TACLOBAN CITY – Despite the decrease in teenage pregnancy among Filipino women aged 15 to 19-years-old from 6.9 percent in 2017 to 4.9 percent in 2022 based on the National Health and Demographic Survey (NDHS), the Commission on Population and Development (PopCom) in Eastern Visayas (Region...
CEBU CITY – Suspected shabu worth over P17 million was seized in a two-day Simultaneous Anti-Criminality Law Enforcement Operations (SACLEO) in Central Visayas. BEARIS (FB) The Police Regional Office-7 said 2,530.30 grams of shabu and 167 individuals were arrested in 167 anti-illegal drug...
CEBU CITY — Drones will now be a part of the anti-criminality campaign in Central Visayas. A POLICEMAN learns how to operate a drone during the training workshop of the drone patrol team of the Police Regional Office-Central Visayas. (Photo via Calvin D. Cordova) The Police Regional...
CEBU CITY – The Police Regional Office (PRO)-7 has enlisted at enlisted 600 former drug users to help in the battle against illegal drugs in Central Visayas. Lt. Col. Gerard Ace Pelare, spokesperson of PRO-7 director Brig. Gen. Jerry Bearis, said these Anti-Illegal Drug Advocates (AIDA) members...
A VENDOR sells fresh fish in Iloilo City. The inflation rate in Western Visayas has eased after 10 months due to lower food and non-alcoholic beverage prices. (Tara Yap) ILOILO CITY – What goes up must come down. The inflation rate in Western Visayas eased 0.2 percent after 10 straight months of...
ILOILO CITY – The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA)-Western Visayas was awarded for its drug reduction program for the year 2022 recently. A K-9 dog and its handler check luggage and boxes for illegal drugs at the port of Boracay in Malay town, Aklan province. (PDEA-6) PDEA-6 was named...
CEBU CITY — Multiple charges were filed against motorcycle dealers for alleged fraudulent activities. The charges were filed by Victor Emmanuel Caindec, chief of the Land Transportation Office-Central Visayas (LTO-7), before the Prosecutor’s Offices of Mandaue City and Cebu City. Caindec filed...
CEBU CITY – The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA)-Central Visayas (Region 7) said the country is shifting its focus in the campaign against illegal drugs from supply reduction to demand reduction. The shift however, doesn’t mean that the war on drugs is slowing down, the newly installed...
TACLOBAN CITY – The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH)-Region 8 (Eastern Visayas) is set to implement road projects worth a total of P350 million in Eastern Samar this year. Among these is the two-contract project in Barangay Magsaysay-Barangay Magongbong-Barangay Gap-ang in the...
BACOLOD CITY -- The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) arrested an alleged drug pusher during a buy-bust operation in Barangay Banago here on Saturday, Feb. 4. The subject was identified as Nemia Jalando-on, 43, of Barangay Banago. According to PDEA, Jalando-on is a regional level target...
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) said on Saturday, Feb. 4, that it has completed the road concreting works in Carles, Iloilo that provides access to the tourist spots in Gigantes Island in the Western Visayas Region. “As both local and foreign tourists flock the well-known...
ILOILO CITY – Police arrested Western Visayas’ most wanted person in Cabuyao town, Laguna province on Thursday, Feb. 2. The suspect, whose name was withheld by Police Regional Office (PRO-6), is a 62-year old resident of Pototan town, Iloilo province and former member of the Philippine Marine...
