ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/20 May) – The government peace panel has granted the request of the city government to schedule a public consultation on the peace process with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). Mayor Celso Lobregat said the decision was arrived at following his request aired during the executive session with the peace panel last [...]

COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/21 September) — Internally displaced persons, more popularly known as “bakwits,” will be entitled to a hundred day “guaranteed employment” in a government project every year, Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Teresita Quintos-Deles told the ARMM Peace Summit Tuesday. “We are setting up an employment guarantee program where one member of identified [...]

COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/21 September) – The problems are certainly more than the 11 drawn from the provincial peace summits in Basilan, Sulu, Tawi-tawi, Lanao del Sur and Maguindanao but the recommendations and proposed solutions from the people themselves are worth looking into, including crafting a regional election law “suited to the circumstances of the ARMM [...]