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Farmers blame cartel for fertilizer cost
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Small- and medium-scale sugar farmers seek urgent
national government intervention
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BACOLOD CITY: About a thousand small- and
medium-sugar planters from nine farmers’ organization all over
Negros Occidental trooped to the streets on Saturday, July 19, to
seek Malacañang’s intervention against the exorbitant cost of
fertilizers.
The planters believe a fertilizer cartel
is behind the unabated cost of farm inputs, coupled with sugar
smuggling.
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Court issues TRO on tax
due from water facility
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GENERAL SANTOS CITY: The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) district
office and the city’s water district here are at loggerheads after
the tax bureau ordered the garnishment of the water district’s
bank deposits for failing to pay tax arrears amounting to P10
million.
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Police in Lucena resort to ‘bike patrol’
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LUCENA CITY: To cope with the constant fuel price hike, the city
government and local police here agreed on going back to patrolling
the area riding bicycles, or as Mayor Ramon Talaga Jr. called, the
“Bike Patrol.”
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DSWD starts rehabilitation
of typhoon damaged areas
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The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has started
implementing recovery and rehabilitation projects for typhoon
victims in Region IV-B Bicol region and Iloilo province, Executive
Secretary Eduardo Ermita said Sunday.
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Gunmen kidnap 3 people in Basilan
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ZAMBOANGA CITY: Unidentified gunmen kidnapped at least three people
on Sunday in Basilan, a Catholic clergy said.
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Army’s 7th Infantry Division
commander vows transparency
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FORT RAMON MAGSAYSAY: The commander of the Army’s 7th Infantry
Division which holds jurisdiction over the whole of Central Luzon
and parts of Pangasinan vowed to observed transparency.
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British on vacation drowns in Bataan falls
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PILAR, Bataan: A 56-year-old British on vacation in Bataan with his
girlfriend drowned Saturday afternoon while swimming in Dunsulan
Falls at the foot of historic Mount Samat in Liyang, Pilar town.
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