House Minority leader and Quezon Rep. Danilo Suarez on Tuesday defended his family from the tirades of President Benigno Aquino during a campaign sortie of the administration senatorial ticket in Quezon province.
Big landowners on the Bondoc Peninsula in Quezon province are fencing their properties to stop agrarian reform beneficiaries from taking possession of the land that had been awarded to them, a leader of a nongovernment organization said Friday.
Now it can be told. More than 20 farmers from Bondoc Peninsula, who have long been wanted on what they said were trumped-up charges of coconut theft, came out of hiding and quietly attended the land distribution program in Mulanay, Quezon, on Wednesday.
Quezon Gov. David Suarez on Friday expressed disappointment that because of politics, he was left out of the historic land distribution event in Mulanay, Quezon, on Wednesday.
It was a fiesta, Christmas and New Year rolled into one in several villages of the Bondoc Peninsula in Quezon province on Wednesday after the farmers there received their certificates of land ownership under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP).
Three road workers of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) in Quezon’s Bondoc Peninsula district were killed and four others were injured in an attack on Friday in Mulanay town, 136 kilometers southeast of this city.
Leaders of the Bondoc Peninsula farmers in Quezon province on Monday dared Agrarian Secretary Virgilio de los Reyes to be decisive and hasten the distribution of land to beat the deadline of the government’s Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP).
Quezon Gov. David Suarez called on National Museum officials to continue exploring archaeological sites in Bondoc Peninsula following the discovery of a 1,000-year-old village and an ancient burial ground in the limestone Mount Kamhantik in Mulanay town.
A bus plunged into a 10-foot-deep gully along the Bondoc Peninsula highway in General Luna, Quezon, on Wednesday, injuring 30 passengers, police said.
LUCENA CITY—At least 54 farmers in the Bondoc Peninsula are facing arrest and have turned fugitives after they were charged with qualified theft for doing what they thought was normal for them—harvest coconuts from trees that they had planted. A leader of a farmers’ group in Quezon said the farmers are in hiding because [...]
Residents of Quezon province trooped to President Benigno Aquino’s personal residence on Times Street in Quezon City Monday to protest the growing military presence in their communities.
Lawmen have identified 8 of the 11 New People’s Army rebels slain in a fierce 30-minute gun battle in the remote village of White Cliff, San Narciso, Quezon on Saturday.
