Mandaue markets get two-month payment break

MANDAUE City vendors who were transferred to the new public market will receive a two-month reprieve on stall rentals from on Dec. 18 to Feb. 18 next year.

The City Council  approved an ordinance for this break  in yesterday’s session.

Councilor Jimmy Lumapas, chairman of the council’s market and abattoir, said the two-month break will help vendors recover their expenses for their transfer to the new market, which opens on Dec. 18.

To attract more customers, Lumapas said free electric car rides  will be provided for shoppers to the new market.

“With the transfer, they need time to inform their customers of their new stalls in  the new market,” Lumapas said in Cebuano.

But he said the moratorium doesn’t include water and electricity bills. The wet market will be open from  4 a.m. to 10:30 p.m., while the night market on the second floor will open from 7 p.m. to  4:00 a.m., said market administrator Musoline Suliva. Reporter Jucell Marie P. Cuyos