DIGOS CITY – The arraignment of eight individuals, including the barangay captain of Kapatagan, Digos City, accused of selling ancestral lands has been rescheduled to May 23. In an interview on Tuesday, May 9, Rogelio Manapol Jr., tribal chieftain of the Unified Bagobo Tagabawa, said that tribal...
In a bid to increase agricultural productivity in Mindanao’s ancestral domains, the Department of Agriculture (DA) has launched the five-year Mindanao Inclusive Agriculture Development Project (MIADP) which will run from 2023 to 2028. Farmers unhusk coconuts in a remote villages of Piklt, the top...
The remains of Pinoy royalty and Roman technology in Intramuros ROMUALDEZ HOUSE The Romualdezes have been in Pandacan since the turn of 19th century AD. The Romualdez house was bought by Miguel L. Romualdez when he was appointed sixth mayor of Manila (1924-1927) by then Gov. Gen. Leonard Wood Who...
MANILA – All programs, projects and activities of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict [(NTF ELCAC](https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1192650) ) would proceed despite the transition to a new leadership. "NSA (National Security Adviser) Dr. Clarita Carlos stressed that...
A decades-long dispute between a local tribe and the government over the right to implement the Casecnan Multi-purpose Irrigation and Power Project in Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya may have finally been resolved, according to National Irrigation Administration (NIA) Administrator Benny Antiporda. In his...
A decades-long dispute between a local tribe and the government over the right to implement the Casecnan Multi-purpose Irrigation and Power Project in Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya may have finally been resolved, according to National Irrigation Administration (NIA) Administrator Benny Antiporda. In his...
The National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) has called for support against the presence and invasion of terrorist groups in the Ancestral Domains (ADs) and communities of the Indigenous Peoples (IP). National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (FACEBOOK) "Our IPs’ ways of life and...
(NATIONAL COMMISSION ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLES FACEBOOK PAGE) The National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) has issued a Certificate of Ancestral Land Title (CALT) to the Blaan tribe in Barangay Sinawal, General Santos City. The CALT, with a total area of 1,091 hectares, was received by the Ubo,...
The indigenous Aeta groups Ayta Mag-Indi and Ayta Mag-Antsi in Pampanga on May 31, have formally received their Certificate of Ancestral Domain Titles (CADT) with a total land area of 18,660 hectares. (National Commission on Indigenous Peoples website) The IP groups have waited 13 years for the...
How can a tribe protect its 100-hectare ancestral domain? It’s a dream too big to reach for a tribe whose members are small farmers, each struggling to provide daily sustenance to their families, with a few of them on the way to leaving the land to seek jobs in the big cities. But hope – and a...
If elected president, former senator Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. will determine the original ancestral domain of the indigenous peoples (IPs) to give them justice and protect them from land grabbing. Presidential candidate Bongbong Marcos (right) in Pampanga During SMNI's presidential debate on...
Kasa Antigua Café rose to fame in 2021 for its brewed drinks and unique dining atmosphere In 2020 and 2021, with layoffs happening due to the pandemic, many Filipinos decided to become the captain of their own ships and establish at-home enterprises of their own, many of which centered on food and...
