Unidentified men planted and set off on Wednesday dawn an improvised explosive device that left a 10-year-old boy dead and four others hurt in Lambayong, Sultan Kudarat, authorities said.
The regional disaster management office in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao reported Wednesday that fewer people were displaced by the floods in Mindanao contrary to what was earlier reported.
At least four persons, including an employee of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), were charged before the City Prosecutor’s Office in Cotabato City for suspected involvement in a police recruitment scam.
Eight men barged into an office of the Cagayan Electric Power and Light Company (Cepalco) in Carmen village here Tuesday morning and divested the teller of about P100,000 in cash, and robbed an undetermined number of customers who had come to pay their bills, police said.
A businessman engaged in the trading of grains was released unharmed on a roadside in Maguindanao province on Tuesday, 35 days after he was abducted from his store in the town of Ampatuan, the military said.
Clutching Philippine and American flags, hundreds of pupils from this typhoon-devastated town greeted officials of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) who came to their school on Friday to distribute some P1.2 million worth of school supplies.
After two weeks of delayed school opening and almost six months of protests over allegations of graft and corruption, classes at the state-run University of Southern Mindanao finally kicked off on Monday.
Classes in public schools in at least two Maguindanao towns were suspended Sunday due to the flooding brought about by three days of torrential rain.
It is still possible for the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to sign a final peace agreement within the next five weeks, the Aquino administration’s chief peace negotiator said on Sunday.
David Anas almost fell on his knees after learning that his group, the Cagayan de Oro Airport SkyCap Multipurpose cooperative, will not be part of the team that will move to the new Laguindingan Airport.
An armed farmer died in a clash with Moro Islamic Liberation Front fighters in North Cotabato on Sunday.
Government chief negotiator Miriam Coronel-Ferrer said both the Philippine government and the MILF peace negotiators would have to be creative in keeping the talks going and ensuring that the talks lead to a comprehensive peace pact.
Build it and they will come, the government must have thought when it constructed the new airport in Laguindingan town in Misamis Oriental. Now, people are asking: “How and how much?”
