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COTABATO CITY -- Mayor Cynthia Guiani-Sayadi has provided detainees at the city jail with amenities she promised during a riot last month, the local government unit here said Monday.The 382 detainees staged a three-hour noise barrage on Christmas Eve over security policies depriving them of food brought in by visitors, the lack of drinking water and beds in their cells.Halima Satol-Ibrahim, city information officer, said Monday the mayor fulfilled more than a week ago her commitment to provide the city jail with water pump and a containment tank, wall fans and larger industrial-type fans fo

CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao – Maj. Gen. Carlito Galvez
Jr is barely to warm his seat as division commander of the Army’s 6th
Infantry Kampilan Division when he was designated by President Duterte to
head the Western Mindanao Command (Westmincom).

BANGA, South Cotabato - Despite repeated reminders from village officials for drug personalities to cease from engaging in illegal activities, drug personalities continue their illegal acts.One of them was Eugene Magbanua of Barangay Improgo (Poblacion), Banga, South Cotabato who was arrested during police anti-illegal drug operation at past midnight Saturday.Chief Inspector Jardi Mont Sibal, Banga town police chief, said four sachets of shabu, scissor and parahernalia, including the P500 marked money, were seized from Magbanua.Fermin Dorego, village chair of Barangay Improgo, told Radyo Bi

MANILA, Philippines — The son of a leader of the Moro National Liberation Front and a Mindanao lawmaker has been in Malaysian custody for almost two months now in connection with the September 2 Davao City bombing, multiple police, military and diplomatic sources said.Datu Mohammad Abduljabbar Sema, 26, was arrested on Nov. 24, 2016 at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport upon his arrival from Bangkok aboard AirAsia flight AK 891.

KORONADAL CITY - As if mainstream media and social media reports that drug personalities ending up dead or in jail are mere daily rhetorics, two men from this city keep on using prohibited drugs and ended up in jail, as well.Mark Vincent Valencia, 33, a janitor of Barangay Concepcion, Koronadal City and Rene Campomanes, 37 of Barangay Zone 1, this city are now languishing in jail after they were collared during anti-drug operation, according to Kath Abad.Abad, speaking for the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in Region 12, said an buy bust operation was conducted Wednesday night in

PIKIT, North Cotabato -- A gas station pump boy was slightly
injured when a grenade exploded in the vicinity of Shell Gas Station here
Thursday morning.

The blast occurred at 11 a.m. while the gas station was filled
with motorists, mostly motorcycles.

NORTH COTABATO — At least 94 of 158 inmates who escaped from the North Cotabato District jail in Kidapawan City last week face drug trafficking cases in local courts.Provincial officials also found out that warden Superintendent Peter Bongat was not at the jail when gunmen attacked on midnight of January 3 to rescue a moneyed drug lord, Melvin Casangyao, contrary to his assertion that he and his guards were outnumbered and overwhelmed, causing the escape of 158 detainees.Chief Inspector Jesus Singson assumed on Tuesday the post of warden of the controversial jail, replacing Bongat who w

KIDAPAWAN CITY (PNA) -- The city government is set to procure PHP5.1- million worth of equipment for its Call - 911 Response Unit to strengthen its response capability, timely coordination with other agencies, and anti-crime and terrorism monitoring.Mayor Joseph Evangelista said the equipment includes PHP1.3- million high-resolution close circuit television cameras that would be installed in strategic areas, particularly along the Davao - Cotabato highway and other public passages.The remaining PHP 3.8-million would be utilized to improve the current Intelligence Operation Center and to pur

STO NINO, South Cotabato - Cemeteries are for the dead but three tricycle drivers believed it was the best place to sniff prohibited substance Tuesday morning.Two other users, a vulcanizing shop workerand a pedicab driver,also believed a restroom in Sto Nino townwas safe place to sniff shabu.It appeared they were wrong as cops arrested them.The pedicab drivers took time out from hauling passengers and held pot session in the middle of tombs inside the Sto Nino public cemetery.Acting on a tip from a concerned citizen, Senior Inspector Ritchel Cabuslay, Sto Nino town police chief, quickly org

KORONADAL CITY - A magnitude 7.2 hit Sulu in Southern Philippine Tuesday afternoon, the state volcanology office reported today.In a bulletin, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) reported that the quake's epicenter, which came at 2:13 p.m., was traced aced 223 kilometers east of Tongkil, Sulu.An aftershock measured at Magnitude 4.9 was recorded by Phivolcs 12 minutes later and it was traced 236 kilometers east of Siasi, Sulu.