The grinding rumble of rock against metal is a constant soundtrack to daily life in Barangay Mount Diwata in Monkayo, Compostela Valley. The din comes from ball mills spinning away inside milling facilities distributed over 24 puroks. Tumbling inside these
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/22 January) — Pope Francis has been endearingly called many things by Filipino media: Compassionate Pope, Humble Pope, People’s Pope, among others. While these are all appropriate epithets given his surprising behavior as Supreme Pontiff — forgoing ostentation
Redemptorist Brother Karl launches his latest book, “Desperately Seeking God’s Saving Action” with sub-title “Yolanda Survivors’ Hope Beyond Lamentations” at the St. Alphonsus Theological and Mission Institute (SATMI), Redemptorist Compound, Davao City Thursday afternoon, 18 December, three days after it
A Dulangan Manobo man and his daughter wash themselves of forest trail mud on Monday (25 August 2014) in Sitio Tudog, Barangay Bugso in Sen. Ninoy Aquino, Sultan Kudarat. One of Tudog’s biggest problems is the difficult access to water.
A girl watches another person weigh rambutan at a roadside stall in Makilala, North Cotabato on August 8, Friday. The fruit now sells for P20 a kilo. MindaNews photo by Bj Paitno
Tourists try to maintain their balance as they make their way through Tinalon Cave in Barangay Tinalon, Sen. Ninoy Aquino in Sultan Kudarat (Thursday, Aug. 1). Its entrance found in the premises of a local resort, the snake-like cave is
Where are we now? A man and his son look out a window as the bus they are riding in pulls over for one of the scheduled stops along its route. Passengers spend the time going to the toilet, buying
A toddler plays with a tablet to fend off the darkness that hit most parts of Mindanao at 3:53 AM of Thursday, February 27. Later that day, at 4:30 PM, the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines declared that power
A fully-laden habal-habal speeds past oil palms on February 3, 2014 in Senator Ninoy Aquino, Sultan Kudarat. These plants dot the Kulaman Valley landscape, competing for space with growths of corn, rice, coffee, and rubber. Expensive to maintain, oil palms
A Dulangan Manobo baby is left to play on coffee beans being dried in their yard in Senator Ninoy Aquino, Sultan Kudarat on February 3, 2014. Since their sitio, Tamangan in Barangay Kuden, is inside the Consunjis’ IFMA-regulated territory, the
A commuter rests his tired self inside a jeepney on 23 January 2014. This scene repeats itself everyday after office hours in Davao City, and everywhere else in the urban world. MindaNews photo by BJ Patiño
A B’laan datu blesses participants on Dec. 17 at a roadside spring in Barangay Atlae, Malungon in Sarangani province. Performed every time there’s a full moon, the water ritual is meant to spiritually cleanse people. MindaNews photo by BJ Patiño
A woman lies unconscious at the barangay hall of dado, Alamada town, North Cotabato on Saturday, May 21. She is in need of medical attention after she had a miscarriage after seeing a “hilot” last Wednesday. Her neighbors brought her down the
OVERLOADED. A passenger jeep overloaded with vegetables and farm products makes it way to Bankerohan Market along the Davao-Bukidnon highway in Davao City. MindaNews photo by BJ Patino
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/25 March) – Dismayed but still hopeful. Foreign-backed Sagittarius Mines Inc. on Friday aired frustrations over the signing of the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) of the controversiaacl environment code that bans open-pit mining method in South Cotabato.
Picture Story by BJ Patino Kulaman Valley, now called Sen. Ninoy Aquino, is a hilly municipality in Sultan Kudarat made up of 20 barangays. On May 10, 2010, its voting residents braved acombination of rugged terrain and heavy rainsand trooped to
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/06 April) – This city was bursting at the literary seams when writing luminaries gathered on Monday May 3 at the Lispher Inn to kick off the 2nd Davao Writers Workshop. The panelists for this year include award-winning
