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 [...]

Fr. Nery memorial race draws 500 runners

MALAYBALAY CITY –  (Bukidnon News Dispatch/01-02 October) The first ever Fr. Nery Satur memorial run, organized in time for the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of his death, drew more than 500 participants on October 1. The five-kilometer run started around 6:45a.m. at the Freedom Park Covered Court. The Diocese of Malaybalay and the Archdiocese [...]

Rehab of Rio Grande de Mindanao, “a high priority, high impact” project

MALAYBALAY CITY (Bukidnon News Dispatch/ 29 Sept)– The Rehabilitation of the Rio Grande de Mindanao is one of the 10 high priority and high impact proposed projects as presented in the Mindanao River Basin Integrated Management and Development Plan, a copy of which was obtained by Bukidnon News. In the last chapter of the 16-chapter [...]

Fr. Nery Satur Memorial Run set on October 1

MALAYBALAY CITY – (Bukidnon News Dispatch/27 Sept) The Diocese of Malaybalay and its media and environment apostolates along with a sports gear partner will be holding a five-kilometer fun run in memory of slain priest Fr. Nery Satur in this city on October 1, Saturday. Dubbed as the Fr. Nery Satur Memorial Run, the event [...]

[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 [...]

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 [...]

SP eyes Impasug-ong as Bukidnon’s tribal capital

MALAYBALAY CITY (Bukidnon News Dispatch/22 Sept.) – Majority of the members of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan are proposing an ordinance declaring the town of Impasug-ong as Bukidnon’s tribal capital. Eight members of the 14-member provincial board have sponsored the proposed ordinance, Nemesio Beltran Jr., one of the proponents, said.

Bukidnon Views: Bukidnon Culture: The Rituals By Loreta Sol L. Dinlayan

Bukidnon Culture By Loreta Sol L. Dinlayan (First of a series) (Note: Bukidnon News releases this five-part series on the Bukidnon culture with permission from the author. These materials have been previously published by the BSU Ethno-cultural Museum and the Bukidnon Heritage Foundation.) The script, Ms. Dinlayan says, in its simplest form, features the tangible [...]

Another maintenance work turns power off in Bukidnon’s 6 northern towns

MALAYBALAY CITY – (Bukidnon News Dispatch/17 Sept.) The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) announced that six of Bukidnon’s 20 towns and two cities will experience a nine-hour power interruption Sunday. In an advisory emailed by the NGCP Corporate Affairs Department this week, they cited that power interruption will be experienced from 8 to [...]

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 [...]

Valencia eyes city museum

VALENCIA CITY – (Bukidnon News Dispatch/09 September) The Valencia Bukidnon Historical and Cultural Society (VBHCS) has pushed for the city government to operate a city museum in a resolution passed in April 2010 and endorsed to Mayor Leandro Jose Catarata Friday as they launched their historical photos and cultural exhibit at the New Valencia Integrated [...]

Implementation of 4Ps “difficult to monitor” in Bukidnon

MALAYBALAY CITY – The Department of Social Welfare and Development’s conditional cash transfer program dubbed Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) is difficult to monitor, Christopher Capinpin, the program’s provincial coordinator, admitted to the Sangguniang Panlalawigan Wednesday. Capinpin spoke in an inquiry by provincial board members on the status of the program’s implementation in the province. [...]

[PHOTOS] Life, unedited…

Photos by : Walter I. Balane

‘Provincial historical officer’ proposed in Bukidnon

MALAYBALAY CITY -  The Bukidnon Provincial Board has passed a resolution Thursday proposing the creation of the position of a provincial historical officer to pull together Bukidnon’s history, lead the creation of a provincial library, and propose ways to honor past leaders. The resolution urged the provincial governor to hire a provincial historical officer using [...]

[PHOTOS] PRIME in Malaybalay City

      Photos by Walter Balane/Bukidnon News