NegOr joins Regional OTOP fair

Five LGUs from Oriental Negros, namely: Bayawan City, the municipalities of Amlan, La Libertad, Tayasan and Valencia joined the Visayas OTOP Fair held on November23-26, 2006 at the SM Trade Hall in Cebu city. With the theme: "A Feast for the Senses", the activity was participated in by all provinces of the entire Visayas region and showcased big and small products, from hand-made paper, butingtings, slippers, bags and other fashion accessories and home decors to food items and mineral resources.

Some of the private producers that also added interest to the event were the province's own pride NOAH, Orient Gifts, Buglas Bamboo Institute, Arte de Negros, Babing's, Hikaban Coop., Liptong VCO and Gifts Fashion.

Bayawan City has region's best public market

The City of Bayawan once again brings pride to Negrenses as it won 1st place as "Pamilihan ng Rehiyon" during awarding ceremonies held at the Marriott Hotel in Cebu City last November 2006. Second place went to Pardo, Cebu and 3rd place to Catigbian, Bohol. All three winners received plaques of recognition from DTI and a "Timbangan ng Bayan" each courtesy of the Rotary Club of Cebu. The competition is a DTI program recognizing the best public and private markets all over Region 7.

Before qualifying for the regional level, the Bayawan City Public Market won in the provincial round, with Dumaguete and Tanjay Cities in the 2nd and 3rd spots respectively. The three represented the Province in the regional competition.

Domini Torevillas gets to know Dumaguete's OTOP

In town to attend her alma mater’s (Silliman University) 105th founder’s day celebration, Ms. Domini Torevillas, a noted columnist of the Philippine Daily Star, gets steered away from the portals of SU for a while as she gets oriented by DTI on Dumaguete’s main product (its OTOP) – that is education as a support to IT.

Last August 29, Ms. Torevillas spent most of the day getting oriented by no less than the president of the Negros Oriental State University, Dr. Henry Sojor; St. Paul University’s Sr. Nilda Masirag; Colegio de Sta. Catalina de Alejandria’s Fr. Enrique Balongag; and Foundation University’s VP for Academic Affairs, Dr. Eva Melon. The school heads gave overviews of their respective school’s program highlights and the important things that they’re known for. The idea was to promote what the City of Dumaguete offers and the human resources that we produce, resulting from the main business of this “unitown” environment, Education.

DTI Provincial Director Jong Fortunato, TIDD Chief Aracelia Maypa and CARP staff Tammy Sevilla also brought Ms. Torevillas to the province’s first BPO locator, SPi, where she was also given a tour and a powerpoint presentation of their services.

9/4/06 mlts