The police regional office here has denied law enforcers were responsible for the spate of extrajudicial killings in Northern Mindanao following the discovery Tuesday afternoon of three bodies that were dumped in a village in Bukidnon.
About a hundred bus drivers employed by a bus firm operating all over Mindanao who underwent mandatory drug testing have been tested negative for traces of illegal substance, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-10 (PDEA-10) said.
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency’s Internal Affairs Service (PDEA-IAS) is set to conduct an investigation on four persons, three of them anti-narcotics agents, involved in an altercation last week, PDEA-10 regional director Wilkins Villanueva said Monday, Oct. 29.
Despite the claim that rice production in the municipality of Baungon, Bukidnon has decreased due to the siphoning of water of the town’s irrigation canal by a bulk water supplier, there was actually an increase in land converted to rice farm, a National Irrigation Administration-10 (NIA-10) official said.
Hundreds of public utility jeepneys (PUJs) operators have yet to receive their fuel subsidy from the government due to the problem of transfer of franchise documents, the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board-10 (LTFRB-10) said.