BRT cancellation fears

Editorial 10/19/2016

Is there any basis for Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmena’s warning that the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project would be shelved in favor of the Light Railway Transit (LRT) project being lobbied by Presidential Assistant for the…

Tomas to attend court hearing on landfill

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/19/2016

CEBU City Mayor Tomas Osmeña will appear at the Court of Appeals (CA) next Monday in relation to the hearing on the petition for a temporary environmental protection order (TEPO) against the city’s operation of the Inayawan…

Tom proposes P7.2B budget for next year

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/17/2016

CEBU City Mayor Tomas Osmeña is proposing a P7.2 billion “skin and bone” annual budget for next year. Several new items were included in the budget proposal. The biggest of these new items is the P600 million…

THOSE MYSTERIOUS ‘NUBAIN’

Dominic D. Yasay 10/16/2016

WHERE DID THEY COME FROM? Were those really Nubain, the restricted injectable painkiller that was reported to have replaced shabu (methamphetamine hydrochloride) as a drug of choice among junkies? There were 799 ampules containing yellow-colored liquid chemical…

Mayor Tom: City owns Osmeña Shrine

Nestle L. Semilla 10/14/2016

REACTING to the criticism from Councilor Pastor “Jun” Alcover, Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña clarified that the city government remains to be the sole owner of Osmeña Shrine in Barangay Kalunasan. Osmeña admitted that there was a…

Paz open to Tom’s proposal

Norman V. Mendoza 10/12/2016

‘But public should be consulted’ Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Paz Radaza is open to Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña’s suggestion to ban private vehicles during peak hours at the Mandaue Mactan bridge to decongest traffic. She said she…

Settlers ask for relocation

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/12/2016

Settlers of the Osmeña Shrine in Barangay Kalunasan asked Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña to provide them with a relocation site after their houses were demolished last Tuesday. “We are requesting Mayor Tom to put us somewhere…

Less cars, more buses

Editorial 10/12/2016

With the traffic congestion in Metro Cebu still far from resolution, Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña’s suggestion to use buses to transport commuters to and from the Mandaue–Mactan bridge could prove useful if the city governments of…

Cebu City owes P57M to trader

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/10/2016

Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña said the Supreme Court ordered the city government to pay P57 million to businessman Roque Ting who claimed that his private lot was affected by the South Reclamation Project several years back.…

Cebu City officials urge gov’t to make LGUs part of solution

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/09/2016

Cebu City officials are looking forward to Congress granting emergency power to President Rodrigo Duterte to solve the traffic problems in Metro Manila and other areas in the country like Metro Cebu. But Rafael Yap, Cebu City…

SM-Ayala group gets OK to develop SRP lot

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/09/2016

THE SM-Ayala consortium may soon start developing the 26-hectare lot in the South Road Properties (SRP) which they bought from the Cebu City government. This after the Cebu City Council passed a resolution expressing its consent to…

Osmeña eyes conversion of landfill into golf course

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/07/2016

Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña is eyeing a golf course to eventually rise on top of the Inayawan landfill. He said the city will continue dumping its wastes in the landfill, which he earlier said is still…

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