Whistleblower Rodolfo “Jun” Lozada on Wednesday pleaded not guilty to allegations of corruption over the alleged anomalous lease of government land to his brother when he was president of PhilForest Corporation in 2009.
The Department of Agrarian Reform will be working through Christmas and New Year to evaluate all remaining claims to the Hacienda Luisita sugar estate and to draw up the final list of farmer beneficiaries by the end of January.
Fear continues to hound lumad (indigenous) residents of Barangay Dao in San Fernando, Bukidnon, who have been living away from their homes for more than four months now.
The Office of the Ombudsman on Thursday charged Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia with two counts of graft and one count of illegal use of public funds at the Sandiganbayan for the purchase of land for a housing project, which turned out to be mostly under water.
President Benigno Aquino III on Wednesday said he was committed to the full implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP).
Most of the 6,926 farm workers who availed themselves of shares of stock than land parcels in Hacienda Luisita in 1989 and who the Supreme Court upheld as agrarian reform beneficiaries of the sugar estate in Tarlac are either dead or aging, an ongoing study by the Center for Research and Special Studies (CRSS) showed.
The three claimants of a piece of land on the island resort of Boracay that has been awarded to the Ati tribe are barred from building any structures on the property.
Hacienda Luisita farmers may finally see the conclusion of their decades-old struggle to own the sprawling sugar plantation in Tarlac province owned by relatives of President Benigno Aquino III.
The Quezon City council has passed an ordinance classifying 250.6 hectares of the North Triangle, East Triangle and the Veterans Memorial Medical Center as a Central Business District.
Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile on Sunday all but slammed the door on a key defense strategy to show that impeached Chief Justice Renato Corona should not be convicted for failing to include the acquisition cost of his properties in his statements of assets, liabilities and net worth (SALNs).
An association of residents in Quezon City has asked the Court of Appeals to allow it to join an earlier petition to nullify a Quezon City court’s decision awarding titles of a 24-hectare prime property to alleged land-grabber Wilfredo S. Torres. Residents of Morning Star Heights in Culiat, Quezon City, filed a motion with the [...]
Tension remains high in a village in Antipas, North Cotabato, where a clash between two groups of settlers and land claimants led to the killing of two persons, including a 10-year-old boy, on Friday.
Two persons –including a 10-year old boy — were killed when armed Manobo natives and a group of Christian settlers clashed over contesting land claims in Antipas, North Cotabato on Friday, police, said.
