CARP door opened for Luisita workers

[mosimos]

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PARC is composed of government people. What can you expect? I dont see any law that states in case the SDO Stock Distribution Option will fail, the property shall be distributed to farmer beneficiaries. What the government should have done is to correct whatever wrongs in the SDO, instead of outrightly disregarding it.

What I dont like with these coverage is that it is politically motivated. The law is used to retaliate the critics of the administration. We have case in our place. The land is coverable yet the owners are close friends of an administration politician, it was not covered until now.

Compared that to the undue haste that the Hacienda Lusita is covered you could already see the foul play there.

[grabehbebe]

Luisita tillers to get one title

First posted 11:35pm (Mla time) May 09, 2006
By Blanche S. Rivera
Inquirer
http://news.inq7.net/regions/index.p...story_id=75253

THE Department of Agrarian Reform will issue a collective certificate of land ownership award (CLOA) to the first batch of beneficiaries of Hacienda Luisita, which will be parceled out starting next month, the department said yesterday.

Brushing aside the contradicting requests of the Luisita farm workers, Undersecretary Narciso Nieto Jr. said the government was after the immediate transfer of ownership from the Cojuangco family to the qualified farmer beneficiaries.

“It will initially be a collective CLOA just so we can transfer the title from the landowners to the farmers. If we subdivide now, it’s going to be a very long process,” Nieto told the Inquirer by phone yesterday.

The Alyansa ng mga Manggagawang Bukid sa Asyenda Luisita (Ambala), which filed the complaint that led to the revocation of the estate’s stock distribution scheme, wants a collective CLOA. But another group, the Farm Workers Agrarian Reform Movement (Farm), wants individual titles, claiming Ambala would include only its members in the collective title.

“They should agree … but in the meantime, it will be collective. There is a big a difference in the time and expenses if we do individual CLOAs,” Nieto said.

He said it would take at least another three months if the DAR issued separate CLOAs because this would require the subdivision of the lots based on the number of beneficiaries and individual titling.

The DAR is eyeing the distribution of the first 1,000 hectares of the 4,915-ha Hacienda Luisita by June 10 to coincide with the 18th anniversary of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program.

“Hopefully by the end of the year or early next year, we can complete the distribution of CLOAs for Luisita,” Nieto said, adding that 95 percent of the beneficiaries had been identified.

Hacienda Luisita Inc., which manages the sugar estate owned by the Cojuangco family to which former President Corazon Aquino belongs, warned it would bring graft charges against Agrarian Reform Secretary Nasser Pangandaman if he went ahead with the plan to parcel out the estate to its workers.

HLI lawyer and spokesperson Vigor Mendoza said in a statement that the Cojuangco family, the estate’s majority owners, had questioned the government’s decision revoking the stock distribution option scheme and the case was pending in the Supreme Court.

He accused the government of breaking up the estate to get back at Aquino for demanding President Macapagal-Arroyo’s resignation.

[grabehbebe]

DAR wants to hasten Luisita distribution


The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) admitted yesterday that it is racing against time on the transfer of ownership of Hacienda Luisita to qualified farmer-beneficiaries.

This, as it anticipates the Hacienda Luisita Inc. (HLI) to urgently secure a court injunction to stop the distribution.

"So we really have to do it fast because I am sure the HLI management will exhaust all legal means to prevent its property from being distributed to its farmworkers," said Agrarian Reform Secretary Nasser Pangandaman.

Last Tuesday, DAR Undersecretary for Field Operations Narciso Nieto appealed to the farmer-beneficiaries to allow the agency to secure first a collective certificate of land ownership award (CLOA), saying this is the easiest way to transfer the ownership of the Cojuangco-owned property in Tarlac.

Pangandaman tasked Nieto to oversee the transfer of land titles in the name of qualified farmer-beneficiaries, who have been pressuring the DAR to issue individual CLOAs. — Katherine Adraneda


The Philippine Star 05/18/2006
http://www.philstar.com/philstar/NEWS200605189906.htm

[iloveyou4ever]

Pwedi give the titles na sa mga farmers ayaw na ni dugaya kay basin di napud ni mahitabo.

[Ian_C]

Pag ka wa gyuy utok ning uban tawo diri oi!. Atong presidente kung di molihok mangreklamo kay kurakot kung mo trabaho og sakto ,pamulitika.Unsa man dyud? PAnarbaho ra gud mo! Aron di mo mag sige og bantay kung unsay gibuhat sa gobyerno. Diha ra mo maau eh. BANTAY PARI

[iloveyou4ever]

Ipanghatag na na nga mga land titles sa mga farmers kayon dayon! Ayaw na ugma ugmaa kay basin hangtod drawing ra na nga ila pangandoy. Hoy kory kong ayaw na diha ug adto adto sa supreme court.

[mosimos]

Thats due process. Unless GMA will short cut the process. Well, GMA is not known as a law abiding President.

[baron]

The important thing here is the fact that the farmers will be given the land which are due to them.
The decision has upheld the rights of the farmers.
Let's give the farmers the right they deserved.

[carlomonic]

The important thing here is the fact that the farmers will be given the land which are due to them.
The decision has upheld the rights of the farmers.
Let's give the farmers the right they deserved.

Ya! I agree bisag pamulitika or dili at least naay naka benefit...

[filipinoako2000200]

this is good!