P42M released to the Bangsamoro Transition Commission
By Ronnel W. Domingo
The government is shoring up its peace-building efforts in Mindanao with the release of P42 million to the Bangsamoro Transition Commission (BTC).
The government is shoring up its peace-building efforts in Mindanao with the release of P42 million to the Bangsamoro Transition Commission (BTC).
Claiming his was a case of mistaken identity, a man arrested in February for his alleged participation in the 2009 Maguindanao massacre asked a Quezon City court on Tuesday to recognize and abide by a Cotabato City court’s issuance of a writ of habeas corpus for his freedom.
A free-for-all fist fight between supporters of two rival political parties left six of them wounded and another one admitted into a hospital for a gunshot wound during Monday’s balloting in Maguindanao.
Due to “acts of violence,” a failure of election has been declared in a barangay (village) in Maguindanao, the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) said Monday.
Some Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines here did not work, an election inspector said Monday.
The military on Monday detonated a powerful improvised explosive device fashioned from a 60-millimeter mortar found along the national highway in the town of Shariff Aguak in Maguindanao.
Campaign posters are not as many for Annie Datumanong as other candidates, whose faces are all over, dotting interior roads and highways of Maguindanao’s second congressional district.
Maguindanao gubernatorial candidate Tucao Mastura of the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) on Saturday slammed as another dirty political tactic reports that he is using his perceived ties with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to advance his political bid.
Like the beauty contestant who redeemed herself after tripping onstage, former Senate President Ernesto Maceda promptly stood up after stumbling on the platform during a campaign rally here Sunday afternoon.
A barangay (village) official and two other family members were killed in an ambush by still unidentified armed men in Ampatuan, Maguindanao, barely three weeks before the May 13 midterm elections.
You can’t win ’em all. But the President’s Senate candidates might just win over to their side the province that gave Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s candidates a questionable 12-0 sweep in the 2007 elections—this time legitimately, Maguindanao Gov. Esmael Mangudadatu said on Friday.
President Benigno Aquino III and six Team PNoy senatorial bets on Friday joined the proclamation rally here of administration candidates led by Governor Esmael “Toto” Mangudadatu.
Six Team PNoy senatorial candidates showed up on Friday for the proclamation rally of the administration’s local bets led by re-electionist Governor Esmael “Toto” Mangudadatu.
