DAVAO CITY (Karapatan Southern Mindanao/May 12) –Karapatan Southern Mindanao Region expressed today its worries that ongoing probe on the killing of Datu Domingo Diarog, that also caught his wife Emily and their two childrenwounded in Tugbok District of this city would be whitewashed.
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/11 May) – The Central Mindanao University (CMU) has blocked a government composite team from conducting a land survey this week, defying a presidential order cutting a fifth of its at least 3,000 hectares for indigenous peoples.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/12 May) – Redemptorist priest Amado “Picx” Picardal arrived in Surigao City from Liloan in Southern Leyte Sunday, a day ahead of schedule and is resting and doing laundry work today, Day 50 of his 56-day bicycle journey nationwide “for life and peace.”
He has biked 4,614 kilometers around the country since he left Davao City on Easter Monday, March 24.
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/11 May) — The proposed environment code of South Cotabato province is making officials of a big mining firm nervous as it will ban the use of open-pit mining.
The foreign-backed Sagittarius Mines, Inc. had earlier expressed it prefers open-pit mining for its Tampakan copper and gold project.
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/11 May) – The parish of Malaybalay will spearhead the celebration of its annual parochial fiesta in honor of patron saint San Isidro Labrador on May 14 to 15.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/11 May) — Summer sucks.
Here I am stuck in the house, with my nearly neurotic Lola, well-meaning but utterly clueless yaya, and of course, my Mom.
What am I supposed to do? The computer is fast becoming boring, the TV is always goofing off and when it does work, the only things that are on it are Kung Fu Kids, Lobo, Palos, and Lovers.
On recent developments evolving around the Mindanao peace process:
These times require sober calls for calm and restraint on the part of everybody and not feed on the public's apprehensions. Statements that stoke the anxieties and fears of our people do not serve the interest of peace.
QUEZON CITY (MindaNews/07 May) — The House Committee on Appropriation tackled today the bills submitted by the solons intensifying socio-economic development in their respective regions.
BATO VILLAGE, Guiangga, Davao City (MindaNews/11 May) – Since the killing of Datu Dominador Diarog on April 29 in Sitio Kahusayan (Harmony Village), a seven-kilometer walk from here, the sitio has become a virtual “ghost town,” its villagers dispersed to several areas to seek refuge — under the shade of banana plants in neighboring Sitio Dominguez, with relatives and friends in the midst of banana plantations here, and in an elementary school and the Solidarity Action Group for Indigenous Peoples (SAGIP) in downtown Davao City, 36 kilometers away.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/11 May) – Mayor Rodrigo Duterte has asked the public to wait for the results of the investigation into the killing of Datu Dominador Diarog of Sitio Kahusayan, Barangay Manuel Guiangga in Tugbok District, instead of pointing accusing fingers at anyone.
This, as he asked those who are claiming ownership over the land to produce proof of ownership. “Everybody is bound by the Torrens Title. He who has the title owns the land,” he said.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/11 May) – The program may not be known to the majority but quietly, it has been transforming the lives of the city’s household help, workers and the older ones who dream of finishing high school.
Welcome to the Sunday School program.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/10 May) – Bukidnon Gov. Jose Zubiri is backing the resolution passed jointly by the provincial boards of his province and that of North Cotabato calling for the creation of a military task force to run after communist rebels operating in both provinces, which hopefully would do away with the bureaucracy in the military that would limit one unit from crossing another unit’s area of responsibility when pursuing highly mobile rebels.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/10 May) — Upset, they cried and punched the wall.
This was how Erlinda Moralde, mother of promising boxers John Vincent and Engelbert, described her boys’ reaction upon learning that they could not participate in the ongoing Smart-PLDT National Amateur Youth Boxing Championships in Ilo-ilo City.
