A multi-sectoral group, the Negros CARP Reform Movement, was formed recently by farmers and agrarian reform advocates in Negros Occidental to push for the extension of the land reform program, a press release from the group said.

NCRM, whose spokespersons are Pastor Emmanuel Alano and Kid Bañas, said it recognizes all local initiatives of peasant organizations calling for CARP extension.

It also encourages all advocates to work together in support of the farmers and dream of farmworkers to assume access and control of the land that they till, the group said in a press release.

MURCIA MAYOR ASKS PNOC-EDC
‘Offer to sell power to CENECO'

Murcia Mayor Esteban Coscolluela yesterday said he has asked the PNOC-Energy Development Corp. to make a formal offer to supply power to the Central Negros Electric Cooperative.

Coscolluela told the DAILY STAR he wrote PNOC-EDC last week after its president, Paul Aquino, informed Negros Occidental Gov. Joseph Marañon in November that PNOC-EDC will have sufficient power supply by 2010 and beyond.

PNOC-EDC will have a 30-megawatt capacity by 2010 and 40 MW by 2011 and onwards, based on Aquino's letter to Marañon, he said.

Tanduay reps fail to
attend NCMB hearing

No representative of the Tanduay Distillers Inc. Bacolod Plant appeared before the hearing set yesterday afternoon by the National Conciliation and Mediation Board on the complaint filed by its contractual workers against the company and their agency, Ponce Engineering Services.

Rey Gorgonio, counsel of the Samahan ng mga Manggagawa sa Tanduay, the union of the contractual workers, said no representatives of Tanduay Distillers Inc., an indispensable party to the labor dispute, attended the conciliation/mediation despite having been notified so there was no settlement.

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