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KORONADAL CITY – A P100,000 reward money is being offered to anyone who gives
police authorities a tip that could lead to the identification and possible
arrest of those responsible in Sunday afternoon bombing here.

City Mayor
Peter Miguel, speaking over Church-run Radio DXOM-AM, said the reward money
will help the police fast track the identification and prosecution of those who
set off a homemade beside the Christ the King Cathedral that hurt two persons.

COTABATO CITY --- Nineteen of the 37 barangays here have unopposed candidates for barangay captains, something first in the contemporary history of this now five-decade city.Most of Cotabato City’s 37 barangays were once locked in intense rivalry among big families squabbling for leadership in their barangays, whose registered voters then were as fragmented, divided by alliances premised on kinship, or for fear of protagonist clans.Chief Inspector Aldrin Gonzalez, information officer of the Police Regional Office-12, said Sunday their director, Chief Superintendent Marcelo Morales, was elat

KIDAPAWAN CITY – Complying the directive from Police Regional Office (PRO-12),
police authorities in (North) Cotabato conducted from April 23 to 29 the Oplan
Huli Week 2018, a weekly police law enforcement operations and anti-crime
activities in the province that led to the arrest of 139 persons.

COTABATO CITY --- Gunmen killed a member of the 5thSpecial Forces Battalion and wounded another in an ambush here Monday morning.The fatality, Cpl.

KORONADAL CITY – Police authorities blamed the Islamic State of Iraq and
Syria-allied Moro armed group in the bombing near a Catholic Church here Sunday
that left two persons injured.

Chief Supt.
Marcelo Morales, police director for the SOCCSKSARGEN region, told a news
conference that the suspects also used a woman to plant another improvised bomb
in front of a convenience store, about three blocks away from the St. Anthony
Parish Cathedral where the first IED went off.

Cotabato Light and Power Companywill be available to serve its customers on May 1, 2018, Tuesday, declared asregular non-working holiday,in celebration of the Labor day. Cotabato Light service centers at Sinsuat Avenue, Cotabato City will be open from 8and00 AM to 4and00 PM with no noon break. Meanwhile, forpayment options, customer can proceed to Cotabato Light's different TPA agents - ECPAY, Cebuana, CIS Bayad Center, Mlhuillier and SAVEMORE (CityMall). For light troubles and immediate assistance, please call our CLPC Customer Service Hotline @ 520-2572.

KORONADAL CITY - Three elected officials in South Cotabato are in President Duterte's narco-list and may be named publicly on Monday, an official of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA-Soccsksargen) said.In a news conference, Christina Cabatingan, PDEA-12 operations officer, refused to name the officials.She said validation is still on going on the list now in the custody of PDEA nationalThese officials, she said, were either directly or indirectly involved in illegal drug trade in their respective localities.

COTABATO CITY – This city has become the second local government unit in Region
12 that positively responded to President Duterte’s calls for surrender of
loose firearms.

First LGU to turn
in collected unlicensed guns was Carmen town in North Cotabato with 102
firearms.

On Wednesday
morning, a total of 42 assorted high powered guns were turned over by local
officials, led by lady Mayor Cynthia Guiani Sayadi, to the Army’s 6th
Infantry Division.

MANAR KIDAPAWAN CITY – The City Veterinarian Office here has registered a zero dog bite case since January this year, a veterinarian said.This, according to City Veterinarian Eugene Gornez, can be attributed to their intense campaign against rabies that they started in 2017.

A Catholic priest has warned of confusion as the country reverts to manual elections for the May 14 barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections.Msgr. Hernando Coronel, priest coordinator of the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting in the Manila archdiocese, said if not addressed early, such problems could affect the conduct of the actual polls. My fear here is that this might confuse voters who have been used to the automated elections of just shading, Coronel said.In the manual process, voters need to write down the names of their chosen candidates.