Bayawan farmers
hit DAR inaction
BY JUANCHO GALLARDE & RENE GENOVE

Hundreds of agrarian reform beneficiaries in Bayawan City , Negros Oriental, staged a rally Tuesday, to protest the alleged failure of the Department of Agrarian Reform to install lands given to them through Certificate of Land Ownership Awards.

Eugene Quirante, liaison officer for Negros Oriental of the Centro Saka, Inc. said, the farmers were surprised when, despite the issuance of CLOAs, they have not been installed on three parcels of land previously owned by the heirs of Catalino Noel in Brgy. Nangka, Bayawan.

He said the DAR should hold a dialog with the farmers and act on their problems, before the situation “goes out of hand.”

FESSAGS: NegOr
loose guns source
BY MARICAR ARANAS

Negros Oriental is one of the sources of the more than 2,000 loose firearms identified by the Firearms Explosives Security Agency Guard Service Section in Region 7, FESAGSS-7 chief, Supt. Rey Lyndon Lawas said yesterday.

Lawas said at present, only 25 percent of the total number of loose firearms in the region were given licenses.

FESAGSS-7 ranked second in the entire country for having the highest number of loose firearms that were licensed. An estimated revenue of P9 million was collected through the firearms amnesty, Lawas said.

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