About 2,589 delegates from the 11 provincial committees of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), where Central Mindanao Region of the Bangsamoro Development Agency (BDA) is operating, attended the 1st BDA Regional Convention for Development Catalysts held on June 20-21, 2014 at Camp Darapanan, Sultan Kudarat Maguindanao. “The number of participants exceeded beyond expectation and […]
Four priority local enterprise projects for pilot implementation of the Program for Local Economic Development through Enlightened Governance and Grassroots Empowerment (PLEDGE)were identified during the Community Enterprise Planning Technique (CEPT) Workshop on June 18, 2014 at Barangay Koronadal Proper Polomolok, South Cotabato. PLEDGE is the livelihood component of the Mindanao Trust Fund Reconstruction and Development […]
Fisherfolks from Matungao, Lanao Del Norte, a pilot community of Community Development in Conflict Affected Areas in Mindanao (CD-CAAM) Project implemented by the Bangsamoro Development Agency (BDA) learned new skills and techniques on fish culture, processing and marketing upon exposure visits to fishery sites on May 5-8, 2014 at Davao del Norte, South Cotabato and […]
HIROSHIMA—This city lives on in the minds of many people as the place in the world where the “atomic age” was born. It was here where, Aug. 6, 1945, a Monday, a nuclear bomb was dropped by a plane piloted by Americans, immediately killing an estimated 80,000 residents. The horrors of Hiroshima and then Nagasaki […]
HIROSHIMA (MindaNews/24 June) – It wasn’t a two-hour talk like their first face-to-face meeting in a hotel near Narita airport in Tokyo on August 4, 2011 but President Benigno Simeon Aquino III and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) chair Al Haj Murad Ebrahim met for “15 to 20 minutes” in a room in Sheraton Hiroshima […]