Luisita massacre could’ve been avoided – Duterte

Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2019 14:11:22 +0000

Luisita massacre could’ve been avoided – Duterte

President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday said the infamous Hacienda Luisita massacre could have been avoided if only former President Corazon Aquino included the plantation owned by her family in the government’s land reform program.

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Duterte taunts NPA: You’re doomed

Credit to Author: dmorcoso| Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2019 11:33:42 +0000

President Duterte taunted anew communist rebels, saying they were doomed because they no longer have food and was losing the race for land reform to the government.

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Duterte determined to complete land reform by end of term

Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2019 14:25:28 +0000

Duterte determined to complete land reform by end of term

President Rodrigo Duterte declared on Saturday, April 13, that he was very determined to take back government land leased to different entities and distribute them all to agrarian reform beneficiaries.

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Duterte on land reform: Distribute gov’t lands to farmer-beneficiaries

Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2019 16:10:32 +0000

Duterte on land reform: Distribute gov't lands to farmer-beneficiaries

SAGAY CITY, Negros Occidental—President Duterte has ordered the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) to distribute government lands including those in the mountains to agrarian reform beneficiaries within the remaining three years of his term.

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Farmers group wants Luisita issue resolved

Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 21:22:25 +0000

UMA on Wednesday called for verification of the latest Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) report on the awarded portions of land in Hacienda Luisita to farmer beneficiaries

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‘Malacañang did what was right’

Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2019 21:17:53 +0000

HERMOSA, Bataan — After decades of legal battles to acquire and convert the controversial lands at Barangay Sumalo here, farmers can now heave a sigh of relief after the Office of the President junked a landowner’s petition to develop the land.

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Maguindanao farmers now own land they’ve been tilling for years

Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 21:17:36 +0000

Maguindanao farmers now own land they’ve been tilling for years

BULUAN, Maguindanao — Wilson Balenia, a corn farmer for 20 years, could hardly find words to describe how he felt after receiving a title to the land he was tilling from President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday. “Our dream of having a land we can call our own has been fulfilled,” Balenia, from Upi town in […]

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Duterte: We don’t need NPA to implement land reform

Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 12:37:04 +0000

Duterte: We don't need NPA to implement land reform

President Rodrigo Duterte said Monday the people do not need the communist New People’s Army (NPA) to distribute lands to landless farmers.

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Duterte orders inclusion of NPA surrenderees to land distribution program

Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 05:32:38 +0000

Duterte orders inclusion of NPA surrenderees to land distribution program

President Duterte has ordered the inclusion of New People’s Army surrenderees in the next round of government’s land distribution program.

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Duterte again hints about sacking DAR officials

Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 12:29:01 +0000

Duterte again hints about sacking DAR officials

President Rodrigo Duterte hinted at possibly firing Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) officials again as he lamented the delayed processing of land conversion documents.

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