Department of Labor and Employment Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz will give 100 educational kits to elementary and high schools students working in sugar plantations in Brgy. Antipolo, Pontevedra town tomorrow as part of the campaign against child labor, Ma. Victoria Mondragon, DOLE provincial director, said yesterday.

Baldoz will also inaugurate the P8-million Sugar Workers Development Center that will serve as training centers for workers and other stakeholders and present a P350,000 livelihood grant to about 60 sugar migratory workers of Brgy. San Isidro, Toboso, at the DOLE office at Cottage Road in Bacolod City today.

Mondragon said DOLE identified Brgy. Antipolo as one of the barangays in the province with cases of child labor, where children are employed in sugar plantations.

Farmers’ coops to
get help from DAR

Four agrarian reform beneficiaries’ organizations in Negros Occidental have been identified as priority cooperatives for the Agrarian Reform Community Connectivity and Economic Support Services program of the Department of Agrarian Reform, Gloria Cañonero, senior agrarian reform technologist, said yesterday.

The cooperatives are the Occidental Negros Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Planters Association and Minaba ARB-MPC in Kabankalan City and General Malvar ARB-Multipurpose Cooperative and Kauswaga ARB-MPC in Pontevedra town, Cañonero said.

She said ARCCESS, a DAR funded project, will help farmers’ cooperatives and organizations have stable income and, aid the growers to become entrepreneurs.

FDA stops airing of
cooking oil ad

MANILA – The Food and Drugs Administration has ordered Southeast Asia Foods Inc., maker of Golden Fiesta Cooking Oil, to stop airing its commercial for containing "misleading claims."

SAFI may also face legal and administrative sanctions for the violation, the order said.

The FDA’s order resulted from a complaint of San Pablo Manufacturing Corp. that Golden Fiesta’s commercials made unfounded claims – may be re-used for frying food for seven times without affecting the product’s quality, color, or appearance; and 50 percent less saturated than regular oil.

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