ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/09 July) – Pockets of harassment and delays marred the opening of the general re-listing of voters in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) on Monday, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said. Comelec spokesperson James Arthur B.
CAUGHT. A group of registrants is caught on camera receiving instructions from a fellow registrant on what to put on their application forms at the Amai Pakpak Elementary School in Marawi City on July 9, 2012, the first day of
FOR THE ELDERLY. Senior citizens register at the Marawi Central Elementary Pilot School in Marawi City on July 9, 2012, the first day of the 10-day re-listing of voters in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. Senior citizens are given
MARAWI CITY (MindaNews/09 July) — Flying registrants, the clustering of registration centers, and minors trying to register plagued the first day of the re-registration of voters in Lanao del Sur, an election official said today. Commission on Elections Commissioner Armando Velasco chanced upon a minor, a girl lining up to register at a registration center in Barangay Lower Dansalan, Marawi City on Monday, the first day of registration.
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/09 July)—The open-pit ban imposed by the provincial government of South Cotabato, which poses an obstacle to the Tampakan copper-gold project of Sagittarius Mines Inc., remains in effect, Environment Secretary Ramon Paje said on Monday as he discussed
TANDAG CITY (MindaNews/09 July) – One of Mindanao’s best editors was laid to rest Sunday, a week after succumbing to cancer in a Davao City hospital. Mario T. Lumanao, journalist and “Lawyer of the Masses” of Tandag was buried at
TANDAG CITY (MindaNews/09 July) — The governor of Surigao del Sur has shrugged off plans to revive the country’s first and only paper milling company despite the endorsement of another government agency to revive it. “Ay wala na na,” (Forget
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/09 July) — After the fifth round of the Nonino Donaire-Jeffrey Mathebula unification fight, I decided it was time to drive to Koronadal City to attend the burial of Jonas, eldest son of fellow journalist Allen Estabillo.
KABACAN, North Cotabato (MindaNews/09 July) — Purok Malimo in the small village of Cuyapon here was abuzz. Women were busy preparing food, men were busy fixing up the stage, and children clad in their abayas and kopias, and some in togas were milling around, excited for one of the most important events of their lives: graduation day.
MARAWI CITY (MindaNews/08July) — Election officer Tommy Macadingdang sat on the boxes containing generating sets at the motor pool of the Lanao del Sur provincial capitol Sunday, waiting for transportation. It has been hours since he started waiting but Macadingdang was not worried. He was optimistic that transportation will arrive in time for the generators to be delivered to Molundo town in Lanao del Sur.4
Police officers load a generating set to their car for deployment in barangays in Lanao del Sur that have no electricity, on July 8, 2012. The Commission on Elections has initiated a re-registration of voters for Lanao del Sur and
BAYANIHAN. Residents, as well as passengers, help out the injured after an Elf truck and a bus passenger collided along the highway in Barangay Maibo in the municipality of Tantangan, South Cotabato Sunday (8 July 2012) afternoon. The Elf truck,
TANTANGAN, South Cotabato (MindaNews/08 July) — An Elf truck carrying delegates of the Bangsamoro Leaders Assembly in Sultan Kudarat town in Maguindanao collided with a passenger bus along the national highway in Barangay Maibo Sunday, afternoon, killing its driver and critically injuring two others.
Women wait under the scorching heat of the sun for MILF chairman Ebrahim Al Hadj Murad to deliver his State of the Bangsamoro address on July 7, 2012 in Camp Darapanan, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao. Mindanews Photo by Charlie Saceda
MILF chairman Ebrahim Al Hadj Murad meets dignitaries during the Bangsamoro Leaders Assembly on July 7, 2012 in Camp Darapanan, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao. Mindanews Photo by Charlie Saceda
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/8 July) — Mindanao will get some P27 billion for the paving of national road networks next year to improve the movement of goods and people in the south, officials said. The Department of Public Works and Highways’
Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) supporters from Datu Paglas town take their lunch in front of a chapel in Barangay Takepan, Pikit on Friday before heading to Camp Darapanan, Sultan Kudarat town of Maguindanao on Friday for the Bangsamoro Leaders
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/08 July) — The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) has proposed the purchase of 27 patrol boats from local manufacturers to boost its marine protection capability. The proposed purchase, estimated at P189 million, has been forwarded
