Paz enumerates accomplishments

CEBU, Philippines - Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Paz Radaza, in her inaugural speech yesterday, enumerated her accomplishments in the past three years before members of the city council.

Radaza said three years and two days ago, she unveiled her five-point action plan as the first woman mayor in the history of Lapu-Lapu City.

She said she reduced the city’s classroom shortage by 30 percent at the end of her first term.

The city college enrolment has increased by over 200 percent, she said.

“We have put up day care centers in the different barangays and two of them even have a five-star rating,” she said.

“We have consistently been a recipient of the outstanding city nutrition award in Central Visayas, given by the nutrition council,” she said.

Lapu-Lapu City is the only Local Government Unit in region 7 to get an A rating from the DOH for providing excellent health care service to our constituents.

We have provided jobs and livelihood to our people by strengthening our tourism and cooperatives, she said.   

In her first term in office, Lapu-Lapu City  became a haven for investments.

Proof of this is, the P20-billion investment of Megaworld, Radaza said.

Another P20 billion will be poured in by an investor of a 400-hectare reclamation project from barangays Ibo to Mactan.

The premier real estate developer, Ayala Corporation has announced it will develop a 12-hectare property across Mactan Shangri-la Resort and Spa, she said.

“My desire for calibrated development has resulted in the creation of over 80 thousand jobs in the next five to ten years,” Radaza said.  (FREEMAN)