DAILY STAR: Negros Oriental

The Department of Agrarian Reform will install today 102 qualified farmer beneficiaries in the Polo Coconut Plantation Inc. in Tanjay City, Negros Oriental.

Stephen Leonidas, provincial agrarian reform officer of Negros Oriental, said DAR Undersecretary Narciso Nieto had ordered the installation of the beneficiaries, who have been awarded Certificates of Land Ownership in 2004, and who belong to the original 147 farmer beneficiaries of the Polo Plantation Agrarian Reform Multi-purpose Cooperative and MARA.

Since the distribution of CLOAs started about eight years ago, attempts to install the farmer-beneficiaries have been delayed by near-violent confrontations between opposing groups, he said.

2 charged for
death of lawyer
BY JUANCHO GALLARDE

Murder charges were filed against two men yesterday before the City Prosecutors Office in Dumaguete City for the killing of lawyer Archer Baldwin Martinez last year.

Martinez was gunned down August 5, 2011 at his office in downtown Dumaguete.

Joel Obar of Task Force Archer identified one of those charged as Emmanuel Banaay, but the identity of another one believed to be the gunman remains unknown.

NORECO 2 denies P52M imported
concrete pole contract as anomalous
BY JUANCHO GALLARDE

The Negros Oriental II Electric Cooperative yesterday denied insinuations of anomalous transactions in the importation of P52 million worth of concrete electric poles from China.

NORECO II acting general manager Dionefred Macahig said all transactions have been above board, and went through the correct procedures.

He said the seven-year schedule of payment was accelerated, and saved the electric cooperative more than P4.88 million in interest.

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