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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.

KIDAPAWAN CITY
– Five persons in separate motorbikes were hurt when a cargo truck loaded with
500 sacks of farm fertilizer lost its brake and plowed them Tuesday morning
along a highway in Makilala, North Cotabato.

Injured and now recuperating in a hospital were
Dante Tejada, 42, Alfredo Batac, 56, both workers of a banana plantation,
Anthony Tenorio, 23, Antonio Antipuesto, 28, all residents of Makilala and
truck helper Jovan Zamora, 38 of Barangay Binoligan, Kidapawan City.

COTABATO CITY --- Local executives in central Mindanao promised the new chief of the Western Mindanao Command support to all his programs complementing the southern peace process.North Cotabato Vice Gov. Shirlyn Macasarte-Villanueva said Wednesday the provincial board on Tuesday drafted a resolution thanking Gen.

COTABATO CITY --- A peace advocate will assume on Wednesday as commander of the Western Mindanao Command covering provinces beset with security issues Malacañang istrying to resolve peacefully. Gen.

Fast FactandIt was the third fire that hit the mega market since 1980s.Fire started at about 10:30 p.m. May 21, 2018 and firefighting lasted until dawnFiretrucks from Cotabato Chinese Fire Brigade and from neaby towns in North Cotabato and in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao helped put off the blaze.Some looters were seen hauling goods and valuables shortly after the fire broke out.Blaze originated at the meat section but what triggered the fire remained unknown as of posting.Few people suffered minor injuries while trying to salvage goods from the burning inferno.

Energy Conservation
Advisoryand Why Does Power Consumption Rise?

A residential customer who has not added a
new electric-powered appliance at home may be surprised if his or her power
consumption reads higher than before, especially this summer season. Usually,
higher energy consumption is traceable to other causes, which the customer is
not aware of or has overlooked.

Cotabato Light
andamp Power Company would
like to share with you other factors affecting energy consumptionand

KORONADAL CITY – Police anti-narcotics operatives killed a former police officer and
his companion for resisting arrest during anti-drug operation Friday dawn.

Supt. Aldrin
Gonzales, the spokesperson of Police Regional Office (PRO-12), said elements of
Regional Police Drug Enforcement Unit and Sto Nino town police office were to
serve search warrants against former Police Officer 2 Edgar Porras in Barangay Poblacion
when he and a companion opened fire on approaching lawmen.

KORONADAL CITY - A suspected drug peddler was killed when he resisted arrest during anti-drug operations at 3 a.m. today in Purok Lapu-Lapu, Poblacion Sto Nino, South Cotabato.Mayor Pablo Matinong of Sto Nino identified the suspect as Edgar Porras, 48, a cock farm owner.Porras allegedly resisted arrest by firing his cal. 38 revolver.The operating unit was Regional Police Drug Enforcement Unit and Sto Nino PNP.However, relatives claimed he was unarmed.Matinong Porras has voluntarily showed up at the police station in 2016 during the police Oplan TokHang.

MAITUM, Sarangani - The Local
Government Unit (LGU) of Maitum in Sarangani Province signed recently a
memorandum of agreement (MOA) with Save the Children, a child-oriented
non-government organization (NGO) to seal their partnership in
implementing programs in schools and in communities that aim to benefit the
children of Maitum.