NDU pride Mon Diansuy helps FEU win UAAP football championship

By Edwin O. Fernandez

will be an opportunity for everyone to use what they have learned here when they started competing in another level of competition elsewhere in the country,” Matabalao said even as he lauded BARMM Education Minister Mohaqher Iqbal for choosing Cotabato City as the Palaro venue.

BARMM Palaro took a leave for three years due to the pandemic.

City Schools Division Superintendent Dr. Concepcion

THIS is something Cotabateños should be proud of as the city hosts Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao Athletic Association meet o BARMMAA 2023.

A graduate of Notre Dame University in Cotabato City has helped Far Eastern University football team secured its 10th UAAP Men's Football championship after dethroning Ateneo de Manila University, 4-1, in the Season 85 Final on Thursday at the Rizal Memorial Stadium in Manila.

It ended eight years of title drought since The Tamaraws last won the men's football crown back in UAAP Season 77 (2014-

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Seeing a son play in the big league is more than just gratifying for a mother, and father too, of Montaño Allan Gecosala Diansuy, a native of Cotabato City and alumnus of Notre Dame University Training Department and NDU Junior-Senior High School.

Octogenarian glad 2016 case vs farmers dismissed

By Louige Allan Tutor

ARAKAN, North Cotabato – An 85-yearold protester, Valentina Berdin of Barangay Maria Caridad, Arakan, North Cotabato was glad the charges against protesting farmers in the now infamous 2016 protest dispersal in Kidapawan City that also claimed lives.

Berdin told Radyo BIDA Kidapawan she felt a "significant weight off her shoulders" and felt "vindicated" after seven years of waiting for the result of the charges against her and over 40 others.

concrete action to prevent famine at the height of the 2016 El Niño phenomenon. Valentina was one of those who appeared before the senate regarding the investigation on the protest that turned bloody when the police forcibly dispersed the crowd.

The protesters demanded the release of 15,000 sacks of rice that were promised after more than 300,000 hectares of agricultural lands were affected by drought or El Niño.

BACK ON and officials are excited for the return of BARMMAA 2023 after missing it for threee years due to the pandemic.

MEMBERS of the 80-seat Bangsamoro parliament are in favor of a regional bill meant to provide the underserved and discriminated Badjaos with sustained socioeconomic and humanitarian interventions.

Adzfar Usman, a member of the parliament of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, filed last week the proposed Badjao Development Project Act, confident that colleagues will approve of it sooner than expected.

A physician in the BARMM parliament, the eye specialist Kadil Sinolinding, Jr., said Tuesday he will vote for the approval of the measure.

“It’s about time. We must not forget that the Badjaos helped our leaders

She had no regret joining the protest where farmers called for government

BARMM outfit to serve Badjaos mulled

By John Felix Unson

fight the Spaniards that tried, but failed to colonize the Muslims in Southern Philippine islands. Now we can see Badjaos almost everywhere, in the streets, hungry, treated like second class citizens, begging for money to buy food,” Sinolinding said.

The Badjao community is one of the ethnic groups in BARMM that covers the provinces of Maguindanao del Norte, Maguindanao del Sur, Lanao del Sur, Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi, and the cities of Lamitan, Marawi and Cotabato.

“I will give that bill my two thumbs up once we deliberate on it,” said parliament member Paisalin Tago, concurrent transportation and communications minister of BARMM.

He said the Ministry of Transportation and Communications can embark on special projects that can complement the operation of the envisioned Badjao Development Project outfit that would look into the welfare of Badjaos, with the BARMM government as its main benefactor.

“There are foreign aid organizations involved in different humanitarian projects in the autonomous region. I’m certain these entities, such as the agencies of the United Nations, will also support our efforts to serve the Badjaos,” Tago said.

Usman, the proponent of the Badjao Development Project Act, is a Tausug from Sulu, representing the Moro National

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Liberation Front in the 80-member BARMM parliament.

Usman said what he wants is a special service facet under the regional government that shall assist the Badjaos in developing their own villages where they can engage in income-generating projects and enjoy social welfare and health services.

“Badjaos in this city and in areas outside need our help now,” said Datu Jambo Matalam, a Maguindanaon member of the BARMM parliament.

Suharto Ambolodto, also a member of the regional parliament, said he is glad about Usman’s effort to help the Badjaos by via his proposed Badjao Development Project Act.