TACLOBAN CITY – “We will only be wasting time and money hosting and sponsoring business conferences to entice foreign and local investors to do business in Leyte unless we first put in place what I perceive to be highly important economic infrastructures.”
This was the statement made to the press yesterday by Tacloban City businessman Danilo “Dazzie” Mesias Chua in reaction to a question concerning Leyte’s potentials for investment.
Dazzie, who is running for Congress in the first district of Leyte, explained that until plans are realized for the construction of an international seaport in Babatngon, Leyte and the transformation of the DZR airfield into a “Trucnkline Airport” with an international standard, investments from outside will come to Leyte only in trickles.
The construction of an international seaport in Babatngon was conceptualized over eight years ago but the project never left off the planning board. The master plan to upgrade the facilities of the DZR airport meanwhile was made in 1998 but it, too, never saw implementation.
Dazzie said that if he gets elected he would focus attention to these two infrastructures, as they are the ones that hold the key to the entry of substantial investments into the district.
He added that when this happens the problem of unemployment would be diminished.
