BANGSAMORO NEWS UPDATES

COTABATO CITY --- The COVID-19 pandemic did not deter Gov. Jim Salliman from replacing with an all weather bridge a dangerous footbridge connecting Pansul Basih area to Barangay Tumahubong in Sumisip, Basilan.

The old footbridge was the only markedly critical connection of farmers and elementary pupils and high school students to markets and schools, respectively, in barangays nearby for so long, long before Salliman got to the helm of the Basilan provincial government.

COTABATO CITY ---- Army camps under the 6^th Infantry Division have tight quarantine regulations, gates guarded by teams armed with disinfection equipment to keep soldiers safe from COVID-19.

The health of soldiers under different 6^th ID units guarding on shifts the major quarantine sentries on stretches of highways in central Mindanao are also being monitored by military medics.

Major Gen. Diosdado Carreon, commander of 6^th ID, said Friday dependents of soldiers residing in far areas should not worry about their safety from COVID-19.

COTABATO CITY – This time it came from their own investment and pockets and not from the local emergency funds.

Maguindanao towns in second district of the province since yesterday have been busy receiving and delivering truckloads of farm products, tons of Tilapia and dressed chicken to indigent residents affected by the national health emergency.

COTABATO CITY  – The Office of lawyer Lanang T. Ali Jr., Majority Floor Leader of the Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) Parliament in cooperation with the League of the Bangsamoro Organizations (LBO) has organized the ‘Kadtag Bangsamoro,’ a relief assistance program that aims to support the “most vulnerable families affected by the corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis.”

COTABATO CITY  - When the Bangsamoro Organic Law was ratified, anticipation poured in with the new bureaucracy in place. How will the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) address some of the most pressing issues in the region? What difference does it have compared to the defunct ARMM? Will it truly address the shared desires of the Bangsamoro?
 

COTABATO CITY --- The Bangsamoro government has allocated P1 million for each of its 116 constituent-towns to sustain its region-wide anti-coronavirus containment efforts.

Lawyer Naguib Sinarimbo, local government minister of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, said Friday they will start downloading the grants to recipient- local government units next week.

Sinarimbo said they have separately earmarked P5 million and P2 million grants for each of the five provincial and city governments under BARMM government, respectively.

COTABATO CITY — The Bangsamoro Government’s Inter-Agency Task Force (BARMM-IATF) on Coronavirus Disease 2019  (COVID-19) has officially turned over the first set of medical supplies and equipment to Cotabato Regional and Medical Center (CRMC) on Wednesday, March 25, 2020 in Cotabato City.

BARMM-IATF Spokesperson and Cabinet Secretary Mohammad Asnin Pendatun, who led the turnover, said these are just the initial support of the Bangsamoro Government for the identified referral hospitals for COVID-19 patients in the region.

COTABATO CITY  – Power supply in Maguindanao will remain stable 24/7, the Maguindanao Electric Cooperative (Magelco) today said.

Engr. Ashary Maongco, Magelco general manager, said all employees are in their respective work stations to ensure that power supply will continue to flow up to the homes of all cooperative member-consumers.

He said a Magelco task force was created to provide stable and reliable power supply to all of its clients.

“In this time of public health crisis, your Magelco is with you 24/7,” Maongco said.

COTABATO CITY --- Physicians are watching over some of the almost 200 deportees from Malaysia confined in a quarantine facility in Basilan and tagged either as persons under investigation, or under monitoring.

Reports that reached Tuesday the capitol in Cotabato City of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao stated that the provincial government of Basilan, the Western Mindanao Command and the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region are now cooperating in providing the deportees health care.

COTABATO CITY - In order to make the communities productive as the brunt of Covid-19 pandemic severely hit the local economy and the people’s daily grind, the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) will embark on buying local agricultural products.

Asnin Pendatun, spokesperson of the BARMM’s Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF), said the goods will be bought inside the regional areas as they are all under community quarantine.