Saturday, September 27, 2008 Barrita: No country for mad dogs By Eddie O. Barrita Small Bites
CEBU City Mayor Tommy Osmeña was grinning from ear to ear in photos published in Cebu dailies Friday after real estate giant Filinvest Land Inc. offered to develop a 50-hectare portion of the South Road Properties (SRP).
This means a whooping P2 billion for the city’s coffers and at least P80 billion investments poured into the SRP.
Watch him laughing his way to the bank.
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The sale of 10 hectares and the development of another 40 hectares of the SRP will take some time but Mayor Osmeña assured the project will take off before his term ends in 2010.
He also guaranteed there will be no irong buang (mad dogs) at the SRP.
Capitol officials taunting only rabid dogs are interested in the SRP may soon find out SRP is no country for mad dogs.
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The Cebu City Council has called for the removal of all allegedly overpriced decorative lampposts in the city because they have become “symbols of corruption.”
Some people want these lampposts to stay to become constant reminders of corruption.
Those who want to hang from the lampposts officials who made money from them should also know these lampposts are not strong enough to hold them that doing so would only cause unnecessary injuries.
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Rep. Raul del Mar (Cebu City, north) said the reproductive health bill now being deliberated in the House of Representatives would make sex education among schoolchildren of certain ages compulsory.
I heard it right, only sex education would be made compulsory, not sex.
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Government has banned the importation of milk products from China after they were found to contain melamine which sickened 54,000 children and caused four deaths in China.
Once again, it shows mother’s milk is the best milk for children-–they are always fresh and they come in nice containers.
The tainted milk case may also encourage breastfeeding, but it should only be for children.
