House Minority Leader Marcelino Libanan (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) House Minority Leader and 4Ps Party-List Rep. Marcelino Libanan highlighted on Thursday, Aug. 3 the additional P1 billion in compensation funds meant for the victims of the 2017 Marawi siege. “There is another P1 billion...
Marawi City right after the siege over six years ago. (MANILA BULLETIN) The Marawi Compensation Board (MCB) has an estimated 12,000 pending individual appointments seeking either structural or death claims in connection with the 2017 Marawi seige. This was bared by MCB Chairperson lawyer Maisara...
MARAWI CITY – In recognition of the role of women in settling conflicts, Relief International, a non-government organization supporting women advocacy in the province of Lanao del Sur and the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, recently unveiled a women’s peace marker in Barangay...
ILIGAN CITY – Armed Forces Western Mindanao Command chief Lt. Gen. Roy Galido said that the amir (leader) of the Daulah Islamiyah-Philippines and overall amir of the Islamic State-East Asia was killed in a joint law enforcement operation in the wee hours of Wednesday, June 14. ABU Zacharia (Photo...
MARAWI CITY – To sustain the peace the city gained after that infamous siege six years ago, a Task Force Marawi composed of security forces from the Philippine Army's 103rd Infantry (Haribon) Brigade and Philippine National Police and supported by the local government here has been established....
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. has committed to continue rebuilding Marawi and help displaced individuals due to the 2017 siege. "We continue to rebuild Marawi in the aftermath of the siege that took place on May 23, 2017," Marcos said in a Facebook post on Tuesday night, May 23. He...
MARAWI CITY – Residents who were displaced when this city became a battlefield between government forces and the militants affiliated with the Islamic State six years ago will finally be compensated following the signing on Tuesday, May 23, of the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of...
MARAWI CITY – The Department of Public Works and Highways turned over three completed integrated school buildings to the Department of Education as part of this year's Marawi Week of Peace celebration. OFFICIALS inaugurate a newly built integrated school building in Marawi City. (Bonita L. Ermac)...
MARAWI CITY – About 20,000 Muslim faithful from Lanao del Sur gathered at the Grand Mosque here to celebrate Eid’l Fitr or the end of Ramadan on Saturday, April 22. MUSLIM faithful pray as they celebrate Eid’l Fitr or the end of Ramadan at the Grand Mosque in Marawi City on Saturday, April...
Marawi City, the capital of Lanao del Sur in Mindanao, has two new barangays (villages) following twin plebiscites on Saturday, March 18. Based on the Commission on Elections (Comelec) data, a total of 1,421 registered voters from mother barangays Datu Dalidigan and Sagonsongan approved the...
After seeing scores of voters flocking to precincts, Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman George Erwin Garcia believes that they will attain a 92 percent voter turnout in Marawi City's plebiscite on Saturday, March 18. In an interview, Garcia mentioned that it was only during the morning...
Preparations for the Marawi City plebiscites have been completed, the first local electoral exercise since the siege in 2017, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said on Friday, March 17. In a statement, Comelec stated that it conducted on Friday (March 17) a command conference in the House of...
