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) is working to attain a zero drug inventory and zero illegal drug dependency in the country. PDEA Director General Wilkins Villanueva said the goal is not farfetched as they are now working to clear the remaining 10,410 barangays from influence of...
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency PDEA) disclosed Tuesday, Feb. 1, that 24,253 barangays in the country are now considered as "drug-cleared" areas as the Duterte administration's controversial anti-illegal drug campaign approaches its remaining months. PDEA logo Based on the latest "Real...
The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) and the League of Provinces of the Philippines (LPP) urged the Senate on Monday, Nov. 15, to restore the proposed P28.1 billion Support to the Barangay Development Program (SBDP) for New Peoples’ Army (NPA)-cleared barangays in the 2022...
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) assured on Monday, Sept. 6, of its continued commitment to meet its June 2022 deadline of clearing as many barangays from the influence of illegal drugs. PDEA Director General Wilkins M Villanueva said the goal of clearing more barangays was reinforced...
A total of three million doses of the Sinovac vaccine have been cleared by members of the Bureau of Customs-Ninoy Aquino International Airport (BOC-NAIA). (Photo from BOC-NAIA) (Photo from BOC-NAIA) The huge cargo of vaccines, which provide protection against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19),...
Bureau of Customs (BOC) personnel at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) have cleared the 469,200 doses of Moderna coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines that were delivered to the country Sunday afternoon, Aug. 15. (Photo from BOC-NAIA) (Photo from BOC-NAIA) The latest vaccine shipment,...