News Briefs
Traffic meet
TRAFFIC boards from the highly urbanized cities of Mandaue and Lapu-Lapu including Consolacion town will meet this week to address the problem of traffic.
Mandaue City Mayor Jonas Cortes said that the Mandaue city government would need the help of neighboring cities and towns to address the traffic problem.
“There should be a concerted effort (to address the problem) and so that we can coordinate in making and implementing our ordinances,” said Cortes.
He saw the need for coordination after the city implemented the truck ban.
He said the traffic in Mandaue eased but the traffic in Consolacion town worsened.
“The truck ban wouldn’t work because we tried that before and of course our traffic eased but in Consolacion it got worse,” he said.
He said he already talked to councilor Julius Alegado from Consolacion and was told that they also have plan to implement truck ban since they are experiencing traffic problems and expects for it to worsen with the upcoming opening of another mall.
Cortes said that officials from Consolacion and Lapu-Lapu City were willing to join the meeting. /Reporter Jucell Marie P. Cuyos
Rep. Radaza surgery
LAPU-LAPU City Rep. Arturo Radaza is reportedly confined in St. Luke’s Medical Center in Makati City, following left knee surgery last Saturday afternoon.
His wife Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Paz Radaza said in a press release that the operation lasted for three hours and was a success.
“The surgery was to correct the callous formation in his knee,” Radaza said.
The congressman will be confined in a hospital in the next three to five days.
Before last Saturday’s surgery, the mayor said her husband had to put off the operation due to the inavailability of his doctor.
The congressman, a former Lapu-Lapu City mayor who served for three terms, was succeeded by his wife after he ran and won the city’s lone district seat in last year’s elections.
His surgery prevented him from attending his arraignment in the lamppost case in the Sandiganbayan.
Engr. Roger Veloso of the City Engineer’s Office in Lapu-Lapu City said he and their former chief Engr. Julito Cuizon visited the congressman at the hospital. Reporter Jucell Marie P. Cuyos
Call to back RH bill
FORMER Akbayan party list representative Risa Hontiveros-Baraquel relates the issue of violence against women and children to the lack of support for the RH Bill.
She is pushing for its passage to solve the issues of violence to the “vulnerable” sector of society.
In the Congress, 100 representatives already voiced out their stand with 30 undecided.
Baraquel, who was in Cebu last Friday, asked the Cebuano community especially the local Catholic Church, to support its passage.
NGOs and groups discussed to solve issues of violence on women and children.
Lawyer Esperanza Valenzona, executive officer of Share-A -Child Movement Incorporated (SACMI), said reporting and support mechanism are the means of preventing violence of women and children.
Aside from limited resources, Valenzona also said that there are misplaced resources that hinder monitoring of such cases. /STC Intern Tweeny Malinao
