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5 BPO firms eye Cybercentre spaces

Wed - 19 Jun Written by Administrator

By EUGENE ADIONG

BACOLOD City — Five business process outsourcing (BPO) companies intend to put up shop at the Negros First Cybercentre.

These were Accenture, Capstone Solutions Inc., CB Richard Ellis Inc., Colliers International and Jones Lang La Salle Inc., said Provincial Administrator Enrique Pinongan.

These firms were eyeing the second and third floors of the building. Spaces on the said floors will be leased to these companies at P250 per square meter, Pinongan said.

With this, the province is set to earn P2,183,000 monthly or P26,196,000 yearly, he said.

Meanwhile, commercial spaces on the building’s first floor will be leased at P300 per square meter, according to Pinongan.

This would let the province earn P935,100 per month and P11,221,200 per year, he said.

A list provided by Pinongan showed that the applicants for commercial spaces include banks, convenience stores, supermarkets, coffee shops, a travel agency, furniture and appliance showroom, boutique, a school for massage therapists, a beauty salon, a pharmacy, medical and dental clinics, a law office, an Internet café, and organic food and pasalubong stores.

In fact, only 104 commercial spaces are available at the first floor, but 47 businesses have applied to lease 109 commercial spaces, Pinongan said.

Pinongan said they aim to finish the Cybercentre by the end of the year because the BPO firms want to occupy it by November or December.

He said a Capitol committee is preparing a draft on the guidelines for the lease of spaces and the rates, which will need the Sangguniang Panlalawigan’s approval.

Pinongan said P206,243,059 of the P449,873,520 loan that the Capitol applied for with the Development Bank of the Philippines has been released.

He also said the Capitol needs an additional P180 million loan for Phase 2 of the project, which will cover the purchase of four elevators, electrical connections and the parking lot./PN

 

Historical council vs June 18 city ‘Charter Day’

Wed - 19 Jun Written by Administrator

By EUGENE ADIONG

BACOLOD City — The Negros Occidental Historical Council Inc. does not favor celebrating the Charter Day of this capital city every June 18.

In a statement, the council said it will oppose any move that will change the official Bacolod City Charter Day from October 19 to June 18.

It issued the statement while the city government led by outgoing Mayor and congressman-elect Evelio Leonardia was celebrating the event at the New Government Center on Tuesday.

The event’s guest speaker, Sen. Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III, said he will help this city make amendments to the law that set the Charter Day on October 19.

Led by its chairman, Msgr. Guillermo Ma. Gaston, the historical council appealed to Leonardia and other sectors to “set aside partisan interest” and “join the citizenry of Bacolod” in observing the city’s Charter Day every October 19.

“The issue is divisive,” the council said in its statement.

It said there is no need to change the date because while Commonwealth Act No. 326, which created Bacolod as a Charter City, was signed by President Manuel Quezon on June 18, 1938, Section 50 of the same Act provided that the city government “will be organized” after the appointment and qualification of the first city mayor.

Quezon came to Bacolod on October 19, 1938, and organized the new city government by appointing and swearing in to office on the same day the first city mayor, Alfredo Montelibano Sr., the council said.

On May 19, 1994, President Fidel Ramos signed Republic Act 7724, declaring October 19 of every year as a special nonworking holiday in Bacolod in view of the city’s Charter Day celebration, it said.

Meanwhile, the National Historical Commission maintains that Bacolod City started its “corporate existence” on October 19, 1938, the Commission’s chairperson, Ma. Serena Diokno, said in media reports.

Monico Puentevella, the newly elected mayor, said he will announce his position on the issue “at the right time.”/PN

 

3 vehicles run over disabled man

Wed - 19 Jun Written by Administrator

By JOHNN NELBERT DELA CRUZ

BACOLOD City — A person with disability died after three speeding vehicles run over him on Araneta Street here.

A vehicle hit the unidentified man who was crossing the street at about 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, investigation by the Traffic Management Unit–Traffic Accident and Investigation Section (TAIS–TMU) revealed.

Two more succeeding vehicles run over the victim, SPO4 Dennis Perma, the TMU–TAIS head investigator, said, citing witness accounts.

Perma said the witnesses, however, were unable to identify the type of the vehicles.

Investigators said the victim succumbed to fatal injuries in the body, particularly in the head.

The incident occurred in front of a gasoline station.

Perma appealed to the public to help the TMU–TAIS identify the suspects.

The victim’s body was taken to the Rolling Hills Funeral Parlor here./PN

   

Guv, mayor differ over mining halt in Sipalay

Wed - 19 Jun Written by Administrator

BACOLOD City — Gov. Alfredo Marañon Jr. was not alarmed by the temporary closure of the mining operation of Philex Mining Corp., owned by business tycoon Manny Pangilinan, in Sipalay City.

“It is not a loss,” Marañon yesterday said in spite of reports that an estimated 100 workers have been affected.

The governor was not convinced that atrocities caused by the New People’s Army (NPA) forced Pangilinan to freeze their operation.

“I don’t think that it is all about the NPAs. The ore in the area may not be abundant,” he said.

But unlike the governor, Sipalay City Mayor Oscar Montilla was upset of Pangilinan’s decision.

Montilla said he felt bad for the affected workers and regretful over the job opportunities the company can offer once its operation goes full blast.

He was also worried that Pangilinan may totally pull out his investment and move it to other feasible areas in the region.

Pangilinan announced to temporarily stop the operation of Philex due to subsequent attacks staged by the NPA against the company.

The most recent was on May 3, when the company’s bunkhouses in Brgy. Nabulao were burned. None of the employees were hurt.

“We cannot afford to continue our operations (in Sipalay) knowing that the lives of our employees there are at risk because of NPA atrocities,” Pangilinan said in a press conference at the Shangri-la Hotel in Makati City. The mining site encompasses barangays Nabulao and Camindangan.

But Pangilinan assured that they will resume their operations once peace and order is established in Sipalay City.

Currently, Pangilinan said they are focused on their mining operations in Benguet and Surigao Del Norte. (PNA)