Comelec Chairman George Erwin Garcia (Comelec's Facebook page) The Commission on Elections (Comelec) will no longer proceed with the printing of the election ballots for the first-ever polls in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region In Muslim...
President Marcos has certified the bill seeking to postpone the Bangsamoro election as urgent, Malacañang said. "This is confirmed," Presidential Communications Office (PCO) Secretary Chavez said on Wednesday, Jan. 29, confirming that Marcos has certified the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of...
Senate Committee on Local Government chairman Sen. Joseph Victor “JV” Ejercito has pressed for the postponement of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) elections saying it is essential to maintain stability in the region. The Senate senior deputy majority...
Malacañang clarified that the Muslim holiday on Monday, Jan. 27, applies only to the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) and other identified Muslim areas. Photo from Bangsamoro Information Office Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin said this ahead of the holiday, which was...
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)...
