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 [...]

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.

CHR probes surrender of 80 suspected rebels in Bukidnon

MALAYBALAY CITY – The Commission on Human Rights is investigating the surrender of 80 alleged New People’s Army (NPA) over complaints of alleged illegal arrest among others, lawyer Jeanny Ivy Abrina, CHR 10 regional director said.

Bukidnon journalists mark 2nd anniversary of Ampatuan massacre

MALAYBALAY CITY  (Bukidnon News/22 November) Three Bukidnon-based media organizations have jointly organized a local commemoration of the second anniversary of the Ampatuan massacre that killed 32 journalists and media workers on November 23, 2009.

DALIT BISAYA – Punong Barangay gipusil patay

Valencia City – (Bukidnon News Dispatch / 22 November 2011) Gipusil patay ang usa ka Punong Barangay sa Barangay Mabuhay,dakbayan sa Valencia sabado sa hapon, Nobyembre 19 sa kapin kon kulang napulo ka armadong tawo.

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.

San Fernando’s Salusad surrenders: “we’ll see if gov’t fulfills its promise”

MARAMAG, Bukidnon (Bukidnon News/16 November 2011) – Wearing a seven-color army uniform, Benjamin “Ka Nonong” Salusad an armed group commander who confessed to be a leader of a New People’s Army group, led 79 other suspected rebels who surrendered to the military and were presented to Bukidnon Gov. Alex Calingasan and other government officials Tuesday.

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.

Calingasan, 25 other Mindanao govs back PNoy’s “all-out justice”

MALAYBALAY CITY – (Bukidnon News/27 October) Gov. Alex Calingasan has joined 25 other Mindanao governors in supporting President Aquino’s vow for all-out justice following the series of incidents that killed at least 40 soldiers, civilians and Moro guerrillas and displaced some 20,000 residents in some villages in Basilan and Zamboanga Sibugay.

Motorcycle in grenade recovery incident reported stolen from village councilor

MALAYBALAY CITY – (Bukidnon News Dispatch/ 14 to 16 October) The motorcycle used by the two unidentified men in the grenade recovery incident Friday afternoon was traced to a village councilor of Brgy. Mapayag, this city, police reported.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.” [...]