Child labor is still prevalent in Bacolod City, said Councilor Ana Marie Palermo, chairman of the committee on laws, policies and good government, Sunday... "We have monitored that there are still minors working at the Bacolod City Reclamation Port, earning a petty amount," Palermo said. She stressed in an interview that some minor children were also spotted working in the slaughterhouse and the public plaza among others... The higher child labor incidence in northern Negros is mainly because of the presence of sugar plantations that employ children farm workers.