DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/19 December) — The chair of the government panel in the peace negotiations with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) says what happened last weekend in Kuala Lumpur is “not a hopeless case” as he vowed they “won’t let this deteriorate into an impasse.”
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/19 December) – The ten-year peace process between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has become a history of disappointments: whenever a breakthrough occurs, a breakdown is not far behind.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/Dec 19) – Police and military operatives arrested today eight natives who reportedly attacked an outpost after a drinking spree. An Army officer and a civilian was wounded in the early dawn attack.
This is to inform that Reverend Modesto Villasanta Jr, who was mentioned in a news item of the Philippine Daily Inquirer dated November 27, 2007 as a Roman Catholic Priest, is actually and in fact an active and ordained minister of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines – Surigao District Conference ( UCCP – SUDISCON ) assigned in the local church in Diatagon, Lianga, Surigao del Sur.
APPEAL TO BREAK THE STUMBLING BLOCK
THAT DERAILS THE WAY TO PEACE
The peace negotiations between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) have been going on-and-off for the past 10 years.
In its start, the government wanted the peace negotiations not to go out from the sphere of the Philippine Constitution. As a revolutionary organization that doesn’t recognize the Philippine Constitution, the MILF made it clear to the government that unless the negotiation is brought outside the parameter of the constitution, the peace negotiation would be meaningless and not worth pursuing.
SYDNEY (MindaNews/19 Dec) — I have heard so much about Speech Days. It is the equivalent of the end of the year Recognition Day for all the non-graduating classes in High School.
I was not expecting that I will be attending one this year. Noellin told me she was receiving a merit certificate for sports and I was not expected to attend as most parents are not coming. Two days before Speech Day, which fell on her birthday, she told me she was getting two more awards. So my half-day off work for her birthday became a full day so I can attend the event.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/19 Dec) — "Does this hurt?" asked my gynecologist, Dr. Elmer Chua, as he applied pressure somewhere in my nether region. I had to think hard whether that touch qualified as pain. Reluctantly, I said, "That's kind of uncomfortable. I can't tell if it's pain."
DAKBAYAN SA DABAW (MindaNews/Disyembre 19) — Mingaw ang palibot. Gawas sa kasagarang madunggan sa pag-abot sa kadulom, walay laing nibuak sa kahilom. Walay nagtikaw-tikaw ug nidisturbo sa pagpahulay sa mga binuhat sa kalibutan.
