The City Council of Dumaguete has adopted an accreditation requirement of a private group of firecracker dealers before the City would issue a permit to sell firecrackers at a private lot in barangay Daro this Christmas season.
The need to be accredited and the willingness to share in the rental of the land where the firecrackers will be sold are the two conditions of the group of Muslim vendors for other vendors who wish to join them.
The only place identified by Mayor Felipe Remollo for firecracker vendors is the RUSI ballfield in barangay Daro owned by the Ramas-Uypitching family.
The measure is undertaken so the applicants with mayors permit will not be selling firecrackers and pyrotechnics anywhere else in the city.
Complaints had reached the City Council that the coordinator of one Muslim group of firecracker sellers, Sara Fernandez Magdara, had refused the “other group” of Muslims to sell firecrackers in the private lot. In fact none of those who complained failed to appear during the regular session of the city council today.
Magdara belied the claim, saying they had been selling in the area for three Christmases now, and all who applied for spaces inside the private lot were accommodated with the following conditions, no to smoking, drinking liquor inside the firecracker zone, no to selling of prohibited firecrackers, maintain cleanliness and most of all to keep the area safe and secure.
She further disclosed it was necessary for the applicant to be listed as among the sellers because the other requirement is for him or her to share in the rental. (Juancho Gallarde)
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