Mga negosyante s Lapu-Lapu nagkahiusa ug nipalanog sa ilang tingog !!!

[apollo13]

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http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/ceb...industry..html
Saturday, May 12, 2007
Speak out: We love Mactan--way kurap-kurap
By Efrain T. Pelaez Jr.
President, Mactan Island Chamber of Commerce and Industry


TODAY a new Battle of Mactan is brewing.

It is not being fought with bolos, spears and swords but attitudes.


Are we about to lose our paradise island to poor planning, social indifference, political ineptness and environmental atrophy?

Unless we stand defiantly, as Lapulapu did 500 years ago, to confront these problems, we will surely lose this paradise.

Recently, a group of Mactan businessmen formed the Mactan Island Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Fed up with local government harassment and ineptitude, and the pervasive pattern of graft, it has set itself on course for affirmative action.

Mactan businessmen have muddled along all these years without much government support or tourism infrastructure.

If not for maverick entrepreneurs and private investment, there would still have been nothing on the island other than Mactan’s other true success story, the export zones of Peza.

No tourism estates, no tourism infrastructure like good roads, streetlights, sidewalks, utility services, waste management, and the like can be attributed to judicious government planning.

Everything is done in fits and starts, always long overdue with private business picking up most of the tab.

Asean summit

It is only because Mactan co-hosted the Asean summit in January 2007 that we finally got a few kilometers of highway repaved.

We also got a bit of facelift plus hundreds of overpriced streetlights and decorative lamp posts.

Our local officials went over the top with their Christmas lights and bamboo towers and landscaping projects.

We are all waiting to see the accounting and final bill of all these capricious and often ridiculous initiatives.

The hundreds of deco lamps and streetlights costing over P175 million could have housed over 3000 squatter families using the Gawad Kalinag model, with P50,000 per house.

We could have easily installed decent lighting for the vent in the same streets and routes used by the Asean summit guests and still would have provided 3,000 new homes for our Mactan brethren who live in squatter hovels.

All we ask is for an infinitesimal fraction to make our island tourist friendly before it is too late.

Dark side

While we see the good side of Mactan in some slick government TV ads and propaganda, there is a truly dark side to this equation.

One only has to take a short ride from the posh Shangrila Mactan Island Resort to see the contrast.

A few meters away from the Magellan Shrine area, you will already find a pathetic eyesore.

Streets that remain unpaved and have slipped into pitiful disrepair are found all over Mactan’s interiors.

Open garbage dumps, squatter homes multiplying annually and even illegal drugs sold in just about every barrio.

Is this the same Mactan glorified in our travel brochures?

Simple plan

Our chamber has drawn up a simple plan to save Mactan.

It is the common sense plan devoid of the frills and bureaucratic embroidery.

It will not cost much, and it is plain, simple, doable, cheap and logical.

It is made so that our leaders will note that we who love Mactan and invested in its future cannot even live in its past.

And that we will no longer accept apologies or apologists for the present, or trust them with our future.

We will not accept incompetent local government leaders either.

We have had enough clowns and showmen, enough traveling salesmen who try to sell our paradise to the world so tourists will come in droves.

Yet, we have done nothing to clean house and even put it in order.

If you cannot control the squatters, pick up the garbage, fix our streets or build proper sewers, why do we want to invite anyone here anyway?

If by some magic we can turn the clock back 20 or 30 years and start over with out pristine beaches and coral reefs and simple and welcoming townsfolk, we would be able to develop this island into one of the most coveted pieces of real estate on the planet.

But this we know can not be so.

Nevertheless, we businessmen can still do what we can to put our house and our island home in order.

Let us beg our leaders to take heed and listen to our plea.

And let us once again instill a culture of honesty and hospitality that is required of a real tourist paradise and investment haven.

We love Mactan---way kurap-kurap! That is our battle cry.

[moonski]

BRAVO... I guess that is every Filipino dream except sa mga politician ha. Dili ko kasabut ani nila mura ug mga buta, bungol ug labaw sa tanan manhid... Wala gyod initiative (kon wala para ilaha). Kon ang ato mga leader mga tarong pa lang unta (pwera sa katong pipila nga maau gyod ha), kanindot kaha puy-an kining atong yutang natawhan pero unsaon man nga nagpalabi man ning ilang pagkahakog. Pag-usab na intawon mo mga BUAYA (corrupt politician).....

[moonski]

Double post... sorry mods

Basta..... Politician, pag-usab namo padulong sa katarong...

[apollo13]

To all Oponganons! This would have been located in Lapulapu City. But thanks to Mayor Radaza , it did not push through

Cebu Daily News / News
http://www.google.com.ph/search?hl=e...cr%3DcountryPH
Bigfoot Entertainment signs up for city’s SRP
Posted date: February 22, 2007


AN entertainment company is Cebu City's first client at the South Road Properties (SRP).
Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña yesterday signed a 25-year lease contract with Bigfoot Entertainment Philippines Inc., which plans to put up a sound stage on a 20,000-sq.-m. portion of the 330-hectare reclaimed land.

The contract signing, held in the presence of Vice Mayor Michael Rama and city councilors, will add over P2 million to government coffers as advance payment for the first five years of Bigfoot’s occupancy.

“This is only the first step of the many more investments that we plan to do here. Cebu has proven to be a place where business is well appreciated,” said Michael Gleissner, chairman of Bigfoot Entertainment, who represented the company in the contract.

The city government leased the 20,000-sq.-m. lot to Bigfoot at $40 per square meter or $800,000 for the whole lot.

Bigfoot will have to give an advance payment covering five years of occupancy to the city government in July, six months from yesterday’s contract signing.

A price escalation of four percent will be imposed on the base rent on the fourth year of the company’s occupancy.

With the presence of Bigfoot at the SRP, Osmeña said he was confident other locators would follow.

According to a council resolution, the mayor was authorized to enter into a lease agreement with Bigfoot that would allow the company to occupy the designated SRP lot starting this March until February 2032.

Bigfoot is required to submit to the city government a detailed plan of their construction project within the next 30 days.

The plan has to be approved by the city government before it can be implemented.

“Construction of the building shall commence within six days after the approval of the plans by the lessor,” the contract said.

Gleissner told the council that he would be putting up sound studios on the lot. The studios would provide areas for different sets that would be used in the production of international films.

“We are putting up an entertainment facility that will house movie productions for the international market,” he said.

Gleissner said he would bring modern film making technology and top-rated producers to work in Cebu.

The SRP sound studio will be made to compete with those located in Los Angeles, Romania and Europe, he said.

“I hope that when we finish our first movie, we will all be proud of our contribution to Cebu,” he said.

Aside from putting Cebu on the world map, Osmeña earlier said the presence of a sound studio at the SRP would also provide employment opportunities to the Cebuanos.

[Progress Philippines!]

Let us stop these bad people in Lapu lapu government

[tbag77]

tingug mga taga opon para ma abot ni sa mga buaya!!!

[selosoko]

So much has been said here, I think there is only one place apprpriate for Mayor Radaza, and I think all the people of Lapulapu with sense of decency, morally upright , God-fearing will agree with me on this:




I KNOW MAYOR BOY HAS NOWHERE ELSE TO GO BUT JAIL ONCE THE CRIMINAL CASE OF PLUNDER WILL BE FILED AGAINST HIM IN THE SANDIGANBAYAN FOR THE ASEAN LAMP POST SCANDAL/OVERPRICING. SO MAYOR, ENJOY YOUR SHORTLIVED VICTORY WHILE THE HANDCUFFS ARE NOT YET PUT ON YOUR ARMS

Goodness shall always prevail over evil in the end

You obviously haven't read the rules of this forum. Now is the time to do it. Look up rule #3.

[lemonyelloy]

KUDOS to Mr. Pelaez and all the Mactan Chamber members for the courage to voice out!!! Keep up the good work :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

[lemonyelloy]

Sun.Star Cebu Friday, May 25, 2007
Lapu-Lapu parish now a national shrine
By Ace Matthew Togonon Mass Comm Intern

Cardinal Vidal also explained the significance of the shrine’s name.

“Ang Regla nagpasabot ug balaud, mga balaud nga kinahanglan sa pagpuyo sa sugo sa Diyos (Regla refers to the rules we need to live in accordance with God’s will),” he said.

He added that the Virgin of the Rule is a model of obedience and fidelity and should, among others, inspire those in government to avoid bribery.

“Way mohatag ug suborno kon wa’y mangayo niini (No one would give bribes if no one asks for them),” he said.

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/ceb...al.shrine.html

[apollo13]

@lemonyelloy

Bato-bato sa langit, ang tamaan huwag magalit ! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: