PNoy asked to order transfer of 3 power barges from Panay to Mindanao

MALAYBALAY CITY (Bukidnon News/12 March) – President Benigno Aquino III has been urged to intervene in the impending power shortage in Mindanao by ordering to forgo the sale of three power barges presently stationed in Panay Island and temporarily transfer it to appropriate stations in Mindanao. In asking Aquino to intervene, Nestor Degoma, president of [...]

Malaybalay’s Social Action Center pilots 2 villages in leadership drive

MALAYBALAY CITY – (Bukidnon News Dispatch/07 October) To address poverty and lack of livelihood opportunities at the village level, the church has to do its role in social action. In Bukidnon, the Diocese of Malaybalay has changed tack. Before organizing livelihood projects, they are now engaging the communities in a community leadership drive using ‘model [...]

Buseco apologizes; city council: apology not enough on brown outs

MALAYBALAY CITY – (Bukidnon News Dispatch/Sept 30-Oct.1) The Bukidnon Second Electric Cooperative (Buseco) apologized to the members of the Malaybalay City Council amid City Councilor Melchor Maramara’s inquiry on the frequent brownouts in Brgy, Kalasungay, where he lives. The city council invited Buseco officials including Malaybalay branch manager Juancho T. Chiong with public relations officer [...]

NCIP revokes compliance certificate issued to Bukidnon ranch occupant

MALAYBALAY CITY (Bukidnon News / 30 Sept) – The National Commission on Indigenous Peoples, sitting en banc, decided to annul the compliance certificate it issued to a ranch operator in Maramag, Bukidnon, reversing a verdict it made more than three years ago, according to a copy of its decision furnished by petitioner Panalsalan Dagumbaan Tribal [...]

[Updated] Impasugong proposed as Bukidnon’s tribal capital

MALAYBALAY CITY (Bukidnon News Dispatch/25 September) – Impasugong, Bukidnon’s 134-year old town has been proposed to be declared as the tribal capital of the province. Provincial Board member Nemesio Beltran Jr. said the proposal is now in the hands of four committees of the board. Established in 1877, Impasugong has been able to preserve its [...]

CDA calls on Bukidnon electric coops to register

MALAYBALAY CITY – The Cooperative Development Authority calls on the the management of the two power distributors in Bukidnon, namely First Bukidnon Electric Cooperative (FIBECO) and Bukidnon Second Electric Cooperative (BUSECO), in its reiterated campaign for  these Electric Cooperatives (EC) to register under CDA.

Probe sought on claim Bukidnon bananas stricken by ‘Panama disease’

MALAYBALAY CITY – (Bukidnon News Dispatch/22 Sept) The Sangguniang Panlalawigan urged the Bukidnon provincial agriculturist in a resolution passed Wednesday to investigate the veracity of a report that a fungal disease has infected at least a thousand hectares of banana plantations in Bukidnon. Board member Jay Albarece (1st district), who authored the resolution, urged provincial [...]

Board member seeks suspension of RTMI operations in Bukidnon

MALAYBALAY CITY – (Bukidnon News Dispatch/21 Sept.)Bukidnon Provincial Board member Clive Quiño urged the Sangguniang Panlalawigan to call on the suspension of operations in Bukidnon of the Rural Transit of Mindanao, Inc. over alleged abuses of its drivers along Bukidnon highways. In a privilege speech at the regular session last Wednesday, a copy of which [...]

Malaybalay, Valencia transport groups set to join Monday strike – STAREX

MALAYBALAY CITY – (Bukidnon News Dispatch/19 Sept.) Bukidnon will be part of the national transport strike Monday to show discontent over President Benigno Simeon Aquino III’s inaction to address the unabated surge of oil price increases, with operators and drivers associations working with the Solidarity of Transport Alliance in Region X (STAREX), holding protests in [...]

Valencia farmers to DA on NIA fertilizers: replace but get another source

SINAYAWAN, Valencia City – (Bukidnon News Dispatch/17 Sept.) The government must find a way to replace the substandard organic fertilizers distributed by the National Irrigation Administration to farmers in Northern Mindanao, if not, it would have been a waste of public funds, Judy Arota, president of the Federated Lateral G Irrigators Associations in Valencia City. [...]

Malaybalay City Council: Collect, don’t condone, Buseco tax arrears

MALAYBALAY CITY (Bukidnon News Dispatch/ 17 Sept.) The Malaybalay City Council passed a resolution on Sept. 13 denying the Bukidnon Second Electric Cooperative’s appeal to condone surcharges of its P14-million tax arrears. Instead the city council called on the City Treasurer’s Office to collect payment in 10 days.

Buseco pays off ERC ‘other charges’ case by P100T

MALAYBALAY CITY (Bukidnon News Dispatch/13 Sept) The Bukidnon Second Electric Cooperative’s case before the Energy Regulatory Commission over a complaint of alleged charging of ‘other fees’ is now ordered closed after the electric cooperative paid the sum of P100,000 as full payment in “satisfaction of the approved compromise in this case,” documents obtained by Bukidnon [...]

LIFE IN THE PLATEAU: Starting the change in a meal

By Walter I. Balane On the road to a resort in Lianga, Surigao del Sur one early evening last year, our Grassroots Documentation and Reporting Training Team talked about the application of science in the food that we eat. It was a humorous but “meaty” chatter. The usual one you get into inside the vehicle [...]

Pro co-op conversion reps may block DOE, ERC, NEA budgets

MALAYBALAY CITY – (Bukidnon News Dispatch/10 September) Representatives supporting the conversion of electric cooperatives from the regulation of the National Electrification Administration to the Cooperative Development Authority might block the budgets of the Department of Energy, the NEA, and the Energy Regulatory Commission if the agencies do not make the members’ contribution for capital expenditures [...]