KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/16 Oct) — The commander of the 602nd Infantry Brigade of the Philippine Army based in Carmen, North Cotabato has recommended the expulsion of PFC Oscar Canizares for his alleged involvement in raping a 15-year-old girl.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/15 October) – Mayor Rodrigo Duterte has called on the public to “just wait for the results of the investigation” into the spate of bombings in Makilala and the cities of Tacurong and Cotabato because it is “not fair” that ”everytime there is a bomb(ing), we invariably attribute it to the Muslims.”
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/15 October) — Mayor Rodrigo Duterte will name the "mayor from Maguindanao" who is involved in trafficking of illegal drugs in the city, during the session of the City Council on Tuesday.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/15 October) – A bomb exploded Sunday evening in front of an inn owned by a police cooperative inside Camp Asturias in Jolo, wounding two persons, the military said.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/15 October) — Fr Antonio F. Moreno SJ, Xavier University’s Vice-President for Social Development and Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences is the new president of the Ateneo de Zamboanga University (ADZU) vice Fr. William H. Kreutz.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/15 October) — Davao is poised to sign a sisterhood agreement with China's Nanning City by the end of the month.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/14 October) — Police authorities are set to
file multiple murder and multiple frustrated charges against alleged Indonesian bomb expert Dulmatin, fugitive bomber Abdulbasit Usman and several other alleged members of theAbu Sayyaf and Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) in connection with the three bomb explosions earlier this week in Southwestern Mindanao.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/14 October) — Mindanao is “home to human rights violations,” but there are only few lawyers who are working on these cases, the leader of a Mindanao lawyers' group said.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/14 October) — The government is planning to transform the 25-hectare property of the National Development Corporation in Daliao, Toril, this city into an economic zone for food-based industries and allied service providers.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/14 October) – The government has laid down an “intensified security plan” to prevent bombings and other similar violent incidents.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/13 Oct) — The picturesque Lake Lanao is dying.
The Mindanao State University (MSU) is undergoing a scientific study to prevent an environmental disaster from occurring in Lake Lanao following reports of massive algae contamination in its waters.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/13 Oct) — The local government unit of Makilala, North Cotabato needs P2 million to shoulder the medical expenses as well as financial assistance to the families of the victims in the October 10 trade fair bombing.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/13 Oct) — The spread of informal lending by "Bombay" or Indian nationals is not discouraged but the government is looking for means to provide borrowers more practical alternatives, said Assistant Secretary Merly Cruz of the Department of Trade and Industry.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/13 Oct) — There is enough money to lend to the poor in Mindanao but there are not enough institutions capable to extend and sustain it, a microfinance bank executive said.
ISULAN, Sultan Kudarat (MindaNews/12 October) — Authorities today honored a civilian volunteer from Tacurong City whose quick thinking saved many lives during Tuesday’s bomb explosion at the city’s public market.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/12 Oct) – The Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process has chided local officials and the media for issuing “speculative statements” following the bombing incidents in Makilala and the cities of Tacurong and Cotabato, stressing these would “ruin whatever efforts the government and other peace advocates are doing to bring both parties back to the negotiating table.”
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/12 October) — Mayor Rodrigo Duterte will name “in three to four days” the "mayor from Maguindanao" whom intelligence reports tagged to drug trafficking, following a dare from two of Maguindanao's 28 town mayors to identify the suspect.
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/12 October) — The city government today ordered
the temporary suspension of gatherings in public spaces following threats of bombings in the area.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/11 Oct) — The lawyer of murdered newspaper columnist and corruption whistleblower Marlene Esperat is seriously considering seeking police protection after she was swamped with death threats following the conviction late last week of three suspects who were earlier charged for the killing.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/11 October) — Bomb experts in North Cotabato defused at around 7:30 a.m. Wednesday a homemade bomb in Makilala town, North Cotabato, just 50 meters away from where a similar bomb exploded Tuesday night, killing six and injuring 32 others.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/11 October) — Two members of the ARMM police were found sprayed with bullets inside the baggage compartment of an abandoned KIA sedan in a remote village in Tacurong City, some six hours after a bomb injured four persons in the public market.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/11 October) — The security alert level here had been raised to "highest", Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte said Wednesday following bomb explosions in two Mindanao cities and a town in North Cotabato.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/11 October) — Officials of the Department of Education in South Cotabato plan to revive having vegetable garden in every school in the province in support of the national government's Food for the School Program (FSP).
MAKILALA, North Cotabato (MindaNews/11 Oct) – Six persons were killed and 32 others wounded in a bomb explosion on the roadside fronting the town hall here at 7:50 p.m. Tuesday, some eight hours after the closing rites for the town’s 52nd foundation day celebration.
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/10 Oct) — Business is back to normal in this city's remote barangays Zamboanguita and St. Peter, almost four months after government forces bombarded nearby camps of the New Peoples' Army in June, a microfinance bank executive said.
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/10 Oct) — Bukidnon Representatives Nereus Acosta and Juan Miguel Zubiri are set to face each other for the first time in a public forum in Bukidnon on the proposed bill to divide Bukidnon into two provinces.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/10 Oct) — Some 100 unarmed members of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) were seen massing inside a public elementary school in Makilala, North Cotabato, last Saturday.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/10 Oct) — Davao has a natural edge to become a retirement destination for both Filipino and foreign retirees, City Administrator Wendel Avisado told reporters today.
DAVAO CITY—The local government unit here has expressed its support to the call of the Bishops-Ulama Conference (BUC) in their appeal for the resumption of the peace talks between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).
DAVAO CITY — Some lawyers contend that representing rape victims is a very
iffy proposition. You come at it prepared to fight to the death for the
lady's virtue and dignity, and she turns around and drops the case – this,
after you would have sweated buckets of blood in defense of your client's
honor.
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/09 October) — Pagadian City's Kumbingan Ensemble will host the Performing Beckett festival which will feature solo performances by four young Mindanao heater artists.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/09 October) — The provincial government of South Cotabato is planning to expand the coverage of the Food for School Program, a hunger relief initiative of the national government primarily aimed at mitigating hunger among poor families and improving the attendance rate of their children in schools.
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/09 October) — Corn farmers in Bukidnon have been lukewarm to a price subsidy program funded by both private buyers and the National Food Authority, a NFA officer here said.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/09 October) — South Cotabato is one of 11 provinces chosen by the national government for its 10-year National Rubber Development Program (NRDP) which will receive an initial funding of P55 million.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/08 October)– Councilor Rosalio Bombeo here
questioned on Monday last week the release of P3.2 million in calamity fund by the city mayor, saying it did not have the approval of the city council.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/08 October) — If you happen to be in Kidapawan on
October 14, you can have your fill of exotic fruits at the fruit galore, an eat-all-you-can event for which the city government has allotted P350,000.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/07 October) — "Limit the order to retake to those who benefited from the leakage," spokespersons of a group of new Mindanawon nursing board passers and their parents said.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/07 October) — There is no proof that the leakage in test questions in the June 2006 Nursing Licensure Examinations benefited examinees in Mindanao, Dr. Roberto Palec, governor of the Southeastern Mindanao branch of the Philippine Nurses Association (PNA), said.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/07 October) — He wears white all the time. Well, every time I see him anyway.
He teaches Criminal Law at the ADDU (Ateneo de Davao University) and sometimes I'd bump into him in the hallway, the stairs or the parking lot. More often than not, we'd stop to exchange a friendly word or light banter. He's the kind of guy who loves to share a laugh with whoever is convenient. I come away light of heart every time from my chance encounters with him.
General Santos City (MindaNews / October 6) – Relatives of slain columnist and anti-corruption crusader Marlene Esperat hailed with reservation on Friday the decision of the court in Cebu City that convicted three of her four killers to life terms.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / October 6) – Police here refused to reveal the identity of a "mayor from Maguindanao" who was publicly tagged by Mayor Rodrigo Duterte to an alleged delivery of prohibited drugs here using an ambulance.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/06 October) – Representatives of a sugarcane company have offered a financing scheme to Iranun farmers expressing interest to plant sugarcane in a remote village of Pigcawayan, North Cotabato in an apparent bid to persuade them to shift to the crop.
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/5 Oct) — Police are still baffled as to the motive behind the killing of lawyer Arnel Datukon, program manager of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) Social Fund, last Wednesday.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/5 Oct) — With a national situation described by a United Nations' body as "hidden and growing", is the Philippines ready to fight AIDS?
This and other issues will be tackled during the 8th Philippine National Convention on AIDS on Oct. 6-7 here at the Royal Mandaya Hotel.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/5 Oct) — President Arroyo has not named a new ombudsman for Mindanao, 90 days after the post was declared vacant, the spokesperson of the Office of the Ombudsman in Mindanao said.
Prepared by the Freedom Fund for Filipino Journalists, Inc. (FFFJ)
October 5, 2006
Who is Marlene Esperat?
Marlene Esperat was a columnist for Sultan Kudarat paper The Midland Review. She also had a stint as a block-time radio broadcaster. Popularly known as “Madame Witness” because of her public service media exposés, she was also elected president of Region 12’s Tri-Media Association by her peers.
BULUAN, Maguindanao (MindaNews/05 October) — The Sangguniang Bayan of Buluan in Maguindanao has passed a resolution opposing the operations of Sagittarius Mines, Inc. in the mountains of Tampakan in South Cotabato, as it expressed fears mining would destroy the livelihood of thousands of residents dependent on Lake Buluan.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/4 Oct) — North Cotabato Gov. Emmanuel Piñol is asking the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) to conduct investigation on the proliferation of illegal drugs in this city and two towns of the province.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/4 Oct) — The government is availing a P200-billion ($4 billion) loan from China to build low-cost housing units around the country, said Parañaque Rep. Eduardo Zialcita Wednesday.
