‘1st Malaybalay summer youth workshops’ begins at BSU Museum

MALAYBALAY CITY  – The 1st Malaybalay Community Summer Youth Training Workshops will begin Monday at the Bukidnon State University Ethno-cultural Museum and will run up to May 12.

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 [...]

Proposed Pulangi V gets RDC-10 nod, with conditions – SP records

MALAYBALAY CITY  (Bukidnon News/11 to 12 November) The First Bukidnon Second Electric Cooperative and Greenergy Development Corporation, proponents of the proposed 300 mega-watt Pulangi V Hydroelectric power project, were able to obtain in June 2011 an endorsement from the Northern Mindanao Regional Development Council (RDC) to the “Department of Energy and other concerned agencies for [...]

Korean researcher eyes Bukidnon as a ‘honey paradise’

MALAYBALAY CITY – [Bukidnon News Dispatch / 04 November 2011) Lee Jong Hyuk, a Korean volunteer engaged in research in the honey bee industry has opened a demo farm in the site of the defunct Bukidnon Resources Co. Inc. (BRCI) in Dicklum, Manolo Fortich, Bukidnon to help boost the province’s honey bee industry.

Tribe turns over P4.5 million worth of marijuana– Gov. Calingasan

MALAYBALAY CITY – (Bukidnon News/29 October) Bukidnon Gov. Alex Calingasan announced that leaders of the Umajamnen tribe based in the hinterlands between Bukidnon’s Cabanglasan and Agusan del Sur’s Loreto towns turned over about P4.5 million worth of marketable marijuana plants in formal rites on October 27.

Malaybalay to build child care lab center

MALAYBALAY CITY  (Bukidnon News/19 October) With the help of the National Early Childhood Care and Development, the city government of Malaybalay will be building an early childhood care laboratory center within the year, the city government announced in its website.

It’s final: no Gaisano wet market – Mayor Zubiri

MALAYBALAY CITY  (Bukidnon News Dispatch/13 October) Mayor Ignacio W. Zubiri said it’s final that he will refuse to issue a permit to Gaisano Malaybalay for its request to run a wet market.

Technical Monitoring Group evaluates Bukidnon PRMF Projects

MALAYBALAY CITY (Bukidnon News Dispatch / 10 October 2011) —A five-man technical monitoring group of the Australia Agency for International Development(AusAid) visits Provincial Roads Management Facility (PRMF) projects in Bukidnon from October 10-11.

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 [...]

Fuel tanker torched in Quezon town

MALAYBALAY CITY – (Bukidnon News Dispatch/06 September 2011) Police investigation is on-going on the incident in San Jose, Quezon town where still unidentified perpetrators hailed and torched a fuel tanker on October 4, police report said.

House approves Bukidnon’s 4th legislative district – records

MALAYBALAY CITY – (Bukidnon News Dispatch/04 October) The House of Representatives approved Monday House Bill No. 5236 or the “Act Reapportioning the Province of Bukidnon into four legislative districts,” House records obtained by Bukidnon News showed. The House approved the bill on third reading on October 3, 2011 with 217-0-0 votes, barely a month after [...]

Sports brief: Fun run held for jail house

  Two hundred fifty (250) participants gamely conquered the dirt and muddy trail within the City Jail compound in Patpat, Malaybalay City during the Jail House Rock Trail Fun Run held last Sept. 25. The run was organized for the completion of the Jail Basketball Court, Jail Conjugal Room and assistance for the Alternative Learning [...]

Capitol’s outstanding personnel, units honored

MALAYBALAY CITY-  (Bukidnon News Dispatch/04 October) – Four officers of the Provincial Government of Bukidnon, outstanding offices and units, and about 140 loyal personnel were honored during the culminating and awarding ceremony of the Civil Service Commission anniversary celebration. Marie Carmen C. Unabia, department head of the Provincial Economic Enterprise Development and Management Office (PEEDMO) [...]

Capitol proposes P1.33B 2012 budget, SP scheds marathon hearings

MALAYBALAY CITY (Bukidnon News Dispatch/04 October)–  Gov. Alex Calingasan has proposed a P1.330 billion budget for 2012, about P50 million short compared to the provincial government’s 2011 budget of P1.379 billion. The Provincial Government of Bukidnon, which received an internal revenue allotment of P1.311 billion in 2011, will receive only P1.249 billion this year or [...]

Funding halts in 2011 for P2.85 billion Bukidnon road projects

MALAYBALAY CITY(Bukidnon News Dispatch / 03 Oct 2011) – The national government has stopped funding about P2.85 billion worth of road projects in Bukidnon, at least in one of the province’s three districts, board member Nemesio Beltran Jr said. Beltran cited four road projects in the second district started by Department of Public Works and [...]