BANGSAMORO NEWS UPDATES

MARAWI CITY -- Government teachers here were elated with the Supreme Court’s termination from service of their overstaying superintendent whose illegal three-year stint caused them serious administrative and fiscal woes.Mona Macatanong, who turned 65 on October 18, 2013, ignored orders from the education department of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao to vacate her post, causing troubles that affected the performance of teachers and caused backlogs in activities of local schools.Irate teachers on Friday urged President Rodrigo Duterte to focus on the reluctance of the office of the C

COTABATO CITY --- The High Tribunal upheld with finality a court ruling that the overstaying Marawi City schools superintendent has reached the mandatory retirement age.The recalcitrant education official, Mona Macatanong, had earlier sued officials of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) for replacing her after she turned 65 on October 18, 2013.Macatanong, an ethnic Maranaw, had insisted that the date of birth indicated in the government personal data sheet she filled out when she first applied as a public teacher was erroneous, short of about two years.Macatanong, backed by som

ZAMBOANGA CITY– To increase the efficiency and the capacity of port terminals in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), the Regional Ports Management Authority (RPMA) conducted a one-day ports management summit here on Tuesday, August 30.With the theme ‘Collaboration and Information Sharing as Key Factors to Promote Development Initiatives in ARMM Ports,’ this year’s summit is a maiden flagship initiative of the RPMA-ARMM.Ersan Imban Warad, general manager of RPMA-ARMM, said the conduct of the summit was aimed at soliciting diverse regional platforms from various investors, port o

MAGUINDANAO --- The launching on Wednesday of the new P200 million heavy equipment pool of the province disproved allegations by rivals of Gov. Esmael Mangudadatu that he mishandled its procurement, allies said Saturday.

MAGUINDANAO --- Gov. Esmael Mangudadatu and relatives of the 58 victims of the Nov. 23, 2009 Maguindanao Massacre” are seeking a dialogue on the case with President Rodrigo Duterte.

COTABATO CITY -- The newly-elected governor of Tawi-Tawi and the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao are to cooperate in implementing P50.4 million-worth of new infrastructure projects in the island province.

COTABATO CITY -– Regional Governor Mujiv Hataman of the Autonomous Region in Muslim
Mindanao (ARMM) and Urdaneta City Mayor Amadeo Gregorio Perez IV are scheduled
to meet personally to settle the issue of alleged discrimination against Muslim
residents in Urdaneta City, Pangasinan.

He called me
up Tuesday night and clarified that he was misquoted by the online news
organization,” Hataman told reporters.

COTABATO CITY -- The imminent legislation by Congress of a Bangsamoro Basic Law different from its original draft raised two options for the Moro Islamic Liberation Front on how to pursue its bid for peace in the country’s south.The MILF’s chief negotiator, Muhaquer Iqbal, chair of the Bangsamoro Transition Commission (BTC), on Thursday said they will neither immediately abandon the peace process, nor wage war if the approval of the draft BBL by Congress is delayed or if the approved law is not a prototype of the proposed bill.Malacañang announced last Tuesday that Congress might not pass t

QUEZON CITY - With the Philippines' 16thCongress on recess starting Thursday, the peace advocates in Mindanao remained hopeful the draft bill that will create a new political entity in Southern Philippines will still hurdle legislative process in the coming months.Friends of Peace (FOP), an umbrella organization of peace advocates in Mindanao and other parts of the country, is hoping the legislature would come up with a draft law that is acceptable to all concerned in Mindanao and the country.Led by his Eminence Orlando Cardinal Quevedo, archbishop of Cotabato, the FOP issued a statement re

QUEZON CITY - HOUSE
LEADERS ON Monday admitted it cannot pass House Bill 5811 or the draft Basic
Law for the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.

In a brief
news conference Monday during the lull in the regular session, House majority
flood leader Neptali Gonzales said House Speaker Jose Belmonte and other house
leaders met with majority and minority group leaders and agreed to pass the
Bangsamoro law when Congress resumes next month.