MISSION FOR INDIGENTS. A nurse checks the blood pressure of a beneficiary of a medical mission initiated by Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) parliament member Susana Anayatin for Cotabato City and Maguindanao on Monday (Dec. 27, 2021). The BARMM lawmaker also led two other medical outreach programs in Maguindanao earlier this month that benefited some 2,000 indigents. (Photo courtesy of MP Anayatin office) COTABATO CITY - A member of Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) has partnered with a renowned eye doctor to restore the impaired vision of indigents here and in Maguindanao province. On Tuesday, BTA parliament member Susana Anayatin said in a statement eye specialist Dr. Kadil "Jojo" Sinolinding readily accepted her request to render eye surgery to qualified indigent Bangsamoro who have been suffering from cataract, glaucoma, and pterygium. "Through this endeavor, we have helped our Bangsamoro constituents to restore their visual function,"
The last Plebiscite Committee leaves the distribution center in Buluan, Maguindanao for Tamontaka in Cotabato City a little past 6 a.m. on Monday as the first day of the plebiscite on the Bangsamoro Organic Law starts on Monday, January 21.
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Commission on Elections spokesman James Jimenez said over the weekend that as high as 75 percent of the more than two million voters from Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), as well as the cities of Isabela in Basilan and Cotabato in Maguindanao are expected to go out and cast their votes.
A second plebiscite day is set for February 6 for areas in North Cotabato and Lanao del Norte.
CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao - Following a massive surrender of Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighter combatants on December 17, 2021, another BIFF Field Commander
DATU ODIN SINSUAT, Maguindanao – Police are trying to pursue two “persons of interest” linked to the shooting of a widow and her son in Talayan, Maguindanao on Sunday. Col. Jibin Bongcayao, Maguindanao police director, said Monday that victims Zahariya Bansuan and her 14-year-old son died on the sp
DATU ODIN SINSUAT, Maguindanao - Police are trying to pursue two "persons of interest" linked to the shooting of a widow and her son in Talayan, Maguindanao on Sunday. Col. Jibin Bongcayao, Maguindanao police director, said Monday that victims Zahariya Bansuan and her 14-year-old son died on the spot due to multiple gunshot wounds. Bongcayao said the mother was driving a motorbike with her son around 5 p.m. Sunday while traversing the national highway in Sitio Matalam, Barangay Poblacion, Talayan, Maguindanao when they were attacked by riding-in-tandem suspects. The gunmen sped off toward adjacent Datu Piang town after the incident. "We believed it was due to a long-drawn grudge," Bongcayao said, adding that the victim's husband was also shot dead last month in Cotabato City. Bongcayao has directed all police units in Talayan and the adjacent police stations in Datu Anggal Midtimbang, Guindulungan, Datu Piang and Datu Salibo to use their intelligence network in