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MAGUINDANAO - The 2018 Eid’l Fitr was the fourth where Muslims in central Mindanao prayed in the Army’s Camp Siongco and were served with food prepared by Christian soldiers who celebrated the event with them.The celebration of the Eid’l Fitr on Friday marked the culmination of the Islamic Ramadhan fasting season, which lasts for one lunar cycle, or about 28 to 29 days, where Muslims fast from dawn to dusk as a religious obligation and reparation for wrongdoings.The Camp Siongco, located in Datu Odin Sinsuat town in Maguindanao, is the command center of the Army’s 6thInfantry Division, acti

KORONADAL CITY - A couple and two students of a public school here were separately arrested by the City Andit-Drug Abuse Council (CADAC) operatives following drug buy bust operation.Dr. Glorio Sandig, CADAC action officer, said Carl Renza Dumalog and his live-in partner, Ariana Pagod were arrested during the 2 p.m. operation in Agan Est, Barangay Sta Cruz, Koronadal City.The suspects, both boarders, were nabbed after they handed over a sachet of suspected shabu from a poseur buyer.

Cotabato Light and Power Company is open on Feb. 15, a holiday

KIDAPAWAN CITY – A55-year old husband shot dead his own wife after a heated argument while inside the family’s compound at Purok Rosal in Poblacion, Matalam, around 6 a.m., Tuesday, police reports said.Senior Inspector Sunny Leoncito, chief of Matalam Police, identified the slain wife as Evelyn dela Torre-Belgira, 54, employee at the Matalam municipal government.Also dead was a certain Miraluna Brigole, 27, who worked as laborer in the Belgira’s family.Brigole, according to Leoncito, was a member of the Lesbian-Gay-Bi-Transgender (LGBT) family.Wounded were Evelyn’s father, Eduard dela Torr

Today marks the 120th anniversary of the Proclamation of the Philippine Independence. It commemorates the day in 1898 when Philippine Independence was formally declared on June 12, 1898, with the reading of the Proclamation of Independence in Kawit, Cavite.The proclamation, signed by 98 delegates, including General Emilio Aguinaldo, was read at the balcony of the Aguinaldo Mansion facing Calle Real (today’s Tirona Highway) by Ambrosio Rianzares Bautista.

Whatand NOTICE OF SCHEDULED ELECTRIC SERVICE INTERRUPTION Whenand June 13, 2018 (Wednesday) 8and00 AM – 12:00 NN Durationand 4 hours Details and To facilitate the pole relocation and replacement of transformer which we cannot work on live (energized) line for the safety of our linemen. Areas Affectedand Near Pole Number 0070312 near Chapel at Pinhoy Street and some portions of Rosary Heights 5, Cotabato City.

PIKIT, North
Cotabato – More than 10,000 civilians fled the on-going military offensives
against lawless elements in Liguasan marshland Sunday in the borders of
Maguindanao and North Cotabato.

The military said
the air and ground assaults was meant against Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom
Fighters (BIFF), a Maguindanao-based armed group that pledged allegiance to
ISIS.

KIDAPAWAN CITY – At least 70 elements of the Special Action Forces (SAF) deployed in different areas in North Cotabato are bent on filing charges against a certain police officer and two others in the hope of getting back their money they invested in what they called was fake rice investment.

KORONADAL CITY - A town councilor and a village councilman in Sarangani province were killed early today for resisting police anti-drug operation in the coastal town of Kiamba.Supt. Aldrin Gonzales, speaking for police in the SOCCSKSARGEN region which covers Kiamba, identified the slain local officials as Ronilo Ronnie Mamaclay, incumbent town councilor of Kiamba and Frederick Jojo Orobia, village councilman of Barangay Poblacion, also in Kiamba.

COTABATO CITY -- The Cotabato Light and Power Company (Cotabato Light) has announced a scheduled electric service interruption in some areas in the city on Saturday.Arlene Hepiga of Cotabato Light public affairs office said the power interruption will start at 8 a.m until 11 a.m. on June 9.The three-hour service interruption is necessary to facilitate the replace of transformer. It cannot be done if the power lines are live (energized), thus the scheduled service interruption for the safety of our linemen. Affected are some portions of Barangay RH 7 and RH 10, Cotabato City.