COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/24 January)–Maguindanao Gov. Esmael Mangudadatu called on local candidates in the May 13 elections to sign a province-wide covenant to ensure honest and peaceful elections in the area. In pushing the covenant’s signing, Mangudadatu cited the infamous massacre
Anti-mining advocate Regina Lopez talks to thousands of anti-mining supporters who filled to the rafters the Cantilan Gymnasium during a sympoisum in Surigao del Sur on January 21, 2013. MindaNews photo by Vanessa L. Almeda
Jane Marie Datuin, 10, spends another night with her family and their dog named KB at the evacuation center inside the Maa Central Elementary School in Davao City on Monday, January 21, 2013. Jane Marie lives in Maa, one of
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/24 January) — After almost three months of delay, a foreign conservation group has resumed its field studies on tarsiers in the mountains of South Cotabato after getting the approval of a local environment body. Tupi town
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/24 January)—The Bukidnon provincial government clarified that the Kaamulan Festival 2013 will proceed as scheduled from February to March amidst speculations it was postponed to September. Fredelyn Ragandang, of the provincial governor’s Public Affairs Information and Assistance Office,
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/24 January)–A district school supervisor in Datu Montawal town in Maguindanao was unhurt when a fragmentation grenade exploded inside her residential compound at around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, a rescue volunteer said. Toto Abu, a volunteer for the 505
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/24 January)– Police arrested here an alleged notorious thief operating in North Cotabato at around 8 a. m. Thursday. Insp. Arniel Melocotones, Kidapawan deputy police chief, said 19-year old Jestoni Saban was nabbed inside his rented house at
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/24 January)—Wednesday’s diatribes between Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile and Minority Leader Peter Allan Cayetano make one wonder if the former has pushed his envelope too far after reinventing himself as an elderly statesman who redeemed his
Residents of Barangay Andap in New Bataan, Compostela Valley cross the makeshift bamboo footbridge as the road leading to the town proper from the mountain village was blocked to direct the rampaging waters away from the road on January 22.
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/23 Jan) – The proposed $5.9-billion Tampakan copper-gold project of foreign-backed Sagittarius Mines, Inc. continues to suffer a setback locally after the Sangguniang Panlalawigan of South Cotabato stood pat on the province’s controversial ban on open-pit mining. The
CANTILAN, Surigao del Sur (MindaNews / 23 Jan) – Staunch anti-mining advocate Regina Lopez rallied residents in the seven towns of Surigao del Sur last Monday to oppose mining in eco-tourism sites. Some 6,000 advocates chanted and raised their fists
NEW BATAAN, Compostela Valley (MindaNews/23 January) – Fifty-three-year-old farmer Clemente Dulce sat on a pew at the San Antonio de Padua parish late Tuesday afternoon, wondering if he would still have a house to return to when the rains stop.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 23 Jan) – “If we only have a choice, we don’t want to live here.” This is the common sentiment of those living at the flood-prone Jade Valley Homes in Barangay Tigatto here. Jade Valley Homes
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 23 Jan) – The 8th Mindanao Media Summit to be held here on January 25-26 will talk about the impacts of social media in reporting governance and elections. Some 80 journalists and media practitioners from the
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 23 Jan) – Text messages about the flood situation here over the weekend have been helpful for some residents, especially those living in the lowlands like Barangay Waan. Macabayao Apadan, barangay chairman of Waan, said a
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 23 January) – President Benigno Simeon C. Aquino III told the station managers of Radio Mindanao Network in Malacañang last January 10 that his government’s “relentless campaign against graft and corruption would continue” and warned “that one of the perceived ‘most corrupt’ government agencies ‘will get a very severe jolt’ in due time” without naming the agency. (The Philippine Star, January 12, 2013: Noy: Corrupt gov’t agency will get a severe jolt)
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 23 Jan) – The city government is planning to relocate informal settlers in disaster-prone areas, who were among those affected by the flooding last weekend, a government official said Wednesday. Robert Alabado III, head of the
ang kandidato sa Senado nga taga-Mindanao murag nagpa-kaulaw ok ra daw ang epal kay aron mahibaw-an accomplishment nila sa katawhan ibandera sa kalibutan tubag sa kadaghanan: kinahanglan gyud diay ipamudmod sa katawhan ang gihatag nga serbisyo nga inyo man nang
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 23 Jan) – The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Region 12 is pushing for the creation of a special regional body that would handle the settlement of conflicting land claims and the
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 23 Jan) – Health authorities in Sarangani province have declared the recent occurrence of the mosquito-borne chikungunya disease in two of its municipalities as under control even as it continues to monitor other possible cases
