Stakeholders in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao have urged the Senate to act on the measure postponing the region’s first-ever parliamentary elections in May. The House of Representatives, voting 198-4, approved on third and final reading last November House Bill (HB) 11144...
DAVAO CITY – The Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao logged a 1.3 percent inflation rate in December 2024, the second lowest in the country, the Philippine Statistics Authority said. FRESHWATER fish sold on the side of the highway in Pagalungan, Maguindanao del Sur. (Keith Bacongco)...
Six persons posing as employees of the Office of the President (OP) have been arrested by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) for allegedly selling positions at the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) parliament for P8 million per seat. The NBI identified them as Diahn...
Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin has said that it is up for the Congress to decide if it will further extend the suspension of elections in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). "That is now in the hands of the Congress, 'yung [the] BARMM extension or suspension [of the...
COTABATO CITY – Government forces on Sunday confiscated high-powered firearms from a civilian while serving a warrant of arrest against a murder suspect in the Special Geographic Area of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (SGA-BARMM). The Special Security Task Group in SGA-BARMM,...
The Asian Development Bank's (ADB) newest loan to its host country, the Philippines, which will finance reforms in managing public funds, is scheduled to be repaid until 2039. Documents showed that the loan agreement for the $500-million Public Financial Management (PFM) Reform Program (Subprogram...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (PPAB) House Speaker Martin Romualdez says the proposal to postpone the first parliamentary elections in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) for one year isn't meant to delay progress. “This...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (PPAB) House Speaker Martin Romualdez has welcomed the approval on third and final reading of the bill that seek to postpone the first regular elections in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao...
The plenary hall of the House of Representatives (Dexter Barro II/MANILA BULLETIN) The House of Representatives approved on third and final reading the measure postponing the first regular elections of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in...
Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri Dignitaries, legislators, and peace advocates trooped to the old Senate Session Hall at the National Museum of Fine Arts recently for the launch of Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri’s The Road to Peace: Crafting the Bangsamoro Organic Law . Senator Juan...
OPAPRU Sec. Carlito Galvez Jr. lauds the agency's international and private peace partners during the inaugural International and Private Partnerships Forum (IPPF) 2024 at the Manila Hotel on Nov. 14, 2024. (Photo by John Louie Abrina / MANILA BULLETIN) A technical working group (TWG) is needed to...
DAVAO CITY – The Bangsamoro Parliament passed the long-awaited Bangsamoro Indigenous Peoples’ Act (BIPA) of 2024 on third and final reading during a special session on Dec. 10. The BIPA, also known as the Indigenous Peoples (IP) Code, was approved with 63 votes in favor, zero against, and...
