A Negrense solon yesterday backed the move of Governor Joseph Marañon and the Association of Chief Executives-Negros Occidental, to call for an audit and evaluation of the implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program, to determine if it is successful or not.

Rep.Jose Carlos Lacson (3rd district Negros Occ) said he wants the evaluation of the whole program (CARP), how the money was spent, and where it went. "I am not saying, stop the program, but we should give a reason why the program should be stopped", Lacson said.

Marañon has commissioned a group to evaluate the implementation of CARP in Negros Occidental, which is expected to end June next year.

'Getting into business
can be taught, learned'

+The Philippine Business Conference and Exposition will be held on October 24 to 26 at the Manila Hotel, the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry said in a press release.

The 33rd PBC&E, considered as the year's premier business event, will be themed "One. Global. Filipino." Through Public-Private Partnership, the assembly will showcase the preeminent role of the public and private sectors in instituting significant reforms and initiatives to harness the country's competitiveness and promote the growth of industries through investments and other business opportunities.

The 33rd PBC&E will serve as a foothold to sensible and no-holds-barred public-private interaction and dialogue for key policy issues in the country, the press release said.

100-megawatt power gap
in Visayas seen in 2009

SILAY CITY -- An electric power gap of 100 megawatts will appear in the Visayas 2009, President Gloria Arroyo said yesterday.

The Korean Electric Power Company project in Cebu will come in only in 2010 with 200 megawatts, she said, so five power barges of 100 megawatts will be on standby to fill in the gap.

"But the real solution is to privatize ASAP as is where is the geothermal power plants in Oriental Negros, Southern Leyte, Albay and Sorsogon so that the private sector can expand their capacity before 2009," she said in her speech at an Infrastructure and Investment Conference on the Central Philippines Super Region at the New Bacolod-Silay Airport here.

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