The Negros Occidental provincial government has enough disaster funds to mitigate the effect of the El Niño phenomenon, expected by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration to start in the last quarter of the year up the first quarter of 2016, Board Member Pedro Zayco said yesterday.

Zayco, chairperson of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan committee on Disaster and Calamities, said the 5 Percent Calamity Fund of the province for this year is about P126 million, in addition to the remaining unspent disaster budget for 2013.

The budget for cloud seeding operations of the province in April was taken from its calamity fund, excluding for disaster training-related activities, he said.

Isabela farmers get P1.8M aid

A total of P1.84 million in farm implements and tools were turned over to about 600 farmers and laborers in Isabela, Negros Occidental, yesterday by the municipal government as part of its Support to Agriculture Productivity project with the Department of Agriculture.

Mayor Enrique Montilla III, in his message read by administrative officer Lenny Iturriaga-Schults, said the equipment are part of the municipality's agricultural and sustainable program towards poverty alleviation.

The DA gave P1.6 million while the municipality gave its P240,000 share, and some of the tools provided were carabao drawn harrows, plows, sprayers, spades, scythes, hoes and knapsacks, she said.

Teleperformance
joins road shows

Teleperformance, the world's leading provider of outsourced customer experience management services, recently participated in a series of career road shows in top colleges and universities in the Visayas region, a press release from the firm said yesterday.

The road shows covered Northern Iloilo Polytechnic State College in Estancia, Iloilo, Negros Oriental State University in Dumaguete City and Carlos Hilado Memorial State College in Talisay City.

More than 700 college students from the three universities attended the free career orientation given by Teleperformance and its industry partners.

The students were provided a preview of what it is like to be working in the information technology and business process outsourcing (IT-BPO) industry, the press release said.

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