Inmate escapes while under hospital arrest
KIDAPAWAN CITY -- Authorities in North Cotabato launched a manhunt against an inmate who escaped while being treated at a government-owned hospital around 3 a.m. Sunday, a jail officer said.
Chief Inspector R Herna, warden of the North Cotabato Rehabilitation Center, identified the...
Rebels to face raps for burning heavy equipment
MILITARY in North Cotabato will file charges of human rights violation against the rebels behind Friday’s torching of heavy equipment used for doing road rehabilitation projects.
Lieutenant Manuel Gatus, chief of the civil military operations of the Army's 57th Infantry Battalion, said...
Town mayor dies of lingering illness
KIDAPAWAN CITY -- The municipal mayor of Arakan in North Cotabato died due to a lingering illness in a hospital in Davao City on Tuesday, reports said.
Mayor Gerardo Tuble of Arakan was survived by his wife, seven children, and 13 grandchildren.
Cop intern faces 4 counts of rape
KIDAPAWAN CITY -- Four counts of rape will be filed today, Monday, against a criminology student who is on an internship at the city police here.
Arrested last Friday in an entrapment operation inside a lodging house was Darryl dela Cuesta, 29, fourth year criminology student.
Gunmen torch school, outpost
MAKILALA, North Cotabato -- Unidentified armed men torched a school building in Barangay Gocotan, one of the remotest villages in Pikit town in North Cotabato, around 7:30 p.m. Friday, police said.
Senior Police Officer 3 Sandique Sulayman, chief investigator of the Pikit Police, said the...
Shelter program benefits war-torn villages
KIDAPAWAN CITY -- Two war-torn villages in Kabacan, North Cotabato are the newest addition to beneficiaries of the core shelter program of the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (Opapp), under its project Payapa at Masaganang Pamayanan (Pamana), a local official said.
...Landowners want end of contract with banana firm
KIDAPAWAN CITY -- At least 10 owners of vast lands leased to a banana firm in North Cotabato set up road blocks Friday, preventing plantation workers to harvest the company's produce.
The landowners, led by Fernando Brizuela, had sent Sumifru Philippines Corp. notice of termination of the...
Litigation of Cotabato official’s case outside Central Mindanao sought
KIDAPAWAN CITY -- The Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) urged Malacañang to entrust the litigation of a local leader’s ambush case to courts outside Central Mindanao due to security threats.
Cotabato City Vice Mayor Muslimin Sema was on his way home from a council session when two men...
Military denies heavy casualties in Bukidnon attacks
KIDAPAWAN CITY -- The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) dismissed communist rebels’ claim that government troops suffered at least 22 casualties in the recent attacks in Bukidnon.
5 drug violators freed from jail
KIDAPAWAN CITY -- Five inmates accused of drug trafficking were released from the North Cotabato Provincial Rehabilitation Center here after a court found technical glitches for their arrest years ago.
Based on the decision penned by Judge Laureano Alzate of the Regional Trial Court...
Ban on yearbooks proposed
KIDAPAWAN CITY – A top city official proposed the banning of yearbooks in all school levels in this city to lessen financial burden on the part of parents and guardians.
Vice Mayor Joseph Evangelista said payments for yearbooks are additional burden that give anxieties to parents when...
Gunmen strafe house of land program beneficiary
KIDAPAWAN CITY -- Unidentified gunmen strafed the house of an agrarian reform beneficiary in a village in Tacurong City, Sultan Kudarat, wounding a 38-year-old woman at around 1 a.m. Tuesday.
Wounded was Mary Jean Hiso, wife of Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (Carp) beneficiary...
Pa kills son in Tacurong
KIDAPAWAN CITY -- Police in Tacurong City are bent on filing charges against 85-year-old Isaac Acosta for killing his son after a heated argument inside the victim's residence around 3:30 p.m. Saturday.
Superintendent Gualberto Tuzon, Tacurong City police director, identified the victim...
Net café worker nabbed
KIDAPAWAN CITY -- Operatives of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Team (CIDT) in North Cotabato arrested in an entrapment operation a 22-year-old Internet cafe worker who was accused of blackmailing a 17-year-old college student using the cyber space.
Arrested was identified as...
Guv orders arrest of 11 transportation agents
KIDAPAWAN CITY -- Cotabato Governor Lala Talinio-Mendoza filed complaints of usurpation of authority and official functions against 11 deputized agents of the Land Transportation Office (LTO) assigned in Kabacan town, North Cotabato.
This came after Mendoza caught the LTO agents...
Guv orders arrest of illegal loggers, miners
KIDAPAWAN CITY -- Cotabato Governor Lala Taliño-Mendoza has given “marching orders” to the local police, Army, and concerned agencies to arrest all illegal loggers and individuals and groups doing illegal mining operations in the province.
Mendoza said logging, mining, and aerial spraying...
NBI returns warrant for Italian priest’s ‘killer’
KIDAPAWAN CITY -- Agents of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) from Northern Mindanao have returned the warrant of arrest to the Regional Trial Court (RTC) branch 13 in Cotabato City against the suspected killer of Italian missionary from North Cotabato originated, a top NBI official...
Suspect in Italian priest’s killing denies raps
KIDAPAWAN CITY -- Fearing for his life and family, the brother of the primary suspect in the killing of an Italian missionary in North Cotabato has sought help from a local official in the province.
Roberto Ato, a Teduray native from North Upi, Maguindanao, said he was surprised when he...
Witnesses in Italian priest’s slaying fear for life
ARAKAN, North Cotabato -- Witnesses to the killing of an Italian missionary in Arakan Valley are still afraid to come out in the open despite the arrest of one of primary suspects Thursday, a priest said.
“The witnesses have no assurance of protection. This is because the mastermind...
Gov’t scored for prioritizing program over flood victims
KIDAPAWAN CITY -- A civil society group has deplored what it calls “a show of injustice” of the National Government for prioritizing over disaster victims the conditional cash transfer (CCT) program in its 2012 budget.
Prof. Marivic Requiza, co-convener of Social Watch Philippines, said...
Bomb found inside governor office compound
KIDAPAWAN CITY -- An improvised explosive device (IED) was found inside the 32-hectare compound of the Office of the Armm Regional Governor in Cotabato City around 9 a.m. Tuesday.
Lieutenant Colonel Leopoldo Galon of the Eastern Mindanao Command said the IED, fashioned from an 81-mm...
Red Cross leads relief, recovery efforts
KIDAPAWAN CITY -- The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) is leading relief and recovery efforts to areas hit by Tropical Storm Sendong over the weekend.
Recent data from the PRC revealed the number of casualties reached more than 650 with at least 900 missing.
Armed men kill university prof
KIDAPAWAN CITY -- Militants in Davao del Sur province tagged the alleged "Digos Death Squad" as behind the killing of a professor in Digos City, Davao del Sur.
In a statement issued to media, the Citizens Alliance Unified for Sectoral Empowerment (Cause) in Davao del Sur said the killing...
Detection group arrests Ampatuan massacre suspect
KIDAPAWAN CITY -- A member of the Provincial Security Guard (PSG) in North Cotabato, who is among the 196 accused in the Maguindanao massacre, was arrested inside a government hospital where he worked as guard at around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, a police official said.
The suspect was...
Bomb blast kills 2, injures 2
KIDAPAWAN CITY -- Two still unidentified men were killed while two others were wounded when an improvised explosive device (IED) went off in Poblacion, Datu Odin Sinsuat in Maguindanao Thursday morning.
Maguindanao Provincial Police Office Director Marcelo Pintac said the IED was...
