True love

Simeon Dumdum Jr. 10/07/2018

Among William Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets, which he published in 1609, I particularly like Sonnet 116. It describes genuine love as “the marriage of true minds,” unaffected by changing tastes and resistant to temptations. Let me not to…

‘Paglaum’ gives hope to the poor, oppressed

Jessa Mae O. Sotto 10/01/2018

She had a dream that even the poverty of her family could not cripple. Twenty one-year-old Amelita Gatdula had a burning desire to finish college. Gatdula was among the beneficiaries of ‘Paglaum,’ a scholarship program of the…

Fencing the waters

Delta Dyrecka Letigio USJ-R Journalism Intern 09/30/2018

There are five major rivers traversing the city of Cebu; and all of them are heavily polluted. Although the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) denied in 2017 that the rivers are all biologically dead, there…

Little house on the prairie

Simeon Dumdum Jr. 09/30/2018

Along the road we dropped into a hardware store for something we almost forgot–bathroom hooks to hang the towels on. We had earlier loaded into the car two doormats, a rice cooker, an electric stove and a…

NOT SAFE YET

Morexette Marie B. Erram, USJ-R Intern Zena Magto 09/29/2018

Residents cooped up inside evacuation centers in Naga City have been getting restless and have started asking officials when they could return to the homes they had abandoned. The residents were not affected by the landslide but…

Sto. Niño visits the mines

Doris C. Bongcac 09/29/2018

A Sto. Niño devotee since she was a child, 48-year-old Geolina Abella said that she would never miss visits to the Basilica Minore del Santo Niño in Cebu City during the annual feast of Cebu’s patron each…

Untangling the gridlock

CDN TEAM 09/29/2018

PART 1 by Ador Vincent S. Mayol Reporter   For more than two decades since the ‘90s, the streets of Metro Cebu have been his second home. “Usa ka kahig, usa ka tuka gyud ni akoa (I…

Consolation

09/29/2018

The American actress Angelina Jolie, who as a goodwill ambassador of the United Nations travels to sites of disaster around the world once spoke of the importance of faith to human survival. “I have met people across…

Light at the end of the tunnel

Futch Anthony Inso, Morexette Marie B. Erram, Rosalie O. Abatayo 09/28/2018

UNTANGLING THE GRIDLOCK CONCLUSION A decade and two years from now in 2030, the roads of Metro Cebu will be wider and travel time will be a whole lot faster. Cebu will also see the beginnings of…

‘Grief killed him’

Rosalie O. Abatayo, USJ-R Journalism Intern Zena V. Magto 09/28/2018

Felipe Dejillas survived the killer landslide that hit Sitio Sindulan in Barangay Tinaan, Naga CIty on September 20. But 76-year-old Dejillas did not survive the grief brought about by the loss of 15 of his relatives who…

Calls for justice

09/28/2018

Long after the calls and cries of justice die out those responsible for the landslide that claimed 64 lives as of latest count in two barangays in the City of Naga, will have to be made accountable…

Cebu’s traffic lights

Benjie B. Talisic, Jessa Mae O. Sotto 09/27/2018

AMONG the cities of Metro Cebu, Cebu City was the first to adapt a modern traffic lights system. But due to wear and tear, that system no longer works properly. Obtained way back in the 1990s, many…

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