Senator Joseph Victor "JV" Ejercito has proposed resetting the first regular elections in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) to August 11, 2025, three months from its supposed schedule. In sponsoring Senate Bill No. 2942, Ejercito sought to amend Article XVI,...
DAVAO CITY – Six years since being at the helm of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, interim Chief Minister Ahod Balawag Ebrahim reiterated that education remains as among the keys in solving peace and sustaining development in the region. BARMM officials during the...
DAVAO CITY – The 34th Infantry Battalion seized 19 high-powered firearms from a lawless armed group in Barangay Lower Panangkalan, Pahamudi town in the Special Geographic Area of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region (BARMM) on Jan. 20. Police Lt. Col. Edgardo Batinay, commander of the Army...
DAVAO CITY – The Ministry of Indigenous Peoples Affairs of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao is mulling to create a task force to address tribal conflicts in the region. Land conflicts, according to MIPA, are said to be the root causes of spate of killings in...
DAVAO CITY – The Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao is celebrating its sixth founding anniversary on Jan. 21 with the theme “Salamat BARMM: Pagpupugay sa Anim na Taon na Paglilingkod sa Bangsamoro.” Anniversary events – medical missions, sports activities, trade...
Senator Juan Miguel "Migz" Zubiri has filed a bill seeking to include the Province of Sulu in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). SB 2915 sets a plebiscite for this purpose and allows its constituents to once again vote on Sulu's inclusion, "now guided by the positive...
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...
