DAVAO CITY — Eastern Visayas lost one of its treasured frontliners in the fight against Coronavirus pandemic in a road accident on Saturday, December 12. A report from Kananga Municipal Police Station showed that the accident happened at around 3 o’clock in the afternoon, along the national highway of Montebello village in Kananga town. Police […]
BARMM condemns BIFF attack vs. AFP, PNP posts in Datu Piang town
COTABATO CITY— The Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) has condemned the attack by members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) against military outposts in the municipal center of Datu Piang town, Maguindanao province on Thursday night. Lawyer Naguib Sinarimbo, BARMM spokesperson, said the attack has “caused damage to properties and generated fears […]
Relatives of missing teacher in South Cotabato cry for help
DAVAO CITY —The relatives of the school teacher in South Cotabato who has been missing since Dec. 2 are calling upon the officials of South Cotabato, particularly of Polomolok town, and the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) to help locate the said teacher, dead or alive. Mohatir Malo Adam, a teacher at the […]
Maguindanao Massacre: PTFOMS says it is resolved but NUJP says otherwise
COTABATO CITY – The brutal killing of 32 journalists in the bloody Maguindanao Massacre is considered closed before the eyes o the Presidential Task Forces on Media Security (PTFoMS) but not before the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP). Undersecretary Joel Egco, executive secretary of PTFoMS said the case was considered closed last […]
GPH, MILF panel name German national to Third Party Monitoring Team
COTABATO CITY – The Peace Implementing Panels of the Government of the Philippines (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) have designated Heino Marius, a German national, as the Chair of the Third Party Monitoring Team (TPMT), a group that is tasked to oversee the implementation of the GPH-MILF peace agreement. Marius took the […]
Van driver killed in NoCot
PIKIT, NORTH COTABATO — A still unidentified gunman shot dead a driver of a passenger van in a public terminal in Poblacion, Pikit, Cotabato on Monday, August 10, at 10:45 in the morning. Captain Mautin Pangandigan, Pikit chief of police, said the victim was Magdaleno Gayola Dante Jr., 43 years old, married and a resident […]
Three persons killed in eight hours in NoCot town
PIKIT, NORTH COTABATO-— Three persons were killed in this town in a span of eight hours, in two separate incidents in Pikit, North Cotabato on Thursday, July 23. The series of incidents started at 2:20 in the morning when two suspected drug couriers were killed when they engaged in a firefight with the joint elements […]
University professor shot dead in GenSan
GENERAL SANTOS CITY — A professor of the Mindanao State University here was shot by motorcycle-riding gunmen in front of the KCC Warehouse in Apopong, General Santos City at past 4 pm yesterday afternoon, May 26. Professor Mohammad Taha Abdulgapor was with his unnamed wife inside their car when the still unidentified gunmen shot them. […]
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DPWH turns over Philippines’ largest mosque to BARMM The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) turned over documents transferring the management of the Sultan Hajji Hassanal Bolkiah Masjid (mosque) to the leadership of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) in a ceremony held in Cotabato City on Wednesday, January 8. The DPWH […]
Kamatayon sa estudyante gi-imbistigahan
PIKIT, NORTH COTABATO– Padayon ang imbistigasyon sa kapulisan dinhi aron mailhan ang mipusil patay sa usa ka estudyante niadtong Huebes, Oktubre 10, alas 8:20 sa buntag. Sumala ni Police Captain Mautin Pangandigan, ang hepe sa kapulisan, ila pang gituki ang posibleng motibo sa kamatayon ni Rasul Sabaan, 19 anyos, nagpuyo sa Barangay Talitay sa Pikit […]
Barangay Kagawad ug 2 ka kauban patay sa NoCot
CARMEN, North Cotabato — Tulo ka tawo ang patay niadtong Sabado sa Gabii, Septiembre 28 , didto sa national highway sa Sitio Vilo, Barangay Takepan, Pikit, North Cotabato. Sumala ni Police Captain Mautin Pangandigan, hepe, sa Pikit municipal police, mga alas 6:45 sa gabii, nag-inom atbang sa tindahan nga daplin sa highway sila si Adrew […]
Army-BIFF fight displace 1,700 families in Maguindanao
KABACAN, NORTH COTABATO (August 5)–– About 955 families are now displaced in the ongoing fight between the government forces and members of the Islamic State-inspired Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) in the villages of Pikit, North Cotabato which started on July 25. Residents were forced to leave their villages on July 25 when the military […]
900 MILF combatants up for decommissioning
CARMEN, NORTH COTABATO (August 2) — Nine hundred twenty combatants of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and 210 of their weapons will be decommissioned on September 7, 2019 in a ceremony that will be attended by President Rodrigo Duterte in the Old Maguindanao Provincial Capitol in Simuay, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao. This was announced by […]