No ‘Agta’ OK for Umiray bridge
By Delfin T. Mallari Jr.
A leader of the Agta tribe in the Sierra Madres in northern Quezon on Monday said the construction of a bridge that would link the province to Aurora had no permit from his community.
A leader of the Agta tribe in the Sierra Madres in northern Quezon on Monday said the construction of a bridge that would link the province to Aurora had no permit from his community.
Two villages in two different provinces in Southern Luzon are named after the same waterway that separates them: the Umiray River. Soon, a bridge costing nearly half a billion pesos to build will connect Barangay (village) Umiray in Dingalan town in Aurora province to Barangay Umiray in General Nakar town in Quezon province, according [...]
The Supreme Court ruling on Hacienda Luisita was such an important event it merited a major speech by President Aquino. In fact, it was a golden opportunity for P-Noy – a chance for him to take charge of such a historically important issue and tell a compelling story.
The government and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica) have signed a P4-billion project that would provide support services and infrastructure to some 69,000 farmers in Mindanao, a senior agrarian reform official said.
The US Embassy recognized the wide-ranging impact of the 2005 order to dismantle Hacienda Luisita and worried whether it was simply a result of a political vendetta, classified cables purportedly from the American mission in Manila released by WikiLeaks showed.
The Supreme Court’s unanimous decision ordering the distribution of land at Hacienda Luisita to about 6,000 tenants will naturally be seen as a blow to Noynoy Aquino’s family.
The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) said it would miss its target of distributing 200,000 hectares of land to farmers this year.
International activists have added their voices to the chorus of dissent against the Supreme Court ruling ordering a referendum to determine the fate of Hacienda Luisita’s tenants, and pushed for the distribution of the sugar estate to its farmers.
