MALAYBALAY CITY – This year’s Kaamulan Festival starts on February 18 with the opening of garden shows, food fests, bazaars, agricultural fair and livestock shows, according to information from the Provincial Tourism Office.
Gov. Jose Ma. R. Zubiri, Jr. will formally open the annual fest at a gathering at the Capitol grounds, ...
Is this survey valid and reflective of reality?
From the MindaNews dispatch >>>> Hope for the New Year is high nationwide at 91% but in Mindanao, residents were more hopeful for 2007 than they are for 2008, a Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey showed.
The survey, conducted nationwide from November 30 to December 3 ...
Thanks to all who sent messages to my Kamuyot bag.
Ma’am Prix (and to all who are unfamiliar with it), Kamuyot is Bukidnon’s version of the tinalak. It’s made of sinamay from abaca fiber, from plantations scattered in Bukidnon’s rugged terrain. Of course, its woven mostly by indigenous women who sell it to ...
From now on, Istambay sa Mindanao will be blogging from Malaybalay City, Bukidnon still in Mindanao, Southern Philippines.
I’m back to my home province Bukidnon and on my day one as editor of Malaybalay’s Central Mindanao Newswatch.
Actually I’m just a consultant to the 19-year old weekly paper. From 2000 to 2004, I worked ...
I fully anticipate this homecoming. But as in any exodus, the past two days and the next two days would be busiest.
I have to do packing, unpacking, throwing, storing and all other things any transient could go through.
The biggest part is adjusting, or in this case, readjusting to another work set up ...
“You’re in a better place, I’ve heard a thousand times
And at least a thousand times I’ve rejoiced for you
But the reason why I’m broken, the reason why I cry
Is how long must I wait to be with you
I close my eyes and I see your face
If home’s where my heart is then ...
For the ninth time this year, the Bishops-Ulama Conference has held on to the ground by leading the celebrations for the Mindanao Week of Peace (MWOP).
The BUC adopted Zamboanga City’s Peace Week and made it Mindanao-wide in 1999.
For almost a decade, the peace weeks have been opportunities for “peace weavers” to reflect ...
