The top education official in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao claims that unlike other regions plagued with shortages of teachers and classrooms no such problem was evident in the ARMM when school opened last Monday.
Although he has insisted the Senate presidency was “not in the bag,” Sen. Franklin Drilon has begun listing the “difficult items” the new batch of senators must prioritize before they become distracted by the 2016 elections.
Amid allegations of massive poll cheating in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, President Aquino’s anointed bets, now the region’s new governor and vice governor-elect, welcomed the scrutiny but appealed for sobriety.
Following Sunday’s violence in SK Pendatun town in Maguindanao that led to the killing of the education district supervisor, the Commission on Elections has put the town under its control, with deputized police officers taking the lead as Board of Election Inspectors.
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.
The Church-based Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) has called on voters in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) to be vigilant against manipulation of results of the May 13 elections.
Peace and development in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) would continue depending on the kind of leaders emerging after the elections on May 13, President Benigno Aquino III said Friday.
President Benigno Aquino III wants honest votes to be reflected in the midterm polls, regardless of whether administration senatorial candidates would win by landslide in this province.
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.
Acting Governor Mujiv Hataman of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao on Saturday denied reports he will step down on March 30 to pave the way for the appointment of a new acting governor.
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.
The acting governor of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao has signed into law a regional legislative bill that is aimed at fast-tracking the registration of children— and adults— in the region as well as facilitating the registration of new births in an area that paid scant attention to this matter in the past.
