DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 26 December) – The Bangsamoro Parliament has approved the proposed P98.5 billion budget of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) for 2024, the last full-year budget that will be implemented by the 80-member Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) before the transition government steps down on June 30, 2025 and the first
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 23 November) – The Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB), the peace agreement signed by the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in 2014, may not be fully implemented by June 30, 2025, the end of the six-year transition period in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao,
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 25 December) – The first election of the 80-member Bangsamoro Parliament on May 12, 2025 is less than 17 months away but preparations have yet to start as the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of the Bangsamoro Electoral Code (BEC) has yet to be approved, the proposed “Parliamentary Districts Act of
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 09 February) – “Giving the vote to the people to choose their leaders is the logical succession, evolution, to the grant of self-rule to your land,” President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said as he urged Bangsamoro leaders to “show the world” that the first election of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 09 February) – President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Thursday night said the call of former President Rodrigo Duterte for a separate Mindanao is “doomed to fail” because it is “anchored on a false premise, not to mention a sheer constitutional travesty.” “I strongly appeal to all concerned to stop this call