KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/12 Oct) – The Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process has chided local officials and the media for issuing “speculative statements” following the bombing incidents in Makilala and the cities of Tacurong and Cotabato, stressing these would “ruin whatever efforts the government and other peace advocates are doing to bring both parties back to the negotiating table.”
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/12 October) — Mayor Rodrigo Duterte will name “in three to four days” the "mayor from Maguindanao" whom intelligence reports tagged to drug trafficking, following a dare from two of Maguindanao's 28 town mayors to identify the suspect.
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/12 October) — The city government today ordered
the temporary suspension of gatherings in public spaces following threats of bombings in the area.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/11 Oct) — The lawyer of murdered newspaper columnist and corruption whistleblower Marlene Esperat is seriously considering seeking police protection after she was swamped with death threats following the conviction late last week of three suspects who were earlier charged for the killing.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/11 October) — Bomb experts in North Cotabato defused at around 7:30 a.m. Wednesday a homemade bomb in Makilala town, North Cotabato, just 50 meters away from where a similar bomb exploded Tuesday night, killing six and injuring 32 others.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/11 October) — Two members of the ARMM police were found sprayed with bullets inside the baggage compartment of an abandoned KIA sedan in a remote village in Tacurong City, some six hours after a bomb injured four persons in the public market.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/11 October) — The security alert level here had been raised to "highest", Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte said Wednesday following bomb explosions in two Mindanao cities and a town in North Cotabato.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/11 October) — Officials of the Department of Education in South Cotabato plan to revive having vegetable garden in every school in the province in support of the national government's Food for the School Program (FSP).
