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Dapecol knew but ignored threat

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/10 April) —  The management of the Davao Prison and Penal Farm, more known by its old name, Dapecol (Davao Penal Colony), knew of the impending threat of a rebel attack but did not take appropriate measures, military and police officials said.

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“Goodbye Grecil, Goodbye good child”

NEW BATAAN, Compostela Valley (MindaNews/10 April ) —  There were no placards or streamers crying for justice,  no funeral procession, no wailing even, just a quiet goodbye and a prayer for justice, for nine-year old Grecil, eldest child of Virginia Buya and Gregorio Galacio, a “good child,” the elders in the community all agreed, but whom the military claimed to be a “child soldier” of the New People’s Army (NPA).

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NPA raids Davao prison, hauls 103 firearms

DAPECOL, Davao del Norte (MindaNews/08 April) — New People's Army guerrillas swooped down on the country's third largest penal farm here before dawn of Easter Sunday and cleaned its armory of 103 firearms, many of them vintage weapons.

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Body of drowned Apo climber retrieved

KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/08 April) — Divers from the Philippine Air Force  retrieved shortly before noon today the body of Ian Caasi, a mountain climber who drowned Maundy Thursday in Mt. Apo’s Lake Venado.

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Child-focused groups urge CHR to probe Grecil case

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/07 April) – Child-focused groups here are urging the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) to “conduct an urgent investigation and act on” the killing of a nine-year old girl during an encounter between government forces and the New People’s Army (NPA) in New Bataan, Compostela Valley on March 31.


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MindaNews’ 1st business manager is now a lawyer

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/05 April) – Danilo “Danny” Balucos, MindaNews’ first business manager, is now a lawyer.
Balucos, who also worked previously at the Mindanao Business Council, was among 49 passers of the 2006 bar exams from the Ateneo de Davao University and among the 1,893 new lawyers in the country.

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ComVal Gov awaits report on killing of 9-yr old girl

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/05 April) – Compostela Valley Governor Jose Caballero on Wednesday night said he has yet to receive a report on the killing of a nine-year old girl in New Bataan, Compostela Valley last Saturday, during an encounter between government forces and the New People's Army.

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Parents of slain 9-year old girl: “our child was no NPA”

NEW BATAAN, Compostela Valley (MindaNews/03 April) —  “Dili NPA ang among anak” (Our daughter was not a member of the New People’s Army), Gregorio Galacio and Virginia Buya said of their eldest daughter Grecil,  9, whom the military and the media identified to be a “child soldier” of the NPA killed in an encounter Saturday morning just outside their house in Purok 6, Barangay Kahayag, New Bataan, Compostela Valley.

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WB set to begin MRDP Phase 2

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/02 April) — The World Bank plans to institutionalize a decentralized system of delivery for agriculture and fisheries services in Mindanao through the second phase of the Mindanao Rural Development Program (MRDP2) that will start this second quarter.

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Duterte: TFD is here to stay

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/01 April) — Mayor Rodrigo Duterte has brushed aside calls for the pullout of the military’s Task Force Davao, saying the city still needs it to thwart terror threats.

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Be proud of your identity, Moro grads told

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/01 April) –Two young politicians have urged Moro graduates from tertiary institutions here to “stand out proud” and “never allow discrimination and being a part of the cultural minorities hinder (their) dreams and aspirations.”

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Sarangani ustadzes lectured on reproductive health

ALABEL, Sarangani (MindaNews/01 April) — Eighty five ustadzes or Islamic teachers from the six municipalities of Sarangani Province attended a lecture on the fatwa (Islamic ruling) on reproductive health and family planning, as adopted by the Assembly of Darul-Iftah (House of Opinion) of the Philippines last November 22, 2003 and during the Muslim Religious Leaders’ Assembly last March 10, 2004,

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Mindanao halal certifying body formed

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/01 April) – Efforts by the national government to unify the country’s various halal certification bodies have finally paid off with the setting up in this city last week of the Mindanao Halal Authority (MINHA).

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COMMENT: On Pacquiao?s HS ?Graduation?

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/27 Feb) – Emmanuel “Manny” Pacquiao, the boxing idol, should not be questioned for “graduating” from high school, an occasion that Education Secretary Lesli Lapus celebrated as a media event honoring someone of national importance.

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COMMENT: Advent of Cheap Medicine

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MIndaNews/25 February) —  With Senate Bill 2263 already passed and House Bill 6035 passed on second reading, the Filipinos – all, not just the poor – will soon be relieved of the scandalously high prices of medicines of the multinational drug corporations.

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COMMENT: Tough for PGMA

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/21 Feb) – No bold statements can hide the fact: The extrajudicial killings are a nut too tough for President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, her advisers, and her police and military generals to crack. Their words are too remote from reality.

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COMMENT: Do Alone, Not Help

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/19 Feb) —  On the invitation of the Arroyo government, teams from the European Union and the United Nations Commission on Human Rights are here to look into the unabated extrajudicial killings. 

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COMMENT: Dance of Continents

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / January 12) – With exception of geologists, very few, if any, are aware that continents have been, are, and will ever be in continuous motion – the dance of continents?

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COMMENT: There Must Be a ?Twelfth?

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / February 16) – The Journalist’s Code of Ethics, published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer recently, was adopted by the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines during its founding on July 30, 1988. As a covenant, all NUJP members are bound to it under the pain of expulsion.

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COMMENT: Mayor’s resolve on test

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/14 February) – A day before meeting with Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap, Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte signed last February 8 the city’s ordinance banning aerial spraying in banana plantations. Now, his resolve to implement the ordinance is on test.

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Region 12 DENR to produce a million tree seedlings

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/14 February) — The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Region 12 or Southwestern Mindanao plans to produce at least a million tree seedlings in preparation for a nationwide mass tree planting program of the national government.

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COMMENT: Third Force: A Futility (2)

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/13 Feb) – A “Third Force” to contest the coming May midterm election against the Arroyo and Estrada political forces is commonly understood as a political group – a party or a coalition of leaders – with complete senate slate capable of conducting a nationwide campaign and getting regional and local support.

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COMMENT: Third Force: A Futility?

(First of a Series)

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/8 Feb) – At no time other than today do the Filipinos need a Third Force to free them from the grip of politicians in power and politicians in opposition whose only reason for being is for the first, survival, and for the second, revival.

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COMMENT: In the Morning After

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/7 Feb) – In the morning after, we hear more from the horses’ mouths. MNLF Ustadz Habier Malik’s 50-hour hostage taking of Undersecretary Ramon Santos and Marine Brig. Gen. Benjamin Dolorfino obtained more than an assurance that the Jeddah tripartite conference would be held March 17 and 18.

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COMMENT: Facing the realities

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/06 February) —  Dismiss the drama and the rationalization. Why hide, evade?  Let’s face the realities. 

Undersecretary Ramon Santos, Brig. Gen. Benjamin Dolorfino and their group were held by Ustadz Habier Malik against their will in order to obtain from the government and the Organization of Islamic Conference a definite date of the tripartite conference to review the implementation of the 1996 GRP-MILF Peace Agreement. Not taken hostage?

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COMMENT: The Other View

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/01 February) — Persistently and consistently, the argument against every proposal to increase minimum wage is that this will result in closure of small business establishments and retrenchment in others, hence, the loss of jobs. Besides, prices of goods and services will go up.

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COMMENT: Still No Luck

GENERAL SANT0S CITY (MindaNews/31 January) —  After waiting for six years, labor breathed a sigh of hope only to be dashed, shortly after, against rock-hard oppositions. Last December the House of Representatives passed the P125-wage increase bill. But Malacañang frowned and brandished the presidential veto. 

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COMMENT: Notable Items

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/24 Jan) – Browsing is a rewarding pastime. Books, newspapers, magazines and on-line items have much to keep the mind active and to make life, as the cliché goes, “worth living”. An active mind is the key to long life.

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COMMENT: More on HB 4701

GENERAL SANTOS CTY (MindaNews/23 January) —  Former Education Undersecretary Juan Miguel Luz’s commentary in the January 22 Philippine Daily Inquirer, “ ‘English First’ policy will hurt learning”, recognizes the decline in English proficiency among Filipinos but warns that HB 4701 — the Gullas Bill — is not the solution. 

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COMMENT: Not the cause but the effect

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / January 19) – Two months after the House of Representatives had passed House Bill 4701, the English as Medium of Instruction Act, co-author Rep. Luis Villafuerte of Camarines Sur blamed the poor state of English proficiency among Filipinos today to the bilingual policy which he called policy of linguistic juggling.

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COMMENT: Beholden justice

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/18 Jan) — Just very recently, an American soldier in South Korea raped a Korean woman – a 23-year-old raping a 67-year-old. Hours after South Korean police had arrested the soldier, Maj. Gen. John Morgan, acting commander of the 8th Army, issued an apology.

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COMMENT: An ocean apart

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/17 Jan) – Basically, the justice system of the United States and of the Philippines are the same. Ours is modeled after that of the US in the tutor-pupil tradition. Our courts – especially the Supreme Court – cite US jurisprudence in their decisions. So do Filipino lawyers in their pleadings.


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Flashfloods hit North Cotabato villages

KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/13 January) — Flashfloods hit low-lying villages of Tulunan town in North Cotabato damaging some P3 million pesos worth of agricultural crops and government properties, according to Mayor Nestor Taasan.

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Sea cow found dead off Samal isle

Peñaplata, Samal Island (MindaNews) – A sea cow, locally known as "dugong" was found dead in Talikod Island here early Friday, and believed to have choked when trapped in the fish nets around the area, fishery management officials said.

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COMMENT: Mac, Congress disagrees

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/10 Jan) – On September 28, 2006, Dr. Macario D. Tiu wrote in his “Bisag Unsa” MindaViews column his advocacy of the native tongue as medium of instruction in our schools. Entitled “Mother Tongue Education”, it was written in Bisaya.


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