Issue of the Day in Bukidnon
Buseco protest in Malaybalay City
This week’s protest calling for the ouster of Bukidnon Second Electric Cooperative General Manager Edgardo Masongsong showed a bigger and braver crowd including priests and nuns.
But organizers called off the protest following a gentleman’s agreement with the clergy after a day. The clergy entered into a dialogue with the Buseco management on December 14, on [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )DAR’s indifference on cry of Sumilao farmers?
This headliner at Inquirer.net:
“Malacañang wants the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) to issue its position on the land dispute involving farmers from Sumilao, Bukidnon by the time the farmers reach Metro Manila next week, at the end of a month-long march from Mindanao.”
“DAR knows the marchers are coming in next week so they better act [...]
Sumilao (Bukidnon) farmers in “walk for land” now in Luzon
Ten years after their famous hunger strike in 1997, the militant Sumilao Farmers are back on the streets, this time, in a “march for land” from Bukidnon to Manila.
As of the November 7 (Day 29) update from Balaod Mindanao, the farmers are reportedly in Calbayog, Samar.
The Sumilao farmers started the march on October 10 from [...]
Mining in Bukidnon?
There’s a lot of talk about rich gold deposits in Pantaron Mountain Range in San Fernando, Bukidnon. All these gold panning stuff we hear from treasure hunters tickled our imagination over the years.
This time, however, it has become official. The government started to include Bukidnon’s mining potentials in its marketing presentations to foreign investors.
In this [...]
