President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. pledged on Tuesday, Jan. 10, to expedite efforts to distribute land ownership titles to agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) this year. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (Noel Pabalate) This assurance was given by the President during a Cabinet...
The Department of Transportation (DOTr)'s fuel subsidy for public utility vehicles (PUVs) and "Libreng Sakay" (Free Ride) programs to cushion the effect of the oil price hikes on commuters benefitted 1.743 million students, according to the administration's year-end report released on Tuesday, Jan....
The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) has distributed 3,524 certificates of land ownership award (CLOAs) in South Cotabato, Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, and Sarangani. In a statement, DAR said the distributed CLOAs to 3,273 agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) cover a total of 6,103 hectares of...
Bataan 1st district Rep. Geraldine Roman is pushing for legislation that would complete the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) by facilitating its second phase. House Bill (HB) No.223, which Roman filed, institutes the second phase of the CARP, which includes the distribution of...
The House of Representatives has given its penultimate approval to a measure seeking the emancipation of agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) from P58 billion worth of debt stemming from the award of agricultural lands under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP). The House plenary...
A House panel has approved the substitute bill for the emancipation of agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) from P58 billion worth of debt stemming from the award of agricultural lands under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP). The House plenary (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN)...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez, President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. and other ranking solons led on Tuesday, Nov. 8 an aid distribution ceremony in Palo, Leyte in commemoration of the 9th anniversary of the super typhoon "Yolanda" tragedy. (Photo from Speaker Martin Romualdez Media) Marcos,...
Magsasaka Party-list continues to push for the passage of a bill that seeks the condonation of debt burdens and amortizations accrued by agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs). Sugarcane farmers (Manila Bulletin File Photo) “Condoning the debts now of the agrarian reform beneficiaries will not only...
Now that the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has issued the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) of the Expanded Solo Parents Welfare Act or Republic Act (RA) 11861, Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. Luis “LRay” Villafuerte is hopeful that the measure will help a wide...
A farmers’ organization in Senator Ninoy Aquino, Sultan Kudarat has received a newly renovated processing building, complete with equipment and packaging materials from the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR), in a bid to boost the agricultural production and income of agrarian reform...
The House of Representatives Committee on Agrarian Reform has formed a technical working group (TWG) for the purpose of consolidating nine different measures seeking debt burden and amortization condonation for agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs). FARMERS in Western Visayas region are urged to...
Some 30 to 40 percent of the 1.3 million alleged "non-poor" beneficiaries of government’s Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) shouldn't be delisted yet, Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Erwin Tulfo told the House Committee on Appropriations Tuesday, Sept. 6....