The number of vehicles registered in Bacolod City in 2006 increased by 47.65 percent, with new registrations alone numbering more than 12,000 vehicles, figures of the Land Transportation Office 6 show.

Registered last year were 77,149 automobiles, from only 52,253 in 2006.

Of the total vehicles listed in 2006, 11,288 were cars; 24,967, utility vehicles; 2,151, sports utility vehicles; 9,389, trucks; 392, buses; 28,595, motorcycles and tricycles; and 367, trailers.

City livelihood office
conducts training

The City Cooperative and Livelihood Development Office of Bacolod recently conducted skills training to 30 participants from different cooperatives in the city.

They attended trainings in Cakes, Pastries and Meat Processing, Chocolate Making Design, Reflexology and Spa Massage Therapy, Entrepreneurial Development, Laundry and Detergent Soap Making, Mask Making and Basic Exporting and Marketing.

Facilitators and trainers were from the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority, Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of Education-Division of Bacolod. Mayor Evelio Leonardia said in a press release that the participants were trained to enable them to start small businesses to augment their income.

DA relaunches
'Pork in a Box'

The "Pork in a Box" program has been relaunched by the Department of Agriculture to improve accessibility of safe and hygienic pork products, the DA said in a press release.

Conceptualized in 2005, the program involves a pork post production system that ensures safety, economy, efficiency and environmental soundness in the supply chain. It eliminates the transport of live hogs as only carcass and cut products from Mindanao and Visayas are brought to markets in Metro Manila.

Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap said in the press release that the system thereby minimizes transport costs, provides easy access to quality meat cuts, and reduces levels of middlemen and add-on cost in marketing pork products.

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