JOINT STATEMENT
The GRP and MILF Peace Panels ended their two-day special meeting today on a high note with both sides expressing deep satisfaction over the successful resolution of major issues to overcome the impasse last September 2006 over the Ancestral Domain agenda on territory.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/Oct 24) – The regional police director in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) has not received a copy of the order to arrest former Maguindanao election supervisor Lintang Bedol, ARMM police director, Chief Supt. Joel Goltiao, said.
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/24 October) — Local government leaders from Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines-East Asean Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA) agreed Thursday to align their policies to establish a more viable sub-regional investment and trade exchanges.
GUINDULUNGAN, Maguindanao (MindaNews/24 October) -Fifteen months after their houses were razed to the ground, victims of the July 2006 fire during the war between the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the armed Civilian Volunteers Organization (CVOs) in Shariff Aguak and Datu Unsay towns in Maguindanao, will finally have their houses built, the head of mission of the International Monitoring Team said.
TICALA ISLAND, Zamboanga del Sur (MindaNews/24 October) – A two-classroom building costing P1.3 million pesos has brought new hope for the children of this island, formerly referred to as "no man's land."
GUINDULUNGAN, Maguindanao (MindaNews/24 October) – The government and Moro Islamic Liberation Front’s ceasefire committees and the grassroots-led Bantay Ceasefire will monitor election-related incidents in “conflict-affected areas” in Mindanao that could affect the ceasefire implementation in the run-up to Monday’s barangay and Sanggunian Kabataan elections.
SHARIFF AGUAK, Maguindanao (MindaNews/24 October) — The provincial office of the Commission on Elections here is locked on this Wednesday morning and provincial capitol employees can't say where the Comelec personnel are.
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/24 October) — Local government leaders in the Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines-East Asean Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA) are pushing for the forging of least 10 new trading agreements, tourism and investment cooperation to help boost the sub-region's economy.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/24 October) — The local government here finalized a friendship agreement with the City of Nanning in China, Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said late Tuesday night.
UPPER BULANAN, Midsayap, North Cotabato (MindaNews/24 October) – Barangay health worker Evelyn Dojinog Homena, points to a small structure made of wood, a few meters from the roofed stage where the American doctor, a major in the US Armed Forces, is tending to some patients.
He's WBC super featherweight champion and unarguably the most famous Filipino athlete today.
He's also a loyal son of Sarangani Bay. Last week, Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao helped score a 'hard hit' against water contamination – a serious problem of local governments along Sarangani Bay in Southern Mindanao where waterborne disease is a growing threat.
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/24 October) – It’s over.
The Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) have broken the 13-month impasse on the ancestral domain agenda in the peace negotiations and are optimistic about resuming formal peace talks “before the end of the year.”
The two peace panels broke the impasse during a two-day special meeting in Kuala Lumpur that ended tonight.
