(First published at MindaNews.com) The Federation of Matigsalug-Manobo Tribal Councils, Inc. (Femmatrics) of the Matigsalug Manobo tribe has announced they are likely to go to court to force “illegal occupants” in their ancestral domain to a free and prior informed consent process (FPIC).
Femmatrics chair Datu Roelito Gawilan told this reporter they are ...
(First published at MindaNews.com) The National Food Authority (NFA) Council’s decision to cut its buying price of yellow corn grains from P13 to P10 per kilo amid the already very low price in the market drew flak not only from farmers but also from members of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan here.
Board member Glenn ...
There was no mention of the super regions, including the “Mindanao agribusiness” super region, in President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s 2009 State of the Nation Address (SONA) on July 27 but recent updates show that this year, Mindanao got the biggest chunk in infrastructure releases.
The updates were given during the 13th Agribusiness Mindanao Super ...
First published in MindaNews.com. President Arroyo signed Executive Order 765 in December 2008 claiming that ”reduction on tariff on food wheat would help stabilize the price of bread and other baked food products.” Unfortunately, former agriculture secretary Leonardo Montemayor said in a report that the order did not only ...
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo boasted of her administration’s achievements and slammed her critics in a display of fighting stance because of it.
The former economics professor at the University of the Philippines sprinkled her speech with numbers or statistics to prove her 5-point summary, which she used to claim that:
“1. We have a ...
A series of more recent development unfolded in Mindanao.
First came the announcement of the resumption “Soon” of the formal talks (and the peace process) between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front as a cessation of hostilities is at hand.
Then the continuing calls by civil society and peoples organizations in conflict-affected ...
It must have been months ago since I last posted an entry here. In fact I came to a point of really being unmindful of my blogs.
But once a blogger, always a blogger. And so here I am again not promising to return to active blogosphere citizenship but showing desire to return so.
Apart ...
