Where will we go? - market vendors

Some 40 market vendors in the municipality of Coron were complaining after they were forced to vacate their stalls May 24 to give way for the construction of a hotel.

Vendors said they were notified only three days before the demolition, giving them an unreasonable time to think of what should be done. They said they did not even know where they would be relocated.

“We just want to be clarified on this matter. We were not notified earlier and when we arrived (at the market) this morning, they were already tearing down our stalls,” one market vendor said over radio station DYPR.

She added that Coron Mayor Marjo Reyes also did not tell them about the plans that half of the market would be demolished to allow for the construction of a hotel.

As of this writing, Reyes had still not spoken regarding the issue.