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AT today’s initial Supreme Court hearing of oral arguments on the controversial, and yet to be signed, memorandum of agreement on ancestral domain (MOA-AD) between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP)-Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), several justices have made their positions known on the matter by raising the issue of constitutionality.

PEACE advocate and legal scholar Soliman Santos Jr. contributes this piece in anticipation of oral arguments to be heard by the Supreme Court on August 15 regarding the petitions filed by those opposing the memorandum of agreement on ancestral domain between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).

ASIDE from the issue of constitutionality being raised against the yet to be signed memorandum of agreement on ancestral domain between the Arroyo government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), critics have also questioned the “status of belligerency” that the accord could bestow on the rebel group.

THE Supreme Court recently issued a temporary restraining order to prevent the Arroyo government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) from signing the memorandum of agreement on the Bangsamoro ancestral domain issue in Malaysia.

The House of Representatives is not inclined to postpone the Aug. 11 elections in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).

Philippine Television Crew Believed to Be Kidnapped MANILA — A television news team from the Philippines’ largest network, including one of the country’s best-known journalists, was believed to have been abducted by members of the militant group Abu Sayyaf, officials said Tuesday. World 0

MDGs: ‘Ghost teachers,’ phantom schools haunt education reforms in ARMM Posted by: Alecks P. Pabico | May 16, 2008 at 12:21 am Filed under: Governance, PCIJ Investigative Reports THE last part of the PCIJ’s three-part series looks at the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) and how it best