Dipolog booters rout Mlang FC 4-1 during the Philippine Football Federation – SMART National Club Championship Mindanao Finals at the Tionko Football Field in Davao City on Saturday.
North Cotabato Gov. Emmylou Taliño-Mendoza and Aleosan Mayor Loreto Cabaya explain the differences between the GPH-MILF Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro signed in Malacanan Palace on October 15, 2012, and the 2008 Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MOA-AD) whose scheduled signing on August 5, 2008 was stopped when the Supreme Court a day earlier, granted the petition filed by the North Cotabato government for a temporary restraining order.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/21 October) – I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to have witnessed and documented the most historic event for Mindanao, the signing of the Framework Agreement on Bangsamoro at the Malacañan Palace a week ago.
Along with my colleagues – Carolyn Arguillas and Froilan Gallardo – the event is important for me not just as a journalist but more importantly as a probinsyano stakeholder.
As a young boy, I have been a witness to the animosity in Pigcawayan, North Cotabato, one of the gateways to the former Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) main headquarters – the Camp Abubakar Assidique that straddled Lanao del Sur, Maguindanao and North Cotabato. Read More »
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 17 Oct) – The cry for justice still continues and grows a year after the death of Italian missionary Fausto “Pops” Tentorio of the Pontifical Institute of Foreign Missions (PIME), said his fellow missionary Peter Geremia.
But Geremia could not hide his disappointment on some Department of Justice officials who had earlier promised to come over to discuss the case. None of them paid a visit.
“It’s been a year since we’ve been calling an investigation but we got no results. Justice delayed, justice denied,” lamented the Italian priest after a mass held beside the cemetery inside the compound of the Diocese of Kidapawan on Wednesday. Read More »
Fr. Fausto Tentorio was gunned down while about to board his car inside the parish compound in Arakan, North Cotabato on October 17, 2011. Some suspects were arrested but a year later, no case has been filed in court.
Parishioners of Fr. Fausto Tentorio accused the military to be behind the killing. The military claimed the slain priest was “close” to the communist rebels but denied responsibility for the murder.
Midsayap dancers dethroned the defending champion dancers of Alamada during the Kalivungan Festival’s street dancing competition on September 1. The Province of Cotabato also held its 98th Foundation Anniversary on the same day. More Photos
PIKIT, North Cotabato(MindaNews/25 August) – Most villagers in a refugee camp here are no longer strangers to evacuation.
They have “mastered” the art of evacuation even if tensions are still brewing, knowing where to go for temporary shelter to avoid getting caught in the crossfire.
Barangay Batulawan here has become a popular refugee center for displaced villagers, as the amenities of evacuation centers built during the previous wars remain standing and ready to be used.
But if the evacuees would have their way, they want to settle peacefully in their villages since life in the evacuation centers are really difficult. Read More »
For more than two decades, couple Nestor and Myrna Mission’s mission has been to feed the hungry travelers along the Davao-Cotabato highway in Pikit, North Cotabato with the best chicken barbecue in Mindanao.
Their native chicken is a crowd-drawer. Juicy. Delicious. Mouth-watering.Fresh.
Best of all, the price is reasonable: chicken paa (leg) or pecho (breast) at P40, P45, P50 depending on the size; atay (liver), batikulon (gizzard) sell for P5 each. (Our Mindanao / September 2011)
Graduation/Closing rites of a madrasah in Barangay Cuyapon, Kabacan, North Cotabato on July 4. Since I shoot video most of the time, some photos were taken by Ruby Thursday More. Watch the video here.
Kabpaminto sa Madrasah from keith bacongco on Vimeo.
While the public and private schools have just entered on its second month of classes, for madaris in different parts of Mindanao or even across the country, it’s already a closing period.
On July 4, we were able to capture this closing rites of a madrasah in Barangay Cuyapon, Kabacan, North Cotabato. We would like to thank the staff of Moro Peoples Core for facilitating us to witness this rare event.
(Kabpaminto is a Maguindanawon term for “closing rites.”)
At the madrasah in Cuyapon, the students graduate in July
KABACAN, North Cotabato (MindaNews/09 July) — Purok Malimo in the small village of Cuyapon here was abuzz. Women were busy preparing food, men were busy fixing up the stage, and children clad in their abayas and kopias, and some in togas were milling around, excited for one of the most important events of their lives: graduation day. [ Read Full Story]
