Police: Central Visayas on heightened alert after Marawi bombing

Emmariel Ares 12/06/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines — In light of the recent bombing of a university in Marawi City in Mindanao, police in Central Visayas are now on heightened alert. This was relayed to reporters by Police Lieutenant Colonel Gerard…

Congratulatory tarps for new lawyers Marawi as the City of Streamers

ATTY. DENNIS R. GORECHO 05/23/2023

MARAWI City — After the release of the results of the 2022 bar examinations, Marawi City will again be flooded with huge congratulatory tarpaulins for its new lawyers. When I visited Marawi last February, I was really…

The octave of women’s voices

Sen. Risa Hontiveros - @inquirerdotnet 03/08/2023

  I always smile when I hear someone humming, because it means they are relaxed and at ease. Humming is such a private, genuine, and spontaneous joy. I indulge in it every chance I get, in between…

Marawi’s human settlement is true liberation

Marawi Reconstruction Conflict Watch - @inquirerdotnet 10/17/2022

Every human settlement is a political settlement, too. A developed, secure, and peaceful human settlement does not only emanate from physical structures but is a result of social consensus and negotiation between and amongst people. Yet, Marawi…

Films on Mindanao conflict win major Cinemalaya awards

ATTY. DENNIS R. GORECHO 08/16/2022

Films on troubled relationships and shattered dreams due to the Mindanao conflict won  major awards for this year’s Cinemalaya  Independent Film Festival: The Baseball Player, 12 Weeks and Bula Sa Langit.  “The Baseball Player” by Carlo Obispo won as best film…

‘Will we encounter some NPA?’

DLS Pineda - @inquirerdotnet 02/17/2021

When I moved from Manila to Agusan del Norte in 2014, I began hosting tours for friends flying over. One of my objectives was to dispel the notion of Mindanao as the barren and war-torn wasteland the…

Land title issues, community to blame for slow rebuilding of Marawi – Duterte

Gabriel Pabico Lalu 10/20/2020

MANILA, Philippines — The slow rehabilitation of Marawi City three years after being ruined by a five-month siege of Islamic State sympathizers can be blamed on confusing land titles and on the Marawi community itself, President Rodrigo…

‘Hanggang sa muli’: An unforgettable 4 years

outgoing US Ambassador to the Philippines, Sung Y. Kim 10/01/2020

It is with a heavy but full heart that I bid farewell to the Philippines, my home for the last four years. As I think back to my November 2016 swearing-in, I recall vividly the immense pride…

P6.8M worth of illegal drugs seized in Marawi

Froilan Gallardo 01/30/2020

CAGAYAN DE ORO City, Misamis Oriental —Joint operatives from the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and the Army’s 103rd Infantry Brigade seized more that a kilo of shabu from two suspected drug peddlers in Marawi City, Lanao…

Government troops kill suspected ISIS terrorist in Lanao encounter 

Froilan Gallardo 01/25/2020

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Philippines —A suspected ISIS terrorist was killed in an encounter with government troops in a forest between the towns of  Balindong and Piagapo in Lanao del Sur last Friday afternoon (January 24, 2020).…

Marawi residents welcome Duterte’s ‘No extension of Martial Law’ announcement

Froilan Gallardo 12/11/2019

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Philippines — The news that President Rodrigo Duterte would not extend Martial Law in Mindanao was widely cheered by war-weary residents in Marawi City in Lanao del Sur on Tuesday. “Its about time.…

P4.4B in Marawi funds still unreleased

Ben O. de Vera 11/18/2019

With only two months left before their validity expires, P4.4 billion in funds allocated for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of Marawi City have remained unreleased as of October. The latest Department of Budget and Management (DBM) data…

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