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Before I proceed to the gist of this piece, let met congratulate the Arkisketchers, Cebuano architects who are also painters, led by Loloy Castro, on the opening of their exhibition entitled, “Sugbu Kaniadto: Young Cebu in…
Today we digress from the routine of life and the routine content of this column to consider what is about to unfold a few hours from now. For Cebu City, either a new mayor in Edgardo…
The Cebu City Government website already pulled out its ‘History’ section after I called the attention of my good friend Louie Nacorda last Monday over the site’s explanation that the Cebu comes from the word Sebo or…
The burning of two settlements (attended by looting and rape of women) purported to also be on Mactan Island, may have precipitated the victory that we have come to celebrate annually on April 27 in the…
I am pretty certain the people of Talamban do not remember this anymore. But way before the war, there was this tradition of bringing pieces of wood to the altar of Cebu’s Catholic churches on Good Friday.…
The announcement last week that what archaeologists for nearly a decade have called the ‘Callao Man’ has now been determined to be a separate species called ‘Homo luzonensis’ has put the Philippines once again on the…
Former Cebu governor Gwendolyn F. Garcia, who is aiming to reclaim the governorship of Cebu, minced no words in saying that someone will be held to account for the sorry state of the Cebu International Convention Center…
It took 179 Sanicolasnons (residents of San Nicolas) led by Leon Kilat (the ‘nom de guerre’ of Pantaleon Villegas) just about 90 minutes to drive all the Spanish in Cebu to the relatively safe confines of Fort…
Once again tomorrow, the Talisay Landing will be reenacted, albeit with a wide latitude on the matter of using modern weapons and vehicles against those used on March 26, 1945, or 74 years ago, when the liberation…
It is quite interesting to see how then as now, the water level at Buhisan Dam has been an important gauge to determine whether we are in the midst of a water crisis, even though this 107-year-old…
Coming on the heels of the most extraordinary meeting of all heads of Catholic bishops councils all over the world in the Vatican, the recent report of an alleged rape of a minor by a priest…
Two different worlds, you might say. One is a street named after a Cebuano revolutionary, the other a Cebuano expression with negative connotations. But the two are replete with historical events that to a lesser extent may…
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