MORE than a year after President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs, only 34 of the hundreds of barangays in Metro Manila have been cleared of illegal drugs. National Capital Region Police Office chief Director Oscar Albayalde told radio dzBB in an interview that only 34 of the 1,706 barangays in the capital region have been cleared from drugs. HB 6058 is the counterpart bill to Senate Bill 1123 filed by Senator Grace Poe for the same purpose. Under the bill, the PNP Educational Benefits Trust Fund shall be administered by the Napolcom. “Additionally, it recognizes education’s incomparable rate of return to the individual and the nation as a whole.”

Source: The Standard August 19, 2017 15:56 UTC