The manufacturing sector of Negros Occidental, including Bacolod City, posted the highest local investments in the first 11 months of 2006.

Data from the local office of the Department of Trade and Industry indicate that the sector had P3.239 billion in total investments generated from business name registrations.

Under manufacturing are enterprises topped by processed food and beverage which logged P3.207 billion from January to November in 2006. Others are furniture P5.607 million; metalworks, P2.433 million; crop processing, P1.915 million; gifts, toys and housewares, P9.592 million; concrete products, P719,000; other businesses, P6.195 million; garments, P350,543; and chemicals and related products, P3.688 million.

BACIWA names Carbon
as OIC; Petierre retires

The Bacolod City Water District Board designated Juliana Ballesteros Carbon officer-in-charge of the district effective Jan. 1 to replace former BACIWA general manager Vicente Petierre who retired on Dec. 31, 2006.

Carbon said Petierre had personally requested for the expiration of his term effective Dec. 31 since his appointment under the Civil Service Commission is co-terminus.

Carbon said the term of Petierre is supposed to be co-terminus with the appointing board. She said Pompeyo Querubin's term as chairman of the board also expired on Dec. 31, 2006 but he was re-appointed for another six years during a recent election.

Non-allocation of ARF
scored by TF Mapalad

The Task Force Mapalad said in a press statement yesterday that Malacañang must explain why nothing was allocated to the Agrarian Reform Fund for 2007 to cover acquisition of landholdings for redistribution.

TFM said only P15.6 billion has been allocated for the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program in the proposed 2007 budget because, it claimed, the P28 billion of the P38 billion Marcos wealth intended for CARP had already been spent.

The group added that the Department of Agrarian Reform has been criticized for misusing the Marcos wealth released in 2004, and DAR supposedly failed to satisfactorily account for the budget. It said the beneficiaries of the zero ARF budget are the big landowners whose landholdings have not been touched, not only because they have put up stiff resistance against CARP but also because Congress has been slashing the budget for CARP.

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