CAGAYAN DE ORO (MindaNews / 14 September) — If you look at Philippine governance in at least the last two decades, we find the lows and highs. The lows of the GMA administration were the Hello Garci, fertilizer scam, and
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews /03 August) — The LNG industry was quick to pick up a Reuters news dispatch last July 22, 2025 on the supposed decline of coal in the Philippines and increase in use of Liquefied Natural Gas
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 15 Aug)—Energy experts believe that Mindanao’s energy mix can transition back to at least 50% renewable energy dependence in the short term and expect cheaper electricity prices if the government gets back essential regulation
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 23 July) – President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has certainly exceeded expectations even from critics. While the Duterte camp escalated their attacks on the president, especially on the P20 per kilo rice promise, pulvoron, and
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 01 January) — The year 2023 ended with tropical cyclone Kabayan (Jelawat) dumping torrential rains on Mindanao’s Pacific seaboard before it crossed Mindanao. People and communities along Kabayan’s path prepared and braced for impact. Life
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 27 December)—While most of the world rejoiced in the birth of the Messiah in a manger somewhere at the crossroads between Europe and Asia or the coming in of Santa through holes in the
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 22 August) – Basketball loving Pinoys will transform into analysts with the coming of the FIBA World Cup 2023 (starting on August 25). Height is mighty in basketball. We knew that. Players just kept
CAGAYAN DE ORO (MindaNews / 22 July) – In Mindanao whose power needs are significantly supplied by hydroelectric power, around 25% in 2022, any changes in the water level at Lake Lanao will have dire impacts on the power supply
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews / 01 July) — Energy transition will happen. It is just a question of who will play prominent roles in the energy transition following the global agenda of reduction from fossil-based fuels to zero-carbon energy consumption and
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 29 June)—Mindanao will need around 2,000 megawatts of new renewable energy installed capacity by 2030 to fulfill the objective set by power stakeholders of a 50:50 renewable energy:fossil fuel energy mix in the next seven years.
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 29 May) — The staging by St. Mary’s School of Victor Hugo’s obra maestra, the Les Miserables, last May 20 and 21 at the Rodelsa Hall of Liceo de Cagayan University was very laudable
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 04 April) – Some eyebrows were raised when, early this political season, Vice President Leni Robredo included in her expanded Senate slate Sen. Juan Miguel “Migz” Zubiri. A commenter in one of the Bukidnon
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 15 Feb) – While driving down the steep highway in Civuleg, at the foothills of Mt. Balatucan, the radio DJ blurted out: Love and Hate Collide by De Fleppard. My late kumpare Longskie would
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 02 August) — Getting onion-skinned is the least of Mayor Oca Moreno’s traits. Even when political losers go very foul against him, he just dusts it off his shoulders — to the chagrin even
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 21 July) – This regime has taken to a new level the weak political party system of the country. Not even the dictator Ferdinand Marcos was able to do what it just did at
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 13 July) – The cracks in the ruling PDP-Laban party have become wide and clear. Five days into the crucial 17 July 2022 meeting of the party, the President recognized the leadership of Energy
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 21 June) — There is only one opposition bet in the 2022 presidential elections. And this opposition bet should not represent the Tagalog elites, Central Luzon and the landed cacique loosely called the dilawan.
CAGAYAN DE ORO (MindaNews / 15 October) – When I was a kid, I loved hearing my Lola talk about how they survived the Japanese invaders in World War II. Early in the war, every time they heard of an
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 02 May) — Friends, loved ones, confreres have come to grips with reality upon hearing the demise of Sustines “Lolong” Magallanes last Friday. A valiant environmentalist and exemplary development worker, Longskie to close friends,
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews / 7 April) – With medical personal protective equipment (PPE) becoming scarce in the battle against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), high school batchmates of the Bukidnon State University, through their group chat, have decided to do something
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/27 December) – Zero death as Cagayan de Oro City suffered its 3rd 100-year cycle flood in six years is something to reckon with. Floods are natural occurrences. Like other calamities, it is a natural hazard,
CEBU CITY (MindaNews/19 February) — Three regions in a weeks is backbreaking but encouraging.[] Campaigners of other candidates who were our friends from previous elections tease us for being all-purpose campaign workers. Well-to-do candidates do have full staff. They have
QUEZON CITY (MindaNews / 11 Jan) – The injustice that had befallen Mayor Oscar S. Moreno has had his political opponents exposing themselves. Truly, the plot thickens. First to jump on the gun on the mayor was his erstwhile ally,
Last Saturday, I did not mind waking up early and hauled my extended family for a homecoming in Gingoog City. Gingoognons living elsewhere are familiar with the question ‘where is that?[] ’ when filling up forms. The question is a no
QUEZON CITY (MindaNews / 3 Sept) – Leaders of cooperative federations meet here last Thursday to plan out actions on moves to abolish their privilege of tax exemption. In a meeting called by the Philippine Cooperative Center (PCC) yesterday, leaders
MANILA (MindaNews/07 August) — Once a journalist, you will always have that itch to write. I have not stopped writing since joining government, yes, the bureaucracy, some four months ago, but not this kind of writing. With the work load
MARAWI CITY (MindaNews/28 April) – At least a thousand residents joined the Bangsamoro Walk for Peace early Tuesday morning to push for the passage of the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) and to express solidarity with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/21 February) – Attending the Mindanao Summit on Disaster Risk Reduction and Geo-hazards Awareness here over the weekend was an excellent reason to reconnect with people who are battered but still fighting hard to recover from
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/07 Febaruary) – A the height of the post-Sendong recovery efforts and amid dire warnings of another human-induced tragedy – the inundation of the Iponan River watershed due to illegal mining – city officials are again
SUBIC BAY FREEPORT (MindaNews/21 January) – One of the persons who warned deadly floods in Cagayan de Oro after the Ormoc tragedy of November 1991 said that the December 16-17 Sendong floods may not yet be the “Ormoc-like” flood that
SUBIC BAY FREEPORT (MindaNews/11 January) – After his falling out with Cagayan de Oro City Mayor Vicente “Dongkoy” Emano years ago, the inimitable lawyer Frederico Gapuz said that aside from the self-styled political kingpin’s addiction to politics, he has that
SUBIC BAY FREEPORT (MindaNews/07 January) — I stand by my piece “Don’t cash in on Sendong please!”. I have also issued this rejoinder to the Aksyon Klima e-group where my column and Dr. Godilano’s reply were discussed. Experts are asked
SUBIC BAY FREEPORT (MindaNews/3 Jan) – The horrific impact of Sendong exposes not just the geo-hazards faced by the premier city of northern Mindanao but the deep social malaise relegated to the sidelines by the daily ruckus that characterize the
SUBIC BAY (MindaNews/31 December) — Our Father in heaven, forgive us our sins and help us forgive those who trespass against us. Grant us the faith na ikaw na bahala sa ila. Lamdagi pod kining mga self-righteous who have become
I was taking my dinner watching ANC’s World Tonight Tuesday when one of their crawling news titles caught my attention. It says: “Group warns Valencia floods may reach CDO.” I almost dropped from my seat when a person they interviewed,
The situation in 2009, where Cagayan de Oro City was hit by three floods (Jan. 3, Jan. 7 and Jan. 14), was that abnormal rainfall, which totalled about 400mm or one-fourth of the annual rainfall average, hitting the city in the first 14 days of the year. Compared to Dec. 17, 2011 floods, records in PAGASA was 180mm, or 3x the December average rainfall (63mm).
SUBIC BAY FREEPORT (MindaNews/17 December) — My wife and I were awakened about three o’clock in the morning when a text message popped in my phone. It was Art Bonjoc, Area Manager of ABS-CBN Northern Mindanao saying: “Agencies in CDO
President PNoy’s war footing and Justice Secretary Leila de Lima’s dogged determination against a supposed co-equal branch of government, the Supreme Court, in making a former President account for her alleged crimes should be easy to understand. Gloria should now
The survival of Bombo James Licuayan, a.k.a Agent James Dacuycoy, the hard hitting Bombo Radyo Cagayan de Oro reporter with a funny on-air name reminds me of the early 1980s low intensity conflict ops in Gingoog City. Living in the
SUBIC BAY (MindaNews/20 Nov) — Like the nightmares that Martial Law left us, the presidency of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo may have left unsavoury left-overs. Certain democratic institutions are designed to ensure continuity of constitutional authority. The Supreme Court has Justices whose
This is not the longest time I’ve been away from Cagayan de Oro in the last 21 years, but I am missing the action there so much that I’ve been repeatedly asking my wife to give me the dates of
The release of more than 6,000 prisoners from Myanmar’s notorious prisons last October 12 was no doubt welcome news. It is too early however to celebrate and remove Myanmar from the rogues gallery in the community of nations. Reports coming
The Nobel Peace Prize in at least the last three years represents unfinished struggles around the world. [] The annual prize given by the Royal Government of Norway in honor of the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, who wished the award
DOHA, Qatar (MindaNews/22 September) — Monitoring closely the debates in the United Nations whether to grant Palestine full membership status, I can’t help but think of some comic relief as tension can be felt more strongly in this part of
DOHA, Qatar (MindaNews/15 Sept) – The wealthy Arabian Gulf country is the safest in terms of disasters, according to the World Risk Report 2011 released this week. Making the top three most disaster prone countries are the south Pacific island
DOHA, QATAR (MindaNews/06 September) – The report that the Philippine government may soon ban the deployment of house service workers (HSW), popularly known at home as domestic helpers (DH) here, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait is big news in
IN TRANSIT (MindaNews/17 August) — So much has already been said about the Philippines being so rich, and yet if given a choice, many of its already destitute people, would join the exodus abroad. When you say the word abroad,
