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Dumaguete City, PhilippinesFriday, November 30, 2012
Negros Oriental
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SP divided on dry run
of PUVs in Dumaguete
BY JUDY F. PARTLOW & JUANCHO GALLARDE

The ongoing dry run for public utility vehicles using the terminal at the Robinsons Place mall is dividing members of the Sangguniang Panlungsod of Dumaguete City.

At the SP regular session Wednesday, opposing legislators took turns in tackling the issue that has been plaguing the city, its officials, the business sector, and the transport group for about three weeks now.

Vice Mayor Alan Gel Cordova slammed insinuations that the resolution passed by the SP, asking Mayor Manuel Sagarbarria to put a halt to the dry run was “politicized”.

BPO employs
6,000 in Dumaguete
BY LISA GAPAC

ILOILO City – The business process outsourcing industry of Dumaguete City now employs about 6,000 workers, and 80 percent of them from the three major BPO companies in the city, Javier Fortunato Jr., provincial director of the Department of Trade and Industry of Negros Oriental, said yesterday.

Fortunato, who was at the 1st Visayas ICT Organizational Conference at the Sarabia Manor Hotel in Iloilo, said Dumaguete is growing in terms of its investors and the number of workers employed in ICT-BPO companies.

He recalled that five years ago, young professionals leave the city and look for jobs in Cebu and Manila. But with the entry of SPI Global, TeleTech and Qualfon where 80 percent of the BPO workforce are employed, young professionals stay and remain in Dumaguete, Fortunato said.

IN DAUIN
Dialog on boat
mooring held
BY JUDY F. PARTLOW

The DENR-Community Environment and Natural Resources Office II in Negros Oriental discussed the use of designated docking areas with employees of the Protected Area Management Board of Apo Island recently.

CENRO II chief, Mario Aragon, said there was a need for immediate intervention in order not to compromise the influx of local and foreign tourists to the Apo Island in Dauin, Negros Oriental.

He said islanders who owned motorboats and commercial dive boats make use of the arrival area and mooring stations designated for visitors, and both parties were complaining about cramped docking space, and the delay in issuing mooring and other permits for dive tour operators bringing visitors to the island.

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