DAILY STAR: Business

The Sugar Tripartite Council and the Bureau of Rural Workers have approved P7.9 million for the Sugar Industry Foundation Inc. to implement socio-economic projects for sugar workers during the off-milling season tiempo muerto, Edith Villanueva, SIFI president and chief operating officer, said.

BRW has released P5.9 million, or 75 percent of the allocated amount to SIFI for the benefit of the 9,256 sugar workers so far, Villanueva said in a press release.

The projects are being implemented in partnership with planters associations which are members of CONFED in the La Carlota Milling District, VIMACA Farmers Association and VIMACA-Kabulig Foundation in Victorias Mill District, ISEPI-Multi Purpose Coop. in Lopez Mill District, First Farmers Association in First Farmers Mill District and the Simag Foundation in the Hawaiian Mill District, Villanueva said in the press release.

Power plant loan hit

The Freedom from Debt Coalition-Negros, other non-government organizations, and individual electric consumers of the Central Negros Electric Cooperative are opposing the looming approval of a $120 million loan from the Asian Development Bank by the Korea Electric Power Corp. and the Salcon Power Corp.

The FDC said in a press release that it supports its counterpart, Cebu’s FDC Chapter and the Global Legal Action on Climate Change, in challenging the deal that will facilitate the construction of a 200-megawat coal-fired power plant in Naga, Cebu.

Rudy Yanson, FDC-Negros president, said in the press release that they have asked ADB through an open letter to reconsider and reject the loan application since it will support a project that will destroy the environment.

Job fair in Talisay
tomorrow, Saturday

The City of Talisay marks its 10th Minuluan Festival with a two-day job recruitment included in the five-day celebration that started Sept. 7, a press release from the city said.

The job fair that will open at 8 a.m. is scheduled tomorrow and Saturday at the Talisay City Public Plaza Covered Court.

Dubbed “Obra Para Sa Masa,” it is one of the programs of the Talisay City government to help constituents find job here and abroad.

Mayor Eric Saratan said regularly holding job fairs will ease the unemployment problem that other local government units are also facing, the press release said.