By Walter I. Balane on May 17 2013 8:13 pm
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/17 May) – The Provincial Board of Canvassers (PBOC) in Bukidnon proclaimed governor-elect Jose Ma. Zubiri Jr. and vice governor-elect Alex Calingasan before 5 p.m. Friday, four days… »
By Walter I. Balane on May 15 2013 3:01 pm
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews / 15 May) – A total of six of the 10 candidates in the winning circle for city councilor here can be traced to Lumad families, specifically… »
By Walter I. Balane on May 15 2013 12:25 pm
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews / 15 May) – The tandem of reelectionist Mayor Ignacio W. Zubiri and councilor Roland Deticio of the Bukidnon Paglaum Party-administration team won wide margins over their… »
By H. Marcos C. Mordeno on May 3 2013 2:41 pm
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/03 May) – Yesterday morning, I went to the capitol grounds which is a favorite site of locals who love to jog or do other forms of exercise. Since… »
By Walter I. Balane on April 14 2013 8:26 pm
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/14 April) At least four sugar centrals in Mindanao, including two in Bukidnon, can supply up to 90 megawatts of power to the Mindanao grid, Roderico Bioco, president… »
By Lorie Ann Cascaro on April 7 2013 10:41 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/07 April) — A proposed 52-megawatt hydro power plant project of AboitizPower’s Hedcor in Manolo Fortich town, Bukidnon can help address the power shortage in Mindanao by 2016,… »
By Walter I. Balane on March 30 2013 1:20 pm
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/30 March) – The Bukidnon Sangguniang Panlalawigan approved on second reading last Monday a proposed ordinance banning the extraction of pine tree resins in the province. The measure… »
By Walter I. Balane on March 25 2013 5:07 pm
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews / 25 March) – The local government units in Bukidnon’s 20 towns and two cities are willing to shed only 1 to 2 percent from their budget… »
By Walter I. Balane on March 20 2013 10:28 pm
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews / 20 March) – Three of the 11 bar examinees of the Bukidnon State University made it, but there were mixed feelings whether to celebrate or not… »
By Walter I. Balane on March 14 2013 5:29 pm
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/13 March) – The request of the Bukidnon Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) for the board of regents of Bukidnon State University to open external schools in Pangantucan and Sinuda… »
By Walter I. Balane on March 10 2013 8:52 pm
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/10 March) — Bukidnon-based artists are organizing a soil painting festival in April 2014 to put the province on the map as the “Soil Painting Capital of the… »
By Walter I. Balane on March 9 2013 6:01 pm
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/09 March)– Fifty-three of Bukidnon’s 464 barangays have been classified as “election watchlist areas,” Supt. Narciso Domingo, provincial deputy police director for administration, said Friday. He said that… »
By Walter I. Balane on March 9 2013 5:57 pm
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/09 March) – A multi-sectoral human rights coordinating council called Bantula, a Binukid dialect for “bell” or “alarm,” has vowed to conduct quick response and fact-finding missions on… »
By H. Marcos C. Mordeno on March 3 2013 10:28 am
Dancers from Malaybalay City wow the largelly hometown crowd during the street dancing contest Saturday, March 2, 2013 in Malaybalay City. The competition highlighted the Kaamulan, an annual festival showcasing… »
By Walter I. Balane on March 1 2013 6:20 pm
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/01 March)- -Senatorial candidates of the opposition United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) are set to hold a campaign sortie here during the Kaamulan 2013 festival fireworks display tomorrow (March 2),… »
By Walter I. Balane on February 28 2013 11:30 pm
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/28 Feb) — The Bukidnon Kaamulan Chamber of Commerce and Industry Inc. and the Department of Trade and Industry-Bukidnon have jointly organized free trainings for entrepreneurs in time… »
By Walter I. Balane on February 28 2013 6:38 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews / 27 Feb) – The Environmental Compliance Certificate (ECC) obtained by the foreign-backed Sagittarius Mines, Inc. (SMI) for the Tampakan copper-gold project is only from the side… »
By Froilan Gallardo on February 21 2013 11:57 pm
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… »
By Froilan Gallardo on February 20 2013 5:21 pm
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… »
By Walter I. Balane on February 20 2013 2:34 pm
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/20 Feb) — The Del Monte Philippines Inc. (DMPI) management said it was unaware of the reasons why the New Peoples Army (NPA) attacked its compound Tuesday saying… »
By Cong Corrales on February 20 2013 11:50 am
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/20 Feb) – The simultaneous attacks of the New People’s Army (NPA) in three areas in Bukidnon Tuesday night was a “desperate projection of a position… »
By Walter I. Balane on February 20 2013 8:20 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/20 February) — About a hundred members of the New People’s Army (NPA) simultaneously attacked the main compound of Del Monte Philippines Inc. (DMPI) in Camp Phillips, Manolo… »
By Walter I. Balane on February 15 2013 4:23 pm
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/15 February) —The Sangguniang Panlalawigan of Bukidnon has approved an ordinance granting real property tax (RPT) discounts to properties with trees growing on them, provincial board member Jay Albarece… »
By Walter I. Balane on February 14 2013 4:20 pm
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/14 February) – The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) should act on the alleged violations committed by the Bukidnon Forests Inc. (BFI) and its contractor in… »
By Walter I. Balane on February 13 2013 6:14 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews / 12 Feb) – The Bukidnon Second Electric Cooperative (Buseco) named its chief planning officer as its new general manager as controversial general manager Edgardo Masongsong was… »
By H. Marcos C. Mordeno on February 8 2013 7:16 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/7 February) – The extent of the damage wrought by typhoon Pablo in Bukidnon’s three mountain ranges has yet to be evaluated, tribal leaders who attended a three-day… »
By Walter I. Balane on January 24 2013 9:51 pm
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/24 January)—The Bukidnon provincial government clarified that the Kaamulan Festival 2013 will proceed as scheduled from February to March amidst speculations it was postponed to September. Fredelyn Ragandang,… »
By Walter I. Balane on January 15 2013 7:05 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/14 January) – A community-based news outfit, Bukidnon News, has initiated a documentation and research project concerning voters’ education in the province for the May 2013 elections. Dubbed… »
By Walter I. Balane on January 7 2013 7:48 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/06 January) – Bukidnon will start implementing the law on organic agriculture this year with an information drive and by developing demonstration farms, provincial agriculturist Alson Quimba said.… »
By Jes Aznar on December 22 2012 9:32 am
Their vividly colored indigenous clothing shout like a blast of dynamite ripping through the mountains they call home. It is Tuesday and they are standing in a busy avenue in… »
By Walter I. Balane on December 18 2012 9:30 pm
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/18 December) –The Bukidnon Sangguniang Panlalawigan last week approved a resolution authorizing Gov. Alex Calingasan to donate a total of P2 million for victims of typhoon Pablo in… »
By Walter I. Balane on December 12 2012 3:39 pm
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/12 December) – Apparently learning from storm Sendong that hit the town in December last year, the people of Baungon were more prepared when typhoon Pablo struck last… »
By Walter I. Balane on December 12 2012 7:22 am
SAN FERNANDO, Bukidnon (MindaNew/11 December) – Past floods failed to force farm laborer Nelson Lumilang, 24, to leave his house along the bank of Tigua River. But when ‘Pablo’s’ heavy… »
By Froilan Gallardo on December 6 2012 5:18 am
A rider guides his motorcycle in crossing an improvised bridge on Dec. 5, 2012 after the Ugyaban Bridge in Talakag town in Bukidnon was swept away by typhoon Pablo the… »
By Walter I. Balane on November 4 2012 8:38 pm
MALAYBALAY CITY – To ensure protection from human rights violations and abuses, representatives from different sectors in Bukidnon created a multi-sector human rights coordinating council, an initiative made by government… »
By Walter I. Balane on November 2 2012 12:20 pm
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/02 November)—Owners of around a fifth of the 11,000 motorcycles registered with the Land Transportation Office (LTO) have turned in their helmets for the mandatory quality standard stickers… »
By Walter I. Balane on November 1 2012 8:59 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews / 31 Oct) – A Bukidnon industry cluster grouping among present and would-be investors in the rubber industry was formed after the success of a rubber production… »
By Walter I. Balane on October 30 2012 10:24 pm
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/30 October) – The Bukidnon Higaonon Tribal Association (Buhita) is planning to hold an investment forum that aims to draw development programs and projects into their ancestral domain,… »
By Walter I. Balane on October 29 2012 5:00 pm
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/29 October)– Experts from the Central Mindanao University (CMU) in Musuan, Maramag, Bukidnon will be the main speakers in the seminar on rubber plantation establishment at the school’s… »
By Walter I. Balane on October 28 2012 10:44 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/28 Oct.) — The Jeepney Projects Worldwide and the Birding Adventure Philippines (BAP) are raising funds to build new eco lodges in the Mt. Kitanglad Range Natural Park… »
By Walter I. Balane on October 24 2012 4:09 pm
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/24 October) – The City Tourism Board launched last week the private sector-led Bukidnon Highland Games (BHG) 2012, which aims set to promote Bukidnon as a destination for… »
By Cong Corrales on October 22 2012 7:55 pm
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/22 October)—At least 2,000 farmers from Misamis Oriental under the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas-Northern Mindanao Region marked the 40th year of Presidential Decree 27 or the Farmers… »
By Walter I. Balane on October 19 2012 6:00 pm
VALENCIA CITY (MindaNews/ 19 October)—Every time the water level rises in the Pulangi River, the Escribano family at Purok 1A in Barangay Batangan here fears they might be carried by… »
By Walter I. Balane on October 3 2012 5:27 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/02 October) – A controversial vehicle smuggling suspect from Talakag, Bukidnon has filed his candidacy for governor of the province noon Tuesday. Lynard Allan Bigcas, who hogged headlines… »
By Walter I. Balane on October 1 2012 7:53 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/30 Sept) — Focusing on the common things among different religions can help sustain inter-religious and inter-faith dialogues, Fr. Arturo Paraiso, former parish priest of Kalilangan, Bukidnon told… »
By Walter I. Balane on September 23 2012 12:20 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/ 22 September 2012)—The senate finally approved last Thursday a bill creating a fourth district in Bukidnon, Senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said in a statement. President Benigno Aquino… »
By Walter I. Balane on September 22 2012 7:05 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/ 21 September)– Protesters led by Bayan Muna and local support groups staged a march rally around Malaybalay City Friday afternoon to mark the 40th anniversary of the… »
By Walter I. Balane on September 20 2012 6:26 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/19 Sept) – Political and economic rights are on top of the eight-point legislative agenda of the indigenous peoples in Malaybalay City, according to a lumad leader. Umayamnon… »
By Walter I. Balane on September 16 2012 8:48 pm
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/16 September) – It’s back to 2001 in 2013 with the return of the Zubiri-Calingasan team for governor and vice governor. Vice Governor Jose Ma. Zubiri will run… »
By Walter I. Balane on September 14 2012 6:22 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/13 Sept) – Indigenous cultural communities and indigenous peoples (ICCs/IPs) in Bukidnon will be holding a province-wide IP congress and local governance dialogue in October to consolidate their… »
