TIMRA Reports

COTABATO CITY - Residents of three now markedly peaceful towns in Basilan turned in 22 more firearms to the military on Saturday in support of a domestic disarmament program of their provincial government.

The Small Arms and Light Weapons Management Program of the administration of Basilan Gov. Hadjiman Salliman is being implemented in the province with the help of the Army’s 101^st Infantry Brigade, the Basilan Provincial Police Office and the Office of the Presidential Adviser on Peace, Reconciliation and Unity.

COTABATO CITY --- Anti-narcotics agents seized P3.4 million worth of shabu from two peddlers entrapped on Sunday in the town proper of Maimbung in Sulu, one of them killed for resisting arrest.

Gil Cesario Castro, director of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region, told reporters on Monday that one of the two suspects, Alex Hussin, is now detained, to be prosecuted for violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.

COTABATO CITY - Barangay leaders in Isabela City, Basilan on Thursday surrendered to the military 19 combat rifles and a light machinegun in support of the government’s disarmament campaign complementing the Mindanao peace process.

Lt. Gen. Roy Galido, commander of the Philippine Army, and Bangsamoro regional police director Brig. Gen. Allan Nobleza separately announced on Friday the turnover of the firearms to the 101^st Infantry Brigade via the 19^th Special Forces Company during a symbolic rite in Barangay Tabuk in Isabela City.

COTABATO CITY - Plainclothes policemen seized P27.2 million worth of shabu from four alleged dealers entrapped on Wednesday afternoon in Zamboanga City.

Ben Kalbi Basaludin, 33, Nadmar Elyas, 38, Abdul, Wali Handrang Jala, 32, and a 30-year-old woman named Noralyn Tahil Abdul, are now detained, awaiting prosecution for violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.

COTABATO CITY - The police recovered seven persons together in a shallow grave in Barangay Karkum in Sapad, Lanao del Norte on Sunday.

Police Major Alibsar Daraba, Sapad police chief, identified the fatalities as Joselito Gaviola, 54; Joselito’s wife, Marly Gaviola, 50; his younger sister Elvie Gaviola Legara, 43; Elvie’s husband, Epifanio Legara; and their three children, Jopay Legara, Jomar Legara and Epifanio Legara Jr.

Kinilala ng Bansalan PNP ang nasawi na si Philip Sonny Dizon, 62 taong gulang at may-ari ng Davao Crocodile Park at Dizon Farms.

Sa imbestigasyon ng Bansalan PNP, minamaneho ni Dizon ang kanyang Can-Am ATV high-end motorbike patunong Barangay Banaga sa Bansalan mula Davao City nang mawalan ito ng kontrol sa dalang motorsiklo alas 11 ng umaga.

Napadako sa opposing lane ng kalsada si Dizon at nabigla sa kasalubong na cargo truck.  Bigla itong nagpreno at nawalan ng control at bumaligtad sa kalsada.

KORONADAL CITY - Laking gulat ng mga mamamayang nkatira sa baybayin ng barangay Tinoto, Maasim, Sarangani nang nagising sila kaninang uma na nagkalat ang isdang tamban sa tabing dagat.

Ang libo-libong mga isda ay nadiskubre alas 6 ng umaga kanina ayon sa mga nag-upload sa social media na si Cerilo Lagnason Jr.  

Kanya kanya namang hakot ang mga mamamayan sa mga isda na anilay maituturing na biyaya ng Diyos.

KORONADAL CITY - Laking gulat ng mga mamamayang nkatira sa baybayin ng barangay Tinoto, Maasim, Sarangani nang nagising sila kaninang uma na nagkalat ang isdang tamban sa tabing dagat.

Ang libo-libong mga isda ay nadiskubre alas 6 ng umaga kanina ayon sa mga nag-upload sa social media na si Cerilo Lagnason Jr.  

Kanya kanya namang hakot ang mga mamamayan sa mga isda na anilay maituturing na biyaya ng Diyos.

COTABATO CITY -Residents of Basilan are optimistic about peaceful days in 2024 with the renewed pledges of support from two former secessionist groups for the security efforts of the police and the military in the island province.

Local executives and members of the Basilan Provincial Peace and Order Council told reporters on Friday that they were elated with the peace dialogue last Thursday between officials of the Army’s 101^st Infantry Brigade and provincial leaders of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in Barangay Serongon in Hadji Muhammad Ajul town.

COTABATO CITY --- Two feuding Yakan clans reconciled on Tuesday in a symbolic rite in Ungkaya Pukan town in Basilan, ending a six-year “rido” that had exacted more than 10 fatalities on both sides.

Rido is a generic term for clan war in most Moro and other southern vernacular.