A total of 72,000 bags of rice from Vietnam arrived in Bacolod City yesterday as part of the lean months' supply of the National Food Authority in Negros Occidental.

NFA Provincial Manager Gil Ibarra said the supply is part of the 600,000 bags or a total of 30,000 metric tons that will arrive in the province for the year.

He said that during the traditional lean months from June to August, the NFA is expected to provide 25 to 30 percent of Negros Occidental's rice supply.

IT Team to establish
workforce data bank

Bacolod Councilor Jocelle Batapa-Sigue yesterday said that the Bacolod City IT Focus Team plans to come up with a data bank of potential workforce for IT locators that intend to open contact center sites in Bacolod City.

Batapa-Sigue said that when the IT locators come to Bacolod, they will ask for the data bank of potential workers. She said pre-screening forms for applicants are now available at her office at City Hall.

Batapa-Sigue said the potential workforce include enrollees, career shifters, OFW returnees, retirees, underemployed, unemployed and high school graduates

GTZ grant for upgrading
of permits issuance ok'd

The German Technical Cooperation approved the grant for the Bacolod City government's project proposal amounting to P285,000 for the improvement of the processing of business permits.

The approval of the grant, which includes hardware, software and wireless antenna with training component for the city's frontliners, came after months of study, survey, workshop and evaluation made by the group that included the Ateneo Survey Team.

Permits and Licenses Division head Ardis Jaculina said the team headed by Ben Arvin de la Cruz conducted a final evaluation yesterday at the One-Stop-Shop at the Bays Center in Bacolod and noted a reduction in the city's processing procedure from 27 steps to 15.

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