WEATHER UPDATE
SOUTHWEST Monsoon affecting Luzon and Visayas. Luzon and Visayas will have mostly cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms becoming cloudy with widespread rains over the western section of Luzon which may trigger flashfloods and landslides. The rest of the country will be partly cloudy to cloudy with isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms. Moderate to strong winds blowing from the Southwest will prevail throughout the archipelago and the coastal waters will be moderate to rough. SOURCE: PAGASA
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WHEN NCIP FAILS TO DO ITS JOB
Lumads shed bloods in search for homeland By BUTCH D. ENERIO, Contributing editor
QUEZON, Bukidnon––A tribal chieftain might lose a leg after he was hit by a bullet, while a tribal woman would permanently have a scarred face after she fell and hit the ground, face down, and a number were slightly wounded when guards fired at them when they tried to establish their rights on their ancestral domain here last Wednesday. More than 200 men and women of a Manobo Tribe belonging to the Tambog Villanon Clan (Tamvilca) with an unresolved ancestral domain claim issue with the National Commission of the Indigenous People (NCIP), entered an area in Barangay San Jose which is developed and managed by the Rancho Montalvan Inc.
(RMI), at 9:00 a.m. bringing with them their household belongings and tried to erect their makeshift shanties on a sugarcane field. Datu Timbangan Eduardo Salibo, in recounting the incident said that after the police officers manning the area left at 4p.m., about 40 security guards, face covered and armed with
shotguns, M16 and Garand rifles open fired at the tribal people who scampered and ran for their safety. Salibo identified the badly hit as Datu Jessie Dakaw, 52, whose right leg was severely wounded and was right away brought to the Maramag Emergency Hospital where he was, LUMADS/PAGE 11
DAR to lay off 7,000 workers in 2014 By CRIS DIAZ Associate Editor
THE DEPARTMENT of Agrarian Reform (DAR), the government’s lead agency in its land reform program, expects to let go more than 7,000 workers when the land reform program expires in 2014. Agrarian Reform Sec. Virgilio de los Reyes made the disclosure as he plead members of the committee on appropriations of the WORKERS/PAGE 11
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