In popular imagery, grassroots communities are often represented as silent, powerless, and helpless victims of the global climate crisis needing urgent help and expert intervention. Veiled from broader public discourse are the long-standing community knowledge and action in pushing the
CAMIGUIN (MindaNews / 19 May) — On the island of Camiguin in Mindanao, a volcano is coming back to life. Though she hasn’t erupted in 70 years, Mt. Hibok-Hibok has been especially quiet lately. From March 2020 to November 2021,
Members of the Ulama League and representatives of the sultanates of Ranao view the destruction of the surrounding areas from the top of the Jameo Mindanao Al-Islamie, also known as Islamic Center or Grand Mosque in Marawi City on 24
Working Towards a Reconciled Diversity Statement of Catholic Bishops and Educators on Peacebuilding in Mindanao Davao City April 10, 2014 Sustainable peace and the righting of historical injustices have been elusively pursued for decades in Mindanao. We, the Catholic bishops
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT April 7, 2014 HIS EXCELLENCY BENIGNO SIMEON AQUINO III President of the Republic of the Philippines Malacanang, Manila Your Excellency President Aquino: Greetings of Peace and Solidarity! “Fiyo gai”. In our culture, this means Time has
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/16 March) — Brownouts or power outages are bad. However, what’s worse is the exploitation of brownouts to raise the price of electricity in the spot market. When disasters strike, profiteers abound – like vultures waiting for
TRAVEL/FITNESS ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews / 09 March) – Until recently, I’ve been to eight of Iligan’s two dozen or so waterfalls. Twice I was commissioned by the City Tourism Office to document the waterfalls in pictures – first in the
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/21 May) – In a marked departure from their mainly oral tradition, the Bukidnon-Daraghuyan tribe has published a series of four comics depicting their history and culture. Titled “tribal comics series,” the illustrated materials will be used in
GUMASA, Sarangani (April 22, 2013) – The growing crowd each year flocking into the white sand beaches here in Glan never fails to hype Sarangani Bay Festival as Mindanao’s biggest beach party. From the 33,499 in 2011, the crowd went
ALABEL, Sarangani (April 22, 2013) – Around 4,000 guests and delegates from the 49 Islamic schools in Sarangani are joining this year’s Musabaqah, an event the province is holding to develop sportsmanship among Muslim youth through academic and athletic competitions.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/12 Nov) — “Towards Multi-Ethnic Archiving in the Postmodern Era” is this year’s theme for the National Archives Congress which will be held at the Ateneo de Davao University on November 17 and 18. The theme “acknowledges the
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/12 November) – Mayor Celso Lobregat has issued two executive orders banning the sale of pellet toy guns and regulating, controlling and limiting the pyrotechnics allowed to be used, sold and distributed here. Citing provisions of Republic Acts
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/12 Nov) — The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is set to convene the city’s election registration board to assess and validate th e applications for registration of new voters from the city’s 26 barangays. Lawyer Jose Villanueva,
BAGANGA, Davao Oriental– More or less 2,500 marched in Lingig, Surigao del Sur on Tuesday in support of the government’s peace building efforts that banner sincere messages of reconciliation and unity. The said peace march is a culminating activit y
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
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/25 October) – A wooden-hulled cargo vessel and its cargo sunk while moored at a private wharf in this city, a coast guard official disclosed Thursday. Lieutenant Commander Elizer Dalnay, commander of the Zamboanga Coast Guard Station, said
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/24 October) – The City Tourism Board launched last week the private sector-led Bukidnon Highland Games (BHG) 2012, which aims set to promote Bukidnon as a destination for outdoor adventure and highland games. “This is to showcase the
Compostela Valley Province –— The next wave of Compostela Valley’s advocacy for the poorest of the poor came to Pantukan as it holds its Gawad Kalinga Partners forum at Magnaga Waters Beach Resort, Pantukan on June 10. A total of
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/24 May) – The Mansaka tribe in Pantukan town, Compostela Valley would be the country’s pilot community in a government housing project for indigenous peoples, after Vice President Jejomar Binay asked the municipal government last week to allow
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
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/28 Apr) – There will be no welcome news of any wage increases for workers in Regions 9 and 12 on Labor Day, May 1. Despite the high prices of petroleum products and some basic commodities, the Regional
DAVAO CITY – A proposed bill creating Southern Palawan Special Economic Zone and Free Port Authority gets an endorsement from the Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) Board during the 2nd MinDA Board Meeting held here last March 31. House Bill 4363
PROVINCIAL CAPITOL, Tuesday 22 March 2011:- Ambassador Harry K. Thomas Jr. of the United States paid a courtesy call on Governor Abdusakur M. Tan at the Office of the Governor at The Capitol today. Ambassador Thomas was joined by Ms
Nabunturan, Compostela Valley – Governor Arturo “Chiongkee” Uy was joined by the municipal mayors and DepEd Officials led by Regional Director Dr. Susanna Estigoy and GILAS Project Team during the turnover event held at the social hall of the provincial
JOLO, SULU, Sunday 13 March 2011:- Secretary of the Interior and Local Government Jesse M. Robredo, in an unannounced visit, flew in today to personally inspect the scene of the March 10, 2011 bomb blast which partially damaged a school
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/10 February) – “Balaghusay,” a depiction of the traditional tribal arbitrator in the Talaandig community and nine other art works by the tribe’s visual artists are featured in the postcards published by Likhang-Lahi last year. Painted by Salima
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/30 January) — Instead of just playing indigenous sports as it has been the tradition in the annual Kaamulan Festival, Bukidnon’s indigenous peoples and communities will hold the province’s Tribal Olympics on March 2 to 4. The provincial
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/20 Jan) – Two persons died, four are still fighting for dear life while 18 others sustained injuries when a fully loaded jeepney collided head-on with a 10-wheeler truck in Barangay Tablon here. The Bugo-bound passenger
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/12 Jan) – Organizers of this year’s Kaamulan Festival in are changing the rules for the street dancing competition, the festivities’ highlights, so that it will focus on the seven hill tribes of Bukidnon and prevent modifications so
CAGAYAN DE ORO (MindaNews/12 Jan) – Every Saturday, Mary Grace Barlisan, 18, a second-year education student from Xavier University, wakes up early to prepare for the big day ahead. But Mary Grace is not preparing to spend the day at
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/06 January) — The post office building along Chavez and Rizal Streets here burned around 2:00 a.m. today and gutted along with it the government-owned telecommunications office at the second floor of the 36-year-old structure. Firefighters
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews) – National and local government offices, as well as civil society groups, are bent on fast-tracking the representation of the Higaonon tribe to the city council here, as discussed in a two-day summit that ended Friday in
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/05 December) – Complaints of sexual abuse and harassment were filed last week before the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) in this city against the publisher of two local dailies. Bobby Goking, president of the Cagayan
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/30 November) – His alleged attackers have turned the table on a broadcaster based in Maramag, Bukidnon who claimed to have been ambushed by them near Dayo Subdivision in Valencia City Saturday. In an affidavit, Rene Saligumba and
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/29 November) – On Saturday, he claimed to have been a victim of an ambush on the same day in Valencia City. But as far as the police are concerned, it was Randy Makiputin, a broadcaster in Maramag
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/29 November)—European Union’s top diplomat in the country bemoaned the portrayal of Mindanao as a “land of chaos” despite its economic potentials. Ambassador Alistair H. Macdonald, head of the Delegation of the European Union to the Philippines,
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/28 November) – An anchor of an entertainment program in a radio station in Maramag, southern Bukidnon survived an ambush on his way home in neighboring Valencia City shortly after 7 p.m. Friday. Citing police reports, the November
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/27 November) — Operatives of the National Bureau of Investigation have arrested a suspect of the slaying of Bukidnon State University instructor Jay Jaspher Santonińo, the chief of police here said. Police S/Supt. Erwin Bayani Meneses said Michael
In Davao City, a kongko refers to someone who asks favor, oftentimes cash, from sources after an interview. The term, coined in the 1990s, refers to someone who poses as a media person to extort cash from politicians or businessmen.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/22 Nov) – Families and colleagues of the 32 journalists who were killed in the gruesome Ampatuan Massacre will stage a caravan Tuesday to the carnage’s site in the outskirts of Ampatuan town in Maguindanao province to
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/22 November) – Pressure from local politicians and groups involved in syndicated crimes and illegal activities are among the main hazards facing journalists in Mindanao as well as in other parts of the country, participants to the two-day
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/22 Nov) – A year after the Ampatuan massacre that killed 58 people, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) hit President Aquino for failing to dismantle private armies which continue to perpetuate the state of
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/22 Nov) – Members of the Bukidnon news media are commemorating the first anniversary of the Ampatuan Massacre with a mass on November 23 starting at 4 a. m. at the San Isidro Cathedral. The Bukidnon commemoration of
DAVAO CITY (20 November 2010) — The Ateneo de Zamboanga University (ADZU) on Friday conferred on MindaNews the ”Ateneo Peace Award” for “making a marked difference in Journalism and Public Information in the country.” The university also conferred on the
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/16 Nov) – The Pulangi V hydro electric project and the claim of a sacred burial site of the Manobo ancestors have divided the lumads in southern Bukidnon and North Cotabato and academics in the anthropological
SAN FRANCISCO, Agusan del Sur (MindaNews/15 November) – “The Church will stand up for and defend the environment if the Department of Environment and Natural Resoruces (DENR) cannot,” Butuan Bishop Juan de Dios Pueblos said Saturday, after officiating at the
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/13 November) — The National Museum of the Philippines is set to declare the Apu Mamalu burial ground in Misakil, Damulog, Bukidnon a national cultural treasure, Sen. Juan Miguel Zubiri said at the opening program of the three-day
