KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 15 November) — Supporters of Kidapawan City vice-mayor Jivy Roe ‘Jiv-Jiv’ Bombeo and Councilor Ruby Padilla-Sison will stage a vigil and prayer rally at 8 p.m. on Sunday to protest the alleged illegal passage of the
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 9 November) — Troops recently seized six high-powered firearms during a raid at a remote village in Matalam, North Cotabato allegedly influenced by the New People’s Army (NPA), the military said Sunday. A report from the
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 28 Oct) – A leader of the New People’s Army in Southern Mindanao has condemned and demanded justice for the killing on October 11 of one of their top leaders whom he considered as “hors de
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 23 October) – Bishop Colin Bagaforo of the Diocese of Kidapawan and a diocesan priest tested negative of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), an official from the Cotabato Provincial Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) said on Friday.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 23 October) – A policeman and a former Army man died in a shootout between them in Arakan, North Cotabato on Thursday, the Cotabato Provincial Police Office said. Provincial police director Col. Henry Villar identified the
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 22 October) – The city has no budget yet for a comprehensive plan to fight the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), an official told the Sangguniang Panlungsod. Answering a query by Vice Mayor Jivy Roe Bombeo during the
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 18 October) — North Cotabato commemorated on Friday the first anniversary of the October 2019 above Magnitude 6 quakes by distributing some P7 million cash aid to hundreds of families in Makilala town. In the last
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 16 October) – The proposed 2021 budget prepared by the office of the city mayor has reduced the allocation for the city council by 99. 8 percent compared to this year’s allotment. City Councilor Ruby Padilla-Sison,
M’LANG, North Cotabato (MindaNews / 14 Oct) – Cotabato Governor Nancy Alaan Catamco led the blessing and inauguration on Wednesday of the more than P70-million worth of temporary and treatment monitoring facility and the reverse transcription – polymerase chain reaction
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 13 Oct) – A gaming company in North Cotabato said on Tuesday it will help authorities in running after those engaged in illegal numbers game and warned that violators would be penalized “heavily” once caught.[] Rodolfo
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 12 October) – A six-foot long python that crawled atop an electric wooden pole here caused at least an hour of blackout in the entire service area of the Cotabato Electric Cooperative (Cotelco) in North Cotabato
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 9 October) – An official of the Sangguniang Kabataan in Magpet, North Cotabato, was arrested in an illegal drug buy-bust operation Thursday, the municipal police office said. The suspect was identified as Jonie Dale Parcon, 22,
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 8 October) – Three alleged drug couriers were arrested in a buy-bust operation Wednesday in Pigcawayan, North Cotabato where agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) seized 50 grams of suspected shabu (crystal meth) with
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 04 October) — The image of thousands of farmers barricading the national highway in Kidapawan City on Mach30 to April 1, 2016, is still remembered to this day across the country. Farmers from various parts of
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 1 October) – An official of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) in Southwestern Mindanao has complained that the city government has been the strictest nationwide in terms of implementing quarantine measures, affecting the
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 29 Sep) – The temporary closure of a branch office of the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) here is extended up to October 7, an advisory from the agency said. The management first issued an advisory
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 26 September) — North Cotabato has recorded 11 new confirmed cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as of September 25, the highest since March, an official from the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) Cotabato said. Dr. Philbert Malaluan,
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 18 September) – The city now has local transmission of COVID-19 based on data from the Provincial Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit, Dr. Philbert Malaluan, provincial board member and head of the Inter-Agency Task Force of North
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 14 September) – At least 100 families from five “puroks” (districts) in two barangays (villages) in Makilala, North Cotabato were placed under a 14-day quarantine since Sunday for their alleged exposure to a patient tested positive
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 10 September) – Some residents of Midsayap, North Cotabato went into panic buying mode due to social media posts that the town would be placed under enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) after local and health officials declared
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 9 Sep) – Twelve members of the city council here filed administrative charges at the regional office of the Civil Service Commission (CSC) against the secretary to the Sangguniang Panlungsod for his alleged failure to attend
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 04 September) – Seven alleged members of the New Peoples’ Army (NPA) surrendered Thursday to the Philippine Army in Makilala, North Cotabato, a military officer said. 1Lt Walter Jhun Orille, civil military operations officer of the
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 03 September) – The mayor of Kabacan, North Cotabato is seeking the relief of the municipal chief of police for his alleged failure to curb criminality. On Wednesday, Mayor Herlo Guzman asked provincial police director Col.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 2 Sep) – The Philippine National Police (PNP) has organized a special team tasked to investigate the August 29 shooting of nine persons in Kabacan, North Cotabato. Major Peter Pinalgan, chief of the Kabacan Municipal Police
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 1 Sep) – The weeklong celebrations of the Cotabato province’s 106th foundation anniversary culminated on Tuesday with thanksgiving and ecumenical services with the theme, “Together We Heal as One.” Governor Nancy Catamco said the year 2020
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 31 August) – At least 10 persons will be charged with murder in connection with the recent killing of the chief of police of Carmen, North Cotabato, Mayor Moises Arendain said Monday. Arendain said the police
KABACAN, North Cotabato (MindaNews / 29 August) – Eight motorcycle riders were killed in an ambush by still unidentified suspects on board a white pickup truck in Barangay Aringay, Kabacan, at around 12:10 p.m., on Saturday, Major Peter Pinalgan, Kabacan
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 25 Aug) – Cotabato Governor Nancy Catamco has ordered a thorough probe of the brutal slay of an indigenous peoples (IP) leader in Magpet town on Monday. Catamco, in a statement, said that no one should
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 24 August) – Some 50,000 rice farmers in Soccsksargen region have yet to receive cash assistance from the Department of Agriculture – Region 12 (DA-12) as part of the government’s mitigating measures against the coronavirus disease
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 24 August) – After almost 60 years of struggle to own the farms they plow, farmers in hinterland Arakan town in North Cotabato will finally receive tomorrow, August 25, their land titles as proof of ownership,
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 20 August) – The hog industry in North Cotabato stands to lose some P1.1 billion if the spread of the African Swine Fever (ASF) was not contained, provincial veterinarian Dr. Rufino Suropia said. As of Thursday,
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 18 Aug) – Authorities nabbed on Monday in a remote village in Magpet, Cotabato a grandmother suspected to have links with the New People’s Army (NPA), a police officer said. But a daughter said her mother
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 17 August) – At least 324 hogs were culled and buried in a public cemetery here on Sunday after showing symptoms of African swine fever (ASF) infection, a village official said. Rodolfo Rodriguez, chairman of Barangay
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 29 July) – Environment and local government officials released into the wild on Tuesday, World Nature Conservation Day, a three-year-old Philippine Eagle who was rescued by farmers last June. The eagle, which officials named “Makilala Hiraya,”
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 25 July) – The city’s temporary treatment and monitoring facility (TTMF) for COVID-19 patients has been given the nod by the Regulations, Licensing, and Enforcement Division (RLED) of the Department of Health in Region 12 and
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 24 July) – At least 285 loose or unlicensed firearms recovered from different provinces in Region 12 were turned over Thursday to the police regional headquarters in General Santos City, a police official said. Police regional
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 22 July) – The number of health workers of the Cotabato Regional and Medical Center (CRMC) now on quarantine rose to 102 following their direct exposure to the boy from Lanao del Sur who was admitted
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 20 July) – The Cotabato Regional Medical Center (CRMC) in Cotabato City has temporarily stopped accepting critically-ill patients and referrals to its intensive care unit (ICU) effective Sunday, July 19, after a patient from North Cotabato
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 16 July) – The city’s first coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) treatment facility will be fully operational by July 20, a health official said. Dr. Hamir Hechanova, chief of hospital of the Kidapawan City Hospital said the facility
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 8 July) – A coronavirus disease (Covid-19) survivor delivered on Monday a healthy three-kilogram baby at the Cotabato Provincial Hospital (CPH) here. The 28-year-old mother appeared healthy after her bout with the disease last May, according
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 7 July) – A traffic enforcer is bent on filing criminal complaints against an officer of the Scene of the Crime Operative (SOCO) assigned here for allegedly hitting him Monday morning for no apparent reason, a
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 04 July) – North Cotabato Governor Nancy Catamco has urged the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) to act on the reported discrimination against a COVID-19 frontliner of the provincial government whose house was cordoned
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 1 July) – Eighty-four loose and unlicensed firearms were turned over to different municipal police stations in North Cotabato from June 20 to June 26, an official said. Col. Henry Villar, provincial director of the Cotabato
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 1 July) – The municipal mayor of Magpet, a hinterland town in North Cotabato, has sought approval from the town council to grant him authority to enter into a P150-million loan agreement with a government-owned financial
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 29 June) – At least 2,000 families in Makilala, North Cotabato have yet to receive the P5,000 cash assistance each from the government’s Social Amelioration Program (SAP) due to “some technicalities,” an official said. The SAP
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 29 June) – Authorities arrested an armed man who yielded a sachet of suspected shabu in Midsayap, North Cotabato on Monday. Lt. Col. John Miridel Cacho Calinga, chief of the Midsayap municipal police station, identified the
