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COTABATO CITY – The Bureau on Cultural Heritage of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BCH-ARMM) conducted a forum on Islamic heritage on Wednesday, May 30, as part of the National Heritage Month celebration.Engr. Marites K. Maguindra, BCH-ARMM executive director, said the forum highlighted the Islamic heritage of the Moro people and its influence in their culture. It is very timely that we have this activity because it is the Holy month of Ramadhan.

NORTH COTABATO --- Soldiers recovered Wednesday five mortar rounds militants were to convert into roadside bombs to be detonated in different spots in North Cotabato province.Captain Arvin Encinas, public affairs officer of the Army’s 6thInfantry Division said Thursday the five 81 millimeter projectiles were found by personnel of the 602ndBrigade in Barangay Kibayao in Carmen, North Cotabato.The explosives were to be brought to the town proper of Carmen by two suspected members of Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters on a motorcycle who turned around when they noticed a roadblock manned by s

CARMEN, North Cotabato - Police and military authorities foiled attempts by lawless elements to set off bombs in various areas in North Cotabato with the recovery of improvised bombs in a remote village here.Chief Inspector Julius Malcontento, Carmen town police chief, said the IEDs were found by joint Army and police personnel in Sitio Galay, Barangay Kibayao at past 12 noon.The deactivatedIEDs are now in Army custody for proper disposal.

KIDAPAWAN CITY – Cotabato 2nddistrict representative Nancy Catamco is set to face the charges filed against her at theSandiganbayanand in fact, she is already prepared for it, said his public affairs chief Jun Obello.Catamco faces one graft and two counts of malversation of funds in relation to a transaction she had with local officials of the municipality of Poro in Cebu, in 2004.Obello said that Catamco, then a private businesswoman, was selected by officials of Poro town to supply them of organic fertilizers, which, according to the Ombudsman, was overpriced.He also defended Catamco by

COTABATO CITY - The Cotabato Light and Power Company (CLPC) today announces two scheduled electric service interruption in selected areas in the city.Arlene Hepiga of Cotabato Light said the first scheduled power interruption will be on Wednesday, May 30 from 8 a.m. to 12 noon.This is to facilitatepole relocation, removal and installation of transformer, and the installation of lateral cut-out which we cannot work on live (energized) line and for the safety of our linemen.

NORTH COTABATO ---- A son of a barangay chairman was killed while three others were badly hurt in an ambush in Pikit town on Monday morning.Superintendent Aldrin Gonzalez, spokesman of the Police Regional Office-12, identified the fatality as Ranulfo Bautista, who succumbed to bullet wounds sustained in the attack.Bautista was driving a Kia Bonggo light truck carrying his father, Santos, who is chairman of Barangay Takepan in Pikit, North Cotabato, and two others, Roberto Midsapak and Robin Salvador, when they were attacked by gunmen on motorcycles.They were on their way home to Barangay Ta

MAGUINDANAO - The Moro Islamic Liberation Front joined the symbolic installation of the new commander of the Army’s 6thInfantry Division on Saturday, first ever in the unit’s 30-year history.Brig. Gen. Cirilito Sobejana, who graduated from the Philippine Military Academy in 1987, took over from Gen.

KIDAPAWAN CITY – Police killed nine persons and a woman during a bloody police
anti-drug operations Friday night in Barangay Kilada, Matalam, North Cotabato,
police said today.

Joint police
and anti-narcotics agents, backed by soldiers, were to serve at 11:30 p.m. the
search warrants against drug suspects Dadting Kasan and Intan Aban in their
homes in Sitio Biao, Barangay Kilada when the suspects opened fire, said Supt. Bernard Tayong, speaking for North Cotabato police office.

KORONADAL CITY -- The city schools division here launched today the Brigada Eskwela 2018 at Guadalupe Elementary School in Barangay Carpenter Hills Friday morning.Led by Koronadal City Schools Division Superintendent Kahar Macasayon, the launching started with a motorcade followed by a short program and a news conference.Macasayon said the Brigada Eskwela, more known asSchool Maintenance Week, aims to let education stakeholders to come together and help clean the school grounds in preparing for the class opening next month.Classes begin on June 4.Agney Taruc, Department of Education (DepE

GEN. SANTOS
CITY – Two suspects were arrested for transporting undocumented 3,000 board
feet of assorted sizes of lumbers in Calumpang here on Tuesday, police said
today.

Chief Supt.
Marcelo Morales, police regional director for the SOCCSKSARGEN, identified the
suspects as truck driver Dante Tacbas Labios, 39 and a resident of Purok
Tomasa, Barangay Calumpang, General Santos City and his helper Joverbon Jasson
Sone Roquero, 20 of Purok 11-A, Barangay Fatima, this city.