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The last Plebiscite Committee leaves the distribution center in Buluan, Maguindanao for Tamontaka in Cotabato City a little past 6 a.m. on Monday as the first day of the plebiscite on the Bangsamoro Organic Law starts on Monday, January 21.
Today is #BangsamoroPlebiscite Day. Big day for everyone. Good luck to all. https://t.co/lBdPD90Ehb pic.twitter.com/0LQltCm1Ze — COMELEC (@COMELEC) January 20, 2019
Commission on Elections spokesman James Jimenez said over the weekend that as high as 75 percent of the more than two million voters from Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), as well as the cities of Isabela in Basilan and Cotabato in Maguindanao are expected to go out and cast their votes.
A second plebiscite day is set for February 6 for areas in North Cotabato and Lanao del Norte. ....
NEW COMMANDER. Maj. Gen. Ariel Caculitan, Philippine Marine Corps commandant, hands over the command flag to Col. Vicente Mark Anthony Blanco III (right), who was installed as the new commander of the Sulu-based 4th Marine Brigade on Friday (Dec. 10, 2021). Blanco replaced Col. Hernanie Songano in one of the units of the Joint Task Force - Sulu fighting the Abu Sayyaf Group in the province. (Photo courtesy of JTF-Sulu PAO) ZAMBOANGA CITY - The Philippine Marine Corps (PMC) on Friday installed a seasoned officer as the new commander of the 4th Marine Brigade (4MBde), one of the units of the Joint Task Force (JTF) - Sulu fighting the Abu Sayyaf Group. Col. Vicente Mark Anthony Blanco III replaced Col. Hernanie Songano, who bowed out from military service after serving the PMC for more than 32 years, according to 1Lt. Jerrica Angela Manongdo, JTF-Sulu information officer. Maj. Gen. Ariel Caculitan, PMC commandant, presided over the turnover of command ceremony at the 4MBde headquarters in ....
NEW LIFE. Some of the 53 former Abu Sayyaf Group members who received PHP10,000 from the Ministry of Public Order and Safety in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao in Luuk, Sulu on Thursday (Nov. 18, 2021). The distribution was made during the groundbreaking ceremony for a bunkhouse that the surrenderers will use for livelihood opportunities. (Photo courtesy of MPOS-BARMM) ZAMBOANGA CITY - The Ministry of Public Order and Safety in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (MPOS-BARMM) is constructing a bunkhouse with a workshop for 53 former Abu Sayyaf members in Luuk, Sulu. The workshop will provide the surrenderers with sustainable livelihood opportunities. Sittie Janine Gamao, MPOS peace program officer, said in a statement on Saturday that the 4th Marine Brigade, headed by Col. Hernanie Songano, volunteered to construct the bunkhouse while the Gagandilan Mindanao Women, Inc. (GMWI), the partner non-governmental organization, will conduct a hollow block-ma ....