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 [...]

8 village chiefs killed in Bukidnon since 2010

MALAYBALAY CITY (Bukidnon News/06 December) Since 2010, a total of eight barangay (village) chairs were killed in Bukidnon while serving their term, an official at the Department of the Interior and Local Government provincial office said, adding the government should do something about it.

Tribal chief decries military, NPA abuses over ancestral domains

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.

LGU- Valencia offers reward for info on Brgy captain slaying

Valencia City – (Bukidnon News Dispatch / 25 November 2011) The slaying of a barangay captain in Valencia City has urged the local government of the city to speed up the manhunt for the suspects, with Mayor Leandro Catarata offering up to P50,000 reward to anyone who would be able to provide any vital information [...]

Maramag ambush claims two lives

Malaybalay City (Bukidnon News Dispatch/25 November 2011) – Reports from DXDB, a Catholic-run radio station in Malaybalay has accounted of an ambush in Dologon, Maramag, Bukidnon early on November 25, 2011 where two people were accordingly killed.

One of 3 suspects still at large a year after slaying of BSU instructor

MALAYBALAY CITY  (Bukidnon News/18 November) One of three suspects of the slaying of Bukidnon State University instructor Jay Jaspher Santoninio is still at large a year later,  Jonally Santoninio, the victim’s father told Bukidnon News today.

Robbers hit Don Carlos grocery

DON CARLOS, Bukidnon (Bukidnon News/10 November) Unidentified men robbed Campoamor Grocers here at about 4:45 pm Thursday carting about P9, 000 cash, initial police report said.

Bukidnon’s major ‘criminal gangs’

MALAYBALAY CITY – (Bukidnon News/ 19 October) Two alleged members of the Batistil Gang based in Valencia City, Juvel Fabricante and Reynante Malapad, were killed in an encounter with police operatives on October 16 (see related story).

Bukidnon diocese: No longer expecting justice from courts for Fr. Satur’s 1991 murder

MALAYBALAY CITY (Bukidnon News Dispatch/17 October) —  Twenty years after the killing of Fr. Nerylito Satur, the Diocese of Bukidnon is no longer expecting justice from the courts, Bishop Jose Cabantan said.

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.

News summit tackles media’s defense vs. violence

CEBU CITY (Bukidnon News Dispatch/03 October)– Who are journalists? Why are journalists being killed? How should journalists defend themselves against violence? These are only some of the questions asked during the 8th Phillippine Summit on the News Media (Media Nation 8 ) from Sept. 30 to Oct. 1 in Marco Polo Plaza here, where the [...]

[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 [...]

Bukidnon Views: Bukidnon Culture: The Knowledge by Loreta Sol L. Dinlayan (Fourth of a series)

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, [...]

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 [...]