Bukidnon

By NITZ ARANCON Correspondent SOME 20 suspected New People’s Army (NPA) rebels ransacked a store in Barangay Kulasi, Sumilao, Bukidnon at dawn Wednesday. According to the military, it was because the establishment did not give the rebels money. Capt. Joe Patrick Martinez, spokesperson of the 4th Infantry Diamond Division, said ...

By Gerald Leigh Laquinon, NITZ ARANCON, and LITO RULONA, Correspondents NEW People’s Army (NPA) rebels exploded crude bombs and hurt at least two soldiers in an outlying village in Malaybalay, Bukidnon as they tried to fight off government troops that launched an offensive in response to last weekend’s capture of ...

By LITO RULONA Correspondent RELIGIOUS leaders yesterday cautioned the police and military against taking drastic measures in response to the abduction of policemen and soldiers in Misamis Oriental, Bukidnon, and Agusan del Norte last weekend. A government offensive might adversely affect civilians in outlying villages, feared Iglesia Filipina Independiente Bishop ...

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By Efren B. Celocia THE Cowboy King Mr Marck Fabillo headed a Cowboy Day event sponsored along with his close friends sponsored a Cowboy Day last week in Fabillo Park in Kiliog, Libona Bukidnon. The event was participated by different horse back riders from Bukidnon, Misamis Oriental and Cagayan de ...

By FROILAN GALLARDO Special Correspondent SOCIAL welfare officials are resorting on porters to carry food relief bags for some 840  lumad families in San Fernando town, Bukidnon, deeply affected by the prolonged dry spell of El Nino. Social Welfare Secretary Dinky Soliman said here Friday relief workers who have trek ...

By GERALD LEIGH LAQUINON Correspondent SOLDIERS and New People’s Army (NPA) rebels exchanged firepower in an outlying village in Quezon town in Bukidnon yesterday, killing at least six people on Thursday afternoon. Ariel “Ka Inda” Magbanuag, NPA spokesperson for South Central Bukidnon, said rebels killed six soldiers, including an official, ...

By CONG B. CORRALES Associate Editor “I CANNOT declare owning something that I do not have.” This, in a nutshell, is Bukidnon Gov. Jose Ma. Zubiri Jr.’s answer to the group that has been pushing for his disqualification in the coming May polls for alleged “untruthful disclosure, non-disclosure, and non-submission” ...

By CONG B. CORRALES Associate Editor BUKIDNON Gov. Jose Ma. Zubiri Jr. yesterday said he is not afraid to face the Office of the Ombudsman regarding the graft charges filed by a lumad group in his province. Zubiri called up this paper yesterday to brush off the allegations of the ...

By CONG B. CORRALES Associate Editor A GROUP of indigenes in Bukidnon is seeking the disqualification of Gov. Jose Ma. Zubiri Jr. in the May elections even as they filed graft charges against the province’s leader before the Office of the Ombudsman. In a packet of documents sent to the ...