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OUR shortcoming in building construction is nothing new. As we are always in a mood to violate building codes and try to minimise basic construction costs, hardly any building is constructed properly. These are not built keeping in mind the question of safety and security of their residents. The builders' focus always remains on decorative things so that people get attracted by eye-catching tiles, fittings, cabinet etc. But the important matters -- like proper air circulation within rooms, strong foundation, installation of fire extinguishing equipment, earthquake safety measures, making the buildings fire-proof -- are not given due importance by the builders whether they are real estate businessmen or private builders.
The common tendency in the buyers side is that they look for a well-furnished flat, which is affordable with their income or the house-building loan.
It was October, 1969, when Inter State Paving Inc., a company founded six years earlier by Pietro Rizzuto, got the contract that would propel it to the top of Quebec's booming road-construction industry. Until then, Mr. Rizzuto's company had received only minor government contracts. One of its first was awarded by Daniel Johnson's Union Nationale government in the fiscal year 1968-1969 for a job worth almost $135,000, according to public-accounts documents. Mr. Rizzuto wanted in on the construction boom that was taking place in Quebec. Mr. Johnson had died in September of 1968 and Jean-Jacques Bertrand was premier. And Inter State Paving submitted and won its first bid for a major road project, a four-lane extension of Highway 19 known as the Papineau-Leblanc Autoroute in Laval.
Monarch butterflies fluttered about the sunlit, rusted lightning rod that points heavenward from the lighthouse on Great Captains Island. On this windless afternoon, they rested on the great stone building's scarred roof, cracked ventilation globe, rickety parapet and weather-beaten walls.
It's been nearly four years since a human entered the abandoned lighthouse, perched high on the island's southeast corner above pear, crabapple, cherry and plum trees. Despite the best efforts of those closely tied to the island, it could be several more before the lighthouse takes visitors.
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FIVE members of the Komiteng Reheyon Negros Larangan Guerella 3 (KRN-LG3), including three minors, who were responsible in bombing the Hanjin Construction Company in Silay City were nabbed Thursday at Calatrava, Negros Occidental.
Nabbed in a follow up operation of the Calatrava personnel were Nathanniel Alisgar, 18 Noel Tapio, 18 of Crispin Sagay, two 15-year-old boys and a 17-year-old boy.
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