Taculing is it.

Bacolod Mayor Evelio Leonardia yesterday signed Executive Order No. 6 ordering the construction of a city government center in Brgy. Taculing, Bacolod City.

The Executive Order is based on Sangguniang Panlungsod Resolution No. 96 dated Jan. 26, 2006, "declaring the inadequacy of the present City Hall site and declaring the need for a another site to augment the present site. "

Leonardia also furnished yesterday the SP a copy of the order, including the final report of the City Hall Committee recommending the city-owned lot in Brgy. Taculing, with an approximate area of 5 hectares as the site of the proposed government center.

Win-win solution
with Bredco urged
BY CHRYSEE SAMILLANO

The Bacolod City government and the Bacolod Real Estate Development Corp. should continue to negotiate and explore all possible avenues towards a win-win solution, Transportation and Communication Assistant Secretary Ricardo Tan said yesterday.

Tan's sentiment was also shared by businessman Harish Nandwani, who said he believes that the government and business sector should sit down together and join forces and think of the city and its people.

Meanwhile, Metro Bacolod Chamber of Commerce and Industry president Roberto Montelibano said he believes the decision of the city to take over the management and operation of the Bacolod port creates a wrong impression to the business community. The business community prefer businesses ran privately because they have seen government run business down the ground, he said. "Even if the city owns the port, I would like to see that it is ran by the private sector, " he added.

'MARO almost held hostage'
BY GILBERT BAYORAN

The agrarian reform problem in Brgy. Quiwi. Hinigaran, yesterday turned from bad to worse after Municipal Agrarian Reform Officer Myra Mercano was almost held hostage allegedly by a group of farmer beneficiaries occupying a disputed property in the town.

Mercano, the police blotter of Hinigaran said, claimed she was held against her will by a group of farmer beneficiaries who are occupying the 54-hectare disputed property of Estanislao Yusay in Hacienda Yusay, Brgy. Quiwi, Hinigaran, at about 5:15 p.m. yesterday.

This happened almost a week after a security guards hired by the Yusay family identified as Bernie Miraflor allegedly shot farmer beneficiary Alberto Presquito on March 6, police records show.