Exactly a day before Election Day, May 9, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Sunday, May 8, held the final testing and sealing (FTS) of vote-counting machines (VCMs) at around 170 polling precincts in Cotabato City. Teachers acting as members of the electoral board conduct the final testing...
DAVAO CITY -- Lay leaders of the Diocese of Kidapawan have endorsed vice governor Emmylou ‘Lala’ Taliño-Mendoza as their candidate for governor in the Province of Cotabato. Photo courtesy of Vice Governor Mendoza Facebook Page / MANILA BULLETIN Composed of at least 108 lay leaders representing...
ILIGAN CITY – A high-ranking member of the New People’s Army who was facing multiple cases was killed along with his comrade during a shootout with government troops belonging to 39th Infantry Battalion at Sitio Panopio, Brgy. Malasila, in Makilala, North Cotobato at around 8 O’clock in the...
By Joseph Jubelag COTABATO CITY- Police probers have filed murder charges against seven suspects tagged in the gun-slaying of a retired police colonel who served as head of the city public safety office last March 19. PBrig. Gen. Arthur Cabalona, regional police director for Bangsamoro Autonomous...
CARMEN, North Cotabato—Vice presidential bet and Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio remains loyal to her May 2022 partner presidential candidate Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr, but is thankful for the support coming from the "RoSa" movement just the same. Vice presidential candidate Davao...
Presidential candidate Senator Panfilo M. Lacson on Monday, March 28 asked why the Department of Agriculture (DA) was lacking in its help for communities affected by African Swine Fever (ASF) in Mlang town in Cotabato. Lacson raised this question in today’s Senate Committee of the Whole (COW)...
KORONDAL City, South Cotabato--Heavy rains weren't enough to stop a UniTeam grand rally at the South Cotabato Sports Complex open-air field here. The locals wouldn't let it. Presidential candidate Bongbong Marcos holds a rose on stage at the rain-soaked Koronadal City UniTeam grand rally (Photo by...
NORTH COTABATO—Vice President Leni Robredo is not closing her doors on possible endorsements coming from political opponents or rivals, such as President Duterte and others, as long as the relationship “is not transactional.” Vice President Leni Robredo and President Rodrigo Duterte...
NORTH COTABATO—Vice President Leni Robredo on Tuesday, March 15, shrugged off the recent Pulse Asia survey that ranked her a far second to survey frontrunner former Senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr., saying that the ranking is not yet indicative of the momentum on the ground. Vice President Leni...
Cotabato and Iligan, two of the highly-urbanized cities (HUCs) in Mindanao, are now classified as “moderate risk,” but the rest of the HUCs in the region are still classified as “high risk” for coronavirus disease (COVID-19), an OCTA Research fellow said on Thursday, Feb. 10. (Image...
Anti-narcotics operatives arrested on Tuesday afternoon, Feb. 1 a seaman who yielded some P374,000 worth of shabu in a buy-bust operation in Koronadal City, South Cotabato. The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) identified the suspect as 54-year old Ryan Ramos, considered a high-value target...
Two alleged Islamic State (IS)-linked terrorists were killed by Philippine Army (PA) forces in a military operation in Polomolok, South Cotabato on Monday, Jan. 31. Philippine Army troops kill Zypol Nilong, alleged member of the terrorist group Daulah Islamiyah (DI), in an encounter in Polomolok,...
