Sendong child survivors get to walk with Nike, a 6-year-old Golden Retriever owned by Iligan dog enthusiast Gary Po, in a psychosocial intervention facilitated by the group Ginhawa at an evacuation center at Barangay Sta. Filomena in Iligan City 21
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/20 Janua) – Learning its lessons from the tragic aftermath of the floods brought by Storm Sendong in Cagayan de Oro and Iligan cities last month, the city government has decided to relocate at least 6,000 families living
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/20 January) – The city government is pushing for the relocation in the coming months of residents situated in flood-prone areas and other identified calamity danger zones. Mary Ann Bacar, City Housing and Land Management Office chief,
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/20 January) – The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) has named a new commander for the Western Mindanao Command (Westmincom) based in this city. Named as Westmincom chief is First Infantry “Tabak” Division commander Maj. Gen. Noel
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/20 January) – The nephew of Aleosan, North Cotabato Mayor Loreto Cabaya was freed by his kidnappers after exactly two months in captivity. The mayor said Romy Cabaya, his 23-year old nephew, was released in Barangay Makir in
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/20 January) –The provincial government of South Cotabato is expecting to generate P30 million this year from the small-scale mining industry players in the area, officials said. Gov. Arthur Pingoy Jr. said they are confident of reaching the
Impeachment, a process that is used to charge, try and remove public officials for misconduct while in office, is a power exclusively belonging to Congress. The grounds for impeachment are based on Article XI, Section 2 of the 1987 Philippine Constitution which states: “The President, the Vice-President, the Members of the Supreme Court, the Members of the Constitutional Commissions, and the Ombudsman may be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, culpable violation of the Constitutions, treason, bribery, graft and corruption, other high crimes, or betrayal of public trust.”
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/20 January) — To Filipinos who had seen and followed the first ever impeachment trial involving former President Joseph Estrada in 2000, the first week of the trial of Philippine Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona was
