Lumad, Moro leaders reaffirm kinship, sign covenant

Iligan City-based Datu Diamla Rolando So-ong (right), over-all head claimant of an ancestral domain in Lanao del Norte embraces Hajji Datu Ismael Gonzales after they exchanged tokens during the IP-Moro reaffirmation of kinship in Songco, Lantapan, Bukidnon on March 8.  Bukidnon News photo  SONGCO, Lantapan, Bukidnon  – Representatives of eight Moro tribes and most of [...]

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Bukidnon authorities on alert for ‘Sendong’

MALAYBALAY CITY (Bukidnon News/16 December) Weather and disaster risk reduction and management officials are on alert as tropical storm Sendong unleashed its fury in Mindanao provinces.

OPINION: BUKIDNON VIEWS: Who will judge the judges?

OPINION BUKIDNON VIEWS: Who will judge the judges? By Lourdes G. dela Torre The country is now beset with squabbles over the issue of injustice, control over the three branches of government that appears like going back to a dictatorial regime and the alleged manipulation to fast track the impeachment of the chief justice. 

‘Pantaron Range, one of PH’s largest remaining forest blocks’ – MinDA

GENERAL SANTOS CITY – (Bukidnon News/13 December 2011) The Pantaron Mountain Range, which straddles Bukidnon and the Agusan provinces is one of the largest remaining forest blocks in the country, Sec. Lualhati Antonino, chair of the Mindanao Development Authority told reporters attending the 7th Mindanao Media Summit last week.

MGB serves cease and desist order to Gango small-scale miners

MALAYBALAY CITY (Bukidnon News/13 December 2011) — The Mines and Geosciences Bureau of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources -10 today served a cease and desist order issued earlier against illegal mining operators in Gango, Libona, Bukidnon, a bureau official said.

Judges rally behind CJ Corona – Judge Bacal

MALAYBALAY CITY (Bukidnon News/14 December) – The Philippine Judges Association is rallying behind embattled Chief Justice Renato Corona, Regional Trial Court Judge Josefina Gentilles Bacal said.

Bukidnon eyes P60T Christmas cash gifts to employees

MALAYBALAY CITY –  Bukidnon Vice Gov. Jose Ma. R. Zubiri Jr announced last week that the provincial government can free funds to give P60,000 cash gifts or performance enhancement incentives to regular employees and casual employees.

Media’s help sought on Mindanao’s critical environment situation

GENERAL SANTOS CITY   (Bukidnon News/08 December) The media must dig more and be more critical in the midst of a deteriorating environmental situation in Mindanao, former presidential assistant for Mindanao Jesus Dureza said in the opening  Thursday of the three-day 7th Mindanao Media Summit.

3 Bukidnon farmers win ‘Gawad Saka’ in Region 10

MALAYBALAY CITY (Bukidnon News/07 December) Three farmers from Bukidnon who practiced integrated farming won in the regional selection for the Department of Agriculture’s ‘Gawad Saka,’ according to the Provincial Agriculture Office.

8 village chiefs killed in Bukidnon since 2010

MALAYBALAY CITY (Bukidnon News/06 December) Since 2010, a total of eight barangay (village) chairs were killed in Bukidnon while serving their term, an official at the Department of the Interior and Local Government provincial office said, adding the government should do something about it.

DAR re-installs farmers in Ocaya Ranch in Maramag

MALAYBALAY CITY – (Bukidnon News/04 December) The Department of Agrarian Reform in South Bukidnon re-installed farmer beneficiaries in a portion of the Ocaya Ranch in Brgy. Kuya, Maramag, Bukidnon, according to a press release by Task Force Mapalad, the group assisting the farmers.

Provincial board endorses Hedcor hydro projects in Kitaotao

MALAYBALAY CITY (Bukidnon News/03 December) – The Bukidnon Sangguniang Panlalawigan passed a resolution Thursday endorsing the 28.2-megawatt hydroelectric power project of Hedcor Bukidnon Inc. in barangays Sinuda and Kipilas in Kitaotao town, along the province’s boundary with Davao City.

CHR probes surrender of 80 suspected rebels in Bukidnon

MALAYBALAY CITY – The Commission on Human Rights is investigating the surrender of 80 alleged New People’s Army (NPA) over complaints of alleged illegal arrest among others, lawyer Jeanny Ivy Abrina, CHR 10 regional director said.

Tribal chief decries military, NPA abuses over ancestral domains

MALAYBALAY CITY (Bukidnon News/1 Dec) – The indigenous peoples in Bukidnon have been caught in the crossfire in the fighting between the military and the communist New People’s Army as both parties do not recognize and respect the rights of the lumads over their ancestral domain, a tribal leader said.