Saturday, January 05, 2008 (Philippines)

Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte ordered the scavengers and squatters along Bolton Street to vacate the area and voluntarily demolish their shanties along Bolton Extension, Davao City, last Thursday evening. Duterte assured the 13 families a lot in Ecoland area where they can erect their dwellings. (Sun.Star Davao/Rene B. Lumawag) A GROUP of agrarian reform beneficiaries in Santo Tomas, Davao del Norte cried harassment after a giant agriculture company kept them out of their cooperative. Reports reaching Sun.Star Davao showed the agrarian reform beneficiaries of the Tibal-og plantation of the Marsman-Drysdale Group has been denied entry to their cooperative after this was fenced off with barbed wires and surrounded by armed men. Post your comments here on the Makati siege [full story]