Crops develop at the regional technological demonstration field of the Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Agrarian Reform (MAFAR) of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM-MAFAR). (Photo by Martin Sadongdong / MANILA BULLETIN) SULTAN KUDARAT, Maguindanao -- Filipino farmers...
COTABATO CITY (PNA) – Two voters were killed while five others were wounded by gunmen in Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao del Norte, on Monday morning, October 30. Police Lt. Col. Esmael Madin, Datu Odin Sinsuat police chief, said the gunmen attacked the still unnamed victims as they were about to...
COTABATO CITY – Anti-narcotics agents “rescued” on Wednesday afternoon, October 11, a 16-year-old boy caught with some P3.4-million worth of suspected shabu during a sting operation in Sultan Kudarat town, Maguindanao del Norte province. Agent “Rose Mary” of the Philippine Drug...
ILIGAN CITY – Gen. Romeo Brawner Jr., chief of staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, led the unveiling of the Symbol of Peace monument at the 6th Infantry Division headquarters in Barangay Awang, Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao del Norte, on Thursday, September 21. ARMED Forces Chief...
COTABATO CITY (PNA) – Maguindanao del Norte has only one duly appointed provincial governor who the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) officially recognizes. Lawyer Naguib Sinarimbo, Bangsamoro Interior Minister and BARMM spokesperson, reiterated this during a press...
CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao Norte (PNA) – Local officials of Datu Odin Sinsuat (DOS) town in Maguindanao del Norte province surrendered 36 assorted high-powered firearms to the military in support of the government’s campaign against loose firearms. In a statement on Saturday, July 15, DOS Mayor...
COTABATO CITY – Charges for selling illegal drugs were filed against an alleged member of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and his wife after they were arrested by anti-narcotics agents in an entrapment operation in Barangay Awang, Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao del Norte on Friday, May 12....
Police General Benjamin Acorda Jr., Chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), personally witnessed the mass surrender of 50 combatants of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) in Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) on Thursday, May 11. (PNP Chief Police Gen....
COTABATO CITY (PNA) – Mayor Rona Piang-Flores of Upi, Maguindanao del Norte has ordered the indefinite suspension of classes in an elementary school where schoolchildren were downed after accidentally inhaling mists of insecticides on Wednesday, May 10. SCHOOLCHILDREN are treated at the Datu Blah...
COTABATO CITY (PNA) – A powerful insecticide sprayed on coconut trees at the back of an elementary school in Barangay Mirab in Upi town, Maguindanao del Norte province was suspected to have poisoned around 75 schoolchildren on Wednesday morning, May 10. Upi Mayor Rona Piang-Flores said the victims...
ILIGAN CITY – Five members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters and a member of the Daulah Islamiyah-Turaife Group surrendered and turned over their firearms to the military at the 1st Brigade Combat Team headquarters in Barangay Pigcalagan, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao del Norte on Tuesday,...
The newly-created provinces of Maguindanao del Norte and Maguindanao del Sur can expect that there will be greater peace and sustainable economic development for its people, the Department of National Defense (DND) and Office of the Presidential Adviser on Peace, Reconciliation, and Unity (OPAPRU)...
