CARP door opened for Luisita workers

[grabehbebe]

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Inquirer
By Tonette Orejas
http://news.inq7.net/regions/index.p...story_id=72430

CITY OF SAN FERNANDO—Department of Agrarian Reform officials in Central Luzon on Tuesday agreed to the demand of Hacienda Luisita workers to be involved in the validation of potential beneficiaries of lands within the sugar estate.
Thirty leaders of the United Luisita Workers Union (Ulwu), representing over 5,000 farmers at the Cojuangco family-owned estate in Tarlac, clinched the agreement during a three-hour dialogue here.

Ulwu demanded to be part of the process after complaining that DAR teams did not coordinate with union officials.
“Most of those that they seek out for interviews are barangay captains and officials of BARC (barangay agrarian reform councils), many of whom are partial to the management or to the Cojuangcos,” said Rene Galang, Ulwu president.
The lands are scheduled for distribution in June.

Teofilo Inocencio, DAR regional director, and Alfredo Reyes, DAR provincial chief, gave Galang until April 20 to submit the union’s master list of proposed beneficiaries.

In DAR’s master list are names of beneficiaries of the stock distribution option scheme that the government revoked in December last year, or after more than 10 years, to give way to actual ownership of the property by farm workers.
Ulwu officials were also allowed to participate in the verification work by DAR teams in 10 villages covered by the estate in Tarlac City, Concepcion and La Paz towns.

Joseph Canlas, chair of the Alyansa ng Magbubukid sa Gitnang Luzon, said the final list of beneficiaries should exclude those who did not support the strike that saw 14 leaders and members killed since November 2004.
Inocencio said the DAR has the final say on who would qualify beneficiaries based on the criteria set under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP).

Reyes served the notice of CARP coverage of Hacienda Luisita on Jan. 2.

As of last week, Inocencio said the lots at the estate have been “all accounted for.”
This means that the copies of all the land titles have been obtained from the Register of Deeds.

DAR records showed that the estate totaled 5,938.1 hectares. Of these, at least 4,873.8 has. were eligible for CARP. Another 1,025.6 has were cancelled while 38.57 has were used for roads and canals.

[tolstoi]

puksit c tita Cory

[mosimos]

Its pathetic that you view the coverage not in the light of giving farmers a land to till but the misfortune of Cory Aquino. Pathetic indeed.

[tolstoi]

^^hmmm..you only say that because Corikong is now an ally of the opposition

[mosimos]

Now this bolsters the belief that the coverage of CARP on Hacienda Lusisita ws not motivated by a genuine desire to help the farmers but only as an act of revenge by GMA. Ngano karon pa man i cover? Do you think that the Arroyo administrations was hit like a bolt of lightning and then grow up a conscience.

Pamulitika ra gihapon.

[LytSlpr]

UNSA PA? Mao bitaw ni balhin si Tita Cory si pikas koral kay ang lugar nga iyang gikadak-an gi bahin-bahin na. Lopezes are next.

Of course we can always say that these are politically motivated but these are also the right things to do that no politician has ever done be it to their side or otherwise.

[jamesuy2002]

IPAPAAK SA GREAT WHITE SHARK SI CORY KONG!

[iloveyou4ever]

Good for farmers indeed. Next should be Lopez properties and Ayala's. Those properties should be taken over by the arroyo administration and distribute it to the benificiaries which are their workers! I will salute PGMA if she do this! :mrgreen:

[mosimos]

Wow, komunista style diay ni si GMA. Hinaut unta i distribute pod sa mga farmers ang mga yuta sa Arroyo sa Negros.

[LytSlpr]

Wow, komunista style diay ni si GMA. Hinaut unta i distribute pod sa mga farmers ang mga yuta sa Arroyo sa Negros.

that is asking too much. again, weather2x lang lagi na! maayo na lang ni kay sa wala.