Wednesday, May 14, 2008 Barrita: Albatross By Eddie O. Barrita Small Bites
SOUTH Road Properties' (SRP) loan payment got the lion’s share in the city’s first supplemental this year at P284.50 million, of which P63.73 million is for interest alone.
The SRP has truly become an albatross hanging around the city’s neck.
Commission on Audit should help the city in the sale of SRP lots.
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Waters in SRP’s unfilled ponds were reportedly attracting migratory birds.
With birds flocking to the city’s albatross, we might as well make it a bird sanctuary.
Of course, the SRP is one albatross we hope will fly away at the first crack of day.
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The Cebu Provincial Board, on motion of PB Member Victor Maambong, passed a resolution opposing the P10-billion Mactan North Reclamation and Development Project for bypassing other government agencies.
Well, Lapu-Lapu City already has a bird sanctuary in Olango Island.
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Rep. Antonio Cuenco (Cebu City, south) said he will pressure the Presidential Anti-Smuggling Group (PASG) to name Cebu’s six big-time smugglers.
Will they?
It seems Congress and the public will be left hanging after the probe on rampant vehicle smuggling in Cebu ends.
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Rep. Cuenco said the six smugglers are reportedly dangerous.
PASG Chief Antonio Villar Jr. said they are influential and publicly known in Cebu but can’t be prosecuted because they use dummies and fictitious consignees.
So, can the House probe unmask them or have them prosecuted?
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Cebuano officials urged Cebu Pacific Air, which carries the name of the island, to improve their services, fearing it will affect Cebu’s reputation.
They learned only about the airline’s poor service from Medellin Vice Mayor Michael Miranda’s disappointing experience during a recent trip to Manila.
They probably fly Philippine Airlines.
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Newly-installed Armed Forces chief of staff Lt. Gen. Alexander Yano has vowed to crush by 2010 the 39-year-old insurgency of the New People’s Army (NPA) whose strength has dwindled from 11,930 in 2001 to only 5,470 at the end of 2008.
