Doña Pepang Heritage Park moves a step closer to reality as project breaks ground, gets a P3M boost

Emmariel Ares 06/23/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City government is another step closer to realizing the dream of turning the Doña Pepang cemetery into a Doña Pepang Heritage Park. This is after the Cebu City government broke ground…

Margot, Minnie visit Osmeña clan mausoleum

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 11/01/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Former Cebu City Councilor Margot Osmeña made a quick visit at the Osmeña mausoleum located at the Doña Pepang Cemetery in Barangay Carreta Cebu City this morning, November 1, 2019. Margot was accompanied…

Fewer people visit Doña Pepang Cemetery

Morexette Marie B. Erram 11/01/2018

Police officers and barangay tanods were deployed in Doña Pepang Cemetery in Cebu City observation of All Saints’ Day. This despite only a few people have arrived to visit their dead relatives. Relatives of the Osmeñas have…

Interfaith burial site at Doña Pepang

Edison Delos Angeles, Jose Santino S. Bunachita 11/01/2016

INSTEAD of demolishing the graves in the Doña Pepang Cemetery, Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña plans to convert the area into an interfaith cemetery. The cemetery that is located in the boundary of Barangays Tejero and Carreta…

Some ‘rest and recreation’ at Doña Pepang Cemetery

Morexette Erram 10/31/2016

It was nearing six in the evening when children carrying balloons walked down the concrete road from Doña Pepang Cemetery to Imus Avenue in Barangay Lorega, San Miguel, Cebu City. Tracing the children’s footsteps will lead the…

Arce: From market head to cemetery guard

Nestle L. Semilla 07/01/2016

FORMER PROBE head and market administrator Raquel Arce has been assigned to guard the Doña Pepang Cemetery in Barangay Tejero. In a press conference yesterday, Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña announced that Arce will work as night…

Osmeña: Don’t blame me for Rama’s fall

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag, Victor Anthony V. Silva 12/13/2015

FORMER mayor Tomas Osmeña denied that he worked behind the scenes for the preventive suspension of Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama. “You know, Mike Rama’s greatest ability is to put me at fault for everything. Anything that…

Tom O. visits parents’ tombs, slams city gov’t for clearing cemetery

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 11/01/2015

FORMER Cebu City mayor Tomas Osmeña, his wife City Councilor Margot, and some relatives visited their family mausoleum yesterday at the Doña Pepang Cemetery as they observed All Saints’ Day. But unlike previous years, no other families…

DOñA PEPANG CEMETERY: Cemetery face-lift affects living, dead

Juli Ann M. Sibi 11/01/2015

  The living are evicted and the dead — the remains — are exhumed from the Doña Pepang Cemetery as the Cebu City government implements the refurbishing of the cemetery into a public heritage park. Esmelita Espelita,…

Probe resumes clearing at Doña Pepang cemetery

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/14/2015

CEBU City Hall’s demolition team resumed work at the Doña Pepang Cemetery, clearing over 20 vacant niches and mausoleums yesterday. Raquel Arce, head of the Prevention, Restoration, Order, Beautification and Enhancement (Probe) team, said settlers have  voluntarily…

City comment sought on judge’s inhibition

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 08/04/2015

Judge Alexander Acosta of the Regional Trial Court Branch 9 yesterday asked Cebu City Hall to comment on former Cebu City mayor Tomas Osmeña’s petition for him to inhibit from handling the Doña Pepang Cemetery demolition case.…

Tomas wants judge to inhibit from Doña Pepang cemetery case

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 08/02/2015

After failing thrice to get a favorable ruling, former Cebu City mayor Tomas Osmeña trained his sights on the judge. Osmeña, through his lawyer Benjamin Militar, asked Judge Alexander Acosta of the Regional Trial Court Branch 9…

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