Eusebio Pelayo, 69, a community leader and a Molbog resident in Mariahangin, Bugsuk, Palawan, is summoned to court on December 4 due to a criminal complaint filed by Caesar M. Ortega, described as the “Authorized Representative of Land owners situated within Bowen Island” in the document. Ortega is NCIP’s former OIC executive director of the NCIP and Ancestral Domain Office’s (ADO) former director.
Disagreeing with President Duterte, indigenous groups said the Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Act and the NCIP should be scrapped.
BY ACE ALEGRE Contributed to Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 29, August 26-September 1, 2007 TUBA, Benguet – Philex’s open-pit mines in a 98-hectare gold-rich area in Barangay (village) Camp 3 here are being operated illegally, a government lawyer has disclosed. Although the gold and copper mining firm obtained a special mines permit earlier this year…
The government-set dialogue between the Philex Mining Corporation and the indigenous residents of this town and Itogon failed due to the mining company’s “arrogance,” a community leader said. The dialogue was intended to address issues concerning indigenous communities’ rejection of Philex’s mining permit application. BY LYN V. RAMO Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat Vol. VII,…
The government’s Inter-Agency Task Force that once “burned the night lamp” if only to solve land disputes in Rizal town, Kalinga has been revived with the mission of rooting out the problem so that there will be no repeat of the June 25 carnage between “settlers” and policemen. BY ACE ALEGRE Contributed to Bulatlat Vol.…