BANGSAMORO NEWS UPDATES

COTABATO CITY --- Three public school teachers will help oversee each of the local electoral boards in all 2,490 barangays in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao on May 14.Lawyer Rasol Mitmug, Jr., regional secretary of the Department of Education-ARMM, said Thursday he has not received any request yet for relief of teachers from election duties due to security constraints.

A LUNAR observation will be commissioned on Tuesday by the Dharul Ifta (House of Opinion) for the country’s Muslim communities to collectively establish a more precise reckoning of the first day of the fasting month of Ramadan this year.If a crescent moon would not appear visible by the naked eye, the collegial body of scholars would then decide that the first of the month-long daily fasting will start on Thursday, May 17.The rule is that if the new moon is not visible on the last day of Sa’aban (the eighth lunar month), then fasting starts on the following day, an associate of the local Dh

COTABATO CITY – Around 6,000 teachers will be deployed in the different barangays in ARMM for the upcoming barangay elections on May 14, 2018.During a press conference with the ARMM Department of Education (DepEd-ARMM) held on Wednesday, May 9, 2018, regional education secretary Rasol Y. Mitmug, Jr., said that three teachers will be assigned as members of the electoral board for every precinct in this year's barangay elections scheduled on Monday.Each electoral board member will receive an allowance worth P6,500.Sec.

MAGUINDANAO --- With martial law in place, the Maguindanao provincial peace and order council is certain of peaceful synchronized barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections in the province on May 14.Members of the PPOC, however, want the Maguindanao Electric Cooperative to ensure supply of electricity to campuses in remote villages to prevent electoral fraud during nighttime tabulation of poll results.The inter-agency PPOC convened in Buluan, Maguindanao’s provincial capital, on Tuesday to finalize preparations complementing the security efforts of the Commission on Elections.Maguindanao G

BULUAN, Maguindanao – At least 119 of the 508 villages in this province are under close watch by authorities in relation to concerns for peaceful and orderly conduct of Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataaan Elections (BSKE) on May 14.This was announced by lawyer Udtog Tago, provincial election supervisor, at the joint meeting here on Tuesday of the provincial peace and order council (PPOC), provincial development council (PDC) and provincial anti-drug abuse council (PADAC) presided over by Maguindanao Gov.

SULTAN KUDARAT, Maguindanao -- Members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces (BIAF) of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) gathered here today for a general assembly aimed at updating the rebel group's military arm on the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL).Von Al Haq, spokesperson of BIAF, said theBIAF Officers' Assembly will last until tomorrow.He said the gathering will also improve camaraderie among Moro fighters and the opportunity for the troops on the ground to understand the peace process.Al Haq said the BIAF members have traveled all the way from the base camps across Mindanao and pro

MAGUINDANAO --- Investigators are still clueless on the fatal ambush on Saturday in Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao of a staff of Gov.

CAMP
DARAPANAN, Maguindanao – The military arm of Moro Islamic Liberation
Front (MILF) will help ensure peaceful and orderly Barangay and SK elections
but will never actively participate in the electoral process, an MILF official
today said.

Von Al Haq,
spokesperson of the MILF’s Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces (BIAF), said the
MILF as an organization is prohibiting its armed members to get involve in
Philippine electoral process.

CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao -- Deputy Speaker Sandra Sema, congressional representative of the first district of Maguindanao, was honored by the 6th Infantry Division with a testimonial parade on April 26, 2018 for her promotion to full reservist colonel in the Philippine Army. She had gone through masteral schooling on national security administration at the National Defense College early on. The 6th ID's commander, Major Gen.

SULTAN KUDARAT, Maguindanao - Today marks another important milestone in delivering peace dividends to our people as we transition from conflict situation into just, honorable and lasting peace and sustainable development in the Bangsamoro.