GENERAL SANTOS CITY(MindaNews/18 November) — The Police Regional Office (PRO) 12 is preparing a 130-person contingent for possible deployment in areas devastated by super typhoon “Yolanda” in Samar and Leyte provinces. Chief Supt. Charles Calima Jr., PRO-12 director, said Monday
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/18 November) – In “better” times, “embittered” Filipino nationalists and activists cry out, “Yankees, Go Home”! The Yankees stay. In “battered” times, Filipinos hope and pray, if not beg, “Yankees, S.O.S!” The Yankees come. Last Thursday, November
TACLOBAN CITY (MindaNews/18 November)—For some folk in this city, which was flattened by super typhoon “Yolanda,” relief goods reaching them are not enough, despite the massive arrival of supplies from around the nation and from foreign countries. “What will you
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/18 November)– Attempts to bribe families of the victims of the Ampatuan Massacre to back out from the case and exonerate the principal suspects have reportedly persisted in the last four years but no one has so
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/18 November)– A private prosecutor in the continuing Ampatuan Massacre trial has expressed optimism over the national government’s resolve to secure convictions for the principal suspects accused in the grisly manslaughter within the next three years. Lawyer
An Army truck from the 4th Infantry Division based in Cagayan de Oro City is being loaded, back first, into a ferryboat bound for Benit in San Ricardo, Southern Leyte as hundreds of trucks loaded with relief supplies crowd the
SURIGAO CITY (MindaNews/18 November)— The once sleepy seaport terminal in Barangay Lipata here is pulsating with activity after hundreds of vehicles carrying relief goods and workers to Yolanda-devastated areas in the Visayas forced it to operate at full capacity. Francisco
For the longest time, the award-winning Mindanawon filmmaker, Arnel Mardoquio, had been inviting me to visit him and the members of his team while they were shooting a film. I had long wanted to respond favorably to the invitation as
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews / 17 Nov) — I had that eerie, weird feeling scanning the destroyed houses as we “toured” the other day the so-called “ground zero” where Ustadz Habier Malik and his MNLF armed force engaged government forces for
