Nalzaro: Kibitzers on Carbon development sunstar.com.ph - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sunstar.com.ph Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
(Movement Against Carbon Market Privatization / MANILA BULLETIN)
At least 100 vendors and stakeholders of the country’s oldest public market asked City Mayor Edgardo Labella to junk the joint venture agreement (JVA) that the city entered into with Megawide Construction Corporation, the engineering company which won the right to redevelop the market.
The vendors expressed their sentiments for at least 15 minutes before they were asked by the police to disperse.
During the rally, the groups also submitted copies of their petition addressed to Labella.
The petition, which was signed by various leaders of various vendors association in the city, is urging the mayor to junk the (JVA).
SunStar
+ March 02, 2021 IT IS a bit surprising that a sector of vendors in Carbon Market is going out to protest the private firm-led development of the area. Megawide Construction Corp., the only qualified bidder who responded to the call as it claimed, said the development concept for the market has been informed by comprehensive consultations with stakeholders. No one should be left behind, the firm said, widely publishing the phases of the project in a number of press presentations.
Carbon vendors groups coalesced into the Movement Against Carbon Market Privatization and Carbonhanong Alyansa sa Reporma ug Bahandianong Ogma sa mga Nanginabuhi and took to the streets on March 1 to air their fears on the joint-venture agreement (JVA) between the Cebu City Government and Megawide, saying it might lead to privatization and eventually displace their livelihood. Were these vendors left out in the claimed consultations that Megawide conducted during the design stage of
Groups protest against joint venture agreement to redevelop Carbon sunstar.com.ph - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sunstar.com.ph Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.