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 [...]

Funding halts in 2011 for P2.85 billion Bukidnon road projects

MALAYBALAY CITY(Bukidnon News Dispatch / 03 Oct 2011) – The national government has stopped funding about P2.85 billion worth of road projects in Bukidnon, at least in one of the province’s three districts, board member Nemesio Beltran Jr said. Beltran cited four road projects in the second district started by Department of Public Works and [...]

NCIP revokes compliance certificate issued to Bukidnon ranch occupant

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 [...]

Re-scaling produces higher excess for Kalilangan lumber trader

MALAYBALAY CITY – The re-scaling of apprehended lumber transported by a Kalilangan lumber trader produced a much higher excess, Felix Mirasol, chief of the environment department’s Community Environment and Natural Resources Office in Malaybalay told Bukidnon News Thursday. Mirasol said the repeat measurement of the forest products now under police and DENR custody, requested by [...]

SPECIAL REPORT: Tribal leaders to withhold support for Pulangui V

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 [...]

Bukidnon, NorthMin organic rice country by 2013, says expert

SINAYAWAN, Valencia City (Bukidnon News Dispatch/28 Sept)— An organic rice expert from the National Irrigation Administration predicted that Bukidnon and the rest of Northern Mindanao’s rice lands will be organic by 2013 with a program boosting the demonstration of organic rice farming throughout the region. Ildefonso Natingga Jr, NIA-10 organic rice demonstration officer, told Bukidnon [...]

PH to use more renewable energy – DOE USec

MAKATI CITY (Bukidnon News Dispatch/ 28 Sept) — “The Philippines is indeed abundant with renewable energy resources.” This was stressed by Energy Undersecretary Jose Layug Jr to regional reporters during the Media Training Program on Energy held at Asian Institute of Management (AIM) Conference Center in Makati City, Sept. 26. Layug added that expanding 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.” [...]

New Yorker from Bukidnon: Caution, vigilance on 9/11 10th anniversary

MALAYBALAY CITY – (13 September 2011) There was caution and vigilance around New York City on the day the world marked the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, former Bukidnon State University vice president Edmundo Lungay, said in his email update to Bukidnon News. Lungay, now based in New York City, said there was [...]