A district school supervisor was killed while a school principal was wounded in an ambush staged by two unidentified motorcycle-riding men at SK Pendatun, Maguindanao, on the eve of Election Day.
A village chief was killed while his son was wounded when a roadside improvised bomb exploded in a village in Guindulungan in Maguindanao on Thursday morning.
Teachers, particularly those assigned to volatile and fraud-prone areas in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) are demanding higher pay for election duty.
President Aquino is scheduled to proclaim on Friday the candidates of the ruling Liberal Party, led by incumbent Maguindanao Gov. Esmael Mangudadatu in Buluan town.
It was cholera, not diarrhea as earlier reported, that killed on Sunday a male patient, who was among 68 residents admitted at the Cotabato Regional and Medical Center here, following last week’s outbreak in a Maguindanao fishing village that left two people dead and dozens sick.
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has reminded its forces not to allow themselves to be used by politicians in any activity that would disrupt the much improved peace climate in Mindanao.
At least four feuding families agreed to bury the hatchet when they signed a peace covenant here on Thursday that the authorities hailed as timely in light of the approaching elections in May.
Another suspect in the 2009 Maguindanao massacre was arrested by soldiers in a chance encounter with armed men in Mamasapano, Maguindanao on Saturday, the military reported on Monday.
Former president Joseph Estrada was never anti-Muslim as his critics claimed, even though he launched an all-out war against Muslim rebels in 2000 that caused numerous deaths and massive displacements among Moro communities, his son, San Juan Representative Jose Victor “JV” Ejercito said.
It’s all green and yellow from here to Barangay (village) Simuay in Sultan Kudarat town in Maguindanao, where President Aquino is visiting the main camp of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) on Monday to promote peace in Mindanao.
A political clan in Maguindanao is planning to file a case against those behind the issuance of a search warrant by a Manila trial court on the residence of Talayan Mayor Tongkang Midtimbang who was suspected of keeping an arsenal of high-powered firearms in his house.
The Department of Public Works and Highways in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao said that at least P46 million in advances made to local government units in the region’s five provinces as mobilization fund for projects undertaken in 2011 have remained unaccounted for.
The leadership of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front said it was conducting its own investigation on recent terror threats using explosives in Central Mindanao.
