People who want to succeed in business must have a vision, must be hardworking, and innovative.

This was the advice of entrepreneurship advocates to Negrenses who came to the Go Negosyo sa Bacolod caravan last Friday the University of St. La Salle Coliseum.

Bacolod-born chef Gaita Fores, owner of Cibo Manila, said an entrepreneur must be willing to work hard because success does not come easily. "Visualize, set a goal and dream for yourself," she said, adding that it also a matter of telling one's self that you can do it.

Fores said those who want to set up a restaurant business must love to eat because whipping up a good meal has to come from the heart.

'Depressing wage rates force
7.6M Pinoys to take more jobs'

The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines said the depressing wage rates in the country has forced some 7.6 million workers to seek extra jobs for additional income.

TUCP spokesperson Alex Aguilar said in statement that a growing number of labor force participants, now nearly 25 percent of Filipino employees, toil longer hours because their take home pay is not enough to cover the daily cost of decent living.

Aguilar said a report Bureau of Labor and Employment Statistics indicated that nearly five of every 20 employed Filipinos were found to be overemployed last year.

Oyster sauce project team
drafts operations plan

Stakeholders of the Oyster Sauce Project in Hinigaran has came up with a short to medium term operational plan for the implementation of the community project based in Canonoy Beach Resort.

The operational was the result of the recent two-day Strategic Assessment and Planning participated by the Philippine Rural reconstruction Movement - Negros, the Federation of Small Fisherfolk Associations of Hinigaran, the local offices of the Department of Trade and Industry, the Department of Science and technology and the local government of Hinigaran.

The PRRM, DTI, DOST and the Hinigaran LGU, headed by Mayor Hermilo Aguilar, constitute the Project Advisory Committee.

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