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City PIO photosBacolod City Mayor Evelio Leonardia led the inauguration of the newly renovated meat seat section of the Libertad Public Market Monday, Dec. 21.The newly improved meat section includes 18 long steel meat tables and each table can accommodate two vendors, a press release from the Bacolod Public Information Office said.The project, which cost about P4.7 million, was funded using the city’s Annual Investment Program in 2019.Bacolod Vice Mayor El Cid Familiaran said the monthly rental for steel meat section is about P500, while the other booths are P600.This is like the charity of Bacolod to its citizens, he said.“Our markets may have one of the cheapest rental rates in the country”, City Administrator Em Ang said.“This market repair and rehabilitation pr...

The municipal government of Toboso in Negros Occidental is waiving the public market rental fees until the end of the year.Mayor Richard Jaojoco, in an executive order issued Thursday, December 17, said the economy is one of the adversely affected sectors by the COVID-19 pandemic and that there is a need for the local government units to help local businesses to recover.He said the municipal government will waive the rental fees on Toboso Public Market from December 17 to 31.He added the order will take effect immediately.*

The Securities and Exchange Commission is requiring entities to submit a valid official e-mail address and contact number.Under its Memorandum Circular No. 28 series of 2020, every corporation, partnership, association, and person under the jurisdiction and supervision of the commission shall submit a valid official e-mail address and a valid official cellular phone number within 60 days from the effectivity of the rules, a press release from SEC said.In addition to the valid official email address and official cellphone number, covered entities shall also submit a valid alternate e-mail address and valid alternate cellular phone number.The online submission of forms and notices shall be sent at MC28_S2020@sec.gov.ph, while hard copies shall be filed through the Commission’s El...

DA-SAAD photoThe Department of Agriculture-Special Area for Agricultural Development (DA-SAAD) granted a P2,881,500 caracow project to 85 individual farmer-beneficiaries in Western Visayas recently, as part of the government’s poverty reduction efforts.The intervention coupled with plow and harrow implements is in support of the Rice Production Livelihood Project in five towns in the region covered by the DA-SAAD program for 2020.For Negros Occidental, more than 50 individuals from Salvador Benedicto, Moises Padilla, and Calatrava availed of the caracows.Dominador Marquez, SAAD program focal person in Region 6, said that the team concluded the draft animal dispersal on December 1."Before our distribution, we told the farmer-beneficiaries to provide proper pasture and fo...

Leo Rey Yanson was reappointed chairman of the board and president of Vallacar Transit Inc. during the firm’s annual stockholders meeting at its principal office in Barangay Mansilingan, Bacolod City on Saturday, December 5.Olivia Yanson, the family matriarch, was also re-appointed corporate secretary and treasurer, a VTI press statement said.VTI is the biggest bus company in the country.During the meeting, Olivia and Leo Rey Yanson, Ginnette Y. Dumancas, Charles M. Dumancas, Anita G. Chua, Arvin John V. Villaruel and Daniel Nicolas Golez were re-elected as members of VTI’s Board of Directors.Despite proper and timely notice, stockholders Roy V. Yanson, Ma. Lourdes Celina Yanson-Lopez, Ricardo V. Yanson Jr., Juan Manuel Lopez, and Ma. Susan F. Yanson were absent, the press ...

Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson receives the award from Dr. Richard Amansec, DICT Director, Engr. Amelia Dean and Dr. Melinda Bandalaria*The provincial government-run Negros Occidental Language and Information Technology Tech4ed Center was one of the winners in the PhilCecNet Pandemic Resilience Award under the “Support for Teachers and Students” category.The award was received virtually by Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson and NOLITC Tech4ED Center Manager and Vocational School Administrator Dr. Ma. Cristina Orbecido in the KEC15 closing webinar streamed live through Youtube.The national award was given by the Philippine Community eCenter Network Inc. in cooperation with the Department of Information and Communications Technology to recognize eCenters that continue t...