The Department of Social Welfare and Development is eyeing an additional 120 Tindahan Natin outlets in Negros Occidental in 2008, a government press release said.

DSWD head Fernando Alabado said their agency screens applicants and  they usually grant the project to unemployed and poor beneficiaries to help them augment their income and make affordable rice available in their area.

In 2007, there were only 325 TN outlets in the province. The opening of 120 outlets this year will bring the number to 445.

Use of chairs  by
salespersons pushed by SP

Two Bacolod City councilors are calling on owners of business establishments to implement City Ordinance 311 requiring them to provide chairs or benches to their salespersons.  

The resolution, proposed by Councilors Jocelle Batapa-Sigue and Wilson Gamboa Jr., said it has been observed by some non- government organizations working for the benefit and protection of the working class that this requirement is not strictly followed in the city.

Both officials said the city shall require the business establishment to submit a certification of the number of employees and the number of benches and chairs they have before they can obtain a business permit.

Suspension of cutting
of coconut trees starts

The nationwide moratorium on the cutting of coconut trees starts today in a bid of the Philippine Coconut Authority to strictly regulate the activities of unscrupulous coconut lumber traders, which violates Republic Act 8048 or the law on illegal coconut tree cutting.

We will implement this moratorium once and for all to arrest the ever increasing and unabated incidence of illegal cutting, PCA Administrator Oscar Garin said in a statement.

The suspension covers the issuances of Permits to Cut Coconut Trees or PCCTs and the corresponding Transport/Transshipment Clearances or TTCs except on limited exceptions based on PCA Board Resolution 02-008.

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