Another call center is planning to open in Bacolod City next month and intends to create more than 300 jobs within the year, Bacolod Councilor Jocelle Batapa-Sigue said.

The center, i-Solutions Outsource Asia, is now accepting applicants' résumés at Techno 1 Internet, at Lopue's East Center, she said.

I/O Asia maintains a website with address www.ioasianic.com and applicants can also send their résumés to hrd@ioasianic.com, according to Fernando Gonzales, I/O Asia general manager, Batapa-Sigue, chair of the Bacolod City Information Technology Focus Team, said.

SRA: Imports to
temper high prices

The importing of 50,000 metric tons of sugar now is designed to temper the high retail prices of sugar, Sugar Regulatory Administrator James Ledesma said yesterday.

This was his answer yesterday to a text message that asked: "Why deprive sugar producers of good prices now by allowing James Ledesma to import expensive sugar? He's not protecting planters, he's sabotaging them."

The cost of importing refined sugar is still lower than current prices. Current levels are just too high with refined sugar retail prices at P40 a kilo which is P2,000 per bag, Ledesma said.

IN SOUTHERN NEGROS
Anti-mining alliance formed

More than 100 members of peasant associations, cause-oriented groups and environmentalists have formed an anti-mining alliance called Defend Patrimony-Southern Negros recently, a press release from organizers said.

The group is an offshoot of an anti-mining conference at Brgy. Dancalan, Ilog, Negros Occidental last week, it said.

The group said in its press statement that opposition to mining operations is expected to swell because of the experience of the adjacent areas in southern Negros that clearly manifest the impact of mining on the people.

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