Oktubre 30, 2008 • 7:51 hapon
(NEWS) “The future appears gloom and bleak,” Gov. Jose Ma. R. Zubiri told the provincial board Thursday citing that the debacle of economic difficulties is real and could not be ignored.
Zubiri has proposed a P1.06 billion-2009 budget to the Sangguniang Panlalawigan but vowed to keep budgetary controls and prioritization of expenditures amidst the treat of a global recession.
He cited that the country is beset with “serious global disorder” foretelling a “downfall in the global capital market that “will not spare the Philippine economy”.
“There is an eroding confidence in the US financial market and growing discontent on the so-called American model of capitalistic economic enterprises,” Zubiri said in his introduction. Read the rest of this entry »
Inihanay sa:Bukidnon, Business, Economy, Financing in Mindanao, Governance, Investments in Mindanao, Life in the Plateau, Local Governance, Malaybalay City, Mindanao, Peace Process, Philippines, Politics, Social Security
Oktubre 29, 2008 • 9:20 hapon
The Philippine Eagle Foundation has announced its plan to release two new eagles into the wild of Mt. Kitanglad Range Natural Park in January 2009.
This is despite the death of a Philippine Eagle named “Kagsabua” (unity) in July 2007, which it released just months earlier.
“What happened to Kagsabua is not a stumbling block,” a PEF official said in this report at MindaNews.com.
Inihanay sa:Bukidnon, Environment, Eyeing Ahead, Freedom, Governance, Life in the Plateau, Lumads and Mindanao, Malaybalay City, Mindanao, Peace Process, Philippines
Oktubre 23, 2008 • 8:02 umaga
The better way to teach journalism in campus is to train them to write for life.
Perhaps, that’s a motherhood phrase.
What I really wanted to say is to go beyond competition mode.
The holding of competitions to test the skills of school children on campus journalism might have worked to a certain point.
But making the students practice campus journalism more might do miracles and fish more youth to the craft of factual reporting. Read the rest of this entry »
Inihanay sa:Access to Information, Blogging and Bukidnon, Bukidnon, Education, Freedom, Life in the Plateau, Malaybalay City, Mindanao, Mindanao's communities, People Power, Philippines
Oktubre 16, 2008 • 2:19 umaga
The lack of medicines in Bukidnon provincial hospitals and health stations has been blamed on failures in the bidding process, more specifically to the Capitol’s low approved budget for contract (ABC) or price index.
It was reportedly pegged at 2004 rates, a provincial legislative inquiry has discovered.
This seems a simple problem of public policy. But what could be the reaction of every Jose, Caring, and Juana when they are told about this in the front lines, say, in the out patient department of public hospitals?
The public, especially the indigents, are repeatedly being told of the “no available medicines” situation despite the province’s supposed “award-winning” flagship program on health. Read the rest of this entry »
Inihanay sa:Access to Information, Bukidnon, Business, Economy, Food/Health Related, Governance, Health, Life in the Plateau, Local Governance, Malaybalay City, Mindanao, Mindanao's communities, Philippines, Social Security
Oktubre 13, 2008 • 12:03 hapon
Traveling to communities have brought me to many experiences —mostly encounters of acquiantances.
You just don’t get to meet a person or group of people, you get to meet and have a chance to be in touch with their culture, their history, and their varying experiences.
The different-ness and uniqueness at the point of my contact with them result to dialogues (and sometimes when less fortunate about it, insightful frictions). It makes for wonderful insights, some of which figure in some of my writings/ reports. Read the rest of this entry »
Inihanay sa:Access to Information, Bukidnon, Every Day Mindanao, Governance, Human Rights in Mindanao, Life in the Plateau, Lumads and Mindanao, Malaybalay City, Mindanao, Mindanao's communities, Nature and Environment in Bukidnon, Philippines
Oktubre 7, 2008 • 5:52 hapon
The Bukidnon Forest Incorporated has initiated its clearance process to cut down trees in its industrial forest plantation project in Bukidnon. Read news report here.
This must be subject to scrutiny especially viewing it from the firm’s reported dismal record of reforestation since it started operating in 1989.
The firm might be good in cutting but are they as good in planting? This should be considered in the approval of its application for Environmental Compliance Certificate.
Its Industrial Forest Plantation Management Agreement (IFMA, yes silent “P”), which will expire in 2016, should be reviewed if they have cut more than they planted.
Communities near those areas subject for reforestation and cutting should be empowered to monitor this endeavor.
Inihanay sa:Agriculture, Bukidnon, Business, Economy, Environment, Governance, Indifgenous Peoples, Life in the Plateau, Local Governance, Malaybalay City, Mindanao, Mindanao's communities, Nature and Environment in Bukidnon, People Power, Philippines
Oktubre 5, 2008 • 3:26 hapon
The Bukidnon tribe is seeking endorsement from the city government of Malaybalay for its Daraghuyan ancestral domain claim over at least 4,700 hectares inside the Mt. Kitanglad Range and Natural Park. Bae Inatlawan Adelina Tarino, head claimant, said the city government’s endorsement is the last requirement for the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) to process their application.
“We hope you will help us in this requirement, which is the last document we need for the application,” Tarino’s September 23 letter to Mayor Florencio Flores, said. Tarino’s letter was written in Cebuano.
Flores endorsed the request to the city council on the same day. The legislators have calendared it for October 7, Tarino said, adding Councilor Manuel Dinlayan, the council’s committee on indigenous people’s chair, assured here it will be tackled this week.
She noted the tribe’s great difficulty in acquiring an endorsement from the barangay government in Dalwangan village, where the tribe is based. Read full story here.
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Setyembre 30, 2008 • 2:47 hapon
The Environmental Management Bureau of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has agreed to consider Bukidnon’s request for consideration in the approval of environmental compliance certificate (ECC) for projects based in the province. Read full report here.
Inihanay sa:Bukidnon, Business, Economy, Environment, Food in Mindanao, Governance, Investments in Mindanao, Life in the Plateau, Malaybalay City, Mindanao, News, Philippines
Setyembre 27, 2008 • 6:32 hapon
A plan in the 1990s to create another municipality for the Matigsalug tribe to be carved out of Kitaotao town is being revived, an official said.
Board member Roelito Gawilan, president of the Bukidnon Federation of the Association of Barangay Captains, confirmed they have started “at the grassroots level” in initiating the process to create a new town for the Matigasalugs.
Gawilan is President of the Federation of Matigsalug-Manobo Tribal Councils (FEMMATRICS) and also the elected barangay captain of Sinuda.
Gawilan said they are now conducting a study on the land area, population, and income of at least 15 of Kitaotao’s 35 barangays. Read full story here.
Inihanay sa:Access to Information, Bukidnon, Environment, Freedom, Governance, Human Rights in Mindanao, Indifgenous Peoples, Life in the Plateau, Local Governance, Lumads and Mindanao, Malaybalay City, Mindanao, Mindanao's communities, Philippines
Setyembre 17, 2008 • 1:51 hapon
Inside the crowded air-conditioned bus from Davao, the faces of the passengers looked weary and their eyes looked tired. At least 15 new passengers embarked from the busy, old Valencia City terminal.
For a moment the vehicle looked like a wet public market, and then sounded like one.
The passengers settled in the vacant seats at the rear end of the bus, and then almost simultaneously released sighs of relief.
It was probably the last air-con bus to leave for Cagayan de Oro before dinner.
It was not quite relieving, however, for others who have to stand as all seats were taken. Some others were left waiting eternally at the messy terminal.
Shortly after, the bus rolled off.
Still tired, most of the passengers were silent for a moment, and another.
At the front portion of the bus, the conductor, a stocky middle-aged man with a rounded face, called on the passengers bound for Cagayan de Oro for tickets.
“Kinsa pa’y wala’y ticket diri?” he asked a column of “standing” passengers. Read the rest of this entry »
Inihanay sa:Bukidnon, Business, Davao, Economy, Every Day Mindanao, Jobs in Mindanao, Life in the Plateau, Malaybalay City, Mindanao, Mindanao's communities, Philippines, Travel and Transportation
Setyembre 12, 2008 • 2:42 umaga
At 2a.m. the city was asleep. The road was deserted. The early morning breeze engulfed the highway to freezing point.
Manong David, wrapped in his thick coat, was chilling and has stammered when I hailed his motorela cab for home. He agreed to a pakyaw rate of P35, a win-win between his P40 offer and my P30 bargain.
Even if he would have offered P50, I would have taken it. That’s definitely better than be left frozen and alone in the middle of Fortich Street early morning.
On the way, he talked of that road accident somewhere, then about the MILF, and then about trying to make both ends meet.
The casual exchange paused over a topic that seemed a suggestive attempt to make me feel guilty for haggling five pesos less.
He said the oil prices are slowly taking his sanity. He is beginning to lose hope about being able to bounce back and be able to even cross the “boundary”.
Crossing the boundary is a need of every driver. He has to cross it to be able to pay rent and earn extra money above it to be able to live.
I was able to put out courteous responses. At one point, we were trying to analyze the root cause together, something like “while we are at this, the oil firms are bloating” stuff. Read the rest of this entry »
Inihanay sa:Bukidnon, Business, Economy, Governance, Investments in Mindanao, Life in the Plateau, Local Governance, Malaybalay City, Mindanao, Philippines, Travel and Transportation
Setyembre 3, 2008 • 7:21 hapon
Facade of the under construction new Malaybalay City Public Market, subject of debate of the city council as its contractor H.R. Lopez Co., Inc. has sought a nine-month extension following a delay over legal issues
The city council has scheduled to tackle in its session on September 2 the status of the delayed construction of Malaybalay City’s new public market. Read the rest of this entry »
Inihanay sa:Bukidnon, Business, Economy, Governance, Investments in Mindanao, Life in the Plateau, Malaybalay City, Mindanao, Philippines
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