DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/26 February) — The government's view of development in Mindanao is hinged on the global economy, which is imposed upon Mindanao even if it is detached from realities of the people, Dolores Corro, coordinator of the Mindanao Coalition of Development NGOs (MinCode) said.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/26 February) — The Department of Environment and Natural Resources' Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) has sent a team of investigators in T'boli, South Cotabato to evaluate the area's gold rush sites which were earlier closed down by the provincial government due to imminent landslides.
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/26 Feb) – It’s coffee now, more than oil palm in Sultan Kudarat province. Coffee production has edged out oil palm as the major crop of Sultan Kudarat province but provincial officials are pushing oil palm back to its top post.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/26 February) — The city government here plans to upgrade the city hospital's capacity to at least 155 beds, 55 more beds than its present capacity, to have it classified as a tertiary hospital.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/26 Feb) — Local government units cannot be spared the blame for the failure of peace and development initiatives in Mindanao because they, too, are mandated to take full responsibility, South Cotabato Gov. Daisy Fuentes said Monday.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/26 February) — Reacting to the presentations on the historical analysis of Mindanao’s development paradigms, Datu Michael Mastura, historian, lawyer and member of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front peace panel said development should not be viewed primarily as an “economic” problem but a political issue.
1st of three parts: A Failed Peace Agreement
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/26 February) — A few weeks from now, in early February, a tripartite meeting between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP), the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), and the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) will be held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia to sort out the problems in the implementation of the 1996 peace agreement between the two. The fact that this meeting has to be held only highlights the problem the 1996 peace agreement encountered in its implementation.
