Arangkada-Balita

04/06/2026

ICM Macacua, tinanggal bilang Chief of Staff ng M**F sa gitna ng laban nito kontra kurapsyon sa BARMM

Kasabay ng pagpapatuloy ng mga hakbang laban sa katiwalian sa Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), nagpalabas ang M**F Central Committee ng resolusyon na nagsususpinde kay Interim Chief Minister Abdulraof Macacua sa kanyang tungkulin bilang Chief of Staff ng Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces (BIAF).

Ayon sa resolusyon, ang hakbang ay kaugnay ng umano’y hindi pagtupad ni Macacua sa ilang direktiba ng organisasyon.

Bago inilabas ang suspensyon, nagsagawa si Macacua ng iba’t ibang reporma na nakatuon sa pagpapalakas ng transparency at accountability sa pamahalaang rehiyonal.

Kabilang sa mga isinulong niyang hakbang ang paghihigpit sa internal controls at mas mahigpit na pagpapatupad ng mga umiiral na alituntunin sa paggamit ng pampublikong pondo.

Sa mga naunang pahayag, binigyang-diin ni Macacua ang kahalagahan ng tapat at responsableng pamamahala upang mapanatili ang tiwala ng mamamayan sa gobyerno.

Sa ngayon, wala pang inilalabas na opisyal na pahayag ang kampo ni Macacua hinggil sa naging desisyon ng M**F Central Committee.

04/06/2026

𝗠𝗗𝗡, NAGLUNSAD NG LIBRENG LET REVIEW PROGRAM PARA SA MGA NAGNANAIS MAGING G**O

Bilang malaking hakbang upang mapaunlad ang edukasyon at human resource development sa lalawigan, opisyal na inilunsad ng Pamahalaang Panlalawigan ng Maguindanao del Norte ang libreng Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET) Review Program para sa mga nagnanais maging lisensyadong g**o.

Pinangunahan nina Governor Datu Tucao O. Mastura, CPA, at Vice Governor Datu Marshall I. Sinsuat, kasama si Provincial Administrator Datu Sharifudin Tucao P. Mastura, CPA, at mga miyembro ng Sangguniang Panlalawigan, ang pagsaksi sa paglagda ng Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) sa pagitan ng Pamahalaang Panlalawigan at ng Carl E. Balita Review Center (CEBRC) nitong Hunyo 4, 2026 sa Provincial Gymnasium sa Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao del Norte.

Ang makabuluhang programang ito ay isinakatuparan sa pamamagitan ng pakikipagtulungan ng Office of the Administrator’s Specialized Initiatives and Projects.

Umabot sa 214 na aplikante ang nagpahayag ng interes sa programa, kabilang ang 165 na aspiring teachers mula sa Unang Distrito at 49 mula sa Ikalawang Distrito.

Sa kasalukuyan, 202 sa mga aplikanteng ito ang sumasailalim sa qualifying examination upang mapili ang mga magiging benepisyaryo ng libreng review program.

Ipinapakita ng nasabing partnership ang matatag na dedikasyon ng pamahalaang panlalawigan sa pagpapataas ng kalidad ng edukasyon at pagbibigay ng pangmatagalang oportunidad para sa kabataan.

Sa pamamagitan ng pakikipag-ugnayan sa isang nangungunang review institution tulad ng CEBRC, layunin ng Maguindanao del Norte na makalikha ng mas maraming lisensyadong propesyonal na g**o na magiging katuwang sa paghubog ng kinabukasan ng lalawigan.

Ella Dayawan

04/06/2026

MDS, PINARANGALAN 𝗔𝗡𝗚 𝗠𝗚𝗔 ATLETANG NAKAKUHA NG MEDALYA 𝗦𝗔 𝗣𝗔𝗟𝗔𝗥𝗢𝗡𝗚 𝗣𝗔𝗠𝗕𝗔𝗡𝗦𝗔 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲

Buong pagmamalaking ipinagdiwang ng Lalawigan ng Maguindanao del Sur ang natatanging tagumpay ng mga atletang nagbigay ng karangalan at dangal sa lalawigan sa ginanap na Palarong Pambansa 2026 sa Agusan del Sur.

Bilang pagkilala sa kanilang dedikasyon, pagsisikap, at kahanga-hangang tagumpay, personal na iginawad ni Governor Datu Ali M. Midtimbang ang mga cash incentive sa mga medalista bilang pagpapakita ng pasasalamat at patuloy na suporta ng pamahalaang panlalawigan.

Kabilang sa mga pinarangalan si Abdulrahman Mutalib mula sa bayan ng Buluan na nagkamit ng isang gintong medalya, isang pilak na medalya, at isang tansong medalya sa Para Swimming. Dahil sa kanyang natatanging pagganap, tumanggap siya ng kabuuang ₱100,000 na insentibo.

Nagpakitang-gilas din si Jaher M. Abdul ng Buluan sa larangan ng Para Athletics matapos makuha ang dalawang tansong medalya sa 100-meter at 200-meter events. Bilang pagkilala sa kanyang tagumpay, pinagkalooban siya ng ₱40,000 na insentibo.

Samantala, si J.C. Miguel R. Andres mula sa Datu Abdullah Sangki ay nakapag-uwi ng isang pilak na medalya at tumanggap ng ₱30,000. Si Kim Joy V. Tenorio naman ng South Upi ay nagwagi ng tansong medalya sa Para Athletics VI 100 meters at nakatanggap ng ₱20,000 na insentibo.

Ang kanilang mga tagumpay ay nagsisilbing inspirasyon sa kabataan at patunay ng husay, tiyaga, at kahusayan ng mga atleta ng Maguindanao del Sur. Muli, pagbati sa ating mga kampeon na nagbigay ng karangalan sa lalawigan at sa buong Bangsamoro Region.

Ella Dayawan

04/06/2026

LOOK: Iginiit ni Bangsamoro Attorney General Bantuas M. Lucman na walang inihain na reklamo si Chief Minister Abdulraof “Sammy Gambar” Macacua sa Office of the Ombudsman laban kay dating Bangsamoro Minister Mohagher M. Iqbal.

Ayon kay Lucman, wala ring paunang kaalaman ang Chief Minister hinggil sa anumang kasong iniimbestigahan ng Ombudsman na may kaugnayan kay Iqbal.

Sinabi ng Attorney General na ang anumang imbestigasyon, kung mayroon man, ay isinasagawa nang independent sa ilalim ng kapangyarihang konstitusyonal ng Ombudsman na magsiyasat motu proprio o batay sa impormasyong natanggap mula sa mga referral, kabilang ang mga natuklasan sa audit ng Commission on Audit (COA).

Binigyang-diin ni Lucman na ang proseso ng Ombudsman ay hiwalay at hindi nakadepende sa anumang aksyon o direktiba mula sa tanggapan ng Chief Minister.

04/06/2026

BARMM folks glad with region’s having 2 US-trained musicians

Residents of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao are excited about the June 21 piano and violin concert in the University of the Philippines-Diliman of two scions of big clans in BARMM, both trained abroad.

The pianist Jenna Datumanong Salliman and the violinist Adrian Nicolas Chio Ong shall together perform in their Espressivo Concert on June 21 at the Kolehiyo ng Arte at Literatura Theater in UP-Diliman, officials of different agencies in BARMM announced on Wednesday morning, June 3.

“We are proud of these two young musicians, both from big families in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao,” Myrah Borja Mangkabung, superintendent of the Basilan Schools Division, told reporters in BARMM on Wednesday.

Jeanne, the mother of the violinist Ong, 26, from the big Chio clan, whose members are residing in Cotabato City, the capital of BARMM, and in Datu Piang town in Maguindanao del Sur, one of the five provinces in the BARMM.

Ong’s father, Allan, and her mother are both dentists, operating a dental clinic in Quezon City. Annie, the mother of the 26-year-old pianist Salliman, is daugther the late Simeon Ampatuan Datumanong, an ethnic Maguindanaon, who had served as chairman of the defunct Lupong Tagapagpaganap ng Pook 12 in Cotabato City, as in-charge of the Office on Muslim Affairs and, subsequently, as secretary of the Department of Public Works and Highways.

Datumanong was also congressional representative of the still undivided Maguindanao province before he passed away from an illness about two decades ago.

Salliman's father, Hadjiman, who is of Yakan descent, is the incumbent vice governor of Basilan. He was governor of the island province for three consecutive terms prior to his election to his present post during the May 12, 2025 elections.

Traditional Moro datus in Maguindanao del Sur's adjoining Ampatuan and Shariff Aguak towns, related by blood to Salliman, told reporters on Wednesday that they are so proud of her.

“Her being a pianist trained in the United States is a proof that residents of the Bangsamoro region are just as competitive, in music, arts and sciences and in other fields with those in other non-Moro regions in the country,” said Anwar Kuit Emblawa, a ranking staff of the Office of the Municipal Mayor in Shariff Aguak.

Her relatives in Cotabato City said on Wednesday that the US-trained pianist Salliman was recently admitted to the Chautauqua Piano Institute in New York as a scholar of the National Society of Arts and Letters in the US, a non-stock, non-profit entity supporting potential artists pursuing professional education in music and arts.

Ong, after graduating from the Philippine High School for the Arts in Los Baños, Laguna, studied music and arts at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan, where he graduated with honors.

“We are mighty proud of him and Jenna Datumanong Salliman, who are from pioneer clans in what is now the Bangsamoro region,” said Alexander Chio Mabinay, a member of the technical service team in the office in Cotabato City of BARMM parliament member Romeo Kabuntalan Sema, who is also from a noble Moro clan.

Two members of the 80-seat BARMM parliament, Ishak Veloso Mastura and Zulfikar-Ali Sergio Bayam, both Maguindanaon datus, separately said the young musicians Salliman and Ong deserve special honors from the region's lawmaking body, which is based in Cotabato City.

Photo shows the violinist Ong and pianist Salliman, both from big pioneer clans in the Bangsamoro region. (June 4, 2026)

04/06/2026

MOH nakilahok sa konsultasyon para sa IRR ng Bangsamoro Nutrition Commission

Nakilahok si Bangsamoro Health Minister Dr. Kadil “Jojo” M. Sinolinding Jr. sa Regional Consultation on the Formulation and Refinement of the Draft Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) ng Bangsamoro Nutrition Commission (BNC) alinsunod sa Bangsamoro Autonomy Act No. 83, na isinagawa mula June 3 hanggang 5 sa Go Hotels sa Lanang, Davao City.

Dinaluhan ang konsultasyon ng mga kinatawan mula sa mga pambansang ahensya ng pamahalaan, mga ministries, tanggapan at ahensya ng Bangsamoro, gayundin ng iba pang mahahalagang stakeholder na may kinalaman sa pamamahala at pagpapaunlad ng nutrisyon sa rehiyon.

Layunin ng aktibidad na repasuhin at pahusayin ang draft IRR ng BNC, linawin ang estruktura, kapangyarihan at mga tungkulin ng komisyon, pagtugmain ang mga responsibilidad ng mga kaukulang ahensya, at pagtibayin ang mga rekomendasyong polisiya para sa mas komprehensibo at tumutugong balangkas ng regulasyon.

Suportado ng Child Nutrition Fund, UNICEF at Philippine Legislators’ Committee on Population and Development ang nasabing konsultasyon na naglalayong matiyak na ang mga patakaran sa nutrisyon ay nakaayon sa mga prayoridad at pangangailangan ng Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).

04/06/2026

Flood mitigation,mas pinaigting ng pamahalaang panlalawigan sa bayan ng M’lang Cotabato

CENTRAL MINDANAO-Nagtalaga ngayon ng 1-unit amphibious excavator ang pamahalaang panlalawigan ng Cotabato, para linisin ang banlik at water hyacinth sa M’lang River sa bayan ng M’lang, Cotabato na nagdudulot ng pagbaha sa panahon ng pag-ulan sa mga areas ng Brgy. Dungoan, Dugong, Inas, Gaunan, Lepaga at ilang bahagi ng Poblacion A and B.

Sa ginanap na ceremonial send-off ng naturang ekwipo sa Brgy. Dungoan, nagpasalamat si M’lang Municipal Mayor Emmanuel M. Abonado kay Governor Emmylou “Lala” J. Taliño-Mendoza sa muling pagpapahiram ng provincial government ng amphibious excavator.

Kung matatandaan, noong nakaraang taon ay nagsagawa rin ng desilting operation ang probinsya sa M’lang River kung saan abot sa 6.5 kilometro ang nalinis nito na naghatid ng ginhawa sa mga residente ng Brgy. Dungoan na dating lugar na binabaha, at ngayon ay naging produktibo na.

Kasama rin sa naturang send-off ceremony sina 3rd District board members Joemar S. Cerebo, Reyman L. Saldivar at Ivy C. Dalumpines-Ballitoc, Liga ng mga Barangay Provincial President Phipps T. Bilbao, League of Municipalities of the Philippines Provincial President at Kabacan Municipal Mayor Evangeline Guzman, Cotabato Police Acting Provincial Director PCol Ramel Hojilla, at 602nd Brigade Commander Ricky Bunayog.(Garry Fuerzas with IDCD-PGO-NCOT-June 04,2026)

04/06/2026

Mahigit 2k pamilya na naapektuhan ng baha sa Kabacan Cotabato,tumanggap ng tulong mula sa DSWD-12

CENTRAL MINDANAO-Pinagkalooban ng Family Food Packs ng Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Regional Office XII ang 2,357 families mula sa pitong barangay ng Kabacan Cotabato na kamakailan lang ay naapektuhan ng baha dahil sa sama ng panahon dahil sa Easterlies.

Batay sa data ng Municipal Social Welfare and Development Office (MSWDO), kabilang sa mga binigyan ng food packs ang ilang residente ng mga barangay ng Aringay, Cuyapon, Lower Paatan, Magatos, Kayaga, Salapungan at Malanduague matapos lumabas sa monitoring and assessment ng DSWD-12 na sila ang labis na naapektuhan ng nakaraang baha.

Nagpaabot naman ng pasasalamat si Mayor Evangeline Pascua-Guzman sa regular at mabilis na pagpapaabot ng tulong ng DSWD-12 sa pangunguna ni Regional Director Loreto Cabaya Jr., sa mga pangangailangan ng mga Kabakeño sa panahon ng sakuna gaya ng baha, sunog at iba pa.(Garry Fuerzas with Unlad Kabacan-June 04,2026)

03/06/2026

Basilan leaders, BARMM chief intensify peacebuilding cooperation

The vice governor of Basilan and the chief minister of the Bangsamoro region have agreed to continue cooperating in sustaining the peace now spreading around the island province, declared early this year as totally cleared from the presence of the Abu Sayyaf terror group.

Basilan Vice Gov. Hadjiman Salliman, who had served as governor of the province for three consecutive terms before he was elected vice governor during the May 12, 2025 elections, is the presiding chairperson of their Sangguniang Panlalawigan, or Basilan's provincial board, which legislates ordinances enforceable in the two cities and 11 towns in the province.

Salliman had told Bangsamoro Chief Minister Abdulrauf Macacua, during their meeting in this city on Monday, June 1, that he and members of their Sangguniang Panlalawigan are committed to help the regional government of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao achieve its peace and community-empowerment agenda for Basilan's 11 towns and two cities.

While at the Bangsamoro regional capitol in Cotabato City on Monday, Salliman and Macacua agreed to expand the partnership of Basilan's Sangguniang Panlalawigan and the BARMM government in keeping the peace now in all areas in Basilan.

The police and military jointly declared Basilan early this year as totally free, liberated from the Abu Sayyaf terror group that once ruled with impunity in isolated areas in the province.

Macacua said the feat was achieved through the joint peace and security efforts of local executives, units in the province of the military's Western Mindanao Command, the Basilan Provincial Police Office and leaders of the Abu Sayyaf who got reintegrated into the local communities after they surrendered, in batches, and reformed for good.

Basilan Gov. Mujiv Hataman, a former regional governor of the now defunct Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, which got replaced with a more empowered BARMM in 2019, had also amicably settled, through dialogues, more than 10 deadly “rido,” or clan wars, in the province since his election to office last year.

Macacua, figurehead of the 80-seat BARMM parliament, said he and officials of all agencies under him are grateful to Salliman and the members of their Sangguniang Panlalawigan and to Hataman, chairperson of the Basilan Provincial Peace and Order Council, for their renewed commitment to help push forward the regional government's peacebuilding initiatives in Basilan, one of the five provinces in the autonomous region.

BARMM also has three cities, Lamitan, Marawi and Cotabato, where its regional capitol is located.

“Cooperation in governance among all leaders in the autonomous region is a strong force that can help us achieve our common goal of fostering peace and progress in all five provinces and three cities in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao,” Macacua said.

The five provincial governors in BARMM, Hataman of Basilan, Mamintal Adiong, Jr. of Lanao del Sur, Ali Midtimbang of Maguindanao del Sur, Tucao Mastura of Maguindanao del Norte and Ysmael Ali of Tawi-Tawi each assured last month of their support to all programs of the BARMM government, aiming to boost peace and progress in the autonomous region, via interfaith and cultural solidarity among its Muslim, Christian and indigenous non-Moro residents.

Photo shows Hadjiman Salliman (left) and Macacua sharing a light moment after their meeting in Cotabato City last Monday, June 1. (JUNE 4, 2026)

03/06/2026