MANILA: Thirty Western Visayas police officials, including the police director of Aklan, have been relieved from their posts for under-reporting crimes in their respective turfs, according to the Philippine National Police (PNP). PNP chief Director General Alan Purisima ordered the relief of Senior Superintendent Pedroto Escrilla, Aklan police director, and 12 police chiefs in Western Visayas (Region 6) for allegedly violating the strict command policy on accurate crime reporting.
Massacre suspect held
MAGUINDANAO: Police on Friday arrested in Datu Saudi town another suspect in the November 23, 2009 ‘Maguindanao Massacre’ that left 58 dead, 32 of them journalists. Alimudin Sanguyod, also known as Norodin Garaputan, did not resist arrest when the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao cornered him at a busy intersection in Barangay Salbo. Officials showed Sanguyod a copy of the warrant for his arrest, issued by Judge Jocelyn Solis of the Quezon City Regional Trial Court, in the presence of barangay officials before they cuffed and brought him to their office in Cotabato City for detention.
Medical camp benefits 426
NORTH COTABATO: A total of 426 villagers in Magpet town have availed themselves of free medical and dental services provided by the provincial government. The humanitarian outreach mission in Barangay Del Pilar, a hinterland district in Magpet, was jointly facilitated by the office of North Cotabato Governor Emmylou Taliño-Mendoza, and the Army’s 57th Infantry Battalion. Members of the Army’s 7th Field Artillery Battalion also helped in the activity, which was preceded by more than a dozen other medical-dental missions the past three months in isolated villages under the 57th IB.
Poll panel bans motorcades
MANILA: The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has prohibited candidates in the October 28 barangay elections from holding campaign motorcades in Metro Manila, an official said yesterday. Comelec Chairman Sixto Brillantes said the poll body approved the request of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) to ban campaign motorcades along 22 major roads in the metropolis. “The request of MMDA Chairman Francis Tolentino is already okay. We will just be adopting the previous resolution we issued (for the) May elections,” Brillantes said.
Training for Moro women
MAGUINDANAO: Thirty-five Moro women from Maguindanao are working on reaping the benefits of ‘green gold’ that can be harvested free anytime from swamps and rivers in the province. The moniker green gold refers to the fast-growing water hyacinths covering the surface of the nearby 220,000-hectare Liguasan Delta and those floating on big rivers straddling through the province. The 35 entrepreneurs, some of them from towns where there are enclaves of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, underwent training in water hyacinth cultivation from October 14 to 18. Agencies
