LRT- 2 RESUMES FULL OPERATIONS ON MONDAY
THE Light Rail Transit-2 resumed full operations on Monday after limiting the trips from Santolan to Cubao stations only over a fire incident on Saturday night. Light Rail Transit Authority operator said the repair and restoration of the system lasted for more than 24 hours because of the complexity of technical fault. The fire broke at 9:57 p.m. after the junction box was hit by lightning that damaged power cables, telecommunication and signaling wires.
NPA REBEL KILLED, 2 ARRESTED IN SULTAN KUDARAT
A NEW People’s Army (NPA) member was killed in a clash with Philippine Army troops at Barangay Laguilayan, Isulan in Sultan Kudarat, while two others were arrested on Sunday. In a report by Lt. Col. Harold Cabunoc on Monday, commanding officer of the Army’s 33rd Infantry Battalion, an information received by the troops in the area resulted in the engagement of about 30 NPA rebels in the thickly vegetated area of Daguma Mountain Range. One soldier was wounded in the firefight. Recovered after the clash were of several M16 rifles, a hand grenade and improvised explosive devices. Col. Bismarck Soliba, commander of the 1st Mechanized Infantry Brigade, claimed that NPA bandits under “Ka George: were training minors during their encampment. The fierce firefight also displaced about 60 residents who are now housed in a shelter provided by Sultan Sinanggayan, Cabunoc added.
POE CITES QUEZON’S CHILD CARE PROJECT
LUCENA CITY, Quezon: Senator Grace Poe lauded the project of Gov. David Suarez – Q1k or Quezon first 1,000 days – officially launched on Monday) at the Quezon Convention Center, saying the project will greatly benefit young children and help lessen malnutrition in the country. Q1K, a project designed to take care a child’s first 1,000 days (from conception to two years of age) is conceptualized by Suarez to address the high number of malnutrition in the province. The Q1K includes monitoring of the child in the womb by providing vitamins and regular check up of the mother and giving supplemental food to the child up to his/her two years. Poe said the project is expected to eventually eradicate malnutrition in the country, citing 29,000 children die every year because of malnutrition. She assured Suarez of her support to secure budget for Q1K in the Senate and urged him to submit the full program dynamics of the project.
P129- M POLLOC PORT INVESTMENT TO BOOST MINDANAO ECONOMIC CORRIDOR
COTABATO CITY: The recent registration by the Regional Board of Investments ( RBOI) of the P129- million investment of Bangsamoro Terminal Services, Inc. ( BTSI) based in Polloc Port is seen to boost the Mindanao Economic Corridors strategy for the province’s economic development. RBOI- Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) chairman Ishak Mastura said this is because Polloc Port provides easy access for bulk cargo in Central Mindanao, particularly Maguindanao, the land- locked areas of North Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat and the coastal municipalities of Lanao del Sur. Polloc Port is a key node in the South Central Mindanao Corridor under the Mindanao Development Authority’s ( MinDA) Economic Development Corridors strategy for economic growth, Mastura pointed out. The Mindanao Development Corridors is a spatial development strategy that aims to increase the competitiveness of Mindanao industries by providing them with common service facilities in its bid to become self- reliant and internally dependable, Mastura added.