Close to 2,000 jobs up for grabs Davao City job fair on May 1

Atotal of 1,857 local job vacancies will be offered during the Labor Day job fair on May 1 in Davao City, according to the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE)Davao said.

During Kapehan sa Dabaw on

Monday, lawyer Randolf Pensoy, DOLE-Davao regional director said 38 local and 10 overseas companies have so far signed up to participate in the job fair.

He said the agency has yet to finalize the number of vacancies for overseas employment.

He added that they are hoping to have more job seekers to be hired on the spot during the fair to be held at the SM City Davao.

He said the top 10 job vacancies are sales consultants, tellers, machine operators, mar-

Leo XL Fuentes, Masipag-Mindanao regional coordinator, called on local governments, especially those in Mindanao, to support the “growing clamor of local farmers, scientists and consumers” against the commercial release of Golden Rice and Bt Eggplant.

The LGUs must promote and uphold the people’s right to a balanced and healthful ecology, he noted.

“We reiterate that genetically modified (GM) crops like Golden Rice and Bt Eggplant have dangers of irreversible damage to the environment, biodiversity of rice and eggplant, and human health,” Fuentes said in a statement.

Proponents said the technology is safe to human health and the environment and will serve Vitamin A-deficient children, mothers and pregnant women, especially in areas with severe malnutrition.

However, data shows that beta-carotene content in Golden Rice is measly and inconsistent, according to Masipag.

On the contrary, a wide array of safe and low-cost vegetables, fruits, and other crops are a dependable source of nutrition for communities. Vitamin A deficiency and other malnutrition issues confronting many households can also be traced to the lack of access to sufficient, nutritious, and safe food due to poverty, it added.

On the other hand, commercial propagation of Bt Eggplant or Talong was approved last year.

Bt or Bacillus thuringiensis is a soil bacterium injected into the genes of eggplants to produce its own toxin to kill fruit and shoot borers, a common pest that consumes and damage eggplants.

Fuentes recalled that in 2010, FCLOSE, P10 FFARMERS, P10

The High Tribunal’s Public Information Office said the Supreme Court required the respondents – the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture (DA), the Secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, the Secretary of the Department of Health, the Director of the Bureau of Plant Industry of the Department of Agriculture, the Philippine Rice Research Institute, and the University of the