Renewable energy advocates in Bacolod City yesterday reiterated their opposition to the power sales contract between the Central Negros Electric Cooperative and the KEPCO-Salcon Power Corp. as they underscored the importance of electricity as a human right.

“We believe that electricity as an essential service should be recognized as one of the human rights,” Esperanza Resus, secretary-general of Freedom from Debt Coalition-Negros, said.

Members of FDC-Negros together and Green Alert-Negros, numbering about a hundred, jointly held a short picket in front of the CENECO office in Mabini St. yesterday afternoon as part of the commemoration of the 59th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Himamaylan is top
SPES implementor

Himamaylan City was cited by the Department of Labor and Employment as the Top Implementor of the Special Program for the Employment of Students in Western Visayas at the agency's recent Year-End Planning and Assessment Conference in New Washington, Aklan.

The award, presented by DOLE Regional Director Aida Estabillo, was given in recognition of the city's effort to provide jobs to the highest number of deserving students in the region.

SPES is a program of the DOLE in partnership with the local governments and private agencies that provide temporary employment to students and out-of-school youths during summer and Christmas vacation.

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