DAVAO CITY -- The United Bangsamoro Justice Party’s mayoralty candidate in Cotabato City was leading based on the partial and unofficial results in the hotly-contested race where around 500 police personnel have been carrying out election duties for obvious reasons. As of 1:02 p.m. on Tuesday...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) replaced 524 electoral boards in Cotabato City with members of the Philippine National Police (PNP) who will serve as special electoral boards on Election Day, May 9, according to poll Commissioner George Erwin M. Garcia said. Comelec/MB During a press...
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...
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...
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...
To further boost its testing capacity for coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) on Saturday, Sept. 18, formally opened its 14th molecular laboratory in Cotabato City. New molecular laboratory of PH Red Cross rises in Cotabato City (Photo from Philippine Red Cross) The...
COTABATO Regional and Medical Center (Photo courtesy of Dr. John Maligad) DAVAO CITY – The Cotabato Regional and Medical Center (CRMC) in Cotabato City has expressed alarm over dwindling resources due to the increasing number of COVID-19 cases. In a public advisory Tuesday, the CRMC said its...
The government is determined to enforce the law and will not tolerate any form of violence following the recent attack of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) elements in a town in Maguindanao. President Rodrigo Duterte (File photo/Malacañang) This will be the message to be conveyed by...
