Mandaue gets P25M bulldozer for landfill

CEBU, Philippines - Mandaue City has acquired a P25-million bulldozer for its sanitary landfill in Barangay Umapad.

“Naa na’y bulldozer pero gamay ra. Naa man sa 6.5 (Paknaan relocation site), gastos kaayo sige’g balhin-balhin,” said public information officer Roger Paler.

Paler said when the landfill needs the old bulldozer, the city has to hire a prime mover at P7,500 per hour to haul it to and from the landfill.

The one-year-old bulldozer is assigned at the 6.5 Paknaan relocation site for the ongoing development there.

Paler said this new acquisition will be for the exclusive use at the landfill.

Meanwhile, Japanese-owned NEC Telecom Software, Philippines has donated computers and laptops to Jagobiao National High School.

Mayor Jonas Cortes personally accepted the items during the ceremonial donation last week.

The donation includes 25 desktop Dell computers, 56 laptops, 15 computer monitors, six UPS and two network switches.

Yoshifuni Sakaguchi, president of the NEC which has an office at  Cebu-IT Park, turned over the items to Cortes and to the school represented by its officer-in-charge Rufino Tadlasan Jr.

“These are functional branded gadgets acquired in five years. These are very useful to the students,” said Belle Velasco, a staff of NEC.

She said their president learned that the school needed the computers, hence, he worked out that NEC can address it.

Velasco said they will also turn over computer units to Subangdaku Technical Vocational School.

For his part, Tadlasan said the computers will help the students upgrade their skills which they can use when they go to college or apply for work after graduation. — (FREEMAN)