2 Mactan export firms disown sugar shipment
TWO Mactan export firms which were earlier identified as consignees of ten container vans of smuggled Thai sugar have disowned the cargo.
TWO Mactan export firms which were earlier identified as consignees of ten container vans of smuggled Thai sugar have disowned the cargo.
An unidentified group made a sinister attempt last Tuesday to withdraw some P110 million worth of sugar allegedly smuggled from Thailand and confiscated by customs authorities in 2010, a group representing the sugar industry disclosed on Friday.
Unidentified persons had allegedly tried to withdraw 55,000 bags of sugar which were seized in 2010 and stored at a customs warehouse in Bulacan, a group representing industry stakeholders said Friday.
Customs Commissioner Ruffy Biazon yesterday supervised the seizure of seven 20-foot container vans of white Thailand sugar worth at least P5 million. The cargo was consigned to two locators at the Mactan Economic Processing Zone in Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu. In a separate operation, some 3,000 bags of smuggled rice were impounded at the Cebu City [...]
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The regional office of the Department of Labor and Employment in Northern Mindanao has admitted that child labor is prevalent on sugarcane plantations in Bukidnon.
Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala said the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Agrarian Reform would ask the management of the sugar mill to open it to farmer-beneficiaries who would like to engage in sugar cane farming.
Hacienda Luisita will not go out of business entirely. Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala said his department and the Department of Agrarian Reform will ask the management of the sugar mill to open it to farmer-beneficiaries who would like to engage in sugar cane farming.
He wants to finish what he started before he goes. After exposing the disappearance of 1,910 container vans while en route from the Port of Manila to the Batangas port, Customs Commissioner Angelito Alvarez is determined to go after the culprits.
MANILA—It looks like it will be a sweet year for the sugar industry. The Philippines will export sugar again as the country is enjoying a bumper harvest this year, Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala said. The country’s sugarcane fields yielded a harvest of 2.39 million metric tons for the crop year of 2010-2011, a 21.3 percent [...]
Sugar industry players here will still pursue its campaign for the boycott of Coca-Cola Bottling Philippines Inc. despite a commitment of the company to source their sugar requirements locally.
About 4,000 Negrenses staged a protest in front of the Coca-Cola Bottlers Philippines Inc. (CCBPI) bottling plant in barangay Mansilingan, Bacolod City, yesterday morning to protest the company’s use of imported instead of local sugar.
COMPOSTELA VALLEY Soldier slain in clash A SOLDIER was killed and four others wounded in an encounter in Pantukan town past 4 p.m. on Monday, while another soldier was wounded in a separate firefight with New People’s Army (NPA) guerrillas in Nabunturan town, the military said. The rebels could have also suffered heavy casualties as [...]
