Saturday, October 25

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S&R set to open in Bacolod, creating more than 200 jobs

S&R set to open in Bacolod, creating more than 200 jobs

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So Ha Uy, Mayor Alfredo Benitez and Anthony Sy (l-r) hold up the S&R lot lease contract they signed on Friday.*S&R Membership Shopping, a warehouse club that retails premium quality imported products, will be hiring more than 200 Bacolodnons when its outlet opens at the Bacolod reclamation area, its president Anthony Sy said Friday, September 30.Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez signed a contract with Sy for the lease of a 200-square meter road lot owned by Bacolod City at the reclamation area to S & R.So Ha Uy representing the lot-lessors of S &R was also a signatory.Benitez said the entry of S& R is good because Bacolod is poised for a strong economic comeback.“The economic recovery that we have planned for the city is now kicking in and will soon mat...
Cebu Pacific ramps up VisMin flights, resumes flights from Davao to Bacolod

Cebu Pacific ramps up VisMin flights, resumes flights from Davao to Bacolod

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Cebu Pacific strengthens its footprint in the Visayas and Mindanao as it adds more flights from its Davao and Cebu hubs effective November 2022. This totals a 35 percent increase in the airline’s non-Manila flight network.On October 30 and 31 respectively, CEB will be resuming its direct flights from Davao to Cagayan de Oro and Bacolod, allowing Juans in Mindanao to connect easily to more places across the country. Davao-Bacolod will be operating 3x weekly, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday; while Davao-Cagayan de Oro will be at 4x weekly, every Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday.These additional flights bring the total number of domestic connections from Davao to seven, which includes direct flights to Bohol, Cebu, Iloilo, Manila, and Zamboanga.The airline will also be r...
Globe introduces new mobile game to encourage sustainable practices one gameplay at a time

Globe introduces new mobile game to encourage sustainable practices one gameplay at a time

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In line with its commitments to climate action, Globe today launched Climate Champions, a new mobile game that aims to encourage the company’s millions of customers to make sustainable choices in their consumption of goods and services.As a leader in sustainability and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices, Globe continues to push for climate education and action. Through the Globe Climate Champions mobile game, the company utilizes gaming as a platform to promote climate action.Globe Climate Champions is a mobile running game that equips Filipinos with practical tips on how they can reduce their carbon emissions in their everyday activities. It challenges players to run to the finish line at the shortest possible time, with the chance to receive speed boosts by pic...
Globe scales up network builds to serve remote public schools

Globe scales up network builds to serve remote public schools

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Globe continues to scale up its network builds and upgrades, especially in geographically isolated, disadvantaged, and conflict-affected areas to help provide connectivity to 17,000 public schools that still do not have data or internet access.This was shared by Michael Agustin, Director for Enterprise Sales of Globe, one of the panelists at the Industry Leaders Conference on Connecting Last Mile Schools organized by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through All Children Reading Philippines (ACR-Philippines), Better Access and Connectivity (Beacon), and Advancing Basic Education in the Philippines (ABC+).Agustin talked about closing the digital divide in education through network expansion and inclusive connectivity deployments.“We recognize that th...
Planters group enjoins members to allow passage of cane trucks

Planters group enjoins members to allow passage of cane trucks

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The closed road*The VICMICO Planters Association enjoins its planter-members to allow cane trucks and emergency vehicles to pass through their farms, even though Victorias Milling Company (VMC) continues to close the main and most accessible road leading to competitor mills.“Last week, some sugar farmers complained that some farm owners denied passage of cane trucks through their farms. Apparently, these road closures were the reactions of affected cane farmers to the oppressive closure by VMC of access roads, which have been traditionally used by cane farmers since the establishment of the mill more than 100 years ago,” said Aurelio “Bodie” Valderrama Jr. in a press release Monday, September 26.Valderrama is the president of the VICMICO Planters Association. He is also the new...
Sales of NTF products, including those of special needs students, hit P18.1M

Sales of NTF products, including those of special needs students, hit P18.1M

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Brent Nighel Anzano with Rowena Guanzon who is holding a bag painted by Joemel Bernard Arroyo (l-r) at the Negros Trade Fair in Makati.*The sales at the ongoing 36th Negros Trade Fair (NTF) at Glorietta 2 in Makati City hit P18.1 million on Thursday, Sybel Nobleza, Association of Negros Producers (ANP) external affairs manager, said on Friday, September 23.The NTF sales from Tuesday to Thursday increased by 29 percent compared to the first three days of their 2019 trade fair in Makati, she said.The ongoing NTF will run until Sunday, September 25.Most products at the trade fair, including those of special needs students, were enjoying brisk sales.Among the products on sale at the NTF are those produced by the special needs students of Happy Beginners School of Learning i...
Negros Trade Fair sales in Makati rises to P14.1M

Negros Trade Fair sales in Makati rises to P14.1M

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Senator Cynthia Villar, MaryAnn Feria Colmenares and Ramon Uy Sr. (l-r) at the Negros Trade Fair in Makati on Thursday.*Sales at the ongoing 36th Negros Trade Fair (NTF) at Glorietta 2 in Makati City hit P14.1 million on day two, MaryAnn Colmenares, Association of Negros Producers (ANP) vice president for advocacy, said on Thursday, September 22.The NTF sales on Tuesday hit P9.08 million and on Wednesday it was P5.1 million, she said.They are hoping their sales this year would be higher than in 2019, except that they don’t know how much stocks the participating producers brought, she said.The ANP trade fair, which runs until Sunday, returned to Makati this month after a two-year hiatus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.Rep. Christopher De Venecia (Pangasinan, 4th District...
EB Magalona farmers get indemnity assistance

EB Magalona farmers get indemnity assistance

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The Office of Mayor Marvin Malacon, through the Municipal Agriculture Office, turned over checks worth of P21,700 in indemnity assistance to the eight farmers of E. B. Magalona, at rites at the Mayor’s Office Wednesday, September 21.The assistance came from the Philippine Crop Insurance Corporation (PCIC) and was given to eight farmers of Barangays Consing and Canlusong whose crops and livestock were damaged by pest infestation and other diseases, a press release from EB Magalona said.OIC-Municipal Agriculturist Efren Garcia Jr. led the turnover of checks to the beneficiaries, in the presence of Charlon Melendres, insurance underwriter of PCIC 3rd District; Bobby Paran, regional fisherfolk director of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR)- Region 6; Private Secretary...
NONECO says power rates for Sept. down .23 centavos

NONECO says power rates for Sept. down .23 centavos

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The Northern Negros Electric Cooperative (NONECO) announced Wednesday, September 21, that its power rates are down P0.2308 per kWh.That means its power rate will be P15.7648 per kWH, it said.The decrease can be attributed mainly to the reduction in generation cost of one of the power generators with a power supply agreement with NONECO, and electricity cost in the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market, its statement said.Only P1.6109 kWh of the power rate goes to NONECO through Distribution, Supply, Metering (DSM) charges intended for the cooperative’s Operation, Construction, and Maintenance services, it said.*
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