A multi-stakeholders forum on the national agro-industrial policy, sugarcane industry roadmap and sustainable development will be held at the MassKara Hall of the Bacolod Government Center in Bacolod City 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. tomorrow.

Invited to the affair are Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala who will speak on the food security program and development, and Trade and Industry Undersecretary Adrian Cristobal, who will discuss the One Country, One Voice Program and Development.

About 120 key leaders of Negros Occidental and representatives from Panay and Negros Oriental are expected to attend the multi stakeholders forum, organizers said.

PACIWU wins
Ceres election

The Philippine Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Workers Union headed by Zoilo De la Cruz Jr. beat the Associated Labor Unions during the recent certification election for the Vallacar Transit Inc. Visayas Operation workers union.

Over-all score in Region 6 and Region 7 was 3,450 votes for PACIWU and 146 votes for ALU, a PACIWU press release said.

Even in Cebu Island where ALU is based and considered an ALU “stronghold”, ALU only got 29 votes while PACIWU got 754 votes, it added.

Condo studio units
showroom blessed

The first tower of the Hi-Residences Condominium at Burgos Extension, Bacolod City is nearing completion, businessman Vladimir Gonzalez said during the blessing and inauguration of the showroom and studio units at the Home Invest building at Burgos Extension, Bacolod City Saturday.

Gonzalez said the 3.6-hectare planned condominium and commercial complex project, which will be composed of nine buildings with amenities, is proving that Bacolod can be at par with Manila development.

When one see the studio units at the showroom one will feel that he or she is not in Bacolod anymore because what they are selling is “lifestyle,” he said, adding that their interiors are world class.

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