MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/10 May) – The Province of Bukidnon has a lackluster record in detecting tuberculosis cases. It is, in fact, at the bottom in Northern Mindanao with only a 55-percent case detection rate (CDR) compared to the national cut-off
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/9 May) – The Bureau of Jail Management and Penology in Southern Mindanao’s budget for medicine is so small that it can only fork out P3 per prisoner per day whereas ideally, each inmate should be provided P5
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
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/14 Apr) – The location of the early morning “Pamalas” ritual to ward off evil spirits from the “yutang kabilin” was perfect. The even this morning was, after all, the kickoff of the five-day Earth Day
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/28 March) – One of the worst fears expressed years back by the local Catholic Church over the massive Tampakan copper-gold project of foreign-backed Sagittarius Mines, Inc – that of tribesmen taking up firearms in protest of the
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
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/23 February) — A tribal chieftain who staunchly supported the Tampakan copper-gold project of foreign-backed Sagittarius Mines, Inc was killed Tuesday night by still unidentified gunmen, prompting the company to temporarily suspend operations in parts of the mines
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/23 February) — Allegations of harassment and other irregularities from the losing group greeted the outcome of the union certification election Tuesday at fruit giant Dole Philippines Inc. (Dolefil) even as a regional labor official described the exercise
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/23 February) – Hospitals and wellness centers here offer the country’s cheapest dialysis treatment, but a medical director of an upstart wellness center also warned of the increasing number of kidney patients, including many diabetics. Hospitals and medical
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/22 February) – After almost two years, nothing has come out of the investigation into the death of Rebelyn Pitao, daughter of New People’s Army leader Leoncio Pitao, with the police citing lack of witnesses as the primary
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/15 Feb) – Nineteen Malaysia-bound recruits to work in Malaysia were intercepted by authorities at the Zamboanga City port Monday afternoon, reports said. Senior Supt. Edwin de Ocampo, city police chief, said operatives from the Sea-Based Anti-Trafficking Task
MALAYBALAY, Bukidnon (MindaNews/8 Feb) – A stakeholders’ forum on the proposed Pulangi 5 hydro electric power project in Kibawe town with about a thousand participants turned into a stage for Manobo Lumad elders to call on those opposed to the
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/07 February) – A philanthropic organization that planned to put up a hospital for children here is yet to apply for a permit to construct the $2.5-million facility, an official at the Department of Health (DOH) XI said.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/05 February) – An environmentalist-lawyer has urged legislators in North Cotabato to look into the province’s Environment Code before they allow the field testing of a genetically-modified eggplant inside a state-owned university in Kabacan town. In a forum
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/2 Feb) – The House of Representatives will conduct an inquiry on the alleged irregularities concerning the multimillion-peso royalty payments made by a mining company to the Mamanwa tribe in Claver, Surigao del Norte. The national cultural communities
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/29 January) — The Department of Education (DepEd) is eyeing the Penaplata Elementary School to be the Special Education (SpEd) center to serve children with special needs in the Island Garden City of Samal (Igacos). Dr. Minerva Pabros,
BAYOG, Zamboanga del Sur (MindaNews/28 January) — Indigenous communities here have asked the local government to reveal the identities of companies that have conflicting mining claims in this town. Timuay Lucenio Manda, barangay chairperson of Conacon, raised the question after municipal officials said that aside from failing to comply with legal requirements, some companies have conflicting mining claims that cover portions of the Lumads’ 30,000-hectare ancestral domain.
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/25 January) — “A landmark victory for indigenous peoples in Mindanao,” Bae Alma Binayao of the Manobo-Talaandig tribe, said of the Court of Appeals Mindanao decision declaring “null and void” three land titles over 3,080 hectares in the
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/25 January) A village leader here has appealed for help to ship to this city some 50 computers donated by a Rotary chapter in Australia, for distribution to three public schools here. Nancy Cortes, a councilor of Barangay
SURIGAO CITY (MindaNews/23 January) – There were fewer cases of sexually transmitted infections here in 2010 compared with the previous year, records from the City Health Office showed. Cases of gonorrhea, bacterial vaginosis, and other transmitted diseases went down in
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/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
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/27 December) – Promoting consumer welfare and protection will form the core of Konsumanteng Kagay-anon Inc.’s plans to work for a more empowered consumers in Northern Mindanao in 2011. KKI plans to carry this out by
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.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/17 December) — Amid loud cheers from organic farmers and people opposed to Bt eggplant, UP Mindanao complied late afternoon Friday with Mayor Sara Duterte’s order to have the genetically-modified crop uprooted from the field test site near
BUTONG, Quezon, Bukidnon (MindaNews/13 December) — The Department of Agrarian Reform Adjudication Board (DARAB) has reversed a decision it made in 1998 that favored a tribe’s claim that the 230-hectare property of the Bukidnon Sugar Milling Company (Busco) was part
DAVAO CITY (Dateline Philippines through MindaNews/12 December) The Court of Appeals has junked the petition for a writ of amparo filed by the wife of a Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) officer who the military claims is an operative of
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/10 Dec) – Militant groups here said they are happy over the decision to release the Morong 43 but said President Aquino should not only release the health workers, but also all political prisoners languishing for years in
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/08 December) — A city councilor today urged her colleagues to speak up for women victims of state violence and join calls for the release of all political prisoners. Councilor Leah A. Librado, chair of the city council
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/07 December) — Tribal leaders have disapproved of what has become the practice of Lumads to come down from the mountains for Christmas and do some caroling in the city, a city official said. Ma. Lourdes Bermudo, chief
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/30 November) – In a bid to increase participation rate and reduce the number of dropouts among students in Region 12 or Southwestern Mindanao, public and private schools in the region will launch anew an early registration
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / November 20) – Cotton fabrics dyed with extracts from eight tropical plants have been found to combat pneumonia and abscess-causing bacteria, according to a study conducted by the Philippine Textile Research Institute at the Department of
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/16 Nov) —The human rights group Karapatan is demanding the release of a 23-year-old relative of one of its Davao volunteers taken in the custody of the Philippine Army and presented as one of the surrenderees from El
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/15 November)—Greenpeace-Southeast Asia today hit a news report quoting a retired police official as saying that a Davao City-based environment activist went to Indonesia last July to raise funds for the Communist Party of the Philippines. Lea Guerrero,
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/11 Nov) — An international group committed to defend human rights urged the Philippine government to drop all charges against Temogen Sahipa Tulawie, a human rights defender who went into hiding after Sulu authorities linked him to the
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/3 Nov) – Calling their cases “a straightforward violation of due process,” a Regional Trial Court (RTC) acquitted at least four persons who were arrested and charged more than eight years ago with two counts of illegal
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/30 October) — A police officer who led the arrest of two suspects in the bloody bus bombing in North Cotabato denied allegations they tortured the suspects during interrogation last week but said he will submit to the
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/28 October) – The New York-based Human Rights Watch has asked the Aquino administration to protect a whistleblower-soldier who will testify tomorrow (October 29) on the murder ten years ago of six young men in Trento, Agusan del
