Talisay City Sangguniang Panlungsod members Jose Maria Astorga Sr. and Charles Benedict Lacson recently requested the Sangguniang Panglungsod of Bacolod City to exempt jeepneys plying the Talisay-Bacolod route covered under the City Ordinance No. 461, or the Establishment of the North Bound Terminal for buses and public utility vehicles plying the northbound route.

In their letter to the Bacolod SP, dated July 17, they said that it will kill their transport industry and result in the loss of income of 500 drivers plying this route, and their families.

The expenses of students, employees and business people will also be doubled if Talisay jeepneys will not be exempted from the ordinance, they said.

Industry roadmaps laid
down for LGU’s ‘world competence’

“We can compete with the world,” Ruy Moreno, private sector director for operations of the National Competitiveness Council, said at the NCC Roadshow in Bacolod City yesterday.

NCC’s model roadmaps for local government units with focus on four sunrise industries: tourism (including health and wellness), IT/BPO, agribusiness and mining, were among the roadshow’s highlights.

“The public sector must provide policies that would allow the private sector to spread its reach and its productivity while the private sector keeps the continuity of the partnership,” Moreno said.

BFCCCII induction Saturday

The Bacolod Filipino-Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry will hold its 23rd induction of officers and directors for 2009-2011, at the Business Inn, 7 p.m. Saturday.

Dr. Alfonso Uy, president of the Federation of Filipino-Chinese Chambers of Commerce and Industry, will be the keynote speaker and induction officer, a press release from the group said.

Lawyer Benjamin Ortega, the incoming president of the Chamber, said the theme for the day is “Building the Future Together”.

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