Wednesday, October 25, 2006 Barrita: Bet made in jest By Eddie O. Barrita Small bites
Cebu Vice Gov. Greg Sanchez, a civil engineer, says the Cebu International Convention Center (CICC) will be “useable” by Nov. 15 but not 100 percent complete.
Completion, he says, is relative.
No wonder architect Manuel Guanzon now says his P1.5-million bet was made in jest.
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Army engineers trained in construction work have been deployed at the CICC construction site.
But not to answer a distress signal from Asean summit organizers.
They were just called in to paint flower boxes and clean the debris.
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A Cebu City-owned Kaohsiung bus was seen dumping mentally ill vagrants in a mountain barangay.
Not surprising at all.
Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center’s mental ward is full and City Hall still has to build its own.
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Some 100 cops stormed Barangay Ermita in Cebu City at daybreak Monday and seized gambling machines and illegal drugs.
The police can be effective against gambling machines, even against male strippers, but not against vigilantes.
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Lawyer Alex Tolentino, Integrated Bar of the Philippines Cebu City chapter president, has finally turned over to the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) a list of names possibly involved in vigilante-style killings of 175 people since December 2004.
NBI 7 Director Medardo de Lemos says he’ll look into Tolentino’s leads.
Whatever that means, Tolentino’s sleuthing days are over.
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Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña, according to a newspaper report, plans to hire city jail inmates for manual labor at the South Road Properties, paying them P100 a day plus free meals.
Good for their rehabilitation, City Hall officials say.
