There are 14,300 vacancies available for Negrenses at the mega job fair of the Department of Labor and Employment on the occasion of its 80th Founding Anniversary Friday.

Of the vacancies, 4,562 are for overseas jobs and the rest for local employment, Ma Victoria Mondragon, DOLE Provincial Director said.

Themed “Walumpung Taong Pag-Unlad, Walumpung Taong Paglilingkod”, the job fair will involve 22 local companies and 10 overseas firms, Mondragon said.

‘Rice production
to decline by 3-4%’

Rice production will likely slow down to 3-4 percent this year compared to the 8.08 percent growth recorded last year due to the recent calamities that struck the country, Agriculture Undersecretary Dante De Lima said yesterday.

The projected rate of rice production needs to be trim down to 4 percent-5 percent for the next three years which is below the original target of 6 percent under the food self-sufficiency program of the DA, according to De Lima.

“We believe that this growth is sustainable because of these calamities. We need to adapt to this new normal,” he said.

CENECO to launch
pilferage text hotline

The Central Negros Electric Cooperative is setting up a hotline where people can report through text messages anyone involved in electric pilferage, its general manager, Sulpicio Lagarde, said yesterday.

Lagarde said they will assign a permanent operator to receive the text messages so CENECO can dispatch personnel to check on them.

Once the report is verified, CENECO will give a P300 free load to the informant as a reward, he also said.

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