BARMM POLICE CHIEF ARRESTED FOR “ESTAFA” CASES

By Nash B. Maulana

THE Philippine National Police Criminal Investigation Detection Group (CIDG) has arrested a top ranking police official of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) over old criminal charges that apparently stemmed from his previous tours of duty.

Reports from the CIDG Regional Field Unit 15 identified the arrested police official as Brig. Gen. John Guyguyon, the chief of the Police Regional Office of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region (PRO-BAR) in Camp General Salipada K Pendatun in the port town of Parang, Maguindanao del Norte.

The arresting officers of the CIDGRFU BAR had immediately turned over Brig. Gen Guyguyon to PRO-BAR

Police, Army ensuring peace during Ramadhan

By John Felix Unson

OIC Deputy Regional Director for Administration, PBGen Gil Francis Tria for custodial arrest and “for proper disposition.”

Sources from Camp Crame said that PNP Chief, General Rodolfo Azurin Jr. had recalled the designation of BGen Guyguyon as PRO-BAR director, the night before the CIDG RFU tracking team implemented two arrest warrants that courts in Luzon

OPAPRU opens search for peace exemplars

THE Office of the Presidential Adviser on Peace, Reconciliation and Unity (OPAPRU) has officially opened the nominations to its Gawad Kapayapaan (GaKap) for 2023.

Held annually every September, the GaKap is the OPAPRU’s way of recognizing the

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outstanding work of peace advocates, champions and exemplars whose work are not only known here in the country, but internationally as well, a statement by the OPAPPRU said Thursday.

OPAPPRU Acting Secretary Sec. Isidro L. Purisima said GaKap, designed to be institutionalized, provides the country’s peacebuilding agency with the perfect opportunity honor the outstanding work of peace builders and peace workers.

“The OPAPRU is very pleased and excited to announce the opening of nominations for this year’s Gawad

THE police and military are together guarding mosques where Muslims perform traditional worship rites related to the Ramadhan season that started Thursday.

Muslims fast from dawn to dusk during the Ramadhan, lasting one lunar cycle, or about

29 days, as a religious obligation and reparation for wrongdoings.

The Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region said in a statement early this week that their municipal police stations have enlisted the support of barangay officials and local government units in ensuring a peaceful Ramadhan in all of the five provinces and three cities under PRO-BAR’s jurisdiction.

The Ramadhan peace and security efforts of the 6th ID Maguindanao, in the 63 Bangsamoro barangays in Cotabato province and in parts of Lanao

Eastern Grass Owls found nesting in North Cotabato

By Edwin O. Fernandez

A farmer in a small village in Cotabato province now has two juvenile female Eastern Grass Owl (Tyto longimembris) nesting on the cluster of Arrowhead Plant or Syngonium podophyllum in a his titled farm lot in the town of Makilala.

Afredo Bas, farmer in Barangay Luna Norte in Makilala, North Cotabato, sought the assistance of the village officials and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources

(DENR) in the handling of owl species found his farm lot on Monday (March 20).

He wanted to bring the owls to the Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office (PENRO) but afraid he might be arrested for transporting endangered wild life.

PENRO personnel, Barangay chairperson Alfredo Bernadas and Bas have agreed that the couple owls will stay in the site where they