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DSWD-Caraga reorganizes quick response team By PAT SAMONTE, Regional editor-Caraga
BUTUAN City––The Department of Social Welfare and Development in Caraga has reorganized its Quick Response Team as it conducted a capability-building training at a local hotel here last week. Conducted in two batches, DSWD-13 director Mercedita Jabagat said the reorganization is designed to refresh the QRT members of their respective roles and functions for future undertaking relative to disaster management. Jabagat said the training has provided the QRT members the opportunity to enhance their competencies on understanding of disaster risk reduction and
management, appreciation of disaster response and their contribution to their QRT committee, management of evacuation camps and community kitchen, knowing the process of disaster relief operations and reporting, identifying the psychosocial process and understanding the roles and functions of other QRT committees. Meanwhile, the DSWD Field Office-13 held a teambuilding workshop in Socorro, Surigao del Norte to enhance teamwork and strengthen the support system among the people involved in the Pantawid Pamilya program. TEAM/PAGE 9
PHOTO BY JUNNEX CHUA JR. SUZUKI SWIFT CAR. An agent entertains and accommodate propective customers incide the Suzuki Swift car during a Car Show Presentation organized by Mixed Hope Event Solution from July 6-8, 2012 held at Abreeza Mall in Davao City.
Cop ‘in hot water’ LANDLESSNESS REMAINS AFTER for harassing officer By BEN D. ARCHE, Regional editor-Davao
DIGOS City––A member of the City Police Office is now facing an administrative complaint at the Police Regional Office Xl filed by his superior officer after he allegedly challenged the complainant to a duel recently. Senior Inspector Alexander Razonable accused Senior Police Officer (SPO)1 George Llaban of harassing him and provoking a gunfight outside the police canteen just in front of the city’s main police office. Llaban got irked with Razonable after the later refused to drink the coffee being offered by the accused,
the report said. Also, the report added that Llaban was under the influence of intoxicating liquor when he arrived at the canteen. Superintendent Solomon De Castilla, Digos City Police Office (DCPO) said he had received information that Llaban was displeased with his new assignment in a police outpost at Barangay Colorado, this city. The regional police office at Camp Catitipan in Davao City has given the beleaguered policeman 10 days to answer the complaint against him. OFFICER/PAGE 9
WEATHER UPDATE INTERTROPICAL Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) affecting Southern Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. Southern Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao will experience mostly cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms. The rest of the country will be partly cloudy to cloudy with isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms. Light to moderate winds blowing from the southwest to south will prevail over Palawan and Mindanao and coming from south to southeast over the rest of the country. The coastal waters throughout the archipelago wil be slight to moderate. SOURCE : PAGASA
‘24 years of bogus agrarian reform’ By RONALYN V. OLEA of Bulatlat.com
FA R M E R S a n d agricultural workers from different parts of the country branded the government’s agrarian reform program as an “epic failure.” Marking the 24th anniversary of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP), more than 2,000 farmers and supporters led by the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) marched to the foot of Chino Roces (formerly Mendiola) bridge, a few meters away from Malaca-
ñang, June 12. “There is no genuine independence when the Filipino peasantry are still locked in feudal bondage,” KMP deputy secretary general Willy Marbella said. The day coincided with the 114th Independence Day. According to KMP, seven out of ten farmers remain landless. The case of Hacienda Luisita, a vast sugar estate controlled by President Benigno Aquino III and family for nearly half a century, is a testament to the failure of CARP, according to KMP. In 1989, the stock distribution option (SDO), one of the non-land transfer
schemes under CARP, was implemented in Hacienda Luisita. Instead of land to till, farm workers were given shares of stocks. Years later, however, the SDO scheme further impoverished the farm workers and compelled them to stage a strike in November 2004 that led to the massacre of seven individuals. To this day, despite the Supreme Court decision ordering the distribution of the land to the farmworkerbeneficiaries, Rodel Mesa, secretary general of Unyon ng mga Manggagawa sa Agrikultura (Uma), said, the Cojuangco-Aquinos “never run out of schemes to delay and frustrate land distribution.”
Passed in 1988, the CARP has been extended twice, because it failed to reach its target for land distribution. For the second extension, the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program Extension with Reforms (CARPer) or Republic Act 9700 was enacted. CARP in other areas The Alyansa ng Magbubukid sa Gitnang Luson (AMGL) said the CARP Extension with Reforms (CARPer) is the “main instrument of landlords, developers and foreign corporations in systematic land grabbing.” “Our members are either facing or losing agrarian cases but we continue to REFORM/PAGE 9
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