Human Trafficking in the Visayas and Cebu Province: A Situationer and The Expanded Anti-Traffic and Persons Act of 2012 was the topic of a most interesting discussion in the Women’s Kapihan which I host every second Saturday…
Last Tuesday, September 9th, the country, and especially Cebu, remembered and honored the most significant, but most laid back Cebuano in modern Philippine history, “Grand Old Man” President Sergio Osmeña on his 136th birthday. After a morning…
Last Monday signaled for us the beginning of our long Christmas season, with media starting to feature pre-Christmas features and sales. Time has certainly moved so quickly for us, particularly for this Bystander whose calendar was overloaded…
Before August draws to a close, we hark back to the event that set the trend of this memorable month in Cebu: the golden (50th) wedding celebration of Michel and Amparito Lhuillier last August 2nd. It started…
Pope Francis visited the Republic of South Korea on August 14 – 18 in his first papal trip to the Far East. I watched highlights of his trip covered by EWTN and read further details of it…
We had one of the liveliest and best-attended Women’s Kapihan last Saturday, August 9th, aired over Radio Station dyLA at 2:00 – 3:00 PM on the implementation of CEDAW (Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women)…
So much have happened since the last days of July this year through the first week of this month of August. Let me begin with our Zonta Club of Cebu 1 Board of Directors Meeting last July…
How fast time flies, and already today is the first day of the eighth month of the year, the Leo month of August. The busy last days of July this week started last Sunday night, July 27th,…
Midweek this week, many plans and activities, public and personal, were put on hold with Typhoon Glenda ravaging provinces adjacent to Manila all the way down to the Bicol peninsula, western Visayas and northern Cebu. With most…
Zonta Club of Cebu 1, an organization of professional women that this Bystander is involved in, held its 21st induction of officers and directors for 2014 to 2016 last Friday , June 12th, with the theme, “Scaling…
So soon, and it is almost mid-month in the last month of the first half of this year. So today, this Bystander takes up the important relevance of communication, per the Catholic Church, in the observance last…
As a Concerned Bystander, I not only watch the passage of the stream of life, thanks to the mass media coverage of broadcast and print, but I’m sometimes drawn along, if I do not go with it,…
