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Monday, July 17, 2006
Seares: The CICC and plan D
By Pachico A. Seares
News Sense
SKEPTICS who worry the Cebu International Convention Center (CICC) won’t be completed on time for the Asean summit in December may be glad to know there are backup plans.
The plans don’t stop at B, which is often the subject of limp humor in movies (sample: “Plan B is that there is no plan B”).
For CICC, they have plans C and D if plans A and B fail. What can be stronger than a structure that uses not one but four letters of the alphabet?
I learned that Marciano Paynor Jr. of the national organizing committee was pressed into it by a congressman (Raul del Mar of Cebu City north, who looks beyond today and sizes up tomorrow in five-year blocks.)
The dream
OK, we are assured that Asean delegates will have roof over their heads even if we don’t finish the CICC on Nov. 15. But the summit might be moved to Manila, which, by the way, is what plan D says.
Don’t think about plan D, Paynor told Rotarians last week, “unthinkable.”
But who doesn’t think and agonize over the prospect of Cebu losing the summit to Manila?
That would kill, with as much finality as .45 bullets pumped into the head and heart by motorcycle-riding assassins, the belief, hope, and faith that Gov. Gwen Garcia talked about in her Sopa.
The CICC has become more than a building. Without it, they might go beyond plan C. Cebu could forfeit the summit.
With that freaking plan D, Cebu’s dream could be crushed.
For Bisaya stories from Cebu. Click here. (July 17, 2006 issue)
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