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Monday, August 07, 2006
Iloilo wants to be part of Panay dev't plan
By Jay Dooma Balnig
MAYOR Mayor Jerry Treñas hopes that President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo will include Iloilo City in the Panay Development Authority's creation of the Task Force Panay Tourism Development Authority.
Iloilo City was excluded as member of the body based on the original provision of Republic Act 3856, which was enacted since 1964.
The same provisions were adopted by Department of Tourism (DOT) Undersecretary Salvador Sarabia Jr. during a presentation at the Regional Development Council headed by Antique Governor Salvacion Perez last August 3 in Sarabia Manor Hotel and Convention Center.
Treñas, in a media interview, recently learned that the documents of the proposed creation was already in the table of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for her approval and issuance of an executive order for the its realization.
After knowing this, Treñas immediately faxed Malacañang appealing to Arroyo to reconsider and include Iloilo City in the body.
In the two-page letter, Treñas cited several grounds why the RDC should include Iloilo City in their committee and development plan.
He also questioned the legal personality of the body based on the Local Government Code or Republic Act 7160.
Arroyo has yet to answer the Treñas's communiqué.
Immature
Governor Perez asserted that Treñas is "immature" after the latter went on media interviews and lambasted the RDC and the DOT for not including the city in the development plan.
Perez added that during the presentation of the plan and prior to his interview, "Treñas was not able to hold his temper after he found out that Iloilo City was not listed on the body."
But with the intervention of Secretary Mike Defensor, Treñas was calmed down.
She thinks that Treñas is already convinced on the proposal that the body is still going to revise it.
She did not expect that Treñas would go to media and criticize the proposal.
(August 7, 2006 issue)
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