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MindaNews / 17 August 2026 – The former special disbursing officer of the Office of the Vice President (OVP) admitted Monday that she turned over P125 million in cash to Col. Raymund Lachica, then-head of the Vice Presidential Security Group, to be spent on confidential operations. Under questioning as a hostile witness by private prosecutor […]
MindaNews / 17 August 2026 – A visibly impatient Senator-judge Erwin Tulfo interrupted the direct examination Monday of Gina Acosta, former special disbursing officer of the Office of the Vice President, to confront her on why she appeared struggling with Filipino and English questions. Holding a transcript of Acosta’s testimony before a House committee hearing […]
MindaNews / 17 August 2026 – The former special disbursing officer (SDO) of the Office of the Vice President (OVP) said Monday that Physical and Financial Plans involving confidential funds don’t need to specify targets and activities, a statement that contravened assertions made by state auditors who had testified as prosecution witnesses in the impeachment […]
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / August 16) — UNESCO evaluators arrived here on Sunday to start its five-day field validation on the nomination of the country’s highest peak as a potential UNESCO Global Geopark. UNESCO evaluators Gay Martin Martini of France and Chenggong Zhang of China, will verify first-hand the self-evaluation checklist document submitted jointly by […]
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (16 August 2026) — The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) is proposing to replace the country’s paper-based catch certification system with an electronic platform to improve the traceability of fish and fishery products for export. BFAR presented the proposed amendment to Fisheries Administrative Order (FAO) No. 268, Series of 2023, […]
Daughter goes to CA for judicial recognition of her father as 58th victim of Ampatuan Massacre DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 16 August 2026) – The daughter of Tacurong City’s Midland Review photojournalist Reynaldo “Bebot” Momay on Friday filed before the Court of Appeals in Manila a Manifestation with Reiterative Motion on her appeal for judicial recognition […]
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 15 August 2026) — Abdulraof “Sammy Gambar” Macacua, Bangsamoro Interim Chief Minister, and his entourage escaped unharmed after their convoy was ambushed around 4:45 p.m. Saturday in Barangay Dulangan, Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao del Norte. The gunfire hit three vehicles of Macacua’s convoy, but all passengers and security personnel emerged safe […]
KABUNTALAN, Maguindanao del Norte (MindaNews / 15 August 2026) — Abdulraof “Sammy Gambar” Macacua, Interim Chief Minister of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, has been sworn in as chair and president of the Bangsamoro Federalist Party (BFP). Macacua’s assumption of the post followed his formal oath-taking Saturday as a BFP member during the […]
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 14 August 2026) — Children’s safety occupied the minds of some parents as face-to-face classes resumed here starting Thursday after being suspended for two months after the magnitude 7.8 earthquake on June 8 that damaged several structures. Willa Bravo, whose two sons, aged six and nine, are enrolled in Grades […]
CAGAYAN DE ORO (MindaNews / 14 August 2026) – Traders attending the 35th Mindanao Business Conference at the Limketkai Mall here are pushing for mobile banking innovations to boost the island’s P2-trillion agricultural economy. Maricel Casiño-Rivera, a director of the Cagayan de Oro Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Oro Chamber), said such a move could […]
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 12 August 2026) — Mindanao’s business leaders are calling for more robust business chambers to be able to help small and emerging enterprises. Leaders interviewed by MindaNews at the start of the three-day 35th
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 12 August 2026) — Across Mindanao, small producers and emerging enterprises are making products that reflect local resources, skills and ideas. But for many of them, production is only one part of building a
Residents in Barangay Lapuan, Don Marcelino, Davao Occidental are not aware that the revetment they have converted into a swimming pool is a project by Alpha & Omega Gen. Contractor & Development Corp., a Discaya-owned contractor. MindaNews photo by GREGORIO C BUENO DON MARCELINO, Davao Occidental (MindaNews / 29 July 2026) – A tall, lean […]
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 17 August 2026) – Five minutes. Try measuring it. Make coffee and watch the clock. Scroll through Facebook. Reply to one message, perhaps two. Stand outside your house and talk to a neighbor. Five minutes can
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 16 August) — The development of Mindanao’s agribusiness sector is central to the economic advancement of the Philippines. Mindanao produces over 40% of the country’s food supply and drives more than 30% of its national agricultural
QUEZON CITY (MindaNews 16 August 2026) — Public money always leaves a trace somewhere. Auditors follow that trace for a living. This week one auditor traced it publicly. The Fourteenth Day The trial reached its fourteenth day (on August 11). The prosecution
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 07 June) — A photo posted on Facebook last April 26 of Senator Christopher “Bong” Go distributing shoes to members of the New People’s Army (NPA) is not AI-generated or edited. Claims that the photo posted
A Facebook post from Kuyz TV claiming that Davao City Mayor Sebastian “Baste” Duterte signed a railway contract with a supposed Japanese governor from “Gensokyo” is FAKE and based on fictional references. The post, shared by Kuyz TV on May
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 09 August) – Voters in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 09 August 2026) – When the Peace Implementing Panels of the
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 04 August 2026) – The Bangsamoro peace process is back on track
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 04 August) – The first meeting this year of the government
