Froilan Gallardo is a veteran photojournalist and special correspondent for Mindanao Gold Star Daily. With decades of experience documenting the frontlines of conflict, environmental crises, and the Mindanao peace process, his work has appeared in major national and international news outlets. Froilan is a multi-awarded storyteller who captures the raw, essential narratives of the Southern Philippines.
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AFTER more than an hour of a closed-door meeting, bishops, imams, and Misamis Oriental Gov. Peter Unabia emerged shaking hands, signaling that the controversy sparked by his anti-Muslim remarks may be coming to a close.
THE once mighty Partido ng Demokratiko Pilipino will support only five local candidates out of 14, 658 candidates vying for Northern Mindanao’s governors, vice governors, provincial board members, mayors, vice mayors, and councilor positions in the May 12 Senatorial and Local elections.
THE backlash against Misamis Oriental Governor Pedro Unabia continue to rage here as more Muslim groups called on their brothers to stop patronizing Amaya View, a swanky resort he owns located at the highest peak of Cagayan de Oro, and other of his business products.
THE New People’s Army (NPA) said Saturday that it deployed guerrillas to burn a cassava milling facility owned by a businessman accused of grabbing ancestral lands in Bukidnon.
VIRGILIO Garcillano, the controversial commissioner of the Commission on Elections and the key figure of the ‘Hello Garci’ scandal during the 2004 elections, died last Saturday, March 29. He was 87 years old.
MISAMIS Oriental ― The Philippine Coast Guard has installed an enhanced radar system at the Phividec Industrial Estate in Tagoloan town to monitor incoming and outgoing vessels in Macajalar Bay, a deep-water bay in the province of Misamis Oriental.
THE bodies of the two Philippine Air Force pilots of the downed FA-50 jet were brought down from the 2,880-meter-high Mount Kalatungan in Bukidnon by a small army of soldiers, volunteers, and forest guards.
A Philippine Air Force fighter bomber plane, F-50, went missing Tuesday morning, at the same time the military said they called an air strike to support its troops battling a band of 70 New People’s Army rebels in the Pantaron mountain range in Bukidnon.
