”Biotech scare no more”, say print and radio media practitioners from Visayas during the Media Workshop on Creating Public Awareness, Knowledge and Understanding of Biotech Crops, held at Sabin Resort Hotel, Ormoc City, on 12 May 2009. [...] During the workshop, Dr. Jose Bacusmo, president of the Visayas State University (VSU), stressed ”the need to forge partnership with the media as it is vital to communicate biotechnology to the public, especially to the Visayas region, which is presently in the hype of scare issues on biotechnology.”