DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/02 July) — Personnel from local government units (LGUs) topped the list of government workers facing the most number of cases before the Deputy Ombudsman for Mindanao, senior graft investigator Gay Maggie Violan told some 30 mayors who attended the 1st Conference on Integrity and Good Governance.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/02 July) — The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) here said Mount Apo, the country’s highest peak, is a “potentially active” volcano but assured the public there is no cause for worry.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/02 July) — Operatives of the North Cotabato police raided the house of a suspected manufacturer of illegal firearms in Matalam, North Cotabato on Friday.
Chief Insp. Leo Ajero, chief of the intelligence division, identified the suspected gun manufacturer as Winsip Dalmacio, 38, resident of Santo Cano, Barangay Linao, Matalam.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/02 July) – Armed clashes in at least seven of 28 towns in Maguindanao following the June 23 ambush on Governor Andal Ampatuan in Shariff Aguak town are driving more investors away.
Ma. Lourdes Lim, director of the National Economic and Development Authority in Region 12 (Southwestern Mindanao), has called on government and MILF forces to cease fighting and observe the ceasefire agreement once again.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/02 July) — "Mom, wake up! This will only take a minute. You don't have to get up."
Eight-year-old Sage's voice whispered with hushed excitement against my ear. I could smell her sweet hair as she nuzzled me gently awake. I cracked one eye open in the predawn light and reached out an arm to draw her close. She rewarded me with a snuggle.
"Look out the window, Mom."
TILL DEATH. Killed together, buried together. Relatives and friends chant "Hustisya para kay George," and "Hustisya para kay Macel" on Saturday, July 1 at the Cotabato Memorial Park in Kidapawan City. MindaNews photo by Carolyn O. Arguillas
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/01 July) –Kidapawan Bishop Romulo Valles urged the killers of development workers George and Maricel Vigo to “be afraid now” and “repent” because “God has finished His investigation and punishment is ready.”
“We may not see it right away, but certainly, surely, the justice of the Lord will be done, be assured of that,” Valles said during the homily of the funeral mass for the Vigos Saturday morning at the Cathedral.
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/01 July) — The new impeachment case filed against President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will only prosper if the people will get actively involved in it, even to the point of "boycotting the establishments that support the administration and perhaps consider slowing down in the payment of their taxes as an expression of their disgust with the corruption and abuses of the administration," Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Q. Pimentel Jr. today said in a statement.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/01 July) – An outpouring of grief, admiration and sense of loss marked Friday night's vigil for couple George and Maricel Vigo, at the Our Lady Mediatrix of All Grace Cathedral here.
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/01 July) – The first phase of the construction of the Mount Kitanglad Cultural Heritage Center will start this month as the World Bank has released the full amount of the grant that it had approved early this year, according to the Kitanglad Integrated NGOs (KIN).
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/02 July) — Townmates of Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao here and abroad greeted his victory over Mexican Oscar Larios even as many say he could have knocked down Larios immediately and not wait for a unanimous decision on the 12th round.
