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Dumaguete City, PhilippinesFriday, July 6, 2012
Negros Oriental
ButtonDAR assures peaceful installation of farmers
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ON POLO CONTROVERSY
DAR assures peaceful
installation of farmers
BY JUDY F. PARTLOW

Director Rodolfo Inson of the Department of Agrarian Reform Region 7 assured yesterday that land reform beneficiaries will be peacefully installed to the CARP-covered Polo Coconut Plantation in Tanjay City, Negros Oriental.

Inson gave the assurance as he was set to meet with members of the ARIBA, who filed an inclusion/exclusion petition with the DAR, to appeal to them to allow the peaceful and orderly installation of farmer-beneficiaries under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program.

Inson, who arrived in Dumaguete, allayed fears of possible bloodshed at the landholding owned by former Senator Rene Espina Jr., on reports that ARIBA members may just have to defend themselves if pushed to the limit.

Pro, anti lotto groups
air sentiments

BY JUDY F. PARTLOW

Dumaguete City officials took in a lot of input from opposing camps at yesterday’s public hearing on whether or not to allow 15 applicants for lotto operations in the city.

Msgr. Gamaliel Tulabing, administrator of the Diocese of Dumaguete, and a staunch anti-lotto campaigner, said gambling per se is not a sin but when it becomes excessive or rampant, that makes it immoral.

Tulabing, who led a prayer with students from various Catholic schools in the city before the public hearing, said that instead of promoting hard work and industriousness, lotto makes the people become indolent when they put their hard-earned money on betting in a game of chance.

Valencia putting up P5M
multi-purpose building
BY MARICAR ARANAS

The construction of the Valencia multi-purpose building worth P5 million will be finished and inaugurated during the fiesta celebration of the town in October, Mayor Enrique Gonzales said yesterday.

The building that is being put up near the rural health office is the realization of the longtime dream of the town to provide a decent venue for conferences and important meetings, the mayor said.

He added that the second floor will be used as dormitory to accommodate residents from far-flung barangays like Dobdob, who will be bringing in their farm produce to the market in Dumaguete, or those accompanying relatives or friends for treatment at the rural health center.

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