Posted on December 26th, 2008 by mindanaw
While praying for silence in the battlefields, Bukidnon Bishop Honesto Pacana called on both government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to keep on talking and never to allow times of silence in the peace process.
Pacana said the silence of the guns is not enough unless there is continuing dialogue between the [...]
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Posted on December 15th, 2008 by mindanaw
That the informal peace talks between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front is due to resume soon offers a reflection in our role as informal observers of the peace process that gained hold, then lost it somehow.
The MindaNews report GRP, MILF ‘informal talks’ to start ‘possibly’ by Dec. 22 didn’t quite [...]
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Posted on November 19th, 2008 by mindanaw
Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro wants to approach peace with a “strong dose of practicality, pragmatism and political realism” as he questioned the approach of solving the root causes of conflict” because “has any society been able to solve the root causes of conflict?”
He told the 8th Mindanao Island Conference of the Provincial Board Members League [...]
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Posted on November 9th, 2008 by mindanaw
Peace education is such a dynamic subject to teach at the university.
Chiza approached me for help to update the syllabus given to her by her superiors at Bukidnon State University over the break. One night we missed a favorite TV show just to gather and review the syllabi and lesson plans of previous lecturers [...]
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Posted on November 8th, 2008 by mindanaw
Since last month, I started publishing the Bukidnon Our Home blog (formerly Bukidnon My Home).
So far I am enjoying it and slowly it has gained traffic. I was contemplating whether I should continue a strain of posts that offered only the good news. The reason of doubt is I feel that Bukidnon people from around the world [...]
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Posted on October 30th, 2008 by mindanaw
(NEWS) “The future appears gloom and bleak,” Gov. Jose Ma. R. Zubiri told the provincial board Thursday citing that the debacle of economic difficulties is real and could not be ignored.
Zubiri has proposed a P1.06 billion-2009 budget to the Sangguniang Panlalawigan but vowed to keep budgetary controls and prioritization of expenditures amidst the treat of [...]
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Posted on October 29th, 2008 by mindanaw
The Philippine Eagle Foundation has announced its plan to release two new eagles into the wild of Mt. Kitanglad Range Natural Park in January 2009.
This is despite the death of a Philippine Eagle named “Kagsabua” (unity) in July 2007, which it released just months earlier.
“What happened to Kagsabua is not a stumbling block,” a PEF [...]
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Posted on October 24th, 2008 by mindanaw
Cut-throat and new competition, lack of reliable marketing personnel, and the “global crisis” hit Bukidnon’s local newspaper over the past months.
To survive, a series of austerity waves splashed our small newsroom and over the past months it has affected operations.
Until one day, the publisher announced retrenchment or downsizing or whatever.
We will be forced to squeeze [...]
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Posted on October 23rd, 2008 by mindanaw
The better way to teach journalism in campus is to train them to write for life.
Perhaps, that’s a motherhood phrase.
What I really wanted to say is to go beyond competition mode.
The holding of competitions to test the skills of school children on campus journalism might have worked to a certain point.
But [...]
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Posted on October 16th, 2008 by mindanaw
The lack of medicines in Bukidnon provincial hospitals and health stations has been blamed on failures in the bidding process, more specifically to the Capitol’s low approved budget for contract (ABC) or price index.
It was reportedly pegged at 2004 rates, a provincial legislative inquiry has discovered.
This seems a simple problem of public policy. But what [...]
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Posted on October 13th, 2008 by mindanaw
Traveling to communities have brought me to many experiences —mostly encounters of acquiantances.
You just don’t get to meet a person or group of people, you get to meet and have a chance to be in touch with their culture, their history, and their varying experiences.
The different-ness and uniqueness at the point of my contact with [...]
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Posted on October 7th, 2008 by mindanaw
The Bukidnon Forest Incorporated has initiated its clearance process to cut down trees in its industrial forest plantation project in Bukidnon. Read news report here.
This must be subject to scrutiny especially viewing it from the firm’s reported dismal record of reforestation since it started operating in 1989.
The firm might be good in cutting but are they as good [...]
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Posted on October 6th, 2008 by mindanaw
(27 October 2007) – Online journal writers or bloggers from Mindanao were urged to go beyond writing about personal matters and instead use their internet platform to help promote peace and understanding in Mindanao.
Speaking to at least 60 bloggers at the opening ceremonies of the 1st Mindanao Bloggers’ Summit, organizers and resource speakers took turns [...]
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Posted on October 6th, 2008 by mindanaw
When I first heard of the theme of the up and coming Second Mindanao Bloggers Summit I felt it is something worth blogging about.
It is indeed a practical topic in a time when blogging is already considered a force to reckon with.
This is especially true in a time when Mindanao continues to experience unpeace and [...]
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Posted on October 5th, 2008 by mindanaw
The Bukidnon tribe is seeking endorsement from the city government of Malaybalay for its Daraghuyan ancestral domain claim over at least 4,700 hectares inside the Mt. Kitanglad Range and Natural Park. Bae Inatlawan Adelina Tarino, head claimant, said the city government’s endorsement is the last requirement for the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) [...]
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Posted on October 2nd, 2008 by mindanaw
I feed on words and the elements of composition. Writing news is my bread and butter. And I go to the field spending my meager resources to get the facts myself in an effort to get it right.
I may not be the best in what I’m doing, but I have always tried to do and [...]
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Posted on September 30th, 2008 by mindanaw
The Environmental Management Bureau of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has agreed to consider Bukidnon’s request for consideration in the approval of environmental compliance certificate (ECC) for projects based in the province. Read full report here.
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Posted on September 27th, 2008 by mindanaw
A man serves as a balancing load to a sack of grains loaded in a pay for hire motorcycle (habal-habal) traveling along the highway in Casisang, Malaybalay City.
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