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BY EASTER ANNE DOZADepartment of Labor and Employment (DOLE) 6 Assistant Regional Director laywer Dax Villaruel with DOLE Negros Occidental Field Officer Agnes Capigon leads the distribution of TUPAD benefits to respective barangay captains.*More than P7 million worth of Tulong Panghanapbuhay sa Ating Disadvantaged/Displaced Workers (TUPAD) were given out during the Labor Day edition of the Integrated Sustainable Assistance Recovery and Advancement Program (ISARAP) – second round of the Negros Occidental leg held at the Manuel Torres Coliseum and Cultural Center in Bago City on Sunday, May 1.The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) 6 turned over checks worth of P7,271,300 to barangays 12, 35, and 14 in Bacolod City, Concepcion in Talisay City, Barangay 1-Poblacion of Hinig...

The first vehicles to drive down the Upper East Avenue in Bacolod City after its opening* Ronnie Baldonado photoMegaworld opened its eight-lane avenue and switched on its streetlights at The Upper East township in Bacolod City, and announced that it is increasing its investment in the area to P45 billion at rites held Friday night, April 29.The kilometer-long Upper East Avenue connects Lopez Jaena Street to the Carlos Hilado Highway, and it is hoped that it will ease traffic congestion at Burgos Street in Bacolod.The Upper East Avenue is composed of six road lanes and two “on-street” parking lanes, Harold Brian Geronimo, Megaworld senior assistant vice president, said.It is open for both private and public vehicles, subject to the traffic rules and regulations of its own es...

The labor representatives at a press conference at the Negros Press Club on Friday, April 29.*Workers in Western Visayas will mark a bleak International Labor Day on Sunday, May 1, without a much needed wage hike, because of a deliberate effort to delay it, Wennie Sancho, Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB) labor representative, said Friday, April 29.“The workers are spiraling in despair, their wages have not kept up with the unabated increases in the prices of petroleum products, basic goods and services,” Sancho said at a press conference at the Negros Press Club in Bacolod City.A daily minimum wage of from P450 to P750 in Western Visayas is being pushed, but management is asking that any increase be deferred until the end of the year because they have ye...