The Department of Agrarian Reform Adjudicator in Negros Occidental has summoned Sangguaniang Panlalawigan member Enrique Miguel Lacson, and his employees, Erlito Batallon and Julito Caduhada, to give their answers and attend the hearing of a landholding case filed against them by a group of agrarian reform beneficiaries.

The hearing is set 9 a.m. Oct. 29, a copy of the DARAB summons and notice of hearing furnished the DAILY STAR by Pulupandan Mayor Magdaleno Peña, showed.

The ARB Multi-Purpose Cooperative, represented by Redilma Dechosa, filed a petition to the DAR Adjudication Board against Lacson, Batallon and Caduhada, over a landholding in Moises Padilla, Negros Occidental.

Bacolod PESO deploys
131 workers abroad

The Bacolod Public Employment Service Office has deployed 131 overseas skilled workers out of 252 registered applicants in September, or an increase of 56.49 percent from Augusts' deployment with only 74 skilled workers, a PESO monitoring report showed.

The office had deployed eight domestic helpers, three private nurses, one medical technologist, two waitresses, four housekeepers, one secretary, two midwives, five service crews, 35 nurse assistants, 44 staff nurses, and 18 crew supervisors, Bacolod PESO manager Moises dela Cruz said.

They were hired through the agencies that directly contacted the PESO office through a special recruitment activity, where the agency posts the job vacancies and allots them in the PESO office dela Cruz said.

Local price council
to check trending

Bacolod City Mayor Evelio Leonardia will meet at 2 p.m. today the members of the Local Price Monitoring Council to determine if businesses are complying with the price ceiling on basic commodities set by the national government in view of the recent calamities that hit the country.

Leonardia convened last week the price monitoring council in compliance with Presidential Proclamation 1898, declaring the entire country under the state of calamity, and providing, among others, the setting up of price ceilings on select basic commodities.

The mayor directed the price monitoring council to ensure that prices are maintained at a reasonable level and that businessmen who engage in trade malpractices such as hoarding and overpricing are sanctioned, a press release from the city said.

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