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KORONADAL CITY -- Unidentified gunmen set on fire yet another bus plying South Cotabato and this city at 7:15 tonight, the fourth bus torched by unidentified suspects and the sixth attack against bus companiessince Nov. 13, police said.A tricycle driver rushed to DXOM-AM Radyo Bida Studio and asked the security guard to call the fire department because a bus was on fire along the highway, about a kilometer away from the radio station.Supt. Franklin Alvero, South Cotabato police provincial director, said the Husky Bus was heading for Gen.

MAGUINDANAO --- The new police director of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao on Wednesday promised to sustain the peace-building programs his predecessors started in support of Malacañang’s southern Mindanao peace process.Chief Superintendent Reuben Theodore Sindac took over on Monday the directorship of the ARMM police from Chief Superintendent Agripino Javier, now the new police director of Region 10.Javier and other ARMM regional police directors who served before him supported extensively the government’s effort of addressing the Moro issue peacefully. I will do the same.

CAMP PARANG, Maguindanao -- A former spokesperson of the Philippine National Police (PNP) now heads the police office in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) after he assumed office replacing Chief Supt. Agripino Javier in simple turn over rites this afternoon. Chief Inspector Ronald de Leon, regional police spokesperson, said Chief Supt. Reuben Theodore Sindac replaced Chief Supt. Javier who wasreassigned to PNP Regional Office No. 10 in Cagayan de Oro City.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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