CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 11 February) – In an era where press freedom faces relentless challenges, the recently concluded Cagayan de Oro Press Club (COPC) elections offered a striking testament to journalistic integrity. Despite reports that certain candidates
Kagay-anons gather spontaneously in Divisoria, Cagayan de Oro City Tuesday evening (8 Nov 2016) to register their dismay and indignation hours after the Supreme Court voted 9-5-1 to junk the petition opposing a hero’s burial for dictator Ferdinand Edralin Marcos in
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/19 Sept) – When Hugo “Ka Jerry” Orcullo shared lunch with close friend Eliseo “Ely” Patlunag in his house in downtown Cagayan de Oro on October 14, 1983, little did he know day his life was
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/25 February)—Employees and reporters of Radio Mo Nationwide (RMN) found their museum curator Felicisimo Sasing dead in a pool of blood here, early afternoon Monday. Responding police officer SPO1 Rey Gunayan of Police Station 1, said
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 21 Feb) – The pronouncements of National Democratic Front of the Philippines-Mindanao (NDFP) spokesperson Jorge “Ka Oris” Madlos that the simultaneous attacks by the New People’s Army (NPA) against Del Monte Philippines, Inc. (DMPI)
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/20 Feb) – The simultaneous attacks of the New People’s Army (NPA) in three areas in Bukidnon Tuesday night was a “desperate projection of a position of strength” and should not have targeted civilians, Lt. Col.
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/17 Feb) — Mayor Vicente Emano welcomes the Court of Appeals’ order to submit his response on the environmental class suit filed against him even as he claims the move is politically motivated. In his Sunday
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY(MindaNews/7 February)—After at least three postponements, local environmental groups finally filed Thursday a civil class suit against the city government and several others at the Court of Appeals here. Representatives of member-organizations of Sulog, headed by Bangon
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY(MindaNews/5 January)—A local civil society group will file a civil suit against City Hall, as the legal trust fund they have launched online has been receiving generous donations, the group’s leader said Friday. In an interview, Richard
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/17 December)—His limbs seemed to have atrophied with fear when he heard over the radio that a typhoon would pass the city again, on the same month that a flood brought by tropical storm “Sendong” washed
DATU ODIN SINSUAT, Maguindanao (MindaNews/11 December) — Rido or clan wars may erupt among political families in Lanao del Sur if suspected Ponzi operator Jachob “Coco” Rasuman would renege on his self-imposed deadlines to pay back his investors by February
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/8 December)—Engineers of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPHW) who built the Uguiaban Bridge—considered a vital link between this city and the provinces of Bukidnon, North Cotabato and Lanao del Sur—are in hot water
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 3 Dec) – Investors of Jachob “Coco” Rasuman’s pyramiding investment scam may be paid “partial” of what they invested by mid-December, according to Lanao del Sur Gov. Mamintal Adiong. Adiong, who was in town
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 3 Nov) – Calling their lapses in the aftermath of tropical storm Sendong last year as “birth pains,” this city’s Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (CDRRMC) aims to improve their performance as super typhoon
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 26 Nov) – The spate of explosions, bomb threats and the general rise in criminality in this city have taken their toll on the local business community, especially the city-run Night Café and its
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/ 22 November)—The Philippine National Police Regional Office 10 (PRO-10) here has sacked this city’s police director and a station commander in connection with the grenade blast outside a lending firm that injured eight persons Wednesday
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 21 Nov) – A grenade explosion in front of a lending firm at Barangay Lapasan here this morning injured eight people, including two employees of the firm and a security guard, reports said. Chief
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/ 17 November)—Bishops of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente (IFI) or the Philippine Independent Church lambasted Friday the Aquino administration “for the alarming culture of impunity” in the country. The bishops castigated the government in a strongly-worded
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/13 November)—An environment coalition here is demanding the relief of Environment Management Bureau (EMB 10) Regional Director Sabdullah Abubakar for the “suspicious ransacking” of his office a day after the group requested copies of the Environmental
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 31 Oct) – Members of the local environmental group Sulog lambasted the Mines and Geosciences Bureau here for its “Pontius Pilate-like” reaction on the illegal mining lawsuit they filed against two Chinese they “caught
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/22 October)—At least 2,000 farmers from Misamis Oriental under the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas-Northern Mindanao Region marked the 40th year of Presidential Decree 27 or the Farmers Emancipation Act signed by then strongman Ferdinand Marcos with a
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/ 20 October)—A non-government organization here has threatened to file a Writ of Kalikasan against the city government if it will not do something against the rampant illegal mining activities in the hinterlands of the city.
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/19 October)—Japan will continue to cooperate towards achieving a genuine and lasting peace in Mindanao, Japanese Ambassador Toshinao Urabe said. He made the pronouncement as he lauded the recently inked Framework Agreement between the Philippine government
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 16 Oct) – The mother of one of the journalist victims in the Ampatuan Massacre has reported that suspicious persons have been asking her neighbors of her whereabouts. The chilling part of the inquiries,
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 15 Oct) – Although they view the inking of the Framework Agreement between the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the Government of the Philippines (GPH) in Malacañan Palace Monday afternoon with “vigilant optimism,”
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/11 October) — Two persons were killed and two others were wounded when one of two improvised explosive devices discovered at a hotel on JR Borja corner Aguinaldo Sts. around 1:50 am today, went off shortly
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/01 October) — The questions raised by the Commission on Audit (COA) on the appointment of the City Social Welfare and Development officer-in-charge as the receiver, custodian and distributor of relief goods and donations for victims
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/01 October) — The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) has denied that its indemnification order for the victims of the grenade blast in Paquibato District, Davao City last month was a “stopgap,” and argued
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/ 25 September)—Survivors of tropical storm Sendong who went back to their communities held a picket at the city Social Welfare and Development Office today (Tuesday) to demand their share of the relief goods as well
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY(MindaNews/ 21 September)— Aboard two choppers of the Philippine Air Force’s Technical Operations Group, local environmentalists and reporters discovered Friday morning six mining barges operating in one of the upland barangays in this city. At least three
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/17 September)— Official documents recently obtained from City Hall appear to bolster public perception that local officials had acted a little too late in taking steps that would have prevented the tragedy brought by floods spawned
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/12 Sept) – One of the legal counsels of Save CDO Now Movement is confident that Mayor Vicente Emano will be suspended “either this December or January of next year.” But Emano’s legal counsel, Francis Ku,
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/7 Sept) – Leaders of a tribal community in Bukidnon have filed complaints at the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) Friday against the more than 20 members of the Citizens Armed Forces Geographical Unit (Cafgu) who
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/ 31 August)—Nearly a month after at least 20 members of the Civilian Armed Forces Geographical Unit (CAFGU) allegedly raided the community of slain indigenous peoples’ leader Jimmy Liguyon for cash and gold, lumad residents of
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY(MindaNews/ 29 August)—This year’s Kagay-an Festival showed that this city has “moved on and is now back on its feet” after the devastating Tropical Storm Sendong hit in December, but local environmental and business groups stressed the
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY(MindaNews/ 24 August)—Philanthropist-industrialist Elmer Francisco, who disclosed last week his plans to run as city mayor, has denied that Mayor Vicente Emano was behind his political bid. He also insisted that he is not the official candidate
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/5 Aug) – Church leaders, environmentalists, civil society organizations and a lumad leader took turns in “cutting down” President Benigno Simeon Aquino III’s Executive Order 79 in a forum held here last week, saying the order
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/5 Aug) – The military has claimed having killed two rebels in a clash with the New People’s Army (NPA) in an upland village in Misamis Oriental a few days ago while government troops sustaining no
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/30 July) —The blue ribbon committee of the city council has postponed “indefinitely” the administrative case filed by a reporter against a village official.[] Nef Abdul Malik Luczon, former GMA12 local anchor filed the complaint against
LIBERTAD, Misamis Oriental (MindaNews/14 July)—Participants to an ecumenical forum here on Thursday urged the national government to anchor its development policy on the people and not on big local and foreign corporate interests and to prioritize food sovereignty over minerals
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/4 July) – Nobel Peace Prize laureate Amnesty International (AI) observed in its 2012 Human Rights Report that “failed leadership has gone global,” while militant sectoral groups under the banner of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan-Northern Mindanao (Bayan-NMR)
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/03 July) — Department of Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Ramon Jesus Paje seemed to have “conveniently” forgotten where some of the logs seized in Butuan City last month came when he decided to relieve 31
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/29 June) —“On my bended knees if needed,” City Mayor Vicente Y. Emano begged visiting US Ambassador to the Philippines Harry K. Thomas, Jr. to also include the rest of the island in the Cities Development
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/7 June) – Bangon Kagay-an, a civil society which started out as a Facebook group, found a formidable ally in Archbishop Antonio Ledesma, SJ, after a late afternoon meeting Wednesday. Ledesma offered to “work hand in
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/05 June)— Heavy rains on Monday brought by the first storm to enter the country this year made residents along the Cagayan River panic, a reaction apparently caused by memories of the tragedy caused by storm
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/30 May) – A socio-civic organization here is demanding from city hall the list of “all mining and quarrying permits” it has issued under its jurisdiction, citing their concern over reports that vegetable farmers in the
