(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).
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January 29, 2021 TWO barangay halls in Cebu City have been placed on lockdown since Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021, after some of its personnel tested positive for Sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).
City Councilor Joel Garganera, deputy chief implementer of the Emergency Operations Center (EOC), said the barangay halls have been on lockdown for contact tracing purposes.
Garganera refused to identify the locations of the two barangay halls.
The councilor said four personnel tested positive for Covid-19 in one barangay hall, while one worker tested positive from the other barangay hall.
The positive barangay hall workers are currently undergoing a 14-day quarantine.
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+ January 14, 2021 THE Cebu CFI Community Cooperative can get back the P50,000 in cash that it gave to the Cebu City Government when it attempted to join the Swiss challenge for the redevelopment of the Carbon Public Market.
City Administrator Floro Casas Jr., who also sits as chairman of the Joint Venture Selection Committee (JVSC), said the City has no bases to hold the amount given by the CFI.
The City Treasurer Office, he said, was forced to receive the amount.
“As far as I know, they have not taken it back. But if they will get it back, anytime, they can claim it,”
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+ January 11, 2021 MEGAWIDE Construction Corp. on Monday, Jan. 11, 2021, signed a joint venture agreement with the Cebu City Government for the phased redevelopment of the Carbon Public Market.
Megawide, parent firm of Mactan-Cebu International Airport (MCIA) concessionalre GMR Megawide Cebu Airport Corp., said in a disclosure that it will invest P5.5 billion in the project. Civil works will start in March 2021.
“Our target (groundbreaking) date is in March and tuloy-tuloy na (we will continue with the civil works),” Megawide chief corporate affairs and branding officer Manuel Louie Ferrer said.
The City Government, on the other hand, granted Megawide exclusive use and possession of the project site.