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COTABATO CITY -- The Office on Social Welfare and Development
Services (OSWDS) here commemorates Women’s Day tomorrow, March 8, with an early
morning Lakad Alay Sa Kababaihan.

The activity, with tickets pegged at P20.00, aims to raise funds
for women inmates of the Cotabato City Jail, a fitting start for the day’s
events which include a garage sale and and Ear Detox activity.

The Lakad Alay sa Kababaihan will begin at 6and00 a.m. the
Cotabato City State Polytechnic College and will end at the old Cotabato City
Hall downtown.

KIDAPAWAN CITY – The Kidapawan City Schools Division of the Department of Education (DepEd) has released on Monday the performance-based bonus (PBB) of their 1,500 teachers and non-teaching personnel, an education official said.Superintendent Romelito Flores of the Kidapawan City Schools Division said the PBB is equivalent to 57.5 percent of the monthly salary of the teachers and non-teaching workers.Flores admitted delays in the release of the PBB, which is for school year 2015 to 2016.

POLOMOLOK, South Cotabato –- Police
operatives conducting highway mobile patrol were fired upon Tuesday night by
members of private armed group (PAG), triggering a brief fire fight that left
the gang leader dead.

The 8:40 p.m. clash along the highway in Barangay
Pagalungan here left Benzaid Nilong, 40, leader of a Nilong private armed group
operating here and in nearby towns, dead.

COTABATO CITY -- Security forces in Cotabato City have assured that
all is well with the city’s peace and order and that they are doing their best
in ensuring the people’s safety.

The Cotabato City Police Office (CCPO), 5th Special Forces
Battalion of the Philippine Army, and Task Force Kutawato all gave updates on
the city’s security situation during the Cotabato City Peace and Order Council
Meeting last week presided over by City Peace and Order Council chairperson Mayor
Frances Cynthia Guiani-Sayadi.

COTABATO CITY -- One hundred seventeen new police
officers are now in Cotabato City to augment the city’s current police force.

The new police officers were formally
presented to City Mayor Frances Cynthia Guiani-Sayadi and other city officials
by Police Regional Office 12 director S/Supt. Marcelo Morales during the
Cotabato City Peace and Order Council Meeting held at SouthSeas Complex
function hall.

COTABATO CITY -- Vehicular accident transpired along Sinsuat Avenue, this city, particularlyfronting ND Hospital.Vehicles involved a prime mover cargo truck with temporary license plate, white Toyota Innova (ZIP 275) and Mazda drop side cargo truck with temporary plate number 1201-150474.

NORTH COTABATO --- Investigators are certain a long-time vendetta feud led to the fatal ambush on Monday of two Moro villagers in a remote barangay in Midsayap, North Cotabato.Chief Inspector Aldrin Gonzales, information officer of the Police Regional Office-12, said Tuesday the Midsayap municipal police enlisted the help of local officials in identifying the killers of Maguindanaon farmers Tungas Lawan and Mhid Panegas.Personnel of the municipal police are apprehensive that relatives of the duo could resort to retaliations if the culprits remain scot-free.Lawan and Panegas, both residents

CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao – The military’s disarmament program in Maguindanao has been gaining
headway as more and more local officials and civilians turned in their rifles.

Ten assorted
high powered guns were formally turned over Monday (Mar 5) to the Army’s 601st
Infantry Brigade from residents of Datu Salibo town in Maguindanao. These guns
were earlier turned over by its owners to the 2nd Mechanized
Infantry Battalion and Mayor Norodin Salasal of Datu Salibo.

SULTAN KUDARAT -- Barangay officials in a politically-hostile town in Sultan Kudarat province surrendered 28 military-type firearms to the police on Sunday.Senior Superintendent Raul Supiter of the Sultan Kudarat provincial police said Monday the firearms that leaders in eight barangays in Palimbang turned in were comprised of one M203 rifle fitted with a grenade launcher, M16 rifles, .30 caliber M1 Garand rifles and gauge 12 shotguns.Supiter said the eight barangays --- Namat, Kisek, Kidayan, Maganao, Malatunol, Akol, Lebua and Butril --- accounts for most number of vendetta clan feuds in

KIDAPAWAN CITY – The Board of Trustees (BoT) of the state-run Cotabato Foundation College for Science and Technology (CFCST) has approved the sabbatical leave filed earlier by Dr.