CEBU City Vice Mayor Michael Rama proposed the conversion of the Pasil fish port and the adjacent building used as cooling system for the market’s fish vendors into a children’s playground.“The area should be converted into a functional playground. Kids there don’t have enough room to play in,” Rama said.
He said he noticed children playing on the roads instead.
Rama said he came up with the idea after seeing the dilapidated buildings during a clean-up drive conducted by the Cebu City Coastal Management Board, which he heads.
The building for the cooling system has no roof and the vandalized walls were partly destroyed, Rama said. Bboth buildings, which are located in the boundary of barangays Sawang Calero and Suba, were no longer used for its original purpose. The fish port is now occupied with food vendors and is partly used as a basketball court, Rama said. He said he discussed the plan with Mayor Tomas Osmeña. The fish port and cooling system building were constructed in the mid 1990 during Osmeña’s second term through a P60-million grant from the Belgian government. Correspondent Chris A. Ligan | 
