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| Dumaguete City, Philippines | Friday, March 7, 2008 |
CARP EXTENSION
‘Public consultations
waste of money, time’
BY RENE GENOVE
The House Committee on Agrarian Reform will conduct a public hearing for the extension of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program at the Lamberto Macias Sports Center in Dumaguete City at 1 p.m. today.
Peasant federation Task Force Mapalad, however, said the committee should stop wasting time and money in conducting regional consultations, and focus instead on consolidating the results of its various hearings and come out with a report.
Committee members Reps. Crispin Beltran, Edgar Valdez, Vilma Cabilao, Pablo Garcia and Ignacio Arroyo Jr. will attend the consultation, to discuss the proposal to extend the CARP as sought by House Bills 328, 743, 935, 1257, 1265, 2083, 2219, 2280, 2948, 3369 and 3059. 
| Co-management mulled Sibulan Mayor Antonio Renacia yesterday expressed his intention to enter into a Memorandum of Agreement with the Protected Area Management Board to co-manage natural park Lake Balinsasayao. Renacia said he is worried about reports of rampant illegal logging in the forest area around the lake, as evidenced by the arrest of Isidro Sotillo in a recent joint operation by the Philippine National Police and Department of Environment and Natural Resources. Under the management of the PAMB, the local government unit seemed to have lost its power to manage and claim the lake as part of Sibulan, he added. |
| Firing range project backed The League of Municipal Mayors of the Philippines-Negros Oriental chapter has approved the request of the Philippine National Police for support in making its firing range the safest and most secure in the province. Police provincial director, Senior Supt. Melvin Ramon Buenafe, made the request during the regular meeting of the league headed by Jimalalud Mayor Reynaldo Tuanda. Each municipality will give P10,000 for the completion of the firing range at Camp Francisco Fernandez in Agan-an, Sibulan. In exchange, Buenafe offered the local chief executives membership to the club. |
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