Cotabato News

Cotabato College Has New President
COTABATO CITY, Philippines — The Cotabato City State Polytechnic College (CCSPC) here has a new head after its Board of Trustees (BOT) led by Dr. Patricia Licuanan, Commission on Higher Education (CHED) chairperson, elected the college president during the board meeting held in Quezon City last Monday.

South Cotabato seeks P68.2-M tax settlement deal with power coop
GENERAL SANTOS CITY — The provincial government of South Cotabato is pushing for the signing of a settlement agreement worth P68.2 million for the unpaid real property taxes of local power distribution utility South Cotabato I Electric Cooperative (Socoteco I).

Cotabato acquires P41-M river dredger
The local government has acquired a P41-million floating excavator that the Cotabato City engineer’s office hopes will solve the city’s perennial flooding problem.

New president elected for Cotabato state college
COTABATO CITY: The Cotabato City State Polytechnic College (CCSPC) has a new head after its Board of Trustees (BOT) chaired by Dr. Patricia Licuanan, who also chairs the Commission on Higher Education elected the college president during the board meeting held in Quezon City on Monday.

Cotabato relatively peaceful, says prelate
COTABATO City, Feb. 1, 2012—Cotabato Auxiliary Bishop Jose Colin Bagaforo said the city is relatively peaceful compared to previous decades when violent incidents seemed to be a regular fare for the city residents. This, despite the January 10 ambush of Vice Mayor Muslimin Sema which created a bit of tension among residents because of possible retaliatory action. read more

Armen men torch school in Pikit, Army outpost in Makilala, N. Cotabato
MAKILALA, North Cotabato — Unidentified armed men torched a building of the Gocotan Elementary School at Barangay Gocotan, one of the remotest villages in Pikit town in North Cotabato, at around 7:30 p.m. Friday, the police reported.

Cotabato City peace and order deteriorating, city dad says
COTABATO CITY — The peace and order situation in this city has been deteriorating and is very alarming, a city councilor has said.

South Cotabato tribe leaders lobby for Tampakan mine
South Cotabato tribal leaders invoked their human right to development as they called upon the national government to ensure that the proposed $5.9 million Tampakan copper-gold project proceeds as planned.

Cotabato bus bombed
DAVAO CITY -- A huge explosion ripped through a bus traveling at a highway in North Cotabato, Monday morning. No one was reported hurt. A suspected improvised bomb was placed inside the Rural Transit...