BANGSAMORO NEWS UPDATES

COTABATO CITY -- It is clear that public service in the ARMM is on an entirely different level, Sen. Miguel Zubiri said after an emotional speech by Regional Governor Mujiv Hataman during the Joint Public Hearing on the Bangsamoro Basic Law Bills held in Cotabato City.The hearing is the third joint public hearing on the said measure, according to Zubiri who chairs the Senate subcommittee on the BBL.Holding back tears, Hataman expressed his sadness over accusations that the ARMM of recent years has done nothing to help the Bangsamoro people.

COTABATO CITY -- Senator Miguel Migz Zubiri is now spearheading the Joint Public Hearing on the proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law at the Shariff Kabunsuan Complex inside the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) compound.Accompanying Zubiri are Senators JV Ejercito and Sonny Angara.The consultation is on going at the Shariff Kabunsuan complex while Bangsamoro men and women patiently wait outside the complex.The committees involved in the joint hearings are Committee on Constitutional Amendments and Revision of Codes, Ways and Means, and Finance and Sub-Committee on the BBL.Before the co

LANAO DEL SUR --- Authorities arrested on Wednesday three members of the Maute terror group in Piagapo town in Lanao del Sur.Apao Dimacaling, Alex Braad and Kalal Berongan, all ethnic Maranaos, yielded rocket-propelled grenades, materials for improvised explosive devices and a grenade launcher when combined Army and police personnel raided their lair in Barangay Gacap, Piagapo.Chief Supt, Graciano Mijares of the Police Regional Office-Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao said Thursday the joint operation of the Lanao del Sur provincial police and the Army’s 103rdBrigade that led to their ar

MAGUINDANAO ---- Indigenous Tedurays dislocated by deadly attacks by the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters are reluctant to return to their homes for fear of their safety.

COTABATO CITY ---- Officials hired on Monday 75 more public teachers to propagate culture of peace in hostile areas in Maguindanao province.Gov. Mujiv Hataman of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao and his regional education secretary, Rasol Mitmug, Jr., jointly facilitated the placement of the teachers to permanent teaching posts during a symbolic gathering at the ARMM compound here Monday morning.Hataman said the 75 teachers are all qualified for appointment to teaching positions covered by civil service laws.

COTABATO CITY --- The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao will start locating daily on Monday absentee mayors whose towns are plagued by violent religious extremists.The move is in compliance with a directive from the Mindanao martial law administrator, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana, for ARMM Gov.

COTABATO CITY – Governor Mujiv Hataman of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) on Thursday warned about imposing sanctions on absentee and non-performing local chief executives.The warning came after Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana, who serves as Martial Law administrator in Mindanao, ordered a closer monitoring of local chief executives in Mindanao.The order was specified in Martial Law Instruction No.

MAGUINDANAO --- The provincial peace and order council has urged the Moro Islamic Liberation Front to help the military protect non-Muslim Tedurays in the province from the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters.The council, chaired by Gov. Esmael Mangudadatu, convened in Buluan town Wednesday and discussed the plight of thousands of indigenous Tedurays dislodged from Mt. Firis in Maguindanao by a series of deadly attacks by BIFF gunmen the past three weeks.Mt.

MAGUINDANAO --- Another soldier was killed while two villagers were hurt Tuesday in separate roadside bombings by the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters.Private 1stClass Ian Chris Celeste, of the 57thInfantry Battalion, died on the spot from multiple shrapnel wounds.In a report to the Army’s 6thInfantry Division Wednesday, the 601stBrigade said Celeste and companions were patrolling on a hill in Barangay Maitemaig in Datu Unsay town near Mt.

COTABATO CITY – The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) recorded the highest number of qualifiers in science scholarship programs in the region this year as 70third-yearcollege students passed the Junior Level Science Scholarship (JLSS) examination. The increase of qualifiers is almost threefold considering there were only 24 passers in the previous year. The increasing number of passers can be attributed to the region’s ‘Syensiya-bilidad’ program, Science and Technology (SandampT) ARMM Secretary Myra Mangkabung said.