COTABATO CITY—Senator Francis Tolentino pointed out significant circumstances that prompted the Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) to move its first regional parliamentary elections from 2022 to 2025 during the interpellation period of Senate Bill (SB) 2214 on Tuesday. According to Senator Tolentino, sponsor of the said bill, there is an “absence of Bangsamoro Electoral Code…
COTABATO CITY — Healthcare units and facilities in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) continue receiving ambulances from the regional government in a bid to keep advancing its services to its people. Health officials of the Bangsamoro Government turned over eight (8) land ambulances to various barangay health stations (BHS) and rural…
MARAWI CITY – Eighty (80) marginalized small farmers and fisherfolk (MSFF) from Lanao del Sur province each received Php25,000 non-interest bearing cash loan from the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Agrarian Reform (MAFAR). A delegation from the MAFAR regional office led by Senior Agriculturist Ramil Timpolok and Agriculture Credit Policy Council Provincial (ACPC) Focal Person…
COTABATO CITY – The Ministry of the Interior and Local Government (MILG) will install in the island provinces of Sulu and Tawi-Tawi ten (10) units of machines that will convert salty sea water into fresh drinkable water. This is to address the scarcity of potable water in the area that has been going on for…
COTABATO CITY—Senators Juan Miguel “Migz” Zubiri and Francis Tolentino answered Thursday some concerns circulating amid the 2nd day of interpellation for Senate Bill No. 2214 which seeks to extend Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) from 2022-2025. Zubiri read the circulating message which says, Senator Tolentino allegedly “removed the representation of settler communities, who are Christians,…