Tomas to meet with urban poor groups

Inna Mejia 12/01/2016

Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña is set to meet for the first time the urban poor group in the city during the opening of the Urban Poor Solidarity Week on December 2. Division for the Welfare of…

Students join anti-Marcos rally, call for free education

Morexette Erram 11/17/2016

AFTER some 500 anti-Marcos protesters buried an effigy of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos at the Inayawan landfill last Tuesday, about 20 students held their own protest rally at Fuente Osmeña yesterday. Carrying placards with statements such…

‘Pabling is a nonentity’

09/09/2016

AT the heart of Cebu City is an important landmark for the Queen City of the South which is now once again embroiled in an ownership controversy. The Fuente Osmeña Circle, created in 1912 as a tribute…

Provincial attorney files appeal over Fuente lot decision

Nestle L. Semilla 09/08/2016

DESPITE the pronouncement of Cebu Gov. Hilario Davide III about his disinterest in contesting a court decision awarding Fuente Osmeña Circle to Cebu City, the province filed a Notice of Appeal before Regional Trial Court Branch 23.…

‘Capitol should reclaim Fuente O’

Nestle L. Semilla 09/06/2016

Former Cebu governor and congressman Pablo Garcia called on the provincial government to file a motion for reconsideration on a Regional Trial Court (RTC) ruling affirming Cebu City’s ownership of Fuente Osmeña Circle. Garcia wrote a letter…

Don’t make prank calls, public asked

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 09/06/2016

Cebu City Councilor Dave Tumulak urged the public not to make prank calls to authorities following a heightened alert status imposed in the province. Two incidents of false reports have been responded to by the police and…

More than an every day park for every Cebuano

Morexette Erram 09/04/2016

The words carved on the white, concrete fountain of the Fuente Osmeña Park are in Spanish. And park worker Democrito Elcana does not understand what they mean. The 53-year-old street sweeper of the Cebu city government’s Parks…

Prov. gov’t. accepts court ruling on Fuente Osmeña

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 08/26/2016

THE Cebu Provincial government will accept the ruling of the Regional Trial Court confirming ownership by the Cebu City government of the Fuente Osmeña Circle. In an interview yesterday, Cebu Gov. Hilario Davide III said ownership of…

Cebu City owns Fuente Osmeña

Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Nestle L. Semilla 08/25/2016

THE Cebu City government is the true owner Fuente Osmeña Circle and not the Cebu province. The Court upheld Cebu City government’s ownership of the park in its decision of the civil case filed by the provincial…

Local skateboard enthusiasts clamor for public skatepark

06/22/2016

A signature campaign calling for the Cebu City government to build a public skatepark highlighted the Cebu leg of Go Skate Day (GSD) 2016 yesterday. At least 1,000 skateboard enthusiasts gathered yesterday at SM City Cebu parking…

Thirsty Work

04/29/2016

A man pushes a trisikad loaded with plastic containers filled with water along Fuente Osmeña. The man supplies water to vendors along Colon Street in Cebu City.  (CDN PHOTO/Christian Maningo)…

Kaplag Festival: Finding the Child Jesus

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 04/28/2016

Let us remember the past, embrace the future with hope and live the present moment with passion. This was the message of Fr. Alejandro Moral, the prior general of the Order of St. Augustine (OSA), as Cebuanos…

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