MALAYBALAY CITY (Bukidnon News/1 Dec) – The indigenous peoples in Bukidnon have been caught in the crossfire in the fighting between the military and the communist New People’s Army as both parties do not recognize and respect the rights of the lumads over their ancestral domain, a tribal leader said.
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MALAYBALAY CITY – (Bukidnon News/18 November) Tribal leaders from the province’s seven hill tribes gathered at the Provincial Indigenous Community Affairs and Development (PICAD) office on November 11 at the Kaamulan Park here to reorganize the Bukidnon Unified Tribal Development Council of Elders (Butridce).
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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.
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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By Carrell C. Magno and Laurie Ailynne M. Benito Bangsamoro Center for Just Peace (via Bukidnon News with permission from VERA Files) Leaders of indigenous communities in Bukidnon have refused to engage in any discussion over the planned construction of the Pulangui V Hydroelectric Project (HEP), until dam proponents submit a cultural impact assessment that [...]
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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 [...]
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(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 and intangible heritage of the culture of Bukidnon. She added that culture [...]
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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 [...]
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Bukidnon Views: Bukidnon Culture: The Knowledge By Loreta Sol L. Dinlayan (Fourth of a series) (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, [...]
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MALAYBALAY CITY (1 September) – The Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Northern Mindanao 10 (DENR-10) has ordered a stop of the illegal small scale gold mining operations in Dao, San Fernando, Bukidnon Rodante Felina, officer in charge of the MGB mine management division, said the MGB [...]
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MALAYBALAY CITY – Malaybalay Bishop Jose A. Cabantan expressed his support for House Bill 4626 (Food for Filipinos First Act of 2011) as a safety measure for food self sufficiency in the country. Cabantan met with Cagayan Rep. Jack Enrile, author of the bill, at the bishop’s house during the congressman’s visit to Bukidnon Saturday [...]
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