MINDANAO DAILY TRUTH | JUSTICE | PROGRESS
Volume XII, No. 080
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Saturday, November 26, 2022
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Former farmworkers in AgSur to finally get individual land titles By CHRIS V. PANGANIBAN Contributing Editor
538 CDO flood, fire victims receive P3-M aid By NEF LUCZON
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – More than PHP3 million in cash assistance was given to 538 recipients who were affected by the recent flooding and fire in this city. On Thursday, the recipients gathered at the
SAN FRANCISCO,Agusan del Sur -- At 83, Dolzura Exchaure will finally get her individual land title in the second week of next month after an arduous 34 years of waiting. She and more than a thousand former farmworkers of a big oil palm
city hall and were given PHP10,000 each for those houses that were razed and also PHP5,000 each for dwellings that were flooded in the previous months. The funds were sourced from the city government
plantation here and neighboring Rosario town were identified as agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) in the landholdings of their former employer and were granted collective land titles in December 13, 1988 by then president Corazon Aquino. The ARB lands are former plantation areas of the See GET, page 11
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CALAMITY VICTIMS. Residents of Cagayan de Oro City wait for the distribution of cash assistance at the city hall grounds on Thursday (Nov. 24, 2022). The recipients came from six villages that were affected by the recent flooding and fire in the city. (Image courtesy of City Mayor’s Office)
83-year-old Dolzura Exchaure in a happy mood when she joined the raffling of individual lots for agrarian reform beneficiaries of the 3,150 hectares of the oil palm plantation areas in San Francisco and Rosario towns in Agusan del Sur. The Department of Agrarian Reform will process the documents of Certificate of Land Ownership Award for these lots and is expected to be released next month. CHRIS V. PANGANIBAN
VP Sara bats for learners’ safe space vs. abuse, exploitation By STEPHANIE SEVILLANO
SAFE SPACES FOR CHILDREN: Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte delivers her message during the celebration of National Children’s Day on Thursday (Nov. 24, 2022). Duterte assured that the Department of Education is intensifying its efforts to ensure safe spaces for children against abuse and exploitation across the country. (Screengrab)
MANILA – Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte pushed for an intensified child protection program across the country as the Department of Education (DepEd) launched on Thursday its learner rights and protection office, website and telesafe contact helpline. In a speech, Duterte said this is the agency’s gift to learners to make sure they are safe and are provided with an accessible complaint platform. “We are introducing to you the Learner Rights and Protection Office website and a national hotline that will allow us to receive child protection complaints from learners through landline, See BATS, page 11
INDAHAG, Cagayan de Oro City barangay chairman Jocelyn Dahino (center) confers with Mayor Rolando Uy (right) at the sidelines of the inauguration of the new water treatment facility of JE Hydro & Bioenergy Corporation in the barangay. Dahino is grateful to the company for choosing Indahag as the site of the distribution of its potable water services. INDAHAG BARANGAY INFORMATION OFFICE PHOTO