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Saturday, September 02, 2006
Bayawan market passes trade agency search
By Syril G. Repe
BAYAWAN City may yet be one of the contenders of the month-long search for the provincial category of the Pambansang Pamilihan award project of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) after passing all the criteria set by the agency.
DTI's provincial selection team ended the assessment and evaluation of all public and private markets in the third district to select the provincial winner that would qualify to the regional search.
The team, headed by DTI's Jose Julio Somido and Adelina Balatayo, was composed of Larry Montenegro of the consumer groups, Evansueda Abbas of the Department of Agriculture (DA), Irene Alviola of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), Peter Paul Palma of Kiwanis Buglas, and Syril G. Repe of Sun.Star Dumaguete and radio station dyRM, representing the media.
The team gave the highest grade to the city's public market for complying with the law on the use of price tags, proper weighing scale, exhibit of a price board, the presence of a consumer welfare desk, a clean market surrounding including the presence of trash cans with garbage regularly disposed, clean comfort rooms with adequate water supply, and the presence of a market vendors' association.
George Martino Torreda, Bayawan City market supervisor, said his staff and the task force were regularly monitoring stalls and stores for compliance with DTI standards to ferret out and sanction violators.
"Ang among merkado adunay dili mominos sa 362 ka mga stalls, diin ang uban nga dili makabayd sa iyang abang og laing nga obligasyon mapadlakan gayud apan maabli lang gihapon human mabayri sa tag-iya ang ilang mga abang, og akong mga tinugyanan sa merkado padayon sa ilang pagmonitosa kalihukan sa merkado kon ang mga vendors nagsubay ba sa balaod," Torreda said.
Mayor German Saraña said lauded DTI for the project.
Saraña said the city's public market had been accredited by the Department of Health (DOH) as a healthy market under the Healthy City Program for maintaining sanitation and facilities to ensure safety and convenience of the stallholders and the public buying public in 2004 and last year.
Among the market policies enforced are the No Spitting, No Littering, No Smoking, and No Cooking orders, and regular salt iodization testing.
The team also visited the public markets of Basay, and Sta. Catalina, but gave them failing grades for not observing DTI's price tag law.
(August 31, 2006 issue)
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