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SENATE PROBE. Senate President Vicente Sotto III asks questions during the Senate Committee of the Whole hearing on the smuggled agricultural products on Monday (March 28, 2022). Bureau of Customs Assistant Commissioner Vincent Maronilla and Agriculture Assistant Secretary Federico Laciste Jr. attended the second hearing. (Screengrab from Senate hearing) MANILA - The Bureau of Customs (BOC) and the Department of Agriculture (DA) agreed that digitalization of their system would boost the government's fight against the smuggling of agricultural products in the country. This, after Senate President Vicente Sotto III during the Senate Committee of the Whole public hearing on Monday noticed inconsistencies in the government's records of imported agricultural products. "To make things worse, efforts made on contacting some of the operations against smugglers were put to naught as cases have not yet been filed. What are the BOC and DA doing about these inconsistencies?," Sot ....
DILG Secretary Eduardo M. Ano (File photo) MANILA - Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo M. Ano on Thursday commended all 17 National Capital Region (NCR) local government units (LGUs) for passing ordinances restricting unvaccinated individuals within their jurisdictions as he joined the call of the League of Provinces of the Philippines (LPP) and the Regional Interagency Task Forces (RIATFs) in encouraging LGUs in the provinces to follow suit. "Maraming salamat sa Metro Manila Mayors and City Councils sa agaran ninyong aksyon at pagtugon sa panawagan ni Pangulong (Rodrigo) Duterte at sa tawag ng pagkakataon ngayong panahon ng pandemya. Ito naman ay para na rin sa kapakanan ng lahat, bakunado man o hindi, at para hindi na lumubo ang mga Covid-19 cases sa ating bansa (To all Metro Manila Mayors and city councils, thank you for your swift action and response to the call of President Rodrigo Duterte and the call of the times amid this pandemic. Thi ....
Buried cash, extravagant watches are the latest seizures in an investigation that already revealed a massive cache of millions of dollars, drugs and ammo ....
One year ago, the suspected leader of a Sinaloa cartel cell was arrested at a private airport outside Boston, and a month later a massive cache of drugs, cash and ammunition was seized from an Otay Mesa trucking yard. ....