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Volume VII, No. 250
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Dela Rosa tells men: Stay alert IN TIME FOR HOLY WEEK, NPA ANNIVERSARY
Philippine National Police (PNP) Dir. Gen. Ronald dela Rosa reminded policemen to be on alert in line with the country’s observance of the Holy Week and the forthcoming 49th anniversary of the New People’s Army (NPA), the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP). “While all PNP units are now presently preoccupied with our public safety operations for the Holy Week, I am reminding all unit commanders to fortify community defenses and step-up target-hardening measures Philippine National Police Director General Ronald dela in isolated police posts and government installations Rosa. PCOO file photo as a proactive measure against possible hostilities of
the communist New People’s Army in the coming days ahead of its founding anniversary on March 29th,” Dela Rosa said Monday. The PNP chief explained that the communist group is known to launch offensive actions to drumbeat commemoration of significant events in the underground organization. “I am instructing all PNP Regional Directors to put in place all necessary coutnermeasures to strengthen defenses of “soft targets” and avoid being caught flat-footed in case of offensive enemy actions. This summer season, we are taking advantange of good weather to launch our
Blue Lagoon beckons visitors to Libjo, Dinagat Islands Governors want Imee in senate, says Bambi BLUE LAGOON, Libjo, Dinagat Islands--You like basking in the sun, sea and submerging in deep tranquil lagoon like you’ve never done before? Feel like climbing up a limestone tower and watch the spectacular view below contrasted by the forest and connected to the sea? You need not go out of Mindanao. Just sail to Libjo, Dinagat Islands, three hours boat ride from Surigao City, capital of Surigao del Norte, in Caraga Region. The lagoon, a hidden oasis, is located in a forested islet forming like a maze a distance away from the coastal barangay of Magsaysay. Because it is environmentally delicate, it is advisable to come in small groups and consciously be
respectful and responsible to maintain its tranquility and balance. But one can choose to stay overnight at a tiny resort nearby or camp at the manicured lawn under the swaying coconut trees. Mayor Lamberto Llamera’s flagship project is tourism development, recognizing the vast potential of its natural coastal attractions with the Blue Lagoon as centerpiece come-on along with several white sand pocket beaches and coves and impressive limestone walls and cupcakeshaped limestone individual towers strewn all over Libjo’s coastlines. Beach combers and sun worshippers, snorkeling addicts and scuba-divers and even rock/boulder
Since illegal drug trade is a multibillion peso industry, drug lords “can easily” finance destabilization efforts against the government, Malacañang said Monday. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque Jr. made this comment after Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Secretary Alan Peter
Cayetano claimed that some non-government organizations (NGOs) have become unwitting tools by drug lords to stop President Rodrigo Duterte’s campaign against illegal drugs. “The attacks against the President’s war on drugs have been vicious and nonstop,” Roque said in a press
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By GERRY LEE GORIT Correspondent
CAGAYAN de Oro City-Majority of the country’s governors wanted Ilocos Nor te G over nor Ime e Marcos to run for senator next year, Misamis Oriental Governor Yevgeny Vincente Emano said over the weekend. Emano, who led a group of local officials in welcoming Marcos when she visited the Misamis Oriental town of Laguindingan on Friday evening, said it was the League of Provinces View from atop the limestone tower “guarding” the Blue Lagoon. Photo by Bruno Boquilon
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drug laboratories and factories,” Roque said. “To continue to do and thrive in the drug business, these drugs lords can easily use their drug to fund destabilization efforts against the government,” he added. Recently, Duterte decided to withdraw the Philippines’ ratification of the
Rome Statute which created the International Criminal Court (ICC). The move was fueled by ICC Special Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda’s attempt to put Duterte “within the jurisdiction of the ICC”. Duterte has described as “brazen ignorance of
Rights groups being used by drug lords in destab efforts: Palace statement. “We therefore do not discount the possibility that some human rights groups have become unwitting tools of drug lords to hinder the strikes made by the administration,” he added. Roque said drug lords will do their best to discredit the country’s war on drugs,
which Duterte started when he assumed office in 2016. “The illegal drug trade is a multibillion peso industry and billions have been lost with the voluntary surrender of more than a million drug users, arrest of tens of thousands of drug personalities, and seizure of billion-peso clandestine
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