2 teenagers file charges vs. rape suspect; lawyer: client is presumed innocent

Bukidnon State University students carry placards during a symposium on women and children protection at the BSU gymnasium on March 9. It was done in time for the International Women’s Day and as an indignation of the series of rape incidents involving students. The rape suspect was arrested on March 3. Bukidnon News photo MALAYBALAY [...]

PHO: Hilots attend to more child births than doctors in Bukidnon

VALENCIA CITY (Bukidnon News Dispatch / 14 November 2011) – In 2010, more children in Bukidnon were born in deliveries attended by hilots, comprising about 31 percent compared to only 27 percent of childbirth cases attended by doctors, according to nurse Gilda Campano-Ajoc, coordinator of the Bukidnon Provincial Health Office maternal and child health program. [...]

Newborn screening meet held in Maramag

DOLOGON, Maramag, Bukidnon (Bukidnon News/9 Nov 2011) – Health personnel and elected officials from different parts of Bukidnon gathered at a seminar on newborn screening in MGM Resort, Maramag, Bukidnon on November 8-9.

Colonia Brothers top Malandog Trail Run

Malaybalay City – (Bukidnon News Dispatch/ 30 Sept) Running brothers Leonard and Leo Colonia topped the Malandog Ridge 10k Trail Run held on September 24, 2011 in BFI Compound, Sumpong, Malaybalay City. Fifty four out of the sixty eight actual registrants joined the race. Participants ran through the tough and challenging route which started from [...]

Localization is key in anti-poverty strategy – NAPC

MAKATI CITY (Bukidnon News Dispatch/ 26 Sept) – The government’s conditional cash transfer (CCT) program and the subsidized universal health insurance under the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) cannot be the end goal of its poverty strategy, the chair of the National Anti-Poverty Commission told a conference here dubbed “Pathways to High and Inclusive Growth.” [...]

New therapy clinic opens in Malaybalay

MALAYBALAY CITY- A clinic that is a first in the city to offer a combination of physical therapy (PT) services, medical massage and gym facilities, just opened recently in Malaybalay City at Sayre highway across Carbajal and Damasco Streets, near Mama Lo’s Kusina. Rocco Pablito F. Intong, Jr., proprietor and a licensed physical therapist whom [...]

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 [...]

Volunteers back PLS Sawaga clean-up drive

MALAYBALAY CITY- The Philippine Life Saving (PLS) Bukidnon Chapter spearheaded a clean-up drive in a portion of the city’s Sawaga River in celebration of the International Coastal Clean-up Day on September 18. About 147 volunteers cleaned the stretch of the river from Sumpong to Impalambong Bridge covering five barangays, namely; Barangays 3, 4, 7, 10, [...]

Foreigners behind Libona illegal gold mining; use cyanide, mercury – BENRO chief

MALAYBALAY CITY – (Bukidnon News Dispatch/15 Sept.) Operators of small scale gold mining in at least 58 hectares in Sitio Manlahuyan, Gango, Libona, Bukidnon are financed by foreigners, are illegal, and are using mercury and cyanide , Samuel Cadavos, chief of the Bukidnon Environment and Natural Resources Office (BENRO) said in his report to the [...]

Malaybalay family saves abandoned infant

MALAYBALAY CITY – (Bukidnon News Dispatch/15 Sept.) A family managed to save the life of a new-born infant after they found the girl Thursday morning abandoned in a garbage area in Purok 5, Barangay 9, this city. Lilia Montales said a friend told her about a voice she heard mistaking it of that of a [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

Tornado damage in Batangan, Valencia City

                      TWISTER’S WRATH. The September 3 tornado that hit three villages in Valencia City killed a boy, injured four among 151 persons affected, and left 38 houses damaged. Shown in photo are destroyed houses in Brgy. Batangan, Valencia City. Bukidnon News photo courtesy of Ma. [...]

PDEA arrests 5 suspects in Malaybalay drug buy-bust

MALAYBALAY CITY (Bukidnon News Dispatch/04 September) Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency operatives arrested a suspected drug vendor and four others in a buy-bust operation before midnight of September 2 in an inn in Casisang, Malaybalay City, Roberto S. Opeña, PDEA 10 regional director, reported.

Malaybalay City water supply interrupted, restored

MALAYBALAY CITY – Most of the city’s water concessionaires did not have water supply starting dawn today as a portion of the main pipeline connecting the source to the distributor burst out, the Malaybalay City Water District announced Friday morning. Glenn Rose Ledesma, MCWD public information officer, said water from the city’s main source Kibalabag [...]