76 FARM WORKERS BECOME LANDOWNERS IN CEBU
THE Department of Agrarian Reform ( DAR) recently installed 76 agrarian reform beneficiaries ( ARBS) in a 132.1- hectare landholding in the province of Cebu. Cebu Provincial Agrarian Reform Officer ( PARO) Isagani Yee said farm workers were installed as the rightful owners after years of resistance from the landowners. Yee said the installation was done in three separate events. The first one took place at the 100.8- hectare property of Paz Luna Agricultural Corporation intinubdan, Daanbantayan, with 43 farmerbeneficiaries installed. The second installation was held in the 16.6- hectare of Mendy Agricultural Development property in Mabuli, Tabogon, with 25 farmer- beneficiaries. The last one occurred in the 14.7- hectare cultivation area foreclosed by ASPAC rural bank in Manlagtang of the same town where eight farmer- beneficiaries were installed. Yee said the properties were acquired through compulsory acquisitions, one of the modes of acquiring farmlands, under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program ( CARP). “It is high time that these farmers gain possession of the lands they can call their own,” Yee said.
TANDEM RIDERS ROB GAS STATION
DINALUPIHAN, Bataan: Two still unidentified men riding tandem a motorcycle held up on Tuesday a small gasoline station along the highway in San Simoun, Dinalupihan, Bataan. Two gas attendants said about P12,000 were taken and one of the robbers even got the cellphone of attendant Jansel Tamayo. Attendant Justine de Leon said one of the two men stayed on the motorcycle and pretended to have it loaded with gasoline. He said the other man followed him asking where the comfort room was. When he was about to enter their small office, the man declared a holdup and asked him to hand him the bag he was carrying. With the gun pointed at him, he said he could not do anything but hand over the bag that contained about P12,000 in cash. After the holdup that took only a few minutes, the man rushed to the waiting motorcycle and sped towards Florida Blanca in Pampanga, the gas attendants said. reports in the newspapers are press releases from the office Luciano and not from CAAP OTS. In the reports, CAAP OTS team on their own seeks to find out whether the safety and security aspect of all incoming and outgoing flights are not compromised in view of the reported theft of cable wires. The team conducted ocular inspection for one day. Catacutan said that with the the findings that safety is not compromised… ( but) “it did not touch the administrative and criminal aspect of the case. The same being with the CIAC board to determine after investigation is concluded.”