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 [...]

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 [...]

‘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.

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.

Climbers, energy foundation launch light systems for families, communities

MALAYBALAY CITY- Eighty-three families belonging to off-grid communities along Mt. Dulang-dulang of Kitanglad Range will be given light in the form of solar lamps (otherwise called  Portable Solar Home Systems) on November 26-27 as a start of ‘Hike for Light 2011’ campaigned by Solar Energy Foundation (SEF) in partnership with Kaya ng Pinoy Foundation (KPF) [...]

New outdoor shop opens in Valencia City

VALENCIA CITY (Bukidnon News/21 November) – Bukidnon Outdoor Adventures (BOA), a new outdoor shop opens in Valencia City, Bukidnon today.

PNoy to launch water, river program in Bukidnon

MALAYBALAY CITY (Bukidnon News/19 November) President Benigno Aquino III is expected to lead launching rites of the Mindanao Development Authority’s Nurturing Our Waters (MindaNOW) program here tentatively on November 28, MinDA Sec. Luwalhati R. Antonino told Bukidnon Gov. Alex Calingasan in her letter on November 17.

Helpless against nature: Valencia rural folks on the quakes

CABANUANGAN, Valencia City (Bukidnon News/9 November) 73-year old Fabio Concha still couldn’t believe what happened.

“It was so sudden; there was no time to run”

VALENCIA CITY—(Bukidnon News/08 November 2011)“It was so sudden, there was no time to run,” housewife Analie Alcular said of the 5.2 magnitude earthquake that hit Valencia City Monday.

In the know: Bukidnon’s Fr. Neri Satur

MALAYBALAY CITY – (Bukidnon News Dispatch/14 October 2011) On Oct. 14, 1991, Fr. Nerilito Satur, 29, and his female aide were ambushed on their way back to Valencia City, then a municipality, after celebrating a mass in Barangay Guinoyoran .

SOMEONE ELSE’S WINDOWS: Fr. Satur’s killing revisited by H. Marcos C. Mordeno (Via Bukidnon News with permission from the author )

MALAYBALAY CITY (13 October) – October 14, 2011 marks the 20th death anniversary of Fr. Nerilito “Nery” Satur, who was killed in Barangay Guinoyoran, Valencia City (then still a municipality) in Bukidnon by a small group of Lumad militiamen. No motive was found other than his efforts to stop timber poaching in his parish. Reports [...]

20 years after Fr. Neri Satur’s death: “Bukidnon’s ecological situation is worse”– Bp. Cabantan

MALAYBALAY CITY – (Bukidnon News Dispatch/13 October) Two decades after the death of Fr. Neri Satur, Bukidnon’s ecological situation “is perhaps even worse than during his time,” Bishop Jose A. Cabantan said in his pastoral letter released to mark the 20th anniversary of his death today.

Kalilangan lumber trader charged for transporting ‘excess’ forest products

MALAYBALAY CITY – (Bukidnon News Dispatch/27 September) The Community and Environment and Natural Resources Office of Malaybalay filed charges against the owner of a truck from Kalilangan town that transported naturally grown forest products beyond allowable excess. According to the criminal complaint filed by Leon C. Equipelag, special forestry prosecutor, before the Office of the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]