SUBSCRIBEMayo Uno in Cebu
Labor Day, as usual, militant workers groups were doing the rounds of the major streets not only in Manila and other cities but also in Cebu. Pressing for the rollback of oil rates, repeal of the oil deregulation law, stop to escalating power rates, increase of the minimum daily wage and demanding the resignation of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. The same demands that are next to impossible, unrealistic, absurd and impractical that always fall on deaf ears. But maybe except for the wage increase wherein it was mandated by the President for the wage boards to review and commend an adjustment within a month.
These militants have always protested the escalating oil price and giving outmoded alternatives but either their playing dumb to world realities or just protesting for the sake of protesting. Seems to them that all these problems are just manageable and limited to the Philippines!
On the lighter side, while the rest of Cebu City’s populace gathered in various points of the city wherein both giant media networks ABS-CBN and GMA is battling out for the ratings and hearts of the Cebuanos, there at the reclamation area in Mandaue City, a kite festival was unfolding.
Boy with his kite entry. Not much participants in the contests but, hey, I enjoyed it.
*the photo size is output from the images generated by my Canon 350D after resizing to 300×200 pixels against the G5’s, after resize, of 300×225 pixels
