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Day: November 29, 2011

Is Salamat Hashim dead? Is Kato alive?

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/29 November) –  Is Ustadz Amiril Umra Kato dead or alive?” This was the same question asked eight years ago of Ustadz Salamat Hashim, chair of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). Hashim, the first chair of the

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Tuna Capital

Tuna fish are lined up for weighing before they are sold to buyers at the Fish Port Complex in Barangay Tambler, General Santos City last Nov. 21, 2011. MindaNews photo by Erwin Mascarinas

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CDO: Mindanao from A to Z

Students view the “Mindanao from A to Z” photo exhibit held at Xavier University in Cagayan de Oro Last Friday, Nov. 25, 2011. The exhibit, which will run until Nov. 30, features 50 pictures from the photo book “Mindanao into

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2011 Run Rio

Athletes attempt to shoot a ring into a pole during one of the fun games in the 2011 Run Rio regional series held in Cagayan de Oro City Sunday, Nov. 27, 2011. MindaNews photo by Jasper Llanderal

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Tuna fish are lined up for weighing before they are sold to buyers at the Fish Port Complex in Barangay Tambler, General Santos City last Nov. 21, 2011. MindaNews photo by Erwin Mascarinas

Tons of dead tuna dumped in Sarangani Bay

KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/29 November) — The provincial government of Sarangani has launched an investigation into the dumping over the weekend of an estimated 20 tons of decaying skipjack and bonito tuna in Sarangani Bay. Rolando D. Tuballes, chief of the

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Surigao governor finds her peacemaker

SURIGAO CITY (MindaNews/29 November) — After weeks of sending feelers to individuals who could possibly offer a link to the New People’s Army rebels so she can talk to them about “what their problems really are,” Surigao del Norte Gov.

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DSWD to reform subsidy program for poor families

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/29 November) – The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is eyeing some policy and systems changes in the national government’s conditional cash transfer program in a bid to enhance its planned expansion next year to

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Army offers security for broadcaster

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/29 November)–The 4th Infantry Division said they are willing to secure shooting survivor DXIF-Radyo Bombo commentator Michael James “Dacoycoy” Licuanan in their camp’s hospital while the latter is not yet enrolled in the Department of Justice’s

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An anarchy of mansions

FORMER Maguindanao Governor Andal Salibo Ampatuan Sr. is, as far as his statements of assets, liabilities, and net worth (SALN) are concerned, a simple farmer. His son Zaldy, formerly the regional governor of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM),

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In banks we trust? So did Ampatuans

UNLESS THE Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) moves faster than usual, the clan implicated in the Nov. 23, 2009 Maguindanao Massacre might soon retake control of what by all accounts is a scandalously vast estate of money and mansions, and wheels and weapons it had acquired while governing over a dirt-poor province.

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Armed men disarm SMI guards; exploration activities suspended

KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/28 November)—Armed men struck anew at the remote mines development site of Sagittarius Mines Inc., forcing the foreign-backed company to temporarily suspend exploration activities in the area, officials said on Monday. John Arnaldo, Sagittarius Mines corporate communications manager,

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Coffee production down 7.40%

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/28 November) — Coffee production in the country decreased by 7.40 percent in the first nine months of the year compared to the same period last year due to land conversion and continuous rains in the second quarter

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Study on active faults in Bukidnon needed

MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/28 November) — There is a need to conduct a geologic study in Bukidnon to confirm if there is an active fault cutting through it following the 5.2 magnitude earthquake in Valencia City and the rest of the

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