DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/10 November) – The National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) is now out of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and back to the Office of the President, with Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Teresita Quintos-Deles
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/07 November) — The Mindanao Media Forum gave its 1st Agong Award to veteran journalist Patricio P. Diaz for his “well-researched and incisive commentaries on events affecting Mindanao and sharing the fundamental rights and problems of the indigenous
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY — Eight stay-in workers that includes a seven-month pregnant woman died when a commercial establishment was razed by fire at 2 o’clock in the morning Saturday. The fatalities and injured are stay-in workers of the SP
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/27 Oct) — The country’s largest women alliance has given the Aquino government a failing mark for leaving out Mindanao and women’s issues from its priority agenda. Gabriela Rep. Luz Ilagan said there was no mention about Mindanao
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/15 October) – Lumad leaders of a peace advocacy group have written the chair of the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB), complaining that the representation of the Lumads (indigenous peoples) in the primetime telenovela Noah
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/08 October) – Police and Army personnel in Sarangani Province captured Thursday a fugitive aide of Ampatuan Massacre principal suspect Andal Ampatuan Jr. who was among the 189 suspects earlier ordered arrested by a Quezon City Regional
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/7 Oct) – The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) will establish additional assistance desks for Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) in Region 12 or Southwestern Mindanao to help address the concerns of migrant workers from the area. Abdulghani
In terms of numerology, the three tens placed side by side look quite impressive. 10 October 2010. That is what these three tens are all about: the second Sunday of October this year. For the Catholic Church in the Philippines, this is the celebration of the Indigenous Peoples or IP Sunday. On this day, priests are expected to give homilies and invited IPs provide commentaries on the sad plight of the IPs as well as encourage Christian lowlanders to express their solidarity with the IPs’ struggle for self-determination.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/6 Oct) – A bus skidded off a rain-slicked highway before noon today in Montawal town in Maguindanao and turned upside down, injuring 27 passengers, eight of them serious, police reports said. The incident happened just a day
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/05 October) – Twenty-three passengers, mostly ambulant vendors and farmers, were injured when the mini-bus carrying them fell into a cliff along the Arakan Valley Complex highway in President Roxas, North Cotabato, around 10:30 a. m. today. Seventeen
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/04 October) — The Committee for the Welfare of Children in Southeastern Mindanao has opened the country’s first search for a child-friendly police station in the city. Ester Versoza, regional director of the Department of Social Welfa re
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/1 Oct) – The sad tales of two overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) from North Cotabato who died working in the Middle East prompted a 41-year-old mother to seek the help of the government to facilitate the safe return
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/28 September) – Government health workers from South Upi town in Maguindanao province today staged an indignation rally in Cotabato City condemning the gang-rape of their co-worker. They demanded justice for ‘Florence” (not her real name), a volunteer
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/24 September) — A women’s group has urged both the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to include women in their respective peace panels. Irene Santiago, chair of the Mindanao Commission on Women (MCW), said gender ‘may not be central’ to the conflict between the MILF and the government ‘but they are central to its resolution.’
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/23 September) – Dismissed radio station manager Dodong Solis on Thursday sued his former employer, Radio Mindanao Network (RMN), for alleged illegal dismissal, saying he is going to fight the injustice done to him in Court. “I’m here
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/23 September) — Free software advocate Software Freedom International (SFI) feted a group of public high school students in Koronadal City in South Cotabato for its continuing efforts in promoting the adoption and use of Free and
VALENCIA CITY (MindaNews/18 September) — One of five children between the ages five and 14 or 67,000 children in Bukidnon are considered by the International Labor Organization as child laborers, according to Jesus Macasil, a Manila-based ILO senior programme officer.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/15 Sept) — President Benigno Aquino III will arrive here Thursday morning to start up the P3. 5-billion 42-megawatt hydro plant in Sibulan, Sta. Cruz town in Davao del Sur. On his first visit in Mindanao since winning
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/15 Sept) – Some 50 fully armed New Peoples’ Army (NPA) rebels raided a banana plantation in Tulunan town in North Cotabato this morning, torching company cargo trucks and other vehicles and seizing firearms of security personnel and
MUSUAN, Maramag, Bukidnon (MindaNews/15 September) – The Central Mindanao University is celebrating its 100th anniversary from September 12 to 18, 2010 with the theme “Reminiscing the Past, Celebrating the Present, Creating the Future,” organizers told MindaNews. Dr. Jose Escarlos Jr,
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/11 September) – Bukidnon is among four provinces in the country where the International Labor Organization (ILO) is putting in place a continuing program to look into the plight of thousands of child laborers, according to the ILO
MUSUAN, Maramag, Bukidnon – After the election of the Central Mindanao University president was postponed for the second time, members of the state-owned school’s board of regents yesterday expressed worries the process might have been tainted with politics. In the
SURIGAO CITY – Complaints that operators of public transport and other services are charging unjust rates local and foreign tourists visiting Siargao and Bucas Grande Islands in Surigao del Norte, have prompted the provincial government to come up with fixed
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/9 Sept) – Employees of Radio Mindanao Network DXDC mounted a show of support for their station manager, Maximo “Dodong “ Solis, staging a noisy picket outside the radio station in Anda Street this morning. Solis, DXDC area
DAVAO CITY – The appointment of former South Cotabato Representative Luwalhati Ricasa-Antonino as the new chair of the Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) was antedated to August 9 but announced only on September 3, with then incumbent MinDA chair Jesus Dureza
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/07 September) – “Is she a master’s degree holder or a lawyer? The Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) charter requires that credential,” asked Sebastian “Angie” Angliongto, former chair of the Mindanao Business Council and Mindanao Economic Development Council. Angliongto,
For us, Filipinos, 23 August 2010, now known all over the world as the “Philippine hostage crisis” will forever stand as a very dark day in our people’s history. On this fateful day, a former police officer hijacked a tour bus in Rizal Park, Manila, carrying 25 tourists from Hong Kong, including 5 Canadian nationals and 1 British. At the end of a ten hour negotiation and siege, 8 hostages and the hijacker lay dead. Finger pointing, investigations, damage control, continue to take place even now.
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/04 September) – In his first pastoral letter after the August 29 grenade-lobbing incident in the San Vicente Ferrer Parish church in Kalilangan town, Bukidnon bishop Jose Araneta Cabantan called for prayers as he said “peace could be
UPDATED DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/03 September) – After six months in what would have been a six-year term as chairman of the Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA), lawyer Jesus Dureza will step down in favor of Luwalhati Ricasa-Antonino. Reports about the appointment
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/2 Sept) – The Bukidnon provincial board has considered passing an ordinance requiring local government units in the province not to issue business permits to radio stations if they failed to accredit with provincial officials. Gov. Jose Ma.
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/30 August) – Sunday’s grenade attack on the San Vicente Ferrer church in Kalilangan, Bukidnon during a morning mass was related to a land conflict, the Bishop of Malaybalay, quoting parish priest Fr. Art Paraiso, said. At the
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/29 August) – From 27 provinces and 33 cities in 2008, Mindanao is back to having only 25 provinces and 27 cities with the Supreme Court reiterating its November 18, 2008 decision declaring unconstitutional the cityhood laws converting
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/24 August) — Fifty-eight seedlings of the hardwood Lawaan species were planted on Monday at the foot of Mount Apo, the country’s highest peak, particularly at the watershed of the Kansal falls in Sitio Lapaan, Barangay Perez as
VALENCIA CITY(MindaNews/23 August) — For the first time in the parish’s history, the feast of San Agustin in Valencia City will be opened with a mass in Binukid, the language of the indigenous peoples. The 5 a.m. mass in Binukid
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/22 August) – Sixteen year-old Julie Kristie A. De Guzman had hoped she would make it to the 5th place so she could have that blue shirt that says “I wrote a letter to P-Noy and got this
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/20 Aug) – The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG)-led Inter-agency Anti-Arson Task Force (IATF) is set to take over the investigation on the burning earlier this month of the old municipal hall of Maasim
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/19 Aug) – The Philippine National Police awarded the prestigious heroism medal to at least 11 members of the Police Regional Office 12’s anti-crime task force for the neutralization of a suspected bomber in Maguindanao province last
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/17 August) — Communist rebels operating in Misamis Oriental have admitted responsibility for the killing of an Army soldier and a civilian during the fiesta celebration Sunday in Barangay Napaliran, Balingasag town. Killed in last Sunday’s
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/17 August) – Two pilots have remained missing after their chopper crashed this morning in the sea between the two islets of Santa Cruz in this city. A Philippine Navy Bolkov helicopter PNH411 malfunctioned while on a “routine
QUEZON, Bukidnon (MindaNews/17 August) – A security vehicle that accompanied Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) chair Jesus Dureza en route to the 1st Regional Media Conference in Malaybalay City, figured in an accident Saturday with riders of a motorcycle along the
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/14 August) – Workers should expect their minimum daily wage to increase by at least P12 starting August 16, 2010, at least according to the latest wage order issued by the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board of
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/14 August) — A grenade went off in a Moro-dominated village here while residents were preparing for the Ramadan or fasting, around 10 p.m., on Thursday. The grenade exploded inside the compound of Barangay Patadon-East councilor Satar Manalundong,
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/12 August) — Sarangani governor Miguel Rene Dominguez has called on both President Benigno S. Aquino III and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to “begin in earnest the resumption of the stalled peace talks to put an
MIDSAYAP, North Cotabato (MindaNews/10 August) — A colony of “giant mushrooms” has become a sensation in the small, sleepy village of Santo Nino in this town, drawing people from as far away as Kidapawan City. Ricky Tampir, 22, caretaker of
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/03 August) — A huge fire razed to the ground early Tuesday the old municipal building of Maasim in Sarangani province, destroying several major government offices in the area. Insp. Raffy Valila, acting Maasim police chief, said
