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I have nothing but mistrust for public officials manuevering to privatize MIWD. It's another thievery of the people's resources. Since 2010 the first act of newly elected city officials led by a certain Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog and a certain Rep. Jerry Trenas was to sell the animal called "public-private partnership" which means private groups being groomed to take over the MIWD -- in cahoots with members of the directorate. The same cabal of directors, with the exception of one newly appointed, are orchestrating the scenario of inefficiency with Trenas and Mabilog acting as cheerleaders and blowing the pathetic mantra that privatization will solve the people's woes. That's what crooks and thieves at city hall had done to the prime property belonging to the city at the port area, that's what they just did to the Central Market, and that's what they scheme to happen to the city abattoir and MIWD. Trenas is very much happy to press for privatiz...

Central Market, Iloilo City June 18, 2014 REP. NERI JAVIER COLMENARES (Bayan Muna partylist) declared he will be filing a resolution calling for congressional inquiry on the privatization of the Iloilo Central Market here. “This is a national trend where government abnegated its duty to provide social services to its people by privatizing them,” he said. “Even hospitals, water and electricity are privatized and it merely enriches corrupt government officials and big business but worsens the plight of ordinary people like market vendors.” Colmenares issued that statement in a forum here this morning, upon invitation by Rex Donasco, president of the Association of Stallholders and Transient Vendors of Central Market. Tarpaulin streamers hung by vendors in the Central Market denounce its privatization. Colmenares considers public markets "public utilities" like light, water, schools and hospitals which perform vital services to the people, hence, beyond privatization. Market ...