Wife tells me dangerous time for foreigners in Philippines due to New president

Is this so?

Spate of attacks ?

Never had one problem in reality in over 100 days there previously.

wots new????

Does she have any reason to say that or is it just general hearsay?

I'm due to go To Mindanao in 7 weeks, my fiancee says we have to be a little more vigilant than my previous trips there because of the ongoing situation on the island, she has never said it to be more dangerous, just tells me I have to be more aware of the surroundings and vigilant where we are because we will be going to the mountains to visit her family again, and to be ready for the added security in the airports and malls and on the roadside with extra security checkpoints.

Fair enough

She just listed about 8 foreigner deaths of late .

I think she is over reacting personally.

Anywhere is dangerous if you don't carry yourself right.

Show respect and you get it back bar a fluke.

Methinks she's pushing for those residency uk papers bless her! Ha

Duterte declared war on the groups in Mindanao. I think it is very dangerous there now.

He has said to eveyone that they should kill them all.

He sent troops in and about 20 were killed.

There was also a bomb in a market in Davao recently with about 14 killed.

Yeah I read that

But Luzon ??

Can't quite see it

Maybe in the Southernmost part of the Ph. And you might be surprised at the tighter security measures in the Airport. Just don't look like a drug dealer and you will be fine.

Exactly

My thoughts to a tee

Cheers

And if you do look like a drug dealer expect a bullet in the head even if you aren't one.

Sooner you than me going to mindanao. @BlueberryCheeseCake point blank refused to let me anywhere near the place. Just remember that once someone has hacked your head off its kind of permanent. I also don't think that carrying yourself right or good karma will made a blind bit of difference. Given that people have been kidnapped and murdered in that area I would pay attention to any warnings I got!

The UK government Web page is upto date on travel advice to the RP.
best heeded I think!
Luzon perceived as safe fly into clark airport avoid Manila that's what I intend to do with my wife.

Take a look at the FCO travel advise in the page below, if you're going to any of the places highlighted in red or yellow on the map then your travel insurance will be void;

https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/philippines

I travel from south to center of Metro Manila 5 days a week. I ride the bus & train. The last time I checked, I am still alive. Metro Manila is safe.

You're a card young lady, you will fit in nicely in our pleasant land

Last night I told Matt that I like it when Manila is rainy and cold. He said England is the place for me.

Ohh I didn't realise it voided my travel insurance, we better think again, I'm not too worried on going there as been several times and alwAys feel safe there. But guess it's not worth the risk now, still several weeks so will watch the situation closely.

I heard a few foreigners have been arrested.. For some strange reason they all had 3 letter names..
I wonder why?...
No foreigners murdered extrajudicialy in relation to drugs ect that I have heard of anyway.
Mindanao has always been a place I have avoided,which is a great shame.. Love to be able to go there one day.

If this Yank is guilty he may wish that they just shot him nalang..
Every chance that he is innocent as it was his female "companion" that was hiding it on her person..
Knowing the Filipino justice system,he will be held on remand for at least 5 years in a hell hole before we find out.




American, 10 others caught for drug possession in Subic



SUBIC, Zambales —

An American national and 10 other drug suspects were arrested in separate police operations here on Tuesday (Sept.6).

Patrick Jerome, 52, and his female companion were caught with a plastic sachet allegedly containing shabu (methamphetamine hydrochloride).

The suspected contraband was concealed in the wallet of Jerome’s companion when their motorcycle was flagged down by policemen at a check point at 2 a.m., said Chief Insp. Leonardo Madrid, commander of Subic police station.

In three separate buy-bust operations in the villages of Calapacuan and Sto. Tomas, police arrested nine more drug suspects and seized 13 plastic sachets allegedly containing shabu. SFM



http://globalnation.inquirer.net/144267/american-10-others-caught-for-drug-possession-in-subic

Err. You're a Filipino and the rules are different. Whilst I would agree that some parts of metro manila are relatively safe, as a westerner I certainly wouldn't be wandering around many many places in manila alone such as to tondo, parts of quiapo, pasig, taguig, Santa mesa to Western mandaluyong, parts of ermita & fairview.. It is a misleading oversimplificafion to say that metro manila is "safe".

That's a bit tough on Fairview; K lived there for a couple of years, in a quiet, leafy, suburb, and I used to wander around it and as far as Fairview Central Mall without a second thought!

She's visiting her parents in the officially unsafe Zamboanga del Sur at the moment - as is my English brother in law who has taken his elderly mother along to meet her Filipina opposite number.

She says:

1. The danger in the Zamboanga Peninsula and the ARMM and the islands is specifically the danger of being kidnapped by a bunch of local teenagers who will sell you on to the Abu Sayyaf. It isn't the danger of being kidnapped directly by the the AS. This danger hasn't really changed.

I'm allowed to go there like my brother in law provided we don't do anything silly and provided we travel mob handed if going to a higher risk area. She has been by herself to Zamboanga City because she wanted to see what it was like, but she says it wouldn't be safe for me (and in any case it's a dump!)

2. The President has been stepping up his anti- foreigner rhetoric and if his popularity starts to flag due to the killings, he may start an anti-foreigner campaign to regain some. The obvious target is sex tourism and he has already started talking about "people trafficking".