COTABATO CITY— Bangsamoro Chief Minister Ahod Ebrahim on Thursday night, Dec. 22, signed into law Parliament Bill No. 54 or the Bangsamoro Expenditure Program for 2023 amounting to P85.3 billion. “The BEP 2023 is inspired by many things; our collective experiences, recent economic changes, and just recently, tragedies that struck at the very core of…
Photo courtesy of MSSD COTABATO CITY—A total of 1, 240 indigent senior citizens recipients from Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao del Norte received their unconditional cash transfer cards (UCTs) from the Ministry of Social Services and Development (MSSD) on Monday and Thursday held at the Bangsamoro Government Center (BGC) in this city. The UCT Program…
COTABATO CITY – The 63 barangays in North Cotabato which petitioned and voted to be included in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) during the 2019 plebiscite will soon have their own municipalities in the region’s Special Geographic Area (SGA) as proposed in the eight newly-filed parliament bills. Filed by the Government of…
Photo by Michael Camsa COTABATO CITY—After witnessing the successful conduct of the week-long celebration of the Shariff Kabunsuan Festival, the National government, through its different agencies, signified support for BARMM’s economic and tourism industries. During the Guinakit Fluvial Parade held in this city on Dec. 19, Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Director III…
Photo by Hamdan Badrudin/BIO COTABATO CITY—Hundreds of fleets embellished with colorful and vibrant ornaments sailed along the rivers of Kalanganan II of this city Monday morning, Dec. 19, to honor the arrival of Shariff Kabunsuan in Mindanao which started the spread of Islam 500 years ago. The highly anticipated Guinakit (a convoy of boats)—a…