Osmeña hits ‘messy’ CBRT: Poor planning, PPP plan won’t work

Pia Piquero 07/04/2025

CEBU CITY, Philippines — “No one lives in SM or Ayala.” With that statement, Vice Mayor Tomas Osmeña took direct aim at what he calls the botched reconfiguration of the Cebu Bus Rapid Transit (CBRT) project, saying…

Election 2025: BOPK dominates Cebu City polls

Pia Piquero 05/13/2025

CEBU CITY, Philippines — BOPK candidates Nestor Archival Sr. and Tomas Osmeña claimed Cebu City’s top posts in the 2025 elections with 256,197 and 233,906 votes, respectively. The Commission on Elections (Comelec) in Cebu City proclaimed the…

USC survey: Raymond, Tomas lead in Cebu City’s mayor, vice mayor race

Morexette Marie B. Erram 05/06/2025

CEBU CITY, Philippines — If the elections here took place today, May 6, Raymond Alvin Garcia would have won as mayor and Tomas Osmeña as the vice mayor.  This is based on the latest Voters Preference and…

Osmeña on BRT stoppage: ‘Scrap Pesquera, Cuenco, Rama. Save Cebu’

Pia Piquero 01/12/2024

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Former Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña slammed two city councilors for calling to stop the Cebu Bus Rapid Transit (CBRT) project. “We should scrap Pesquera, Cuenco, including Rama and all their councilors. Save…

Lim powers GEF-Daikin 98 to upset Speed Demon in SHAABAA hoops action

Glendale G. Rosal 09/12/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — GEF-Daikin 98-Batch 1998 upsets the higher-ranked Speed Demon-Batch 1996 in a hard-fought, 62-58, victory in last Saturday evening’s Sacred Heart Ateneo Alumni Basketball Athletic Association (SHAABAA) Season 25 game at the Magis Eagles…

Rama to face Osmeña’s election protest

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 06/02/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Mayor Michael Rama is facing an election protest from his major opponent in the recent elections, former Councilor Margarita “Margot” Osmeña.  Osmeña, who was running for mayor under Bando Osmeña Pundok Kauswagan (BOPK),…

Tumulak, Osmeña, Fernandez vow to work for the best of Cebu City beyond elections

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 05/12/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Losing mayoral candidates, David Tumulak (independent) and Margarita “Margot” Osmeña (Bando Osmeña Pundok Kauswagan) plan to work together for the best of Cebu City beyond elections. Both candidates put up a good fight…

Rama, Osmeña bicker over poverty backdrop of iconic Third Bridge

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 04/28/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama and former Mayor Tomas Osmeña are now blaming each other for the underdevelopment of Barangay Pasil’s fish port and informal settlers, which now serves as a backdrop of…

Osmeña to shoulder cost of legal assistance to fight Carbon Market privatization

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 12/03/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Former Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña said he will shoulder the cost of the legal assistance to fight Carbon Market privatization. In a rare press conference, the former mayor appeared in front of…

Cuenco: Urgency, not change of plans needed for BRT

Dyrecka Letigio 10/09/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Councilor James Cuenco, chairperson of the committee on transportation in the City Council, said the problem with the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project was not so much as the plans, but…

Bimbo Fernandez first to file COC for Vice Mayor as independent candidate

Mae Fhel Gom-os 10/04/2021

MANDAUE CITY, Cebu — Former Cebu City administrator Francisco “Bimbo” Fernandez was the first to file his certificate of candidacy (COC) for Vice Mayor as an independent candidate at the Comelec North District on Monday, October 4,…

RDC-7 honors Lito Osmeña, Pabling Garcia, and Bobit Avila

Dyrecka Letigio 09/17/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Regional Development Council in Central Visayas honored three of its former chairpersons and members who passed away this year. The council conferred posthumous awards to former Cebu Governors Emilio Mario “Lito” Osmeña…

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