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COTABATO CITY -- The Bureau of Fire Protection-Autonomous
Region in Muslim Mindanao (BFP-ARMM) will be accepting entries for its 2nd
Joint Cool Run until February 19.

This year’s edition of the Cool Run
with the theme Takbo Laban sa Sunog 2018 is set for March 10 as part of this
year’s observance of Fire Prevention Month.

According to BFP-ARMM, they set an
earlier registration period for the run to have adequate time to prepare the
items participants will receive.

COTABATO CITY -- The City Civil Registry
Office (CCRCO) here has called the attention of its clientele to the importance of
Civil Registration Month, celebrated yearly every February as mandated by
Proclamation 682 issued by former President Corazon Aquino on January 28, 1991.

The theme for this celebration this year
is #napapanahongCRVS .

COTABATO CITY -- The City Engineers’
Office (CEO) here has started implementing infrastructure projects scheduled
for this year with P8-million funding from the City Government.

According to Engr. Samuel Jorolan, city
engineer, the projects include the concreting key streets in the city among
which are San Antonio Street in Rosary Heights 11, Rufo Mañara Sreet going to L.R
Sebastian Elementary School, Yap-Sia Street and Delcano Street in Rosary
Heights 10 and Concha Drive in Rosary Heights 3.

COTABATO CITY --Seeking to further increase the level of employment in the city, the Cotabato City Public Employment Services Office
(PESO) and the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) conducted a one-day
jobs fair at the ground floor of the People’s Palace (City Hall) on Monday, the first in a series this year.

BANISILAN, North Cotabato – Eight persons
were injured in a grenade throwing incident at the town plaza here at the
height of the culminating program for the town’s 36th foundation
anniversary Wednesday night.

Most of the victims were followers and relatives of
Sanny Khadil, chairperson of Barangay Tinimbacan, Banisilan, according to Senior
Inspector Wilson Mangcay, town police chief.

COTABATO CITY –-
Police here neutralized Wednesday night the Top 3 most wanted person in the
city after he resisted arrest during the serving of search warrant in the outskirt
village of Kalanganan.

Senior Supt.
Rolly Octavio, Cotabato City police director, identified the wanted person as
Taingan Waris of Barangay Kalanganan 2, Cotabato City.Waris has been
facing multiple murder and frustrated multiple murder charges, according to
Octavio.

KORONADAL CITY – Pormal na nagsampa ng kasong Physical Injury, Grave Threat at Grave Oral Defemation ang guwardiya ng McGrille Resto Bar labansa isang miyembro ng Scene of the Crime Operative (SOCO) South Cotabato at kasama nito matapos siyang suntukin noong nakaraang huwebes ng gabi ngPebrero 1.Kinilala ang nasabing pulis na si PO3 Edmund O.Delos Reyes, miyembro ng SOCO South Cotabto (ang may bilog na guhit sa larawan) na makikitang sinugod at sinuntok ang nasabing gwardiya at dalawang miyembro ng Highway Patrol Group na sina Joven Sumugod at Reymart Lustro.Sa Press Conference,pormal na in

KIDAPAWAN CITY --- A provincial lawmaker is drafting a resolution urging inter-agency support in restoring order in a state college whose president the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency is now searching for.North Cotatabo provincial board member Socrates Piñol said Wednesday he was to sponsor a resolution during their session Tuesday urging Malacañang to intervene on the problem, but balked when President Rodrigo Duterte named a caretaker for the Cotabato Foundation College of Science and Technology the day before.

ALEOSAN, North
Cotabato -- Police here have launched a manhunt against two men
who tossed a hand grenade along the national highway here Sunday night that
injured a woman.

We are pursuing
a lead, hopefully it will result to the identification, arrest and prosecution
of the suspects, Senior Inspector Edwin Abantes, Aleosan town police chief,
said Monday.

He identified
the victim as Arlen Tamanal, resident of Barangay Pagangan, Aleosan.

PRES. QUIRINO,
Sultan Kudarat – An elected local official in Sultan Kudarat has been
supporting the communist New Peoples’ Army (NPA), an Army official said.

Lt. Colonel
Harold Cabunoc, the chief of 33rd Infantry Battalion based here,
said three of the eight NPAs who surrendered to his unit on Friday in
Bagumbayan, Sultan Kudarat had confessed about the local official’s role in the
movement.