The Department of Education (DepEd) on Thursday, October 2, confirmed that 1,187 classrooms were totally destroyed by the powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake that struck northern Cebu earlier this week, leaving thousands of students and teachers without safe learning spaces. As of 11 p.m. on October...
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) destroyed on Tuesday, Dec. 20, a total of ₱7,273,125,331.09 worth of dangerous drugs and controlled precursors and essential chemicals (CPECs) at the Integrated Waste Management, Inc. (IWMI) in Barangay Aguado, Trece Martires City, Cavite. A total of...
CATBALOGAN CITY – Sixty-five firearms seized in the campaign against the New People’s Army (NPA) in Eastern Visayas by the 8th Infantry Division (ID) were destroyed in a ceremony here Saturday, Aug. 20. BACARRO (AFP FB) Lt. Gen. Bartolome Vicente Bacarro, chief of staff of the Armed Forces of...
Agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) arrested on Friday, Aug. 19, a total of 11 suspected drug pushers and users in three buy-bust operations in Angeles City, Pampanga. Arrested during the first operations were Raymond Ombal, 28; Jake Abe, 26; Robert Cabrera, 20, Germe Billiotes,...
Nearly P12 million worth of shabu and marijuana seized in a series of operations in Davao Region were destroyed in a show of commitment to end illegal drugs problems in the country. PDEA Regional Office XI Director Aileen Lovitos explained that the destruction of the confiscated illegal drugs on...
TABUK CITY, Kalinga – Fully grown marijuana plants valued at P62 million were uprooted and burned in a three-day eradication operation in Barangays Buscalan, Butbut Proper, and Loccong in Tinglayan, Kalinga. FULLY grown marijuana plants go up in smoke during an eradication campaign in Tinglayan,...
Comelec/MB Two days before the national elections, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) started destroying defective and testing ballots on Saturday, May 7. The total number of ballots to be destroyed are 933,311. This figure includes 586,988 defective official ballots and 346,323 roadshow...
A total of P62,376,591.14 worth of confiscated dangerous drugs in Central Visayas have been destroyed in Cebu City, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) said Friday, Oct. 15. PDEA photo PDEA Regional Office VII Director Levi Ortiz led the destruction of the confiscated illegal drugs on...
Joint teams of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) destroyed a total of P20.23 million worth of marijuana plants in a raid on eight plantation sites during their August 24 to 25 operation in Tinglayan Kalinga. PDEA spokesperson Derrick Arnold...
