MARAWI CITY (MindaNews/29 May) — Minors were able to vote and there was rampant vote-buying even inside the polling centers: all of these election irregularities were done in the presence of policemen and election special action officers, a poll watch group in Lanao del Sur said today.
QUEZON CITY (MindaNews/29 May) — Paddy's jubilant hail checked my mad dash across the street to the parking lot. The man seldom raises his voice. In fact, that was the only time I can remember that he raised decibels at me. That stopped me dead in my tracks.
PIKIT, North Cotabato (MindaNews/29 May) — Jainab, one of my students before at the Notre Dame of Jolo College sent me a story that she wrote about Babuh Balma, a Tausug woman who is assisting Tabang Mindanao as a volunteer in their supplemental feeding program.
MARAWI CITY (MindaNews/29 May) — It was just like the movie, "Mission Impossible” — the car chase Monday went through a maze of narrow streets clogged with vehicular traffic but ended abruptly inside the campus of the Mindanao State University.
MARAWI CITY (MindaNews/29 May) — The smell at the Lanao del Sur Provincial Capitol gym was so obnoxious that counting of ballots had to be stopped several times Monday night.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/29 May) — The Department of Agriculture wants the resource-rich, 214,000-hectare Sarangani Bay included in the mariculture highway project of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/29 May) — Incumbent officials who lost or those who are "graduating" from their third term on June 30, should ensure a smooth transition to their successors, the Department of Interior and Local Governments (DILG) said as a reminder.
DAVAO CITY (Akbay Kalusugan/29 May) — The U.P. Manila College of Public Health and National Institute of Health in collaboration with its local NGO partner, Akbay Kalusugan, Inc.— a group of U.P. alumni and volunteers committed to serve humanity through partnership efforts for the advancement of health in the communities — will conduct a series of trainings in Mindanao starting August to help health workers and media people communicate effectively in varied health care settings.
MARAWI CITY (Mindanews/28 May) – Two days after the special polls, canvassing of election returns in the 13 towns where special elections were held over the weekend, has yet to start, lawyer Carlos Medina, chair of the Legal Network for Truthful Elections (LENTE), said.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/28 May) -– Is there another way of choosing leaders in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), one that would consider “accepted traditional power structures and cultural values?” Cotabato Archbishop Orlando Quevedo, OMI, asked.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/28 May) An official of the Department of Interior and Local Government called the brewing court battle between the city's banana industry and the city government as the best way out of their "battle of interests.”
MAASIM, Sarangani (EcoGov/29 May) – People from different faiths converged again in the predominantly Muslim village of Asnalang on May 22, just 19 days after its successful mangrove-planting activity, to help rehabilitate its mangrove forest.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/28 May) — Tension has gone down in Davao del Sur following the announcement of a shoot-to-kill order against escorts with criminal records and politicians who have allegedly coddled them, Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, chair of the Southeastern Mindanao Regional Peace and Order Council, said.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/28 May) — The last May 14, May 11, 2004 and other past elections have these in common: cheating, frauds, all other forms of anomalies and terrorism – the degree and extent worsening with the passage of years. Incredible, not credible, election has been in the process of perfection.
MAITUM, Sarangani (Sarangani Information Office/29 May 2007) — Camera club members from the cities of Davao and General Santos shot their way to the top of the "3rd Maitum Photo Safari Photo Contest" last week as a highlight of the town's annual Binuyugan Festival.
MARAWI CITY (MindaNews/28 May) – The National Movement for Free Elections (Namfrel) here has warned against delays in canvassing of the votes cast in the special elections in 13 of Lanao del Sur’s 39 towns where failure of elections was declared on May 14.
