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Lamiteños ships aid to tremor-stricken Cebuanos
LAMITAN CITY, Basilan (October 6, 2025) — Residents of Lamitan City and their local government unit together facilitated the shipment last week of 10 tons of relief supplies to Cebu for distribution to tremor-stricken residents in the northern part of the province. No fewer than 70 villagers died from injuries caused by the collapse of
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Relief interventions for flood-stricken BARMM residents continue
COTABATO CITY (October 5, 2025) — The floods last month that swept through dozens of barangays in two provinces in the Bangsamoro region and in its Special Geographic Area had subsided but the regional government’s social services ministry continued supplying evacuees with food rations still. The flood-stricken residents in low-lying areas in the Bangsamoro region’s
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P500K bounty for killers of Cotabato City barangay exec raised
COTABATO CITY (October 5, 2025, Sunday) — The mayor of this city has offered a P500,000 bounty for the gunmen behind the fatal ambush of a Sangguniang Kabataan chairman and his brother in a busy commercial hub here at noon Saturday, October 5. Mayor Bruce Matabalao, chairman of the multi-sector Cotabato City Peace and Order
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SK chairman dead, relative, cop hurt in Cotabato City ambush
COTABATO CITY (October 4, 2025, Saturday) — Gunmen killed a Sangguniang Kabataan chairman and wounded two others, including a policeman, in an ambush at a busy thoroughfare in the center of this city at noontime Saturday, October 4. Prince Mohaz Rafsanjanie Matanog, Sangguniang Kabataan chairman of Cotabato City’s Barangay Poblacion 5 and a third-year engineering
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Cotabato governor, Army units, BFP together in public service
COTABATO CITY (October 4, 2025, Saturday) —Officials of two Army artillery units had personally assured Cotabato Gov. Emmylou Taliño-Mendoza of their support for her peacebuilding and community-empowerment projects in her province. Lt. Col. Jason Jayson and Lt. Col. Ronald Vispo, commanding officers of the Army’s 7th and 9th Field Artillery Battalions, respectively, and their subordinate-officers
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Shabu peddler killed, cohort arrested in PDEA-12 operation
COTABATO CITY (October 3, 2024, Friday) — Anti-narcotics agents shot dead an uncooperative shabu dealer and arrested another in an entrapment operation in Koronadal City in South Cotabato province on Wednesday, October 1. Ranking members of the multi-sector South Cotabato Provincial Peace and Order Council told reporters on Friday, October 3, that agents of the
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BARMM communities mourn demise of regional speaker
COTABATO CITY (October 2, 2025) — The Philippine flag and the Bangsamoro banner are both raised half-mast in the Bangsamoro capitol in honor of the speaker of the 80-seat regional parliament who died from an illness early Thursday, October 2. Members of the regional lawmaking body and the chief minister of the Bangsamoro region, Abdulrauf
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Poor Moro villagers with eye problems to undergo surgery
COTABATO CITY (October 1, 2025, Wednesday) — Up to 25 poor Moro villagers in Barangay Gokoton in the newly-created Malidegao town in the Bangsamoro Special Geographic are to undergo ophthalmic surgical procedures with the help of the office of a member of the 80-seat regional parliament in the autonomous region. Municipal and barangay officials in