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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Lorenzana falsely claims ‘all’ Metro Manila barangays have police precincts; UP campus ‘private army’ claim needs context

In justifying the unilateral abrogation of the 1989 UP-DND Accord and the re-entry of police patrol forces in the University of the Philippines (UP) campuses to quell the alleged recruitment by communist rebels, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana mistakenly claimed that every barangay in Metro Manila has a police precinct.

VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Lorenzana falsely claims ‘all’ Metro Manila barangays have police precincts; UP campus ‘private army’ claim needs context

From Ulysses’ debris, Marikina residents move on

Ulysses (international name: Vamco) did not pack enough wind power to be categorized by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration as a supertyphoon, but its arrival spelled disaster for Metro Manila all the same.

From Ulysses’ debris, Marikina residents move on