South Cotabato town mayor shot dead

Edwin Fernandez 07/10/2020

COTABATO CITY – Mayor Pablo Matinong Jr. of Sto. Niño, South Cotabato was shot dead by motorcycle-riding assassins at around 7:30 a.m. Friday, July 10, 2020. Matinong sustained two gunshot wounds to the head. Police said the…

2 frontline health workers attacked

Ador Vincent Mayol, Edwin Fernandez 03/30/2020

COTABATO CITY, Maguinadano, Philippines —The discrimination against health workers in the frontline of the battle against the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has become violent. Two persons, a hospital employee in Tacurong City and a nurse of a…

Officials try to shield quake evacuees from COVID-19

Edwin Fernandez, Eldie Aguirre, Orlando Dinoy 03/25/2020

They were uprooted from their communities by powerful earthquakes last year, living with other families of a similar fate in cramped makeshift shelters. As authorities put up a fight against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), they were asked…

Mindanao quake survivors grow desperate for aid

Edwin Fernandez, Eldie Aguirre, Germelina Lacorte, Williamor Magbanua 11/03/2019

MAKILALA, Cotabato, Philippines — Scores of villagers displaced by three recent earthquakes that struck Mindanao were growing desperate for help and have taken their appeal for aid to roadsides as the government and private groups struggled to…

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