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03/05/2026

Army’s 4th Infantry Division has new commander

Local executives in Region 10 have assured of their support to the peacekeeping goals of the new commander of the Army’s 4th Infantry Division, just the way they cooperated with his now retired predecessor, whose post he took over on Wednesday, April 29.

Radio reports in Central Mindanao on Sunday stated that among those who had pledged to keep pushing forward the multi-sector community security programs of 4th ID, now under an acting commander, Brig. Gen. Siegfred Tubalado, are members of the Regional Peace and Order Council 10, composed of officials of local government units and different state line agencies and sectoral representatives from across Region 10, also known as Northern Mindanao.

The commanding general of the Philippine Army, Lt. Gen. Antonio Nafarrete, officiated the symbolic transition of the 4th ID’s leadership from Major Gen. Michele Anayron, Jr., to his successor, Tubalado, at the division’s headquarters in Camp Evangelista in Cagayan de Oro City last Wednesday.

The now retired Anayron belongs to the Class 1992 of the Philippine Military Academy.

Officials of the 4th ID and local executives in provinces in Northern Mindanao had told reporters that, while under Anayron for about two years, units in Northern Mindanao of the division, municipal, city and provincial local governments together secured, via backchannel dialogues, the surrender and reintegration into mainstream society of 619 members of the New People’s Army.

“Your legacy will endure in the systems you built, the leaders you mentored, and the soldiers you inspired. Thank you for having served the Filipinos well,” Nafarrete said in a message during Wednesday’s event in Camp Evangelista.

Nafarrete said he is certain that Tubalado will forge ahead with the 4th ID’s multi-sector peacebuilding initiatives that have weakened the NPA in cities and provinces in Northern Mindanao.

The ceremony on Wednesday in Camp Evangelista was capped off with the grant to Anayron by Nafarrete of a special citation plaque from his office.

Anayron had also received during the occasion a separate citation plaque from the military’s Eastern Mindanao Command, which has tactical and administrative control over the 4th ID and its component-brigades and battalions. (May 3, 2026)

03/05/2026

Pasok sa Top 8 Finalists para sa Search for the singing star of Upi season 21 sa ginanap Audition ngayong araw May 3,2026. Ito ay kinabibilangan nina:
1.Clara Jane Dalimbang
2.Ariane Jane Porras
3.Paerly Mae Diwan
4.Jazel Modbeg
5.Althea Malimpinit
6.Jaylord Torino
7.Jhayrell Langcuas
8.Alena Timuay.

Congratulations sa inyo

03/05/2026

Top 8 Finalists para sa Search for the singing star of Upi season 21. Ito ay ang mga sumusunod : Para sa Children's category.
1.Xanxee Joy Gunsi
2.Carl Edrian Masalicampo
3.Pauline Jean Bejarin
4.Kristian Love Gordon
5.Rasleah Olubalang
6.Jaya L Ubay
7.Richel Diane Aco
8.Kiana Darlene Palawan.
Congratulations po everyone. KITA KITS sa Phonetics May 9,2026.

03/05/2026

Sa mga may Talento sa larangan ng pagkanta maaari pa pong kayong magpatala. Sa teens category ages 13-18 years old. Punta Lang po kayo sa Upi municipal conference hall o sa Dxup.

03/05/2026

ALAMIN: Makulay na`Parada Sakayan’ sa Isabela City, Basilan

Tampok ang “Parada Sakayan” fluvial parade sa karagatan sa tapat ng Isabela City sa Basilan nitong Sabado, May 2, 2026, bilang isa sa mga highlights ng 25th founding anniversary ng lungsod.

Lumahok sa fluvial parade ang iba’t-ibang mga sektor at mga government agencies na may mga tanggapan sa Isabela City at ang mga divisions ng Isabela City local government na nasa pamumuno ni ngayon ay second term mayor na, si Sitti Djalia Turabin-Hataman.

Si Mayor Turabin-Hataman ay popular sa kanyang aktibong pagsuporta sa mga programang naglalayong manatiling matibay ang religious at cultural solidarity ng mga Muslim at Christian communities sa Isabela City at sa mga inisyatibong nagsusulong ng peace and economic development sa lungsod.

Makulay ang history ng Isabela City, nagsimula bilang isang malaking barrio na siyang kabisera ng Basilan City na naging Basilan province noong early 1970s. Ang Isabela City, bagama’t nasa Basilan, ay sakop ng Administrative Region 9.

Sa kanyang pahayag nitong Linggo, May 3, binansagan ang Isabela City na “good and safe investment hub” ni lawyer-entrepreneur Ronald Hallid Dimacisil Torres, chairman ng Bangsamoro Business Council na naka-base sa Cotabato City, ang regional capital ng Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.

Ang Bangsamoro Business Council ay may mga miyembro sa mga probinsya ng Maguindanao del Sur, Maguindanao del Norte, Lanao del Sur, Basilan at Tawi-Tawi at sa mga mga lungsod ng Lamitan, Marawi at Cotabato na sakop ng BARMM.

“Maganda ang pamamalakad ng mga peace and socio-economic programs ng local government unit ng Isabela City at yan ang isa sa nakakabuti ng investment climate ng lungsod,” pahayag ni Torres na siya ring presidente ng multi-sector advisory group ng Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region.

Yearly ang pagsasagawa ng fluvial parade sa Isabela City sa tuwing ginugunita ang founding anniversary ng lungsod. (May 3, 2026)

02/05/2026

Women’s peace coursework in MSU-Maguindanao in full swing

Peace advocates and entities involved in women empowerment programs want the 12-month academic coursework in the Mindanao State University-Maguindanao replicated in other state-run schools in Region 12.

The MSU-Maguindanao campus is in Datu Odin Sinsuat town in Maguindanao del Norte, operating under the auspices of the main Mindanao State University in Marawi City in Lanao del Sur. Maguindanao del Norte and Lanao del Sur are two of the five provinces in the territory of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.

Ranking education officials in BARMM and in Administrative Region 12 told reporters on Saturday, May 2, that the MSU-Maguindanao’s Diploma in Women, Peace and Security (DWPS) postgraduate program is the first of its kind in Asia, aiming to maximize women’s participation in peace and security efforts in the local communities.

The MSU-Maguindano’s chancellor, Bai Hejira Nefertiti Sinsuat Macalandong-Limbona, and her subordinate-educators are overseeing the DWPS postgraduate program, launched in August 2024, first conceptualized, via extensive studies, in 2021.

It has produced 31 graduates since its inception two years ago, according to MSU-Maguindanao officials. The program has 35 students for now and is currently open to admission of prospective course applicants.

Information handouts obtained from MSU-Maguindanao indicates that the DWPS is parallel with the United Nations Security Council Resolution1325 that compels nations to involve women in resolution of armed conflicts, in peace negotiations, in post-conflict humanitarian activities and in promotion of peace and security in their countries.

Two governors in Region 12, Reynaldo Tamayo, Jr. of South Cotabato and Emmylou Taliño-Mendoza of Cotabato, separately said in Saturday that they will recommend to the central office of the Department of Education the viability of replicating MSU-Maguindanao’s DWPS in state-run universities in their provinces.

“That would be good for the professional women in our province, which has areas where there are current peace processes between the government and the Moro communities and where our local government units, the police and the military are together ushering back to the local communities former members of the New People’s Army who had pledged allegiance to the government in recent years,” said Taliño-Mendoza.

Mendoza is chairperson of the Regional Development Council 12 covering four provinces and four cities in Region 12.

Tamayo, presiding figurehead of the inter-agency and multi-sector Regional Peace and Order Council 12, said they can pass a council resolution urging DepEd’s central office to study the viability of expanding, or adapting DWPS in government schools in South Cotabato and in its capital, Koronadal City.

“That something that we want available too for our women in the province,” Tamayo said.

Photo shows the campus of the MSU-Maguindanao in Datu Odin Sinsuat, one of the 12 towns in Maguindanao del Norte province in the Bangsamoro region. (May 2, 2026)

02/05/2026

Drug dealer from Davao del Sur, busted in Basilan

Combined agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, policemen and local executives together entrapped on Friday, May 1, in Lamitan City in Basilan a shabu dealer from Davao del Sur province.

Local officials and Muslim religious leaders actively helping push forward the government's anti-narcotics campaign in Basilan said on Saturday that suspect, Joesan Delos Reyes Sanchez, a resident of Malita, Davao del Sur, is now detained, to be prosecuted for violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.

They confirmed to reporters that Sanchez was arrested by agents of PDEA-BARMM and policemen from different units in Basilan of the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region after selling to them P34,000 worth of shabu during a tradeoff in Barangay Sta. Clara in Lamitan City.

The PDEA-BARMM operation that resulted in the arrest of Sanchez, led by agent Robert John Daquis and counterparts from the nearby Isabela City, which is under the agency’s office in Region 9, was premised on reports by Lamitan City residents to their mayor, Roderick Furigay, and his constituent-barangay officials about his shabu peddling activities in their villages.

Friends of Sanchez, who helped PDEA-BARMM agents and officials of the Basilan Provincial Police Office plot the entrapment operation that led to his arrest, had told reporters that he relocated to Lamitan City, from Malita, one of the towns in Davao del Sur, whose capital is Digos City, thinking he can safely operate in the 40 barangays in the area.

They reported to Furigay and other officials of their local government unit that Sanchez transferred to Lamitan City, from Davao del Sur, after more than 10 of his accomplices in the province, which is inside the territory of Region 11, were entrapped by PDEA 11 agents and policemen from different units of the Police Regional Office 11 in recent years.

Officials of PDEA-BARMM and PRO-BAR’s newly-installed acting regional director, Brig. Gen. Christopher Marcial Abecia, separately told reporters on Saturday that they appreciate the support of the office of the mayor of Lamitan City and the barangay governments under its jurisdiction to the entrapment operation that resulted in the arrest of the suspect and confiscation from him of P34,000 worth of shabu. (May 2, 2026)

02/05/2026

Officials close down illegal Cotabato open-pit mineral mining site

The provincial government of Cotabato has cracked the whip on “guerilla style” open pit miners in the mineral-rich Barangay Kanibong in Tulunan town and is keen on prosecuting all those behind it.

Radio reports on Saturday, May 2, stated that subordinates of Cotabato Gov. Emmylou Taliño Mendoza, provincial officials of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources 12 and operatives from different units of the Police Regional Office 12 stopped on Tuesday the open-pit mining activity in Sitio Kongkling in Barangay Kanibong, based on tips about the extraction of copper and gold in the area by men residing in farming enclaves around.

It was villagers who reported to Taliño-Mendoza’s office, to the DENR 12, the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) and the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) about the clandestine extraction of minerals in Sitio Kongkling by men who scampered away when they noticed that a group, composed of employees of the provincial government and the three agencies and policemen were approaching their location.

Mendoza told reporters on Saturday that officials of the DENR-12, the MGB, the EMB, personnel of Cotabato’s Environment and Natural Resources Office and local executives in Tulunan had earlier confirmed that the mining operation in the area is not covered by any permit from the government.

“We in the province will never tolerate such illegal activity. We are thankful to the sectors that helped us stop it promptly,” Taliño-Mendoza, who is presiding chairperson of the multi-sector, inter-agency Regional Development Council 12, said.

Taliño-Mendoza said Cotabato province is covered by stringent provincial ordinances meant to prevent mining operations anywhere in its 17 towns and in its capital, Kidapawan City, without permission from the governor’s office, the Sangguniang Panglungsod and the national and regional offices of the DENR, MGB and EMB. (May 2, 2026)

01/05/2026

Binatilyong autistic napatay sa away

Dahilan lamang umano sa bisikleta, pinagsasaksak hanggang sa mapatay ang isang 15-anyos na binatilyong may autism ng isang sadistang mister sa Brgy. 1-A, Magallanes, Davao City kamakalawa.

Sa ulat ng Davao City Police, ang binatilyo, 15-anyos, ay nagtamo ng mga saksak sa iba’t ibang bahagi ng katawan na bagaman nagawa pang maisugod sa pagamutan ay idineklara na itong dead-on-arrival.

Arestado naman ang 55-anyos na suspect na kapitbahay ng pamilya ng biktima na natukoy ng pulisya sa kuha ng CCTV footage sa lugar.

Base sa imbestigas¬yon naganap ang krimen sa naturang barangay nitong Miyerkules na nag-ugat umano sa galit ng suspect sa biktima dahilan tuwang-tuwa ang binatilyo sa kaniyang bisikleta.

Samantalang dahilan sa may autism nga ang binatilyo ay ginamit nito ang bisikleta ng suspect at nang maaktuhan ito ay nagalit ang nasabing mister kung saan pinagsasaksak ang biktima.

Sa pahayag ng mga residente, narinig pa nila ang pag-iyak ng binatilyo at paghingi ng tulong at nang silipin nila ito sa bintana ay nakitang duguang nakahandusay sa lupa habang nagmamadali namang tumalilis ang suspect na hindi nila namukhaan dahilan nakatalikod ito.

Nasakote naman ng mga operatiba ng pulisya sa follow-up operations ang suspect na ngayon ay humihimas na ng rehas na bakal at nahaharap sa kasong murder. (May 1, 2026, a PSN report)

01/05/2026

Senior citizen, patay sa pamamaril sa Cotabato City

Isang 65-anyos na lalaki, si Mohammad Kamid Angkay, ang napatay sa pamamaril nitong gabi ng Huwebes, April 30, sa Purok Kamsa sa Barangay Rosary Heights 11 sa Cotabato City.

Ang napaslang na si Angkay ay residente ng Barangay Bagua 3, Cotabato City.

Sa ulat ng Cotabato City Police Station 2, naglalakad si Angkay patungo sa Prince Pension House, kung saan siya nagtatrabaho bilang caretaker, ng barilin ng pistol ng isang salarin na nakaabang sa kanya sa isang madalim na bahagi ng kalye sa Purok Kamsa sa Barangay Rosary Heights 11.

Ayon sa mga barangay officials at mga police investigators na nagresponde sa insidente, agad na nadala sa Cotabato Regional Medical Center si Angkay, ngunit pumanaw din sanhi ng mga tinamong tama ng bala kalaunan. (May 1, 2026)

01/05/2026

497 bata sa 3 BARMM barangays, natuli ng libre

Karagdagang 497 pa na mga batang lalaki mula sa mga mahirap na Moro at non-Moro indigenous families ang natuli ng libre sa relief missions sa tatlong mga barangays sa Kapalawan sa Cotabato sa pagtutulungan ng dalawang mga miyembro ng Bangsamoro regional parliament at ng gobernadora ng probinsya.

Magkasunod na isinagawa, mula April 28 hanggang April 30, sa Barangays Kibayao, Manarapan at Tupig sa Kapalawan ng field public service team ng tanggapan ni Member of Parliament Kadil Sinolinding, Jr., ng community affairs group ng Deseret Surgimed Hospital sa Kabacan, Cotabato at ng mga volunteers ng mga cause-oriented groups ang naturang humanitarian mission kung saan about ng 497 na mga batang lalaki ang kanilang natuli ng libre.

Naisagawa ng naturang “Oplan Tuli” sa tulong ng Ministry of Health-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, ni Bangsamoro Chief Minister Abdulrauf Macacua at ni Cotabato Gov. Emmylou Taliño-Mendoza.

Ayon sa mga kawani ng tanggapan ni Sinolinding sa BARMM parliament sa regional capitol sa Cotabato City, malaki ang ambag ni Chief Minister Macacua at ni Gov. Taliño-Mendoza sa naturang matagumpay na relief mission sa Kapalawan, isa sa walong mga bagong tatag na municipalities sa Bangsamoro Special Geographic Area, sakop ng autonomous regional government, ngunit nasa Cotabato province na nasa teritoryo ng Region 12.

Bagamat hindi na saklaw ng kanyang administrasyon ang naturang walong mga bayan, tuloy-tuloy ang kooperasyon nila Gov. Taliño-Mendoza na siya ring chairperson ng Regional Development Council 12, ni Sinolinding at Chief Minister Macacua sa pagse-serbisyo publiko sa mga residente ng mga barangay sa naturang mga lugar. Si Sinolinding, isang physician-ophthalmologist, ang siya ring kasalukuyang health minister ng BARMM.

Si Gov. Taliño-Mendoza ay kilalang hindi anti-Moro na governor at masigasig na tumutulong sa pagpapalaganap, pagpapalawig ng peace process ng Malacañang at ng Moro National Liberation Front at ng Moro Islamic Liberation Front na may hiwalay na peace agreements sa pamahalaan at parehong may mga representatives sa 80-seat BARMM parliament na pinamumunuan ni Chief Minister Macacua.

Sa tala ng mga nagtulungan sa pagsagawa ng tatlong araw na relief service sa Kapalawan, about ng 497 na mga batang mga Moro ang kanilang natuli. May 235 pa na mga residente ng Barangays Kibayao, Manarapan at Tupig sa naturang bayan na may mga problema sa mata, katulad ng cataract at pterygium, ang kanilang nasuri ng libre at ilan sa kanila ay nakatakda ng gamutin mismo ng eye surgeon na si Sinolinding.

Abot ng 267 na mga bata mula sa mga bayan ng Kabacan at Carmen at Kidapawan City, lahat sakop Cotabato, at ilang mga barangays sa Bangsamoro Special Geographic Area sa probinsya ang natuli ng libre sa mga serye ng Oplan Tuli, dalawang linggo pa lang ang nakakalipas, ng public service team ni Sinolinding, ng mga kawani ng Deseret Surgimed Hospital at ng MoH-BARMM na magkatuwang na sinuportahan nila Gov. Taliño-Mendoza at ni Chief Minister Macacua. (May 1, 2026)

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