Negrenses with information technology or IT skills are wanted by business process outsourcing companies in Bacolod City.

Councilor Jocelle Batapa-Sigue, chairperson of the Bacolod IT Focus Team, said in a press release yesterday the IT Team and representatives from the academe and private sector discussed the need for more workers during their meeting last week with executives of two companies now operating in Bacolod.

She said Raymund Nones, in-charge of Bacolod operations of Solegy, a leading VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) software firm in the US, said they are looking for software developers skilled in Java and C++, systems administrators, technical support engineers and web/multi-media designers.

Manganese mining in
Calatrava probed

An investigation into the reported manganese mining operations in Brgy. Telim, Calatrava will be started today by the Defend Patrimony Northern Negros.

The group said in a statement to the DAILY STAR that the environmental investigative mission was prompted by the request of residents to Msgr. Flor Baynosa, parish priest of Calatrava, to assist them in their protest against the mining operations.

They said that although their initial inquiry with the Mines and Geoscience Bureau 6 office showed there is no pending mining application in the area, they have learned that a small-scale mining activity, covering 20 hectares is being operated by the Rigor family with the approval of the Provincial Environmental Management Office. Defend Patrimony said that manganese is an important alloy in steel production and manganese bronze, which resists corrosion from seawater, is used for propeller blades on boats and torpedoes.

ASGI turns 41

The Association of Sugarcane Growers Inc. marked its 41st year last Saturday with a celebration at the National Federation of Sugarcane Planters compound in Bacolod City.

NFSP said in a press release the event was attended by more than 300 planter-members from Bacolod, Murcia and their neighboring areas. ASGI president Enrique Rojas, who is also president of NFSP, said the association's production this crop year is 20 percent higher than last year's.

With the unprecedented increase in sugar prices, this increase in production benefited the small farmers who make up the majority of the association's membership, he said in the press release.

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