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DAVAO CITY (19 April 2011) — Since I was young, I have often heard my grandparents talk about their hometowns in Panay Island, Western Visayas. Even my uncles also talk about their vacation experience in Iloilo, particularly Pototan town, which is about 45 minutes away from Iloilo City. Just last week, Ruby and I had the chance to visit Panay Island, where most of the settlers in Southwestern Mindanao came from. Having born and grown up in Mindanao, I have always been eager to visit our beloved Iloilo. There’s a joke among Ilonggos that when you say you’re going to visit Iloilo, you will have to “renew.” It means you have to have your “license to boast” renewed in Iloilo.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/19 April) – Several current and former local government officials here and in the neighboring areas might be dragged into the alleged multimillion fertilizer scam once the Senate trial of the impeachment case against Ombudsman Meceditas Gutierrez
SOMEWHERE IN MAGUINDANAO (MindaNews/19 April) — He arrived on horseback an hour and twenty minutes after our arrival at the meeting venue last Saturday, the bespectacled lone rider followed by a band of about 20 armed men hiking down the mountain.
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/19 April) – Former Malaybalay City mayor Edilberto Mamawag Sr. said Malaybalay City needs to revive and fund a historical committee created in the late 1970s to look into historical events that still have a lingering effect on
BABAK, Samal Island (MindaNews/19 April) — Relatives, friends and colleagues came as journalist Jethro C. Dionisio was laid to rest in his native town Tuesday afternoon. Jethro spent his last moments in his home in Purok 4, Balet of this
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/19 April) – Thirty-four cases of trafficking in persons have been filed in the regional trial courts in Region XI since 2003, but only three of these cases have resulted in convictions, a Department of Justice official said.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/19 April) – At least two agro-industrial and residential communities here will soon enjoy free and stable electricity through a P46-million farm-based alternative power generation facilities being developed by a Bangkok-based renewable energy firm. Don Mario Dia,
