‘My father shouldn’t be treated like the others’

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 11/30/2014

Britta Borromeo-Navarro said she doesn’t want her father to be “one of the others.” Her father Raul Borromeo is among those interred into the Doña Pepang cemetery. They have their own family mausoleum and they want it…

Court rejects Osmeña bid to stop cemetery closure

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 11/29/2014

A Cebu City judge yesterday denied the plea of former Cebu City mayor and congressman Tomas Osmeña to stop the closure of the Doña Pepang Cemetery which City Hall plans to convert into a heritage park built…

Osmeña asks court to stop City Hall from evicting the dead in old city cemetery

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 11/26/2014

‘KEEP OFF DOÑA PEPANG’ Respect the dead. Tomas Osmeña,  former mayor and congressman of Cebu City, said this as he sought the court’s intervention to stop his arch-rival, Mayor Michael Rama, from shutting down the Doña Pepang…

Rama presents 2008 park plan for cemetery

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 11/04/2014

Amini ampitheater, and landscaped gardens with the Osmeña Mausoleum as the focal point are part of a 2008 plan to transform the Doña Pepang cemetery in barangay Carreta The plan for a park was drawn up six…

Bantayan folk repair Yolanda-hit cemeteries

Peter L. Romanillos 11/03/2014

When supertyphoon “Yolanda” (international name Haiyan) unleashed its fury in Bantayan Island and in parts of northern Cebu last year, it not only destroyed the homes of the living. It also damaged the homes of the dead.…

59 Sulpicio victims to be exhumed

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 11/02/2014

Unidentified Princess of the Stars victims’ remains to be moved to Carreta cemetery  bone chamber The unclaimed and unidentified remains of the passengers of the ill-fated M/V Princess of the Stars that are buried at Carreta Cemetery…

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