The Dacongcogon Sugar Producers Cooperative Marketing Association board has called for a general assembly at the mill site in Kabankalan City of its members today, its director Rolando Parpa said yesterday.

Parpa said he fears that the general assembly will be for the ratification of a memorandum of agreement that would transfer ownership of the mill from the coop members to one person.

That will end 38 years of control by the cooperative of the mill envisioned by the late Bishop Emeritus Antonio Fortich to be ran by the small farmers, he said. Parpa said ratifying the MOA would mean ownership of the mill by financier Celso delos Angeles.*

PCCI president arriving
for business confab mtg.

The president of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry who is also called the father of franchising, will meet with local officials and businessmen in Bacolod City today to discuss the 16th Visayas Area Business Conference on Sept. 7-9, to be held in L'Fisher Hotel.

Samie Lim, the PCCI head, will discuss the conference with officials of the Metro Bacolod Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Bacolod Filipino Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Camilo's Inihaw, a press release from MBCCI said.

Business courses
top enrollment in WV

Business Education registered the highest enrollment among the tertiary courses in Western Visayas, comprising 23 percent or 43,930 of the entire college population in the region.

Region 6 has 191,000 college students for academic year 2007-2008, a report of the Philippine Information Agency said.

Rex Casiple, OIC-chief education program specialist of the Commission on Higher Education 6, said Business Education also posted the highest enrollment last year. It is followed by Medical-related courses, with 20 percent or 38,200, and Teacher Education, with 15 percent or 28,650, the report said.

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