Pics File : FRIENDS and Places

IMT in Malungon - Municipal Planning and Development Coordinator Nonito Nunez respond to queries stress by members of the International Monitoring Team (IMT) during a friendly visit on March 1, 2013 in Brgy. Datal Bila, one of Malungon’s far flung villages in Sarangani Province. (JoJo Gocotano-MALUNGON INFRMATION OFFICE).

A peaceful place to live and invest – (Far left) MPDO Nonito Nunez and Brgy. Captain Yolly Santos confer with the IMT during a recent group visit in Brgy. Datal Bila, Malungon, Sarangani - home to friendly tribal communities and a productive place for sweet pineapple fruits that lays the northern part of Mount Matutum in Central Mindanao Region, Philippines. (JoJo Gocotano – MALUNGON INFORMATION OFFICE).

MILF-GPH-IMT   convention – Moro Islamic Liberation Front Coordinating Committee on the Cessation of Hostilities (CCCH) chairman Said Sheik Al Haj and BGen Gilberto Jose Roa of the Philippine Government have both agreed that the recent 43^rd GPH-MILF meeting, and the 22^nd Tripartite assembly with Malaysian-led International Monitoring Team in nearby General Santos City have caused the strengthening of the ceasefire agreement, citing the unfaltering trust, teamwork and cooperation as key elements of the established institutional credibility and effectiveness of the GPH-MILF security and ceasefire components. (Isagani Palma-MALUNGON INFORMATION OFFICE).

In the search of lasting peace for Mindanao – LEADERS and staffs belonging to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, RP government, and the International Monitoring Team gestures with peace, amid the recently held 43^rd meeting of the Government and the MILF, and the 22^nd Tripartite meeting with the IMT at the East Asia Royale Hotel in General Santos City. (Isagani Palma-MALUNGON INFORMATION OFFICE).

Sarangans in Pueblo Hinulawan – Mayor Reynaldo ‘Bong’ Constantino gesture with contentment during a recent tribal leaders and local department heads group visit in Toledo City, formerly known as Pueblo Hinulawan in Cebu Province. (MALUNGON INFORMATION OFFICE/ Ippalma).

A pictogram of friendship – (L-R) Mayor Aurelio Espinosa and Malungon, Sarangani Mayor Reynaldo ‘Bong’ Constantino stretch the innovative symbol of amity during the latter’s visit in Toledo City, a fast-growing metropolis in the northern part of Cebu Province.

One primary cause of Pueblo Hinulawan’s growth – Mayor Aurelio Espinosa (center) in equanimity, give details to (L-R) Malungon, Sarangani municipal Mayor Reynaldo ‘Bong’ Constantino, Sagittarius Mines stakeholder education supervisor Lauro Domondon and Sarangani provincial tribal chieftain Edmund Pangilan, on how the city government has able to collect annual tax remittances of more or less P74.4M (Approximately P18, 614, 366.30/quarter) each year from Carmen Copper Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Atlas Consolidated Mining and Development Corporation that is located at a western slope of a central highland in Cebu Province. Espinosa said CCC’s responsible mining activities in the area have not only uplifted the living condition of locals, but generally boasted the economic stability of Toledo City. (Isagani Palma-MALUNGON INFORMATION OFFICE).

Tribes’ goes south – Two tribal leaders of the 49-man visiting team from Malungon, Sarangani pose on a facade of Toledo City Hall for souvenir shot amid the 4-day study tour in Cebu Province that was initiated by Sagittarius Mines Incorporated (SMI). Toledo is situated about 45 road kilometers from the “queen city of the South."