Former military officers spearheaded a mass demonstration in front of Camp Aguinaldo, the General Headquarters of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), in Quezon City on Sunday, Sept. 21, as part of the nationwide massive anti-corruption protests against the anomalous flood control projects of...
DAVAO CITY – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is expanding its Resilient Livelihoods Development (RLD) project to the Indigenous Peoples (IP) communities in the mountainous town of South Upi in Maguindanao del Sur. Lionel Dabbadie, FAO representative in the...
DAVAO CITY – As police have yet to solve the killing of South Upi, Maguindanao del Sur Vice Mayor Roland Benito almost two months ago, another Indigenous Peoples leader was gunned down in Barangay Bongo in South Upi on Tuesday, September 17. MOIRES (Keith Bacongco) Police identified the victim as...
DAVAO CITY – The Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao condemned the killing of Vice Mayor Roldan Benito of South Upi, Maguindanao del Sur in his hometown on Friday afternoon, August 2. The BARMM called on authorities to conduct a thorough investigation of the incident and hunt the...
The vice mayor of South Upi, Maguindanao del Sur was killed in an ambush on Friday afternoon, August 2. Police identified the fatality as Roldan Benito. BENITO (FB) His nephew, who was a security aide, was also killed. Benito's wife, the chairwoman of Barangay Pandan, South Upi, and one...
DAVAO CITY – At least 80 Indigenous Peoples were taken to hospitals after they suffered severe stomach pain and vomiting after consuming a native delicacy during a tribal wedding in remote Barangay Pandan, South Upi, Maguindanao del Sur on Thursday, April 25. Dr. Rose Leah Jerusalem,...
DAVAO CITY – At least 300 Lambangian and Teduray indigenous peoples and migrant settlers staged a protest in Timanan, South Upi, Maguindanao del Sur on December 7 opposing the proposed declaration of a mineral reservation site within the tribe’s ancestral domain claim. INDIGENOUS peoples...
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...
Award-winning coffee, chocolate from PH featured at Lao Food Festival MABUHAY The Philippine booth at the Lao Food Festival Award-winning coffee and chocolate from the Philippines took center stage at the Philippine booth in the Lao Food Festival, which started Jan. 25 at the Chao Anouvong Park in...
