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KIDAPAWAN
CITY – Ensuring the safety of every resident of North Cotabato
is not the sole responsibility of police and military personnel as well as
local officials but everybody, North CotabatoGov. Emmylou Mendoza said today.Mendoza said attaining peace in the province needs the
full cooperation of the general public.
You
local officials down to the barangay have huge roles to play to maintain law
and order in your respective community, attaining peace is the business ofeverybody,” Mendoza said in a statement released

COTABATO CITY -- A soldier from Tacurong City is now in jail after a shootout between him and his superiorat Marine detachment in the village of Calang Canas,Maluso town inBasilan, police and the Western Mindanao Command said.Radio reports quotedLt. Gen. Rustico Guerrero, Wesmincom chief, as saying that the soldiers, both belonging to Marine Battalion Landing Team 11 (MBLT-11) had 'personal rift.'He identified the slain soldier asSergeant Errol Chaves, 31 of Bingawan, Iloilo while the suspect as Private First Class Dave Bryan Abang, 23 of Tacurong City.

COTABATO CITY – The Muslim Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Cotabato on Monday chided the management of the downtown branch of the Mercury Drug for ignoring the harassment last week by its guard of a 16-year-old student mistaken as a shoplifter.The chamber’s chairperson, Bai Sandra Siang, told Oblate Media the establishment ought to apologize to the child, Li Owen Chua, a first year student of the Notre Dame University here, who was so embarrassed with his having been wrongly accused of shoplifting.Sources from the Department of Social Welfare and Development said the affront and harassm

KORONADAL
CITY – The Department of Agriculture in Central Mindanao
announced today that South Cotabato farmers have been patronizing the Php32
million rice processing facility in Sto Nino, South Cotabato that helped
increased productivity and the country’s food sufficiency campaign, officials
said.
In a
statement, DA-12 said the Rice Processing Complex (RPC) III, put up by DA, is
now serving rice growers in South Cotabato and neighboring provinces of SOCCSKSRGEN
Region. SOCCSKSARGEN

KORONADAL CITY
– The attempt on the life of a Four Square Church pastor in Tantangan, South
Cotabato over the weekend was motivated by crime against property, police said.

Citing police
investigation report, Inspector John Eric Medel, Tantangan police chief, said
the gunman was after the motorbike of Pastor Carlito Abalos, 34, resident of
Barangay Carpenter Hill, Koronadal City.

COTABATO CITY-
Officials confirmed on Saturday the grenade attack that hurt seven people in
Parang town Friday night was triggered by a marital quarrel” and policemen are
now searching for the perpetrator.

Bombing suspect Sautoh
Gitih, an ethnic Maguindanaon, fled from Parang, a seaside town in northwest of
Maguindanao, after setting off a fragmentation grenade at a group
whiling away time at one spot of the town market near the municipal hall.

COTABATO CITY -One of the several wooden-hulled motorboats laced with colorful buntings and flags commemorated the arrival of Shariff Kabunsuan to spread Islam in Mindanao more than 600 years ago.(See photo gallery for more photos in this section)

KIDAPAWAN CITY - All firearms of members of the Kidapawan City PNP, both long and short, had been sealed with tape to prevent police officers from firing them to welcome Christmas Day and New Year.Supt. Franklin Anito, Kidapawan City police chief, said the taping of guns' nozzle was performed in compliance with the directive from PNP national headquarters.

COTABATO CITY - A security guard from Cotabato City who works in Davao City was killed in an alleged shootout with police authorities during drug buy bust operations Monday evening.SunstarDavao reported the shootout occurred in Purok 1, Barangay 19-B, Bajada, Davao City.San Pedro Police Station commander Ronald Lao saidas Jake Richard Artieda Ronimo, 27, who hails from Cotabato City, resisted arrest.Ronimo, a transient resident of Davao, in fact tried to set off a fragmentation grenade during the buy bust at 11 p.m.

KORONADAL CITY -South CotabatoGovernor Daisy Avance Fuentes announced that employees of the provincial government will receive performance enchancement incentive (PEI) on Thursday or more known as Christmas bonus. Fuentes said regular employees will be receiving P30,000. Job order employees who has rendered one year service in the provincial government will be receiving a maximum P7,500 PEI intended for them,” Fuentes said.