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BBOI INVESTMENT APPROVAL HITS P1.77-B
By Edwin O. Fernandez
THE Bangsamoro Board of Investments (BBOI) on Thursday announced that it approved a total of P1.77 billion worth of investments during the first five months of 2023, more than double the investments it approved during the same period last year.
“From January to May 2023, BBOI has approved a total of nine (9) new projects worth P 1.77 – billion investments, which is higher as compared to the approved investments on the same period in 2022,” BBOI Chairperson Mohamad Omar Pasigan said in a statement.
The increase in the investments came about when four new projects were approved during a May 16 board meeting. These projects include an academic school located in Cotabato City, an oil depot in Polloc Port, Maguindanao del Norte, a shipping company in Tawi-Tawi
Central gov’t workers in BARMM to get pay on time
By Drema Quitayen Bravo
MORE or less 3,700 civil servants, mostly health providers, under nationally funded programs directly supervised by the Bangsamoro government ministries, offices, and agencies will now receive their wages and other remunerations on time.
This after the region’s Bangsamoro Transition Authority approved on third and final reading a bill that would allot a P1 billion revolving fund for the timely payment of their salaries. With 49 affirmatives, no negatives, and no abstentions, members of the Bangsamoro Parliament passed into law BTA Bill No. 41, or the Bangsamoro Revolving Fund Act of 2023, on Wednesday evening, May 17.
Tawi-Tawi athlete shines in SEA Games
THE Philippine Soft Tennis Team scores big by winning the gold medal during the 32nd South East Asian (SEA) Games in Phnom Penh.
Fatima Ayesha Amirul who is from Tawi-Tawi helped in clinching the gold
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medal.
The Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) particularly hailed the top platform win for the gold with homegrown Amirul who is from Tawi-Tawi.
May is National Heritage Month
By virtue of Presidential Proclamation No. 439, s. 2003, the month of May has been annually celebrated as the National Heritage Month. This observance aims to create among the Filipino people a consciousness, respect, and love for the legacies of the nation’s cultural history.
The Bangsamoro Sports Commission (BSC) congratulated Amirul for her crucial part with the team bringing honor to the country from the Cambodian-hosted 32nd South East Asian (SEA) Games from and a first ever beach resort located in Timako, Kalanganan, Cotabato City with a total of P1.17 billion worth of investments.
Pasigan said the new investments are expected to provide employment to about 300 workers.
Pasigan attributed the higher investment approvals to the leadership of Chief Minister Ahod B. Ebrahim and his advocacy that was aimed at attracting both local and foreign investors.
“We believe that we are now reaping the results of the
BARMM police gets
By John Felix Unson
COTABATO CITY — The Bangsamoro government on Tuesday provided the regional police with four more new patrol vehicles to boost its lawenforcement activities and efforts to address religious extremism via diplomatic interventions.
Brig. Gen. Allan Nobleza, director of the Police Regional OfficeBangsamoro Autonomous Region, received the four brand new Toyota Hilux pick-up trucks from the Ministry of the Interior and Local Government during a turn over rite Tuesday at the capitol here of the Bangsamoro
Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.
“We in PRO-BAR are grateful to the office of Local Government Minister Naguib Sinarimbo for his capacity-building interventions for all of our units,” Nobleza said at the sideline of the event.
Sinarimbo is chairman of the multi-sector Regional Advisory Group of PRO-BAR that supports peacebuilding activities of police units in the region.
No fewer than 40 patrol vehicles were released by the MILG-BARMM to units of PRO-BAR in the past 24 months.
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PRO-BAR covers the provinces of Maguindanao del Sur, Maguindanao Norte, Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi and the cities of Lamitan, Marawi and Cotabato.
The four police cars that PRO-BAR got from the MILG last Tuesday were procured with allocations from the Transitional Development Impact Fund, or TDIF.
The TDIF is earmarked for programs intended to address underdevelopment in most towns in the autonomous region.
Ministries under the regional government have various projects bankrolled via the TDIF.
