BAGUIO CITY: Officials from two towns in Ilocos Norte signed a memorandum of understanding with a Korean firm to build the country’s biggest solar power plant to increase local energy needs in the northern province.
Badoc and Vintar town officials inked the deal with Korean firm EC Cobuy Philippines, Inc (ECCPI) for 20MW solar power plants to augment the electric power supply for Ilocos Norte.
Badoc town Vice Mayor Thomas Torralba and Stephen Chae, Chief Executive Officer and Vice President of ECCPI, signed the MOU in simple ceremonies at the Badoc town hall witnessed by village officials and town employees.
Grenade blast near poll office
NORTH COTABATO: Another powerful explosion rocked Kabacan town in the province before dawn yesterday, the second bombing in the area since Friday night.
Investigators said a 40mm shoulder-fire grenade fired from a distance landed and exploded behind the office of the Commission on Elections near the mayor’s office in the town proper of Kabacan at around 4.05am.
No one was reported killed or injured in the bombing, but the incident triggered panic among villagers in the surroundings of the Kabacan Comelec municipal office.
Kabacan Mayor Herlo Guzman Jr, chairman of the municipal peace and order council, said he is certain that the 40mm projectile was aimed at his office where he sleeps, but fell short of its range and landed behind the building.
Abductors identified
NORTH COTABATO: Army and police intelligence officials have tagged the group of Commander Eskak of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters as behind abduction of a 19 year-old son of a retired soldier in Midsayap town, last Saturday night.
Police investigators, on the other hand, said the group that snatched Mark Anthony Baya, a college student, was comprised of eight BIFF bandits, six of them initially identified only as Akas, Bhuto, Dapz, Theng, Bedu and Apon, all ethnic Maguindanaons from the towns of Northern Kabuntalan and Datu Piang. Agencies
