MYVAN Properties and Development Inc. launched its 12-storey Cityscape Residences condominium project at the L'Fisher Hotel in Bacolod City yesterday with Bacolod Mayor Evelio Leonardia, as guest speaker.

Nimfa Gandionko, MYVAN corporate marketing manager, said that the facility will be built at 6th Lacson Street behind a food chain and will have 190 units with floor areas of 19 square meters to 35 square meters designed to meet the lifestyles of Bacoleños.

She said this is the first investment of the company outside Cebu and Mandaue cities where it has developed three condominium projects.

Farmers attend
coffee seminar

Agriculturists and farmers in Negros Occidental recently participated in the Package of Technology seminar on coffee production at the Organization for Industrial, Spiritual and Cultural Advancement training center in Bago City.

Edna Garde, manager of the Farmers' Information and Technology Services Center of the Negros Occidental Office of the Provincial Agriculturist, said the seminar discussed the coffee industry in Region VI, types of coffee trees and varieties, plant propagation, and environmental conditions of coffee.

The participants were also trained in the establishment of coffee nursery and plantation and its maintenance, insect pests and diseases, harvest and post harvest processing, and quality standards of coffee and its cost and return of investment, she said.

ICT forum slated

Government and industry speakers will converge in Bacolod City today for the Negros Occidental Information and Communication Technology Roadshow, a press release from organizers said.

The one day forum hosted by the Bacolod-Negros Occidental Federation for Information and Communications Technology, in cooperation with the provincial government of Negros Occidental at the Bacolod Business Inn, expects to draw more than 600 students, teachers and professionals.

The speakers include deputy executive director Alejandro Melchor III of the Department of Science and Technology-Information and Communications Technology Office and Raymond Lacdao, executive director for External Affairs of the Business Processing Association of the Philippines, and former Bacolod councilor Jocelle Batapa-Sigue, the press release said.