Malaybalay bishop pushes Filipino-first food policy

MALAYBALAY CITY – Malaybalay Bishop Jose A. Cabantan expressed his support for House Bill 4626 (Food for Filipinos First Act of 2011) as a safety measure for food self sufficiency in the country. Cabantan met with Cagayan Rep. Jack Enrile, author of the bill, at the bishop’s house during the congressman’s visit to Bukidnon Saturday [...]

BJMP captives appeal to negotiators, military: suspend operations – videos released by NPA

MALAYBALAY CITY – Abducted personnel from the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology appealed for the suspension of military operations pursuing the New People’s Army and allayed fear and worry of their families in video clips released by the NPA to the media Monday. The video clips were attached in an email sent by the [...]

Bukidnon eyes BOT to develop LGU-owned prime lot

MALAYBALAY CITY – Bukidnon Gov. Alex Calingasan has requested authority from the Sangguniang Panlalawigan to develop the Capitol’s prime lot property in downtown Malaybalay City into a commercial arcade, board member Nemesio Beltran Jr. announced in a joint committee hearing Friday. In a letter dated April 13, 2011, Calingasan requested the board to authorize him [...]

Malaybalay’s market complex project: four years delay and a looming legal battle

MALAYBALAY CITY –  Seven years after signing the P225 million contract to build the city’s supposedly biggest infrastructure project to date and four years after its scheduled completion, the city government is poised to a possible legal battle against the Manila-based contractor. Mayor Ignacio W. Zubiri told Bukidnon News in an interview this week city [...]

DA investigators find irregularities in NIA 10 fertilizer project

MALAYBALAY CITY – The Department of Agriculture fact finding team, which Agriculture Sec. Proceso Alcala created in July 2010 found irregularities in the National Irrigation Administration 10‘s P30-million bio-organic fertilizer subsidy program, which it implemented since 2009, according to the team’s report, a copy of which was obtained by Bukidnon News this week. The investigation, [...]

Malaybalay mayor declines Gaisano Mall’s wet market

MALAYBALAY CITY – The City Government cannot allow Gaisano Mall to operate a wet market to the detriment of the meat vendors in the city’s public market, Mayor Ignacio W. Zubiri said. Zubiri told Bukidnon News Tuesday he declined recently the mall operator’s application for the wet market after Gaisano wrote a letter expressing desire [...]

Malaybalay garbage collection drops after implementation of segregation ordinance

MALAYBALAY CITY- The city’s garbage collection volume dropped from 22 tons in 2009 to 15 tons as of June 2011 after the implementation of City Ordinance No. 669 or the local waste segregation law since June 2010, the City Environment and Natural Resources Office, said. Ma. Anita Fernandez, CENRO chief told Bukidnon News Tuesday the [...]

LACK OF PRODUCT UPGRADE IS SETBACK TO MALAYBALAY’S FOCUS ON ABACA

MALAYBALAY CITY – Malaybalay City has focused on abaca production for more than a decade and the local abaca industry has made some headways, said Herculano Ronolo, city administrator and former coordinator of the city planning and development office. He added that the city has focused the distribution of free abaca hills to five barangays [...]

Bukidnon opens P2.2 million goat breeder farm

MALAYBALAY CITY – Bukidnon Gov. Alex Calingasan opened the provincial government’s P2.2 million first goat breeder farm in Dicklum, Manolo Fortich town in northern Bukidnon in time for the launching of his administration’s Assistance to Low Income Communities and Settlers (ALICS) Program. Calingasan said the 53-head breeder farm project is intended for livelihood assistance for [...]

Bukidnon’s new police director picked through ‘secret balloting’

MALAYBALAY CITY – The new Bukidnon police director was a choice of the plurality of the chiefs of police of Bukidnon’s 20 towns and two cities, Gov. Alex Calingasan admitted to Bukidnon News. S/Supt. Rustom Duran of the Philippine National Police Regional Police Community Relations Division (RPCRD) was installed Friday as the new provincial police [...]

Bukidnon revives investment, export promotion board

MALAYBALAY CITY – The Bukidnon Provincial Government has caused the reorganization of the Bukidnon Investment and Export Promotion Board, which was created back in 1995 but has never taken off, said Manny James Cudal, chair of the Bukidnon Small and Medium Enterprise Development Council. Cudal said Bukidnon Gov. Alex Calingasan ordered the formation of the [...]

Bukidnon bishop: Be clear, transparent on peace proposal

MALAYBALAY CITY – Bukidnon bishop Jose A. Cabantan said he preferred to defer his comment on the proposed Moro sub-state when the proposal is made public, as he is asking for transparency on the proposed peaceful solution to the conflict in Mindanao. The bishop refused to weigh in his comments to the public discussion even [...]

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Agri haven grows out from Bukidnon’s defunct tomato paste factory compound

MALAYBALAY CITY – The defunct Bukidnon Economic and Industrial Zone, which houses the controversial Bukidnon Resources Company Inc. (BRCI), a defunct tomato paste factory, is now an agriculture haven. The economic sector of the provincial government cited the partial conversion in its accomplishments during the Provincial project implementation review last week. “BRCI open areas were [...]

Bukidnon stakeholders: Privatize Pulangi IV, we’ll buy it

MALAYBALAY CITY – If the privatization of the Pulangi IV becomes inevitable, a corporation representing Bukidnon’s electric power cooperatives and local government units will buy it to “ultimately solve the power crisis, among others,” said a resolution filed by the Bukidnon Power Commission (BPC) to the Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corporation (PSALM). “The [...]