Sacrifice and reasonable compromise

Stephen D. Capillas 10/20/2016

  Overheard on the radio, an elderly listener weigh in on Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña’s proposal to ban private car use in one of two Cebu bridges during peak hours in favor of buses to fetch…

Motorists, commuters told: Avoid UN Avenue

Norman V. Mendoza 10/19/2016

Metro Cebu motorists are advised against passing through UN Avenue as the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) starts work on the concreting of a 300-meter stretch of road in the area today. Glenn Antigua, chief…

CORRUPTION RAMPANT IN CEBU

Victor Anthony V. Silva 10/12/2016

Bureau of Customs gets ‘very bad’ rating nationwide Majority of Cebuano businessmen believe corruption in government is still rampant, a Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey showed. According to the SWS 2016 Enterprise Survey on Corruption released in…

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…

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…

Emergency powers

Editorial 10/10/2016

Do we really need the President to exercise emergency powers in order to resolve the country’s traffic congestion? In his first State of the Nation Address (Sona) last July, President Duterte persuaded lawmakers to allow him to…

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…

House committee hopes emergency powers bill will be passed by the end of the year

Victor Anthony V. Silva 10/08/2016

The congressional transportation committee hopes that the bill granting President Duterte emergency powers to solve traffic in Metro Manila and other highly-urbanized cities in the country will be passed by year-end. Catanduanes Rep. Cesar Sarmiento, committee chairman,…

Cebu City most populous HUC

Izobelle T. Pulgo 09/30/2016

CEBU City led two other cities in Metro Cebu as the most populous highly urbanized cities in Central Visayas last year, according to the data from the 2015 Census of Population (POPCEN 2015) conducted last August 2015.…

That Waze survey and the ‘Train to Busan’

Stephen D. Capillas 09/22/2016

Anyone who experienced Metro Cebu’s traffic, regardless of how horrible it may be to some, may still be surprised by the recent Waze survey that showed Metro Cebu’s roads, streets and traffic to be the most unfriendly…

DENR says air quality in Metro Cebu ‘good, fair’

Morexette Erram 09/07/2016

The regional Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) said air quality in Metro Cebu remains ‘good and fair’ though it doesn’t cover its entire air shed. “We only have four air monitoring equipment located at Barangay…

Depoliticizing services in the barangays

Editorial 08/26/2016

When Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña ordered the withdrawal of ambulances from all of the city’s barangays, he was met with opposition, as expected, from rival Team Rama-allied officials who filed a complaint at the Ombudsman-Visayas. Perhaps…

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