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KIDAPAWAN CITY -- Police operatives here have arrested an 18-year-old boy for carrying an unlicensed firearm as police and the Commission on Elections (Comelec) commenced the implementation of election gun ban.DXND-AM Radyo Bida reported that police officers manning checkpoints along a highway in Kidapawan City and conducting Oplan Sleepless Nights flagged down Dan Monteverde Pounes of Barangay Bagumbayan, Tulunan, North Cotabato.Upon inspection, a cal. 45 pistol with four bullets was seized from him.

COTABATO CITY – The Regional Board of Investments in theAutonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (RBOI-ARMM) is expecting to draw more investments this year.Atty. Ishak Mastura, RBOI-ARMM chairperson, said the agency is targeting to generate at least P900 million worth of investments and 900 new jobs in 2016, conservative figures considering what the regional government has achieved last year.RBOI-ARMM posted P6.5 billion worth of new projects in 2015, way over its original investments target of only P700 million announced early last year.

COTABATO CITY -- The Cotabato Light and Power Company (Cotabato Light) today announced it has scheduled rotational power interruption due to limited supply from the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP). There's a probability of 1-2 hours of rotational interruption in all feeders during peak hours due to limited supply allocation today of21.6 megawatt only, Arlene Hepiga, Cotabato Light branding and corporate communication staff, said in a statement.Power demand for Cotabato Light franchise is 25 MW.

Reading 1 and//usccb.org/bible/readings/bible/1john/4:11 1 JN 4:11-18 Beloved, if God so loved us,we also must love one another.No one has ever seen God.Yet, if we love one another, God remains in us,and his love is brought to perfection in us.This is how we know that we remain in him and he in us,that he has given us of his Spirit.Moreover, we have seen and testifythat the Father sent his Son as savior of the world.Whoever acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God,God remains in him and he in God.We have come to know and to believe in the love God has for us.God is love, and whoeve

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COTABATO CITY - The Department
of Health (DOH) in Central Mindanao today reported 125 cases of firecracker
related injuries during Christmas and New Year’s revelry and is counting,
health officials said.

Jenny
Panizales-Centura, focal person of DOH-12 Iwas Paputok,” said the number may
increase as DOH monitoring of firecracker related injuries is until Jan. 5.

MARAWI CITY -- Suspected Middle Eastern-inspired extremists on Tuesday killed two non-Muslim soldiers in a daring attack at a busy spot here.The soldiers, who both belong to the Army’s 65thInfantry Battalion, were attacked near a radio station owned by the Ranao Broadcasting Corporation, which has security cameras focused on its surroundings.Local officials said the victims were buying something in a vegetable and fruit market just meters away from the radio station when motorcycle-riding gunmen came close and opened fire with handguns, killing them both on the spot.In a text message, the p

AMPATUAN, Maguindanao – Civilians in a
farming village here have vowed not to allow another atrocities by outlawed
Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF).

On Monday, civilian farmers, who call themselves
Christian settlers, opted to carry guns to defend ourselves and our
communities.”

At night, they remain awake. At day, they took turns in taking a nap several
days after about 300 heavily armed BIFF stormed the village of Kauran and
nearby villages on Christmas Day, killing eight hapless farmers.

Reading 1 and//www.usccb.org/bible/1john/2and3 1 JN 2and3-11 BelovedandThe way we may be sure that we know Jesusis to keep his commandments.Whoever says, I know him,” but does not keep his commandmentsis a liar, and the truth is not in him.But whoever keeps his word,the love of God is truly perfected in him.This is the way we may know that we are in union with himandwhoever claims to abide in him ought to walk just as he walked.Beloved, I am writing no new commandment to youbut an old commandment that you had from the beginning.T

COTABATO CITY - The Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) said it will cease harassing Army positions in Maguindanao because the military was on heightened alert. We will sleep soundly, we will not launch offensive kasi nakabantay ang Army sa amin (because the Army is watching us, Abu MisryMama said in a phone interview Monday.