DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/28 Apr) – On the second day of their march for justice and land, at least 300 Bagobo K’lata lumads and farmers from sitio Kahusayan in barangay Guianga will spend the night at the Mintal Gym before they
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/16 April) — The wife of the anti-mining activist slain Tuesday in Pantukan, Compostela Valley said her husband felt he was already targeted even before a triggerman had come to their house and shot him in the back,
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/13 Apr) – One of the top negotiators of the National Democratic Front (NDF) said the passports granted to three NDF consultants to join the Oslo talks last February were not “gifts” from the government but a compliance
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/12 April)—The National Democratic Front (NDF) will agree to a truce with the government if President Benigno S. Aquino III signs the 10-point agenda earlier proposed by the rebel alliance to address the root cause of the communist-led
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/09 April) — The city council’s second committee hearing on the proposed 300-megawatt coal-fired power plant by Aboitiz Corporation briefly turned into a debate on the alleged impending power shortfall in Mindanao by 2014, as a Greenpeace activist
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/07 April)—Some 400 people from the communities of Binugao and other areas in Toril are expected to attend the second public hearing Friday on the 300-megawatt coal-fired power plant proposed by the Aboitiz Power Corporation in the city.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/5 April) – For Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, the city councilors committed nothing wrong when they accepted the P6,000 pocket money from Aboitiz Power Corp. during a field trip to Misamis Oriental last January to check on a
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/02 April) — What the government failed to do in health, infrastructure and even education services, the Aboitiz-owned Hydro-Electric Development Corporation (Hedcor) provided host communities in Sibulan, Bagobo Tagabawa leaders who accepted on Friday the P1.05 million royalty
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/24 March) – People wearing green stickers on their breasts that read “No to coal-fired plants” crowded the session hall of the city council here Thursday as it opened its first committee hearing on the proposed 300-megawatt coal-fired
DAVAO CITY — Dry leaves litter the grassy alley leading to the house in Bago Galera, Toril District here that once belonged to the Pitao family. Beyond the open gate that displays a blue poster of a local candidate in
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/18 March) —The government has given itself only 18 months to three years to negotiate with the communist-led National Democratic Front the three substantive and most difficult agreements that will hopefully put an end to the country’s 42-year
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/19 Feb) –Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte has been asked to sit as an observer in the peace negotiations between the National Democratic Front and the Philippine government, Mayor Sara Duterte said Thursday night. ”The vice mayor will be invited as an observer and as need arises will contribute his two-cents worth on dealing with the insurgency,” the younger Duterte said during the opening of the consultation workshop for the drafting of the Mindanao People’s Agenda for the government and NDF peace talks.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/10 February) — Mindanao leaders and environment groups have been asked to support a bill reviving the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant as a solution to the power crisis projected by the business sector to hit Mindanao by
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/9 Feb) – Aboitiz Power Corporation is eyeing a 51-hectare property spanning Binugao and Inayawan barangays in the boundary areas of Santa Cruz town in Davao del Sur and Davao City as a possible site of the proposed
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/07 February) – Postponing the elections in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao is an “urgent need” and will give President Aquino enough space to solve the region’s problems, Secretary Luwalhati Antonino of the Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA)
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/05 February) — The Aboitiz-owned Hydro-Electric Development Corporation (Hedcor) is eyeing five more run-of-river hydropower plants in at least three provinces in Mindanao, most of them within ancestral domain areas of indigenous peoples. Rene Ronquillo, Hedcor president, said
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/04 February) — The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) urged Egyptian leaders to listen to the demands of their people in the light of the massive street protests demanding the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak, the MILF’s official
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/01 February) — A top executive of the Aboitiz-owned Hedcor Inc. said their Sibulan hydropower plants could not have caused the floods that killed three persons in Darong, Santa Cruz, Davao del Sur on January 17, saying they
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/28 January) – Basic infrastructures, including stable power supply, topped the concerns raised by participants from the business sector during the regional consultation on the country’s development plan for the next six years, a National Economic and Development
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/26 Jan) – An environmental epidemiologist has released a study showing that the consumption of Bt Brinjal – where the gene stock of the Bt Eggplant was sourced – can cause inflammation, reproductive disorders and liver damage among
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/25 January) — Over a year after the massacre of 58 persons, 32 of them from the media, corruption continues to kill people, not only journalists, participants to an anti-corruption forum on Tuesday, agreed. “Corruption is violence. Corruption
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/20 Jan) – Mindanao is getting 24 percent of the country’s total infrastructure budget this year, proof enough that the campaign for increased share for Mindanao in the national budget has been working, Mindanao Secretary Luwalhati Antonino said.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/19 January)—The municipal council of Santa Cruz, Davao del Sur today declared its flood-stricken barangay Darong under a state of calamity to expedite the release of P2.38 million in calamity fund for the 4,060 people affected. Santa Cruz
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/18 January) — Competent, volunteer nurses working for free and new nursing graduates undergoing training to enter the profession are two separate issues that should be treated separately, an official of a government hospital here said. Dr. Leopoldo
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/15 January)—Accusations of harassment and other abuses against civilians and groups suspected of supporting the underground movement greeted the initial deployment of the Army’s so-called peace and development teams implementing the Bayanihan counterinsurgency campaign in Davao del Norte
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/14 Jan) – The Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) has suspended the biosafety permits of the University of the Philippines in Mindanao (UP-Mindanao) and another field testing site for Bt eggplant in the Visayas for failing to comply
Germelina Lacorte / MindaNews DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/13 Jan) – Anti-corruption advocates warned that unchecked corruption at the Bureau of Customs could loosen up the entry of illegal drugs and arms at the Davao ports. Fr. Albert Alejo, SJ, who started
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/11 Jan) – Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said the arrest of the New People’s Army (NPA) fighter on New Year’s Day could have jeopardized a long standing agreement with Communist rebels to keep the killings out of Davao
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/10 January) — The Communist New People’s Army (NPA) said the barangay captain killed on January 8 in an NPA attack in Barangay Datu Danwata, Malita Davao del Sur tried to fight back. Dencio Madrigal, the spokesperson of
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/09 January) – Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte warned he would demand the ouster of the regional police director and withdraw the city government’s support to the police if the New Year’s day arrest of a New People’s Army
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/07 January) —The Board of Investments (BOI) targets more projects in the manufacturing and other labor-intensive sectors this year to fulfill the Aquino government’s commitment to generate more jobs for the people. BOI Governor Pelagio Ricalde said the
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/06 January)—Three soldiers deployed for “peace and development outreach” in barangay Magdum in Tagum City were killed in an ambush by New People’s Army guerrillas at 7:15 Thursday. Lt. Col. Medel Aquilar, spokesperson of the 10th ID said
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/06 January) — The New People’s Army guerrilla arrested on New Year’s Day in Toril District here said he wanted to be taken out of his detention at the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) so that he
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/04 January) — The New People’s Army member who was arrested on New Year’s Day in Toril District here expressed regrets he trusted the mutual ceasefire between the National Democratic Front and government as a protection for his
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/03 January) — The military had nothing to do with the arrest of a New People’s Army rebel in Toril district here at dawn of New Year’s Day, and nor was it a violation of the 19-day ceasefire
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/03 January) — After making it to the country’s second fastest in terms of business permit processing, Davao City is looking for more ways to cut down unnecessary steps to make it even easier for businesses to apply
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/02 January) — The Communist New People’s Army said the government has violated the mutually-declared ceasefire with the NPA, with the New Year’s day arrest of their comrade Edwin Brigano in Toril district. Rigoberto F. Sanchez, spokesperson of
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/30 Dec) – It’s still very quiet in Southern Mindanao and other areas under the area of responsibility of the Army’s 10th Infantry Division as both the government and forces of the New People’s Army (NPA) faithfully followed
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/29 December) — The University of the Philippines in Mindanao insisted it has not violated any biosafety requirement in pushing through with the field testing of Bt eggplant in an experimental lot within the UP Mindanao campus. Prof.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/28 December) — Soldiers also look forward to the resumption of peace talks between the government and the communist-led National Democratic Front (NDF) but it should take place under a ceasefire, the spokesperson of the 10th Infantry Division
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/27 December) – Civilians will continue to bear the brunt of the armed conflict in Southern Mindanao unless the peace talks between the government and the communist-led National Democratic Front (NDF) will resume, a leader of the partylist
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/24 December) —Mayor Sara Duterte is standing pat on her earlier stand against the coal-fired power plant in the city but it would be the city council, not the city chief executive, who will have the final say
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/24 December) — Invited to come down from the hills to visit their families on Christmas day, the communist New People’s Army (NPA) in Paquibato city instead asked Mayor Sara Duterte and her father, vice mayor Rodrigo Duterte,
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/22 December) — A student of the University of the Philippines (UP) in Diliman was reported abducted in Tarragona, Davao Oriental Tuesday morning and allegedly brought to Camp Panacan here but the military spokesperson said no such abduction
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/21 Dec) – European Union Ambassador to the Philippines Alistair MacDonald said he is hoping for the peace talks to resume so that Mindanao communities affected by conflict can move on and rebuild their lives. “We hope that
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/20 Dec) ¬- City Hall has asked the Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) to revoke the permit of the University of the Philippines (UP) in Mindanao to conduct the field testing of the genetically-modified eggplants in the city. Mayor Sara Duterte said UP Mindanao failed to notify the city about the conduct of the field tests, a crucial requirement in the Department of Agriculture Administrative Order 8 governing the conduct of the field trials.
