Garbage truck technician one of Charter awardees

CEBU, Philippines - A garbage truck technician assigned at the Inayawan Sanitary Landfill joins the Interpol, high ranking politicians, and international entities as awardees in this year’s 72nd Cebu City Charter Day celebration.

Eduardo Paquibot was nominated by the General Services Office for the Outstanding Employee category under the Acting Mayor’s Special Award for City Government Offices.

According to the fact sheet submitted by Councilor Arsenio Pacaña, Paquibot displayed exemplary service when he was on-call even at the peak of the Christmas holidays and repaired malfunctioning garbage trucks and compactors at the Inayawan landfill.

City information officer and SRP manager Nagiel Bañacia said Paquibot’s performance was “very essential since he did the dirty job of fixing the garbage vehicles so as not to hamper the collection of garbage in the city last Christmas.”

Paquibot joined all the other nominees which were evaluated by the members of the Cultural and Historical Affairs Commission and finally got the approval of the City Council in yesterday’s session.

Also included among the other Outstanding City Government Employees awardees are Councilors Gerardo Carillo and Edgardo Labella; Belinda Navascues, a consultant of the Vice Mayor’s Office; Department of Public Services head Dionisio Gualiza, Department of Social Welfare Services head Catherine Yso, and City Disaster Coordinating Council officer Alvin Rosthelo Santillana.

The awardees for the Outstanding Individuals category include Department of Tourism Secretary Joseph “Ace” Durano, Press Secretary Cerge Remonde, Dr. Florentino Solon, former mayor of Cebu City; Irene Yusingco, Mary Anne Alcordo-Solomon, and Janice Minor. Dr. Renato Bautista of the National Bureau of Investigation; Enrique Peñalosa, former mayor of Bogota, Colombia; and Mr. Ireneo Ylaya complete the list.

Awardees for the Outstanding Institutions include Arts Council of Cebu, Boy Scouts of the Philippines-Cebu Council, Cebu City YLAC Free School Foundation, Cebu People’s Multipurpose Cooperative, Chong Hua Hospital, and Free LAVA, Inc.

Recipients of the Acting Mayor’s Special Award for Non-Government entities include the International Police, Meerlanden Youth Cebu, Petrus Steneker, Johanes Hulseboch, Masttjs Daniel Van Kesteren, Philippine Association of Detective and Protective Agency Operations, Parish Security Group, Bee Pinoy TV14, and five call center establishments – Convergy’s, Sykes Asia, e-Telecare, People’s Support, and Western Wats.

Awarding will be on February 24, during the Charter Day itself, at the Waterfront Cebu City Hotel. — Ferliza C. Contratista/MEEV   (THE FREEMAN)