CEBU

Editorial: Addressing the inevitable

But for barangay health workers and tanods in the province, they’ve been given an early Christmas
present when Gov. Gwen Garcia announced last Thursday, July 4, 2019, that she would increase their
cash incentive from the Capitol.
In Cebu City, Mayor Edgardo Labella, during his inaugural speech last Tuesday, July 2, bared his to-do-
list during his term.
Top on his agenda is addressing urban flashfloods during heavy downpours.
It has become a pressing issue since the weather bureau Pagasa declared the start of the rainy season last
June 14 and the rains arrived and the Mahiga Creek overflowed last June 23, sending piles of garbage into
the streets of Barangay Subangdaku in Mandaue City.
Then vice mayor Carlo Fortuna blamed the Cebu City Government for not strictly enforcing the three-
meter easement rule and the ban on the throwing of garbage in non-designated areas, especially in
culverts, for the incident.
“We believe the source of the flood and the source of the garbage could be coming from Cebu City
because the outfall of the creek is shared by both cities... In the end, the water flows to Mandaue,”
Fortuna had said in Cebuano.