PDEA takes custody of cocaine bricks recovered by Samar fishermen

The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency took custody of some 26 cocaine bricks that were recovered by fishermen off the coast of Eastern Samar on Tuesday, Director General Dionisio Santiago said on Wednesday.

Suspended officials still covered by three-term limit

Elected public officials who have been placed under preventive suspension cannot claim interrupted terms to be able to circumvent the three-term limit, according to a Supreme Court ruling.

Negros media demand quick justice of massacre victims

The Negros Occidental media on Wednesday called on President Macapagal-Arroyo to give swift justice to the victims of the Maguindanao massacre, 31 of whom were journalists and media workers, amid fears that the government was building a case on a stack of cards that could only lead to the acquittal of the suspects.

Gov’t eyes Army camps for detention of massacre suspects

The government is considering different detention facilities, including military camps, for the Ampatuan clan members and hundreds of other suspects in the Nov. 23 massacre of 57 persons in Maguindanao.

Don’t be unkind to Ampatuan\s lawyer, senator urges media

Sen. Aquilino 'Nene' Pimentel Jr. on Wednesday urged the media "not to be unkind" to lawyers of the powerful clan in Maguindanao implicated in the November 23 killing of more than 50 people in the province.