Wednesday, August 29, 2007 Barrita: Statues By Eddie O. Barrita Small Bites
WHILE our national hero, Dr. Jose Rizal, is sweltering in his coat and tie under the tropical sun in front of almost every municipal and city hall, two great Mandauehanons, former Gov. Sotero Barte Cabahug and former mayor Alejandro Seno Fortuna, are “hidden among the plants near the Rizal Library.”
Mandaue City Mayor Jonas Cortes is about to rescue them from oblivion and move them to the Heritage Garden in front of the Cebu International Convention Center (CICC).
Maybe the two can stand proud in front of the CICC after the Commission on Audit saw nothing wrong with the price or the method by which the CICC was built and furnished.
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The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) should not allow the over P300 million Asean summit decorative lampposts and streetlamps to rot and be pilfered of its wirings.
Lapu-Lapu City officials were right in asking the DPWH to keep them working.
They may have been overpriced and caused the suspension of at least two city mayors, but that’s not enough reason for them to be laid to waste.
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Jennielyn Nuez of Cebu Velez College can’t believe she placed ninth in this year’s nursing board exams, one of nine from Cebu who landed in the top 10.
Nuez was among the 336 retakers who chose to take the entire test again after a leakage controversy marred the result of the 2006 exams.
Well, a vindication of sorts for Nuez and her batch, but their ordeal should all the more prod authorities to prosecute all those involved in the leakage.
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In Cebu City, National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) agents snared a cop for allegedly extorting P2 million from a businessman.
In Lapu-Lapu City, cops arrested a woman for trying to bribe them in exchange for her nephew’s release from jail.
That should teach us a little lesson on geography.
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Sen. Gregorio “Gringo” Honasan told a national daily he did not regret leading coups against former president Corazon Aquino because the coups even contributed to the country’s economic growth.
If only he wasn’t granted amnesty and voters did not make him senator, he would have led a series of coups that could have helped us become an economic tiger.
