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Army official in NorthCot calls for localized talks with NPAs By MALU CADELINA-MANAR
Col. Gabriel Viray, commander of the 901st Infantry Brigade. Photo from the 901IB Facebook page
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews)–An Army commander here has called on local leaders of the communist guerilla movement in North Cotabato to come to the table for
peace negotiations. Col. Gabriel Viray III, commander of the 901st Infantry Brigade, said it is only through dialogues that local issues and concerns are given solutions. He said the rebels’ aim to establish their
own government in the country is already a “thing of the past.” “We no longer consider Jose Maria Sison their leader because he doesn’t live here. He is in another country, far, far from
P6.8-M shabu seized in Marawi drug buy-bust operation Another child dies of dengue in Kidapawan By EDWIN FERNANDEZ
By EDWIN FERNANDEZ and NOEL PUNZALAN
President Rodrigo Roa Duterte inspects the map of the areas to be powered by the Tumingad Solar Power Project as he leads its inauguration in Odiongan, Romblon on August 21, 2019. With the President is Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi. ICHARD MADELO/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO
COTABATO City--After several days of surveillance, anti-narcotics operatives arrested on Thursday afternoon two suspected big-time drug peddlers in Marawi City and seized some PHP6.8 million worth of illegal drugs. Director Juvenal Azurin of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in the Bangsamoro Autonomous
KIDAPAWAN CITY--Another child here has died of dengue fever as more victims of the mosquitoborne disease continue to fill hospitals in the city, health authorities said Thursday. The latest fatality was an eight-month-old baby, who died in a hospital in Davao City, the City Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit (CESU) said. The CESU recorded 636
See TALKS, page 11
Region in Muslim Mindanao (PDEA-BARMM) identified the suspects as Alexander Aliponto, 45, of Tamparan, Lanao del Sur, and Adam Pandiin, 42, a resident Marawi City. Azurin said the suspects were immediately handcuffed after one of them handed over an estimated one kilogram of suspected shabu to a poseur-buyer carrying a paper bag with See SHABU, page 11
See CHILD, page 11
Duterte inaugurates P550-million hybrid solar-diesel power plant TABLAS ISLAND, Romblon—President Rodrigo Roa Duterte inaugurated on Wednesday the P550million Tumingad Solar
Power Project, the country’s first and largest hybrid solar-diesel microgrid with battery facility. Speaking before the at-
tendees of the inauguration rites, President Duterte said the commercial operation of the 7.5-MWp hybrid solar-diesel power plant will
pave the way to a greener tomorrow for Romblon and the rest of the country. It is a milestone, he said, not See POWER, page 11
SEIZED. Anti-narcotic agents, assisted by Marawi City Mayor Majul Gandamra (in white polo shirt), conduct an accounting of some PHP6.8 million worth of suspected shabu, drug paraphernalia, mobile phones and other items confiscated from two suspected drug peddlers. The two were busted in an operation in Marawi City on Thursday (August 22, 2019). (Photo courtesy of PDEA-BARMM)