GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/10 July) – South Cotabato Gov. Arthur Pingoy has insisted that the provincial environment code which bans open pit mining method is consistent with national law which upholds the general welfare of the people. Pingoy made the
Soldiers check passing vehicles along the national highway in Guindulungan town, Maguindanao 9 July 2012 during the start of the 10-day general re-listing of voters in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM). MindaNews photo by Erwin Mascarinas
HOPEFUL VOTERS. A big crowd of registrants waits outside the town hall of Taraka in Lanao del Sur where the registration of voters is conducted. Most of the registration centers are swamped by registrants on the second day. MindaNews photo
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/10 July) — With the new mining policy of the Aquino administration now in place, the Sangguniang Panlalawigan of South Cotabato “will no longer act” on the petition to review the open-pit ban, an official said on
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/10 July) – The head of the country’s election body has witnessed firsthand a perennial problem bugging elections in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM). On Monday, Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chair Sixto Brillantes Jr. did not
MARAWI CITY (MindaNews/10 July) — A multi-agency task force started a crackdown on vehicles ferrying “fictitious registrants” on Tuesday after Army soldiers intercepted 13 such vehicles in Saguiaran town in Lanao del Sur on the same day. Col. Dario Bucawit,
SULTAN KUDARAT, Maguindanao (MindaNews/10 July) – While voters in other areas in Maguindanao are complaining about the slow pace of the registration process, those in Barangay Dalumangcob are not. The pace of registration for Dalumangcob residents at the Commission on
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/10 July)—Filipino and American navy and coast guard forces ended Tuesday their joint naval exercises in Mindanao on a high note, with both camps vowing to continue collaboration in maritime defense and disaster response. Commodore Philip Cacayan,
SURIGAO CITY (MindaNews/10 July) — Saying it would help boost the city’s capability to finance development projects, Surigao City Mayor Ernesto T. Matugas is pushing for the collection of P200,739,598. 72 million in unpaid real property taxes from the Privatization
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/10 July) – Eleven detainees including a notorious suspect escaped from the Maguindanao Provincial Jail in this city early Tuesday. Police said the prisoners escaped by cutting the grills at their toilet with a saw. Cotabato police personnel
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/10 July) — The Bukidnon Provincial Health Office has started monitoring water sources in the province’s 20 towns and two cities using portable microbiological laboratories, Engr. Florissa Adviento, chief of the PHO’s environmental and occupational health services, said.
