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Mindanao Declaration: repeal Mining Act, enact new law, declare moratorium

By Carolyn O. Arguillas | January 28, 2012

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/27 January) —  The two-day International Conference on Mining in Mindanao ended Friday with calls to repeal the 1995 Mining Act, enact a pro-Filipino, pro-environment alternative mining law and declare a mining moratorium.

The “Mindanao Declaration: Defending the Dignity …

• Gomez: mining industry has minimal contribution to Mindanao regions
  

  DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/27 January) – Contributions of the mining industry to Mindanao’s economy are meager, compared with agriculture from 2001 to 2009, Margarita “Maita” Gomez, Coordinator of Bantay Kita Action …

• Irate landowners block roads to banana plantation in NorthCot
  

  KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 27 January) – At least 10 owners of vast tracts of lands leased to a banana firm in North Cotabato have set up roadblocks that prevented plantation …

• Another gov’t housing agency grants loan moratorium to ‘Sendong’ victims
  

  ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/27 January) – Vice President Jejomar Binay, who is also chair of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC), announced that another government housing agency is extending …

• DepEd-Bukidnon to use modular classes to cut dropout rate
  

  MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/27 January) – The Department of Education in Bukidnon plans to open alternative delivery mode (ADM) classes to address the high dropout rate in selected schools in Bukidnon …

• First 11 beneficiaries avail of Sarangani LGU’s housing program
  

  GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/27 January) – The provincial government of Sarangani has finally unveiled its P80-million housing venture in the capital town of Alabel, opening its doors earlier this week …

• 2 war-torn barangays in NorthCot to benefit from OPAPP housing project
  

  KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/27 January) – Two war-torn villages in Kabacan town in North Cotabato are the newest additions to the beneficiaries of the core shelter program of the Office of …

PEACE PROCESS
2 war-torn barangays in NorthCot to benefit from OPAPP housing project

KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/27 January) – Two war-torn villages in Kabacan town in North Cotabato are the newest additions to the beneficiaries of the core shelter program of the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) under its project Payapa at Masaganang Pamayanan (PAMANA), a …

• MILF: “We want to finish this process as soon as possible”

  
  

• GPH names 2 new peace panel members

  
  

• The women in the GPH-MILF peace talks

  
  

• GPH, MILF peace panels end three-day talks; will return to KL in January

  
  GOVERNANCE
  
  • P1B released to 4Ps in R-12, Marawi in 2011
    
    

    GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/25 January) – The national government has released a total of P1.075 billion in cash grants last year to beneficiaries of its continuing conditional cash transfer program in Region 12 and portions of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).

    Bai Zorahayda Taha, …

    
    

    • BIR collects P4.4B in Southwestern Mindanao; breaches 2011 target

      
      

    • SP questions budget, activities for Kaamulan

      
      

    • South Cotabato eyes P30-M mining revenue for 2012

      
      

    • Valencia City approves P6M for 3 irrigation pumps

    
    
  Another suspect in 2009 Ampatuan Mssacre falls
  
  

  KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/15 Dec) —  One of the 196 persons accused in the Ampatuan Massacre of November 23, 2009 was arrested inside a government hospital where he worked as security guard, at around 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, a police official said.

  Arrested was Sahid Guiamadel, 30, a …

  
  

  • Money, mansions, cars, guns of Ampatuans still on hold

    
    

  • An anarchy of mansions

    
    

  • In banks we trust? So did Ampatuans

    
    

  • Media, campus press, LGU call for justice for Ampatuan Massacre victims

    
    
  BUSINESS
  SMI says deposits in Tampakan project higher
  
  

  KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/27 January) – Despite the debacle on its application for an environmental compliance certificate (ECC), foreign-backed Sagittarius Mines, Inc. has released a new study showing a significant increase in the volume of copper and gold deposits in the mines site, a mining executive …

  
  

  • Fil-Am investor eyes 10,000-hectare coffee plantation in Bukidnon

    
    

  • PH, China two-way trade hit $32-B in 2011 – officials

    
    

  • Agri research center in Cotabato getting an upgrade

    
    

  • It’s still a waiting game for Pinoy tuna fishers

MINDAVIEWS

COMMENT: Pacquiao the Boxer in Congress (1)

By Patricio P. Diaz | January 28, 2012

(First of Four Parts)

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 27 January) – Manny Pacquiao, the multi-titled world boxing champion, and Emmanuel D. Pacquiao, the representative of the lone congressional district of Sarangani, are two persons in one man. As boxing champion Manny Pacquiao is super; as congressional representative, Emmanuel D. Pacquiao …

SOMEONE ELSE’S WINDOWS: Idiotic me and other comments

By H. Marcos C. Mordeno | January 28, 2012

MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/27 January) – Some readers had reacted to my previous piece titled “Technical foul” (MindaNews, January 26, 2012). In a nutshell, it’s about the efforts of the defense panel in the impeachment case against Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona to bar the prosecution from linking the income …

TINGOG SA SUBA: Ill-Gotten Wealth

By Ramon Jorge B. Sarabosing | January 28, 2012

Si Corona lang ba
ang naa sa condition
nga sobra pa
sa cholera?

Gamay ra ang suweldo
pero kabtangan ug kabalayan
usa ka dosena ang kadaghan

Gi-unsa man intawon
Hesus pastilan!
kadakong katingalahan

Pag-angkon nila sa posisyon
ning 10-times ang komisyon?

ka-level na nila
si Lucio Tan
kung mansion ang hisgotan
ganyan sila ka-yaman

maong daghan gusto’ng
mag-congressman,
mayor, gobernador
o regional director

posisyon mahimong puhunan
dakong negosyo
sa ngalan sa katawhan

Sakit …

SOMEONE ELSE’S WINDOWS: Technical foul

By H. Marcos C. Mordeno | January 27, 2012

MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/26 January) – In Wednesday’s (January 25) continuation of the trial of the impeachment case against Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato C. Corona, not a few observers said it was a bad day for the prosecution. They gave the day to the defense probably because defense lead counsel …

SOMEONE ELSE’S WINDOWS: Quicksand for the defense

By H. Marcos C. Mordeno | January 25, 2012

MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/24 January) – The harder the defense panel in the impeachment  case of Supreme Court Chief Justic Renato Corona tries to inject the rigid rules of a criminal proceeding into the trial in the Senate, the harder things have become for the impeached official.

Five days into the impeachment …

MINDANAWON ABROAD

THE SEPARATIST: Memories of 2011: Pain, shock and a vow

By Patricio N. Abinales | January 6, 2012

HONOLULU  (MindaNews/06 January) —  I wish I could say 2011 was a good year for us. But it was not. My memories of 2011 will always be colored by the pain and shock Angela and I felt when we woke …

• SNIPPETS OF LIFE IN SYDNEY: A great and challenging year – globally and personally

  
  

  • MINDANAWON ABROAD: Maguindanao Massacre + 2

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  AROUND MINDANAO
  

  • Pantukan holds 1st Gawad Kalinga Partners forum, 45 houses pledged

  
  

  • Compostela Valley’s Mansaka tribe chosen for IP pilot housing program

  
  

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  FOR THE RECORD
  

  • Senator Juan Miguel F. Zubiri: Speech Delivered on the Senate Plenary

  
  

  • Reforms in the time of (ARMM) election. By Atty. Mehol K. Sadain

  
  

  • Bangsamoro History and Quest for Future Status*. By Datu Michael O. Mastura

  
  

  • Dureza's 10 August memo re serving his six-year term

  
  

  • Dureza's 29 July "offer to relinquish post"

  
  
  
  STATEMENTS
  

  • Guarin’s killing is a stark reminder of impunity

  
  

  • Joint Statement of media groups in GenSan on the killing of Guarin

  
  

  • Statement by the Ambassador of Canada to the Philippines on the anniversary of the Maguindanao massacre

  
  

  • A Turning Point and A Test

  
  

  • Statement by U.S. Ambassador Harry K. Thomas, Jr. on the Second Anniversary of the Maguindanao Massacre

  
  
  PRESS RELEASE
  

  • Where’s justice now in Aquino’s first year?

  
  

  • GPH panel consults Tawi-Tawi local officials

  
  

  • Tawi-Tawi’s main islands linked by transformative RP-US bridge-road project

  
  

  • Protesters Shaved heads, Tore-off RD Mama’s Orders on CARP Exemptions

  
  

  • RMN Davao Employees’ Union wins a landslide victory in today’s Certification Election

  
  

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