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SunStar + April 22, 2021 THE Ministry of Health in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (MOH-Barmm) announced Thursday, April 22, that 65 percent of its priority recipients already received their first dose of vaccine against the coronavirus disease (Covid-19). Dr. Bashary Latiph, newly installed MOH minister, said that Barmm has vaccinated 9,588 out of 14,750 persons from its A1 priority group as of Tuesday, April 20. The A1 priority group includes workers in frontline health services from hospitals, isolation and quarantine facilities, and government-owned primar...

Photo: PDEA-BARMM COTABATO CITY — The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in Bangsamoro Region (PDEA-BARMM) on Sunday arrested an alleged big-time drug operator in Jolo, Sulu and confiscated P20.4 million worth of suspected shabu. PDEA-BARMM regional director Juvenal Azurin said his officers, as well as members of the Army’s 35th IB, the Bangsamoro regional police, the CIDG-BARMM, the Special Action Force (SAF) of the Jolo police, the PDEA-9, and government intelligence communities successfully arrested Ejek Abduhalim in a drug-bust operation in Port Area Extension, Barangay Waled, in Jo...

Published February 19, 2021 5:37pm The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and New Zealand have donated 35 cold storage units for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines, the Bangsamoro government announced Friday. According to the Bangsamoro government, the donation is under the IOM’s program that seeks to alleviate the impact of COVID-19 on displaced communities in Mindanao. “This equipment will not go squander and it will be utilized with great care,” OIC health minister Dr. Amirel Usman said in a statement. “We have been at a challenge of implementing the vac...

By DONA MAGSINO, GMA News Published January 29, 2021 12:46pm The time is not yet ripe to conclude that the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020 is effective in preventing terrorist attacks in the Bangsamoro Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), Chief Minister Ahod "Al Haj Murad" Ebrahim said Friday. "The Anti-Terrorism [Law], it is still early to judge whether it will really address [terrorism in the region] but on our side, we have assured the President that we will be helping the national government in implementing this anti-terrorist law," Ebrahim said in a Foreign Correspondents Association of t...

Ebrahim hopes Duterte will sign extension of Bangsamoro transition period in May By DONA MAGSINO, GMA News Published January 29, 2021 12:00pm Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) Chief Minister Ahod "Al Haj Murad" Ebrahim said on Friday he expects that President Rodrigo Duterte will be able to sign the bill extending the transition period for the region in the next few months. "In May, we hope that it will be transmitted already to the President for his signature and publication. That is the timeline we are looking forward [to]," Ebrahim said in an online conference...