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Escape plot causes cancellation of Koronadal detainees party, gift giving

KORONADAL CITY – Supt. Barney Condes, Koronadal City police director, has cancelled a scheduled Christmas party for detainees of PNP lock-up cell following an aborted escape try.Condes said he decided to cancel the party and planned gift giving tentatively scheduled on Dec. 18 was moved to uncertain date to ensure safety of all detainees.Four inmates, facing charges of illegal drug pushing, tried but foiled to flee the temporary detention facility after other inmates revealed the plot.He also temporarily shut down visiting hours as safety measures.

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Cotabato Light schedules power interruption on Dec. 18

Power Advisoryand There will be 1 hr NGCP interruption on the whole franchise area of Cotabato Light on Dec. 18 (Sunday) from 6-7am for the temporary transfer of load from Sultan Kudarat station to Tacurong sub stationdue to scheduled repair and maintenance and @5-6pm for the shifting of loads. Probability of 1 hour Sectional Feeder Interruption (SFI) during peak hours only.
SAL 2-10-11am
SIN 3-11-12nn
SIN 2-12-1pm
SIN 4-1-2pm
SAL 3-2-3pm
MAL 2-3-4pm

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NDU nursing grad top 8 in 2016 NLE

COTABATO CITY –
I will do my best to be a good nurse.

This was what
21-year-old Notre Dame University Patricia Tillo Mangat promised after learning
the results of the 2016 Nursing Licensure Examination (NLE) on Wednesday.

Mangat placed
third with an average of 85.00 percent in the exams sharing the spot with four
others.

The Philippine
Regulation Commission (PRC) reported that only 6,836 out of 14,322 examinees
have passed the NLE.

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What? Free condom for school children?

KORONADAL CITY -- The government's plan of providingsecondary students with free condoms in fight against sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)and HIV/AIDS doesn't make sense to South Cotabato Governor Daisy Avance Fuentes, thus her strong opposition.The lady governor obviously expressed her displeasure over the proposal.For Fuentes, the plan will not do good and it sends wrong message to the young minds of school children.Instead, Fuentes said, condoms may be provided for free to lodging houses and inns for lovers to use and prevent the spread of STDs.

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SaveMore is Cotabato Light's collecting partner

COTABATO CITY
-- The Aboitiz-owned Cotabato Light and Power Company (Cotabato Light) has
continued improving its services to clients, the latest of which is
decentralizing payment of power bills.

In line
with our thrust of providing customer convenience, Cotabato Light has partnered
with another third party for easy transactions for our clients, Anna Lea
Lee Nataño, Cotabato Light's Branding and Corporate Communications chief, said
in a statement.

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Army foils BIFF attempt to overrun detachment in Maguindanao

CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao -- For the second time in three days, outlawed Moro armed men tried, but failed, to over-run last night an Army base in Maguindanao, an Army official said.Lt. Colonel Robert Sarmiento, commander of the 19th Infantry Battalion, said about 50 heavily armed Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) harassed at 9 p.m.

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MILF infighting hurts 3 in Maguindanao

DATU ABDULLA SANGKI, Maguindanao -- Three persons were injured when rival groups belonging to Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) clashed Thursday afternoon over land dispute in Ampatuan, Maguindanao, the military said.Reports from the 57th Infantry Battalion sent to Colonel Cirilito Sobejana, 601st Infantry Brigade commander, said the fighting erupted between two field commanders of the MILF in Barangay Kakal, Ampatuan town at 4 p.m.The 57th IB identified the injured MILF fighters as Gringo Sangki, Dading Kadil and Jaime Pasayan, all residents of Barangay Kakal and under the group of MILF

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Trader shot dead in North Cotabato

MIDSAYAP,
North Cotabato – Two unidentified gunmen shot dead Thursday night an
agricultural trader here, police said.

Supt. Bernard
Tayong, Midsayap town police chief, said Ricky Ogates, 37, of Barangay Bual
Sur, was waiting for his wife to board his Toyota Hi-Lux pick-up vehicle in
front of his establishment in Barangay Poblacion when two men on motorbike arrived.

One of them
pulled a cal. 45 pistol and repeatedly shot him at about 6 p.m. After the shooting, the suspects fled toward
the borders of North Cotabato and Maguindanao.

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North Cotabato exec seek CHED action on school row

NORTH COTABATO ---The acting governor of North Cotabato reiterated Thursday her appeal for the Commission on Higher Education to act on the leadership crisis in a troubled state college in Arakan town.Dozens of teachers in the Cotabato Foundation College of Science and Technology (CFCST) on Tuesday joined students picketing in their campus in Arakan since early December to force their school president, Samsom Molao, to step down.North Cotabato’s acting governor, Shirlyn Macasarte, said on Thursday the CHED must act now on the continuing protest actions in the CFCST campus.Classes in the sta

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Another YBL bus torched in South Cotabato

KORONADAL CITY –
Armed men claiming to be New Peoples Army (NPA) guerillas torched Tuesday night
another unit of Yellow Bus Lines (YBL) in Sto. Nino, South Cotabato, police
said.

Senior Supt. Franklin Alvero, South
Cotabato police director, told DXOM-AM Radyo Bida Koronadal thatthe bus with body number 7225 was from Isulan,
Sultan Kudarat and bound for Gen. Santos City, was attacked at about 6:30 p.m.

Quoting a report from Sto
Nino PNP, Alvero said the fully air conditioned bus has 17 passengers, plus driver
and bus conductor.

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