Tag: illegal drugs

POLICE arrested 25 people and seized P642,400 worth of illegal drugs in separate operations in the metro in the past two days.

THE SEAPORT Inter-Agency Drug Interdiction Task Group for the Western Visayas Region (SIADITG-VI) has been formed to tighten the watch on illegal drugs that come through seaports in Iloilo, once tagged by the President as one of the worst narcotics areas in the country.

The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency has filed charges before the Department of Justice against four individuals allegedly involved in the import of drugs found...

By Arjay L. Balinbin, Reporter Presidential Spokesperson Harry L. Roque, Jr. on Wednesday said the alleged involvement of Vice-President Maria Leonor G. Robredo’s brother-in-law in...

The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) said new psychoactive substances have entered the country and are being sold in the dark Web. “There is a...

By Charmaine A. Tadalan Vice President Maria Leonor G. Robredo flagged the detention of three lawyers for monitoring police in a Makati bar drug raid...

By Camille A. Aguinaldo The Bureau of Customs (BoC) filed on Thursday, Aug. 16, five criminal complaints before the Department of Justice (DoJ) against alleged...

The Senate on Monday, July 30, conducted an unannounced random drug test, with Senate President Vicente C. Sotto III and Senator Gregorio B. Honasan...

By Dane Angelo M. Enerio Malacañang Palace on Tuesday evening (July 3) said it was confident the Philippine National Police (PNP) "would be able to...

The current administration inherited a robust economy from its predecessor. And exactly two years after President Rodrigo R. Duterte assumed the office, the economy...

THE ANTI-MONEY Laundering Council (AMLC) has warned banks and other financial companies to tighten their watch against dummy accounts, used by drug dealers to hide illicit funds.

By Arjay L. Balinbin, Reporter PRESIDENT Rodrigo R. Duterte announced on Tuesday, June 12, that he might consider arming the newly elected village chiefs to...

The Department of Justice (DoJ) has appealed to Presiding Judge Arthur B. Melicor of the Velenzuela City Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 284 to...

The Commission on Elections (COMELEC) said it won’t prohibit candidates included in the "narco list" released by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) to...

The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) is set to file charges against the 207 barangay captains and councilors involved in illegal drugs. "PDEA will be...

FOUR Chinese and two Taiwanese nationals implicated in the P6.4-billion Chinese shabu shipment case have been disallowed from leaving the country, the Bureau of...

The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) is set to release its watchlist of barangay officials involved in illegal drugs within the week. "Finally I will...

THE SUPREME COURT (SC) en banc on Tuesday gave the Office of the Solicitor-General (OSG) 15 days to submit to the high court records...

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has offered to provide assistance to the Philippine government in its rehabilitation efforts for drug...

The Supreme Court (SC), sitting en banc, on Tuesday, April 3, gave the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) 15 days to submit to...

THE Department of Justice (DoJ), in an order dated March 22 and released on Wednesday, has subpoenaed alleged drug lord Peter Go Lim, confessed...

By Arjay L. Balinbin President Rodrigo R. Duterte on Tuesday, March 13, said he will personally review the Justice department’s dismissal of the drug charges...

The Department of Justice has cleared alleged drug lord Peter Go Lim, confessed drug lord Rolan "Kerwin" Espinosa, convicted drug lord Peter Co and...

By Arjay L. Balinbin President Rodrigo R. Duterte has instructed the police to ignore any special rapporteur tasked by the United Nations (UN) to investigate...

The state of human rights in the Philippines was marked by "increased lawlessness and violence" due mainly to the government's war on drugs, according...

By Arjay L. Balinbin THE Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and other agencies, in a press briefing at Malacañang on Monday, Jan. 22, reported that...

THE Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) conducted 3,476 operations, seized P228.81 million worth of drugs and “non-drug” evidence, and arrested 1,321 suspects but recorded...

THE TAX reform program as recently passed by Congress, the national budget next year, and the controversial anti-drug campaign are among the highlights of...

MALACAÑANG ON Thursday, Dec. 21, said the government has already taken action regarding the so-called Davao Boys of police officers in Quezon City who...

SENIOR ASSOCIATE Justice Antonio T. Carpio has questioned the Philippine National Police’s (PNP) apparent focus on street-level operations in its anti-narcotics campaign and ignoring...

President Rodrigo Duterte lashed out at visiting Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and European officials over their criticism of alleged human rights abuses under...

Donald Trump sits down Monday, Nov. 13, with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who boasts about personally killing people and is waging a drug war...

PRESIDENT Rodrigo R. Duterte on Thursday, Nov. 9, said he wants the Philippines to host a world summit on human rights to tackle issues...

By Carmencita A. Carillo, Correspondent DAVAO CITY — Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio has ordered the dismissal of three city government employees after their results came out...

THE HEAD of the Philippines’ narcotics control body has resigned after just five months in the job, the second successive official to vacate the...

POLICE OFFICERS who are facing charges over the death of 19-year-old Carl Angelo Arnaiz have been given by the Department of Justice (DoJ) more...

By Lira Dalangin-Fernandez InterAksyon A BROAD NETWORK of lawyers, judges, law professors and students was launched on Thursday, Nov. 2, demanding an end to extrajudicial killings...

By Arjay L. Balinbin ALMOST HALF of respondents in a new snapshot of the third-quarter survey of the Social Weather Stations (SWS) agree that it...

By Arjay L. Balinbin ABOUT half of Filipinos disagree that persons who use drugs or are involved in the illegal drug trade do not have...

“POLITICAL UNCERTAINTY” in the Philippines could make investors think twice about placing bets here, in turn weighing on overall growth prospects, a London-based research...

ADVOCACY GROUP Human Rights Watch (HRW) in a statement on Tuesday, Oct. 31, said there is an “increasing disquiet among Philippine officials with (President...

By Rosemarie A. Zamora ABOUT HALF of Filipinos (54%) agree that only poor drug pushers are killed in the government’s drug war, the latest snapshot...

ONE out of four, or 25%, of Filipinos know someone summoned for the Duterte administration’s “Oplan Tokhang” drug war, according to the Social Weather...

NINETY-FIVE percent (95%) of respondents in a Social Weather Stations (SWS) poll last September say it is important for the police to capture illegal...

NET OPINION on the truthfulness of claims by police of resistance (“nanlaban”) by drug suspects had a steep decline in the third quarter of...