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MANDALUYONG NEW PUBLIC MARKET OPENS.

Mandaluyong City Mayor Benhur Abalos shows the first level of the 3-storey building that houses the new public market that consists of 204 stalls for wet and dry sections.

The public market, constructed with the initiative of Mayor Abalos, is the response of the city government to the pressing problem of ambulant vendors in that area, securing an economic stability for these “entrepreneurs.”

Also in photo are Addition Hills Brgy. Captain Rodolfo Posadas, members of the barangay council and City Engr. Cris Roxas.

Mandaluyong law vs bike-riding criminals restricts male riders only

MANILA, Philippines–Only women and children can ride together without undergoing scrutiny. Male bikers need papers.

Despite the early criticism, the Mandaluyong City government is bent on implementing an ordinance supposedly designed to deter motorcycle-riding criminals by allowing only women and children to share a bike and requiring men to carry certain documents if they wish to do so.

In an interview Wednesday, Mayor Benhur Abalos said the original ordinance—which requires riders, regardless of gender, to present documents proving their identities and blood relations—had been tweaked.

Billboard blight

I think that I shall never see

“A poem as lovely as a tree

“Indeed unless the billboards fall,

“I think I’ll never see a tree at all.”

This piece of doggerel was written by a Joyce Kilmer wannabe in the United States, but he might as well have been expressing the thoughts of Metro Manila as well as provincial residents who are being overwhelmed by the billboard blight.