BANGSAMORO NEWS UPDATES

MANILA – The Mindanao State University (MSU) in Marawi City is allowing its students to be given an incomplete grade and another semester to complete their academic requirements in the aftermath of the bombing.

MSU’s Board of Regents on Tuesday instructed the university president to implement several adjustments so their students could cope with school requirements after the suspension of classes due to the deadly bombing that killed four people and injured several others early this month.

COTABATO CITY - More than a hundred peace activists from three Bangsamoro provinces converged here on Monday and fused ranks for multi-sector regional women empowerment efforts that two foreign benefactors are to help push forward.

About a hundred women involved in public service participated in Monday’s “We Resolve” women empowerment forum here, organized together by two foreign benefactors, the Relief International, the German Cooperation and local counterparts Balay Mindanao and the Bangsamoro regional government.

SA NAGPAPATULOY na review at evaluation sa performance ng mga heads of offices sa Bangsamoro regional government, limang mga cabinet members na ang may reappointment letter mula kay Chief Minister Ahod "Kagi Murad"  Balawag Ebrahim.

Matatandaang nitong December 1 ay nagpababa si Ebrahim ng kautusang nag-aatas sa lahat ng ministers at head of offices ng BARMM na magsumete ng courtesy resignation.

COTABATO CITY The budget deliberation at the committee level is in full swing as the Finance, Budget, and Management Committee of the Bangsamoro Parliament continues to review and scrutinize each budget proposal of the ministries, agencies, and offices of the Bangsamoro government.

On the 13th day of the budget hearing, Deputy Speaker Atty. Paisalin Tago and Deputy Floor Leader Atty. Anna Tarhata Basman, the newly designated Attorney General, defended the P55.7 million budget of the Bangsamoro Attorney General’s Office (BAGO) for 2024.

COTABATO CITY - Advocates of women empowerment and groups helping protect their rights were elated with the appointment of three from the sector to high positions in the Bangsamoro government.

The three appointees, the lawyers Sha Elijah Dumama Alba and Anna Tarhata Basman, and the longtime peace advocate Susana Salvador Anayatin,  are members of the 80-seat regional parliament of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.

MANILA – Former Maguindanao Congressman and principal author of Republic Act No. 7941 or the Party-List System Act, lawyher Michael O. Mastura, filed a Petition-In-Intervention, on Thursday, before the Supreme Court to declare certain provisions of the Bangsamoro Electoral Code (BEC) or Bangsamoro Autonomy Act No.

The Ministry of Labor and Employment (MOLE-BARMM) through the Bureau of Employment Promotion and Welfare of the Ministry of Labor and Employment with the support of IRDT and the International Labour Organization (ILO), successfully held the Project Advisory and Review Committee (PARC) meeting Thursday, December 7, 2023 in Cotabato City.

COTABATO CITY – A member of parliament of the Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) today assumed as the new minister of the Ministry of the Interior and Local Government (MILG-BARMM) replacing lawyer Naguib Sinarimbo who earlier resigned from his post.

Lawyer Sha Elijah B. Dumama-Alba, BTA floor leader, was appointed by Chef Minister Ahod Balawag Ebrahim as new MILG minister effective Dec. 7, 2023.

Ebrahim early this week has issued memorandum to all cabinet ministers requiring them to submit courtesy resignation.

Sinarimbo submitted his irrevocable resignation.

The new Ministry of the Interior and Local Government Field Office opened on December 4, 2023, at Brgy Datu Binasing, Pigcawayan Cluster of the BARMM's Special Geographic Area (SGA).

The Bangsamoro government has budgeted ₱15.5 million for the new structure, which would house interior and local government operations in the SGA, centralizing government development initiatives.

The new facility is one of several Ministry infrastructure projects spread among BARMM's additional 63 barangays.

MANILA – The Philippine National Police (PNP) on Wednesday identified the two persons of interest (POI) allegedly linked to the Dec. 3 bombing at the Mindanao State University (MSU) gym in Marawi City that killed four persons and wounded at least 50 others.

PNP spokesperson Col. Jean Fajardo, in a press briefing in Camp Crame, Quezon City, said these are Kadapi Mimbesa alias 'Engineer' and Arsani Membesa alias 'Khatab', 'Hatab' and 'Lapitos', both members of Dawlah Islamiyah-Maute Group.