Bambi Emano wins Misamis Oriental gubernatorial race

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/17 May)—The father had fallen, but not the son. Rep. Yevgeny Vicente “Bambi” Emano was proclaimed the winner of the gubernatorial race in Misamis Oriental. The… »

Simply Tired

Policemen who have been on election duty for more than 24 hours fall asleep as they guard the PCOS machines in the municipal canvassing at the Lanao del Sur provincial… »

Poor communications signal in Lanao Sur slows down transmission of results

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 15 May) – The transmittal of results for the senatorial lineup from Lanao del Sur to Manila has lagged since Tuesday due to poor communications signal… »

Moreno defeats incumbent Emano in CDO

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 15 May) – A combination of community issues centered on his handling of the Typhoon Sendong relief efforts ended the magic of Mayor Vicente… »

6 hurt in blasts, 1 killed in Lanao Sur’s ‘most peaceful election’

MARANTAO, Lanao del Sur (MindaNews/13 May) — Three persons were injured when a grenade was lobbed at a polling center inside the state-run Mindanao State University in Marawi City Monday… »

Helping Hand

HELPING HAND. A young Army soldier helps an elderly woman after she went out from the voting center in Barangay Bagoingod, Saguiaran town in Lanao del Sur on Monday, 13… »

Citizens’ Watch

Members of the Citizens Coalition for ARMM Electoral Reforms ( C-Care) prepare for their monitoring of the elections at their headquarters in Marantao town in Lanao del Sur, 12 May… »

Armed Security

An Army soldier provides security while transporting boxes containing official ballots in Marawi City on Sunday, 12 May 2013. MindaNews photo by Froilan Gallardo

NPAs clash with Marines escorting teachers carrying PCOS machines in Gingoog

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 9 May) – Suspected communist rebels clashed today with a team of Philippine Marines escorting a group of teachers carrying precinct count optical scan… »

Test on PCOS machines in CDO smooth, with only minor glitches

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 9 May) – Inside Room 1 at the Consolacion Elementary School here, Board of Election Inspectors (BEI) chair Edgar Lacre was so anxious during the… »

PCOS machine test

BEI chair Edgar Lacre (right) helps a voter insert her mock ballot into the PCOS machine during tests done in Consolacion Elementary School in Cagayan de Oro Thursday 9 May… »

Inventory

  Workers at the City Treasurer’s Office check every election paraphernalia for the May 13 elections at the City Hall in Cagayan de Oro Tuesday night, 7 May 2013. The… »

No irregularity in CDO’s election paraphernalia – Namfrel

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 8 May) – There was no irregularity found in the inventory of the election paraphernalia for Cagayan de Oro that went overtime Tuesday night, according to… »

Comelec orders inventory of CdO election paraphernalia

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/07 May)–The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has ordered the inventory of all election paraphernalia in Cagayan de Oro City following allegations that poll forms, envelopes for… »

Under the sun

A fishermen repairs his boat  in the town of Opol, Misamis Oriental. MindaNews photo by Froilan Gallardo

UPDATED: 12 dead, 8 wounded in Lanao Norte ambush

CAGAYAN DE ORO (MindaNews/26 April)- Twelve political supporters of a town mayor died and eight others were wounded when unidentified gunmen waylaid them while on their way back to the… »

Ballot boxes for CDO now in

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/25 April) —A government-contracted cargo company delivered Wednesday night 360 sealed boxes containing the official ballots for Cagayan de Oro’s 277, 931 voters. Officials of the… »

‘Laguindingan Airport ready for flights’

LAGUINDINGAN, Misamis Oriental (MindaNews/23 April)—Two single engine turbo-prop light planes made successful landings  here Tuesday morning proving that the P7.8-billion Laguindingan Airport is safe and ready for commercial passenger traffic,… »

Ex-VP Guingona to NPA on mayor-wife’s ambush: Apology not enough

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/23 April) – The New People’s Army has issued an apology for the ambush Saturday night of the convoy of Gingoog City Mayor Ruthie Guingona, but… »

Gingoog Mayor Guingona survives ambush but 3 aides killed; NPA admits responsibility

UPDATED as of 3:25 p.m. CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/21 April) — Suspected New People’s Army rebels ambushed a four-vehicle convoy  bearing Gingoog City Mayor Ruthie Guingona, killing three of… »

Laguindingan Airport opening: April 30 or June 15?

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/18 April) —  Two days after Manila-based news organizations reported about it, the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) in Northern Mindanao has yet to… »

Laguindingan Airport opens April 30

CAGAYAN DE ORO (MindaNews/16 April)—It’s all systems go for the transfer of airport operations here to the new Laguindingan Airport in Misamis Oriental on April 30. Employees of the Civil… »

Goodbye Lumbia

Passengers  in a huddle at the covered walkway of the  Lumbia Airport in Cagayan de Oro City on Monday, April 15 . Effective  April 30,  departing and arriving passengers will… »

Rainmaker

A flight technician waves off a twin-engine Baron aircraft used in the cloud seeding operations over Lake Lanao as it takes off  from Lumbia airport in Cagayan de Oro City… »

Cloud seeding

 A worker from the DA Bureau of Soils and Water Management loads sacks of vacuum dried salt into a Beechcraft Baron plane in Lumbia Airport, Cagayan de Oro City on… »

Cloud seeding over Lake Lanao begins

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/12 April)– A Beechcraft Baron aircraft loaded with sacks of salt flew over Lake Lanao starting Wednesday as the government began cloud seeding operations to produce… »

Proud of their work

Students of Balulang Elementary School show their soil paintings in Barangay Balulang, Cagayan de Oro on Saturday, April. 6. Some 50 students participated in the  Sinag II workshop of the… »

Finishing touches

A student puts finishing touches on her soil painting at the Balulang Elementary School in Barangay Balulang, Cagayan de Oro last Saturday, April. 6. Some 50 students participated in the… »

Sleepy Angel

A child playing the role of an angel yawns during the “Sugat” (literally meeting or encounter) between the resurrected Jesus Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary dawn of Easter Sunday,… »

Easter morning

Hundreds watch the “Sugat”  (meeting or encounter) between the resurrected Jesus Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary  at the St. Augustine Cathedral in Cagayan de Oro City dawn of Easter… »

Easter Sunday Buy

A parent examines angel costumes up for sale near the St. Augustine Cathedral in Cagayan de Oro City on March 25, 2013. MindaNews photo by Froilan Gallardo

Earth Hour

Using only lighted candles, environmentalists sign the Kitanglad-Kalatungan Mountain Accord (KITKAT) in Cagayan de Oro City on Earth Day, March 23. Representatives of at least 12 people’s organizations, NGOS and government agencies… »

Habemus Papam: Mindanao clergy hail election of non-Italian as Pope

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/14 March) – Elation has swept the clergy across Mindanao following the election Wednesday of 76-year old Jorge Mario Cardinal Bergoglio of Argentina as the new pope.… »

Noise barrage

Students of Xavier University stage a noise barrage outside the campus gates in Cagayan de Oro City on Thursday, Feb. 28, calling on local authorities to solve a rash of… »

Presidential promise

President Benigno Aquino assures Typhoon Sendong victims  that their houses will be ready for occupancy by the end of March this year. Aquino visited the Xavier University  Ecoville Resettlement  Area… »

Presidential party

President Benigno Aquino III visits the Xavier University  Ecoville Resettlement  Area for Typhoon Sendong survivors in Barangay Lumbia, Cagayan de Oro City on Feb. 26. Aquino later went to Don Gregorio Pelaez Sports… »

PNoy won’t open Laguindingan Airport just yet

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/26 February) – Bowing to safety and logistical concerns raised by the local business community, President Benigno Aquino III is no longer keen on opening the… »

Crown down

NPA rebels toppled  this huge pineapple icon located in Camp Phillips, Manolo Fortich in Bukidnon during last Tuesday’s attack. Camp Phillips residents are angry why the icon that symbolizes their community… »

Idyllic Camp Phillips: dreamland no more after NPA attack

CAMP PHILLIPS, Manolo Fortich, Bukidnon (MindaNews / 21 Feb) – The attack by the New People’s Army at the Del Monte Philippines Inc., compound here last Tuesday left  a chilling… »

Burned

Policemen watch a burnt payloader of Del Monte Philippines, Inc. in Camp Phillips, Manolo Fortich in Bukidnon on Feb. 20,  a day after the New Peoples Army attacked the facility, killing a… »

Gatekeepers

 Policemen wait outside the gate of  the Del Monte Philippines, Inc.  compound in Camp Phillips, Manolo Fortich in Bukidnon on Feb. 20, the day after the New Peoples Army  attacked the facility, killing a… »

One Billion Rising

Women  join the global campaign to end violence against women, at the Magsaysay Park in Cagayan de Oro City on Feb. 14, 2013.  On Billion Rising invited one billion women and… »

Never too old for love

Accompanied by her kasambahay, a senior citizen looks at the different flower arrangements at Gaston Park in Cagayan de Oro City on Feb. 13, 2013. MindaNews photo by Froilan Gallardo

Sharing Books

Students from the Simuay Junction Elementary School in Sultan Kudarat town in Maguindanao share books on 11 January 2013. Teachers said the student-teacher ratio in this public school is 70… »

15 years after Flight 387 crashed, questions remain unanswered

CAGAYAN DE ORO (MindaNews/03 Feb) –  Fifteen years have passed since the tragic crash of Cebu Pacific Flight 387 but questions remain unanswered on what really happened and who was… »

We Still Remember

A family member arranges a set of flowers on the Cebu Pacific memorial wall at the Oro Gardens Memorial Park in Cagayan de Oro on Feb. 2, 2013. At least… »

Kin mark 15th year of CebuPac Flight 387 crash

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/2 February)—Twenty-three year old Nena Agbayani clicked her Canon camera before joining the other families who came to the Oro Garden Memorial Park in Barangay Lumbia… »

Gunmen attack Rasuman’s house in Marawi

CAGAYAN DE ORO (MindaNews/1 February)—Unidentified gunmen attacked Friday noon a military outpost guarding the house of detained investment scam suspect Jachob “Coco” Rasuman in Marawi City, leaving a soldier dead,… »

9 injured in Iligan blast

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/21 January)– An improvised explosive device (IED) believed attached to a bicycle exploded at downtown Iligan City Monday morning, injuring nine persons, including a 10-year old… »

Religious Frenzy

Devotees express their emotions as the Black Nazarene is brought out for a procession in Barangay Lapasan in Cagayan de Oro on Jan.9, 2012. The parish church of Barangay Lapasan… »

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