STC went to Bacolod City in the province of Negros Occidental and visited PAGASA’s Member there on 15 Jan. 2017.  Mark Gomez operates two KJ Foodmarts and 26 Munsterrific C-Stores in areas surrounding Bacolod.  Thanks to the boom in Business Process Outsourcing, it has contributed to the mushrooming of C-Stores in Mega-Bacolod.

On 13 Jan. 2017, PAGASA’s PRO William Villanueva attended the Consultation Meeting by the National Solid Waste Management Commission (NSWMC) at their office inside the DENR Compound along Visayas Ave., QC to ascertain the needs of stakeholders in relation to solid waste management (SWM) as well as act as a pre-work activity leading to the Symposium on SWM at the Quezon Circle on 1/27/17.