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Former President Rodrigo Roa Duterte visits the wake of Davao Archbishop Emeritus Fernando Capalla at the Chapel of the Saints at the San Pedro Cathedral at a little past 11 p.m. on January 6 with his partner, Honeylet Avancena. Capalla, who took a stand against the “unabated series of summary killings” in Davao City while Duterte was mayor, died early morning of January 6 in his residence in Davao City. MindaNews photo by MANMAN DEJETO
Former President Rodrigo Roa Duterte speaks before members of the media at the Grand Men Seng Hotel in Davao City on Saturday evening, 6 January 2024, the first since he stepped down as President on June 30, 2022. He announced, among others, that he has retired from politics, will not run for mayor in 2025, that President Marcos is “fine.” MindaNews photo by MANMAN DEJETO
There was no meteor captured on camera during the Magnitude 7.4 earthquake that rocked parts of Mindanao at 10:37 p.m. on Saturday. Facebook user Yrram Neaj Sonreb Itmana posted the false photo following the tremor that shook parts of Mindanao
A pet owner and his fur baby run around Limketkai Center in Cagayan de Oro City as they participate in the Pet-Friendly Fun Run 2023, on Sunday, November 26, 2023. MindaNews photo by IVY MARIE MANGADLAO
Bro. Karl Gaspar, writing as Melchor Morante, at the book signing that followed the launch of his latest book in Cebuano, “Pinangga,” at the BauHaus in Davao City on Saturday, 25 November 2023. MindaNews photo by CAROLYN O. ARGUILLAS
A boy jumps into the water from a docked cargo boat while others watch as they await their turn at the port of Barangay Don Ruben, San Jose, Dinagat Islands province on Sunday, October 29, 2023. MindaNews photo by IVY MARIE MANGADLAO
Big donors who gave P10 million to P20 million accounted for only 19% of Vice President Leni Robredo’s campaign funds for the May 2022 presidential elections. The rest came from a long list of relatively small donors. By Carmela FonbuenaPhilippine
Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso is facing a campaign overspending complaint that may go to court. But it has been almost 10 years since he spent more than the limit and five years since the preliminary investigation, raising concerns about the
Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. and Sara Duterte each won landslide victories in the May 2022 polls, but their spending is worlds apart. Duterte spent only P3 per voter to win a national post. Marcos spent P9.60 per voter, almost breaking
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 17 August) – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) rejected a petition by former Cotabato City mayor lawyer Cynthia Guiani-Sayadi to nullify the results in some voting centers during the May 9 election in that city.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/June 29) – A reelected councilor of Cotabato City on Wednesday pointed out that a new city administration will “definitely” assume on Thursday, June 30, contrary to general speculations that mayor-elect lawyer Bruce Matabalao has gone hiding.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 29 June) – Reelected Davao City 1st District Representative Paolo “Pulong” Duterte took his oath of office in his residence here on Monday, a day after Mayor-elect Sebastian “Baste” Duterte and other local officials were sworn
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews / 28 June) – Governor-elect Rogelio Neil Pepito Roque has vowed to push for a new Bukidnon in his speech Tuesday morning where he underscored his administration’s core principle: “government money is people’s money.” “We owe to
The claim of Vice President-elect Sara Duterte that all kidnap victims abducted by the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) in Mindanao since 2016 have been successfully rescued is false. Duterte, the outgoing Davao City Mayor, issued the pronouncement as part of
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 13 June) – Vice President-elect Sara Duterte said on Monday that she has invited outgoing Vice President Leni Robredo, the rival of her running-mate President-elect Ferdinand Marcos Jr., to attend her oath-taking on June 19 in
(Editor’s note: This story was updated to include the advisories of some foreign governments to their citizens against travelling to some parts of Mindanao.) Mindanao. A recent tweet by journalist Raissa Robles that opening up Mindanao to tourism will lead
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 7 June) – At least 2,000 military and police personnel will secure the venue of the oath-taking program of Vice President-elect Sara Duterte in Davao City on June 19, an official of the Davao City Police
Weeks after the May 9 elections, a Facebook page called Baste Duterte FP made a call asking for a petition to rename the University of the Philippines to Bagong Pilipinas University. The post is fake as Duterte, the runaway winner in
A claim circulating on Facebook that Vice President-elect Sara Duterte will ask Congress to add two more years to the K to 12 Program and include two years of mandatory military service without pay is fake news. Facebook pages such
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 2 June) — The May 9 elections for local positions fell short of “being fair and honest” due to rampant vote-buying and disinformation, election watchdogs and other observers said. Two days before the May 9
(Pribilihiyong Talumpati ni Bayan Muna Rep. Carlos Isagani T. Zarate,House Deputy Minority Leader, 30 May 2022) Kagalang-galang na Speaker: Isang mainit na pagbati sa ating lahat! Noong June 21, 2013, ako po ay nanumpa bilang elected member ng 16th Congress na kinakatawan ang aming partido, ang Bayan Muna.
COTABATO CITY – Mayor-elect Mohammad Bruce Matabalao today said he will name four deputy mayors once he assumes as the city’s chief executive on July 1. “These deputy mayors will take charge of the issues of four major sectoral groups
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 30 May) – Vice President-elect Sara Duterte has congratulated Vice President Leni Robredo for her achievements in the past six years, as the former asked the latter for a virtual meeting to discuss and ensure a
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 30 May) – A female Commission on Elections (Comelec) officer in Maguindanao province survived Monday a broad daylight ambush, but her aide was slightly injured. Jean Hangkal, municipal election officer of Datu Salibo town, said she
Old photos of rice priced at the P20-level per kilo in Davao City have resurfaced on Facebook to boost the campaign promise of President-elect Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr. With three weeks before the May 9 elections, the former senator from
TUBARAN, Lanao del Sur (MindaNews / 25 May) – The special elections held in this municipality held Tuesday, under the watchful eye of 600 troops from the police and the military in full battle gear and supported by armed vehicles,
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 24 May) – Local authorities will prepare a “multi-layered security plan” for the oath-taking of presumptive Vice President Sara Duterte to be held in front of City Hall along San Pedro Street here as the historic
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 23 May) – Mayor Sara Duterte revealed Monday that she will take her oath as Vice President of the Philippines at the San Pedro Street here, the usual venue for major activities in the city such
NAAWAN, Misamis Oriental (MindaNews / 21 May) – Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. escaped presidential debates even those sponsored by the Commission on Elections, to avoid being dragged and thrashed on the issues of the Marcos family ill-gotten wealth, his nonpayment of
MATALAM, North Cotabato (MindaNews / 21 May) — The opposition, or Leni Robredo’s camp to be more specific, has been saying they lost in the 2022 elections due to “disinformation” / “misinformation” and the handiwork of the paid “trolls.” (The
OZAMIZ CITY (MindaNews / 19 May) – In the last elections, social media played a major role in the campaign. Politicians hired their own crew of “social media warriors” from among vloggers and journalists to create content or materials to
Last of three parts DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 17 May) — The May 9, 2022 election in Davao City was the first after 12 years where the Duterte Dynasty faced challengers who are highly qualified but cannot match their nearly four-decade
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 17 May) – A candidate in the May 9 elections is seeking more sustainable approaches for post-election cleanups and suggests that “more coordinated approaches” be put in place for the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections in
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 17 May) – Mayor Sara Duterte announced on Monday that her team has tentatively set for June 19 her inauguration here as Vice President. Duterte said over Davao City Disaster Radio (DCDR 87.5) that she wants her
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 16 May) — A firm believer in repaying debts of gratitude, President Rodrigo Duterte at the ‘miting de avance’ of his youngest son Sebastian on May 6 said he would often tell his children: “ayaw gyud pasagdi
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews / 16 May) – The outcome of the battle for governor of Bukidnon between 4th District Rep. Rogelio Neil Roque and 3rd District Rep. Manuel Antonio Zubiri, which the former won, may suggest something about the future
SAN FRANCISCO, Agusan del Sur (MindaNews /15 May) — Tandag Bishop Raul Dael has condemned what he described as the “massive vote-buying and vote-selling” in the province of Surigao del Sur during the May 9 elections, the amounts reaching as
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 15 May) — Coming out of the Marco Polo Hotel’s 17th floor after meeting with Senator Benigno Simeon Aquino III on September 3, 2009, Rodrigo Roa Duterte, then ending his sixth term as city mayor, told
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews /15 May) – Twelve and a half years after the massacre of 58 persons in Maguindanao and 29 months after the court found the Ampatuan brothers guilty beyond reasonable doubt and sentenced them to imprisonment of up to
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 15 May) — Davao City-based environmental group Interfacing Development Interventions (IDIS) called on winners and losers in the May 9 polls to collect and dispose of their campaign paraphernalia properly. IDIS executive director Atty. Mark Peñalver
NAAWAN, Misamis Oriental (MindaNews / 14 May) — At dusk, when the sun sinks in the far horizon and disappears from sight, the earth is gradually engulfed by darkness. Very soon, most of us by need or force of nature
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