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Cotabato Light and Power Company (Cotabato Light) announces the notice of scheduled power interruption on June 20, 2022 (Monday) from 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM, affecting customers in San Isidro, ND Village, Rosary Heights 8, Cotabato City.

This is to facilitate restructuring of primary line maintenance works in the area which is necessary for a more stable, safe and reliable distribution system, ensuring continuous supply of electricity to all Cotabato Light customers.

To all our valued customers, please be informed of the scheduled power interruption affecting in front of Saint Benedict, Mercury St., Zenaida Subdivision, Cotabato City on Saturday, June 18, 2022, from 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM.

COTABATO CITY  – Alert police personnel in Aleosan, North Cotabato arrested three men and seized smuggled cigarettes during law enforcement operations.

Major Andres Sumugat Jr, Aleosan town police chief, said an informant shared to local police about a vehicle heading for Davao City was loaded with contraband.

“Immediately, police personnel, in coordination with Bureau of Customs in Gen. Santos City, conducted inspection,” Maj. Sumugat said.

DATI SILANG DRUG PEDDLER, boluntaryong sumuko sa PNP at nanganong magbagong buhay.

Pero, bumalik sila sedating bisyo at bago ikinasai ang entrapment operation isinailalim sila sa surveillance.

MATAPOS ANG higit isang buwang surveillance, naaresto ang dalawa sa buy-bust operation ng PDEA BARMM sa Barangay Poblacion, Pagalungan, Maguindanao.

Katuwang ng PDEA-BARMM ang PNP at 90th Infantry Battalion. Kinilala ang mga suspek na sina Dan Jickery Ayunan at Tapia Malingco lahat sila nasa hustong gulang.

KORONADAL CITY --- Gunmen killed a barangay official in an ambush in nearby Polomolok town in South Cotabato Sunday.

Roger Samling, an incumbent barangay councilor in Landan in Polomolok town, died on the spot from gunshot wounds sustained in the attack on Sunday morning.

He was on a motorcycle, en route to somewhere, when two men armed with pistols shot him repeatedly while motoring through a stretch of thoroughfare in Purok 1 in Barangay Polo in Polomolok town.

PIGCAWAYAN, North Cotabato - Isa ang patay at tatlo ang sugatan sa anti-drug operation na ikinasa ng Pigcawayan PNP sa Barangay Upper Baguer kahapon ng hapon.

Sinabi ni Pigcawayan police chief Maj Carl Jayson Baynosa sa DXMS Radyo Bida na nanlaban ang mga suspect na sakay ng kulay itim na Toyota Avanza.

Nang sitahin ay humarurot ito at nakipagbarilan sa mga police kayat nagkaroon ng shootout.

Sa pagiwas sa  mga police, nabangga ng Toyota Avanza ang isang pampasaherong jeep na ikinasugat ng mga sakay nito.

INATASAN NG Dept of Finance ang Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corp. o PSALM na putulan ng supply ng kuryente ang Lanao del Sur Electric Cooperative o Lasureco at bawasan ang supply ng kuryente sa Maguindanao Electric Cooperative o Magelco dahil sa pagkabigo na bayaran ang halos P16 billion combined na pagkakautang ng mga ito.

Mahigit P12 billion ang utang ng Lasureco habang P3.8 billion naman sa Magelco.

KORONADAL CITY - PATAY SA AMBUSH KAGABI sa Gen. Santos City ang isang bank manager na kinilala sa pangalang Peter Tiang Salvador.

Ang biktima, 39 na taong gulang, ay nagmamaneho ng kanyang kulay puting Ford Everest at binabaybay ang Leon Lido Street, Barnagay Lagao nang paputukan ng di pa nakilalang mga suspect sakay ng motorsiklo alas 6:40 kagabi.

Si Salvador ay manager ng Philippine Business Bank at nakatira sa Agad Grandville, City Heights Gen. Santos City.

COTABATO CITY - A farmer out to trap freshwater fishes Sunday with a contraption made of indigenous materials caught a six-foot crocodile that scared him to the core.

Epi Lamping said Monday he was stunned to see a crocodile inside the traditional “bubuh” that he left at one spot in the Pulangi River in Barangay Arakan in Carmen, North Cotabato several hours before.

He got nervous, retreated first and returned to check again the crocodile inside the bamboo cage rigged at a shallow part of the Pulangi River in Barangay Arakan.

PORMAL nang inanunsyo ng Civil Service Commision for BARMM, na sarado na ang online registration para sa mga aplikante sa August 7, 2022 Civil Service Exam pen and paper test (CSE-PPT.)

Sa mga nakakuha naman ng slots, hintayin na lamang ang confirmation email.

Many applicants who tried to submit the applications personally on June 2 by queueing on the night of June 1 were dismayed.

"We are caught unaware, there was no formal announcement, the CSC-BARMM did a disservice to applicants like me, this is cheating," one applicant who asked not to be named said.