The members of the Market Committee of the Bacolod City government will hold a meeting today at City Hall to discuss the plight of the vendors at the Vendors' Plaza in Bacolod City.

Thirty-two of the vendors, who claim to be actual occupants of the Vendors' Plaza at the Reclamation Area, had asked the city to hold in abeyance the implementation of the notice issued by the Office of the City Administrator Thursday, declaring all stalls, blocks or tables abandoned and automatically revoking lease to such.

Bacolod City Administrator Lorendo Dilag, chairman of the Market Committee, yesterday said that the vendors have no awards and that while some have contracts of lease, these have not been ratified by the Bacolod Sangguniang Panlungsod. "In a legal sense, the vendors are not awardees and their occupancy was only through the tolerance of the city," he said.

Bayanihan Centers yield
P2.86M in savings

Savings of Bayanihan Centers in Western Visayas hit 2.86 million in 2005, almost double the amount yielded in 2004, records of the Department of Interior and Local Government 6 show.

The number of Bayanihan Centers, organized under the Bayanihan Savings Replication Program of the DILG 6, rose by around 30 percent in 2005, totaling 125 with 2,974 active members, from only 84 in 2004 with 1,911 in 2004.

Last year, 41 new Bayanihan Centers were organized with 1,063 active members.

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