Marriage Equality

King Anthony Perez 09/02/2018

MARRIAGE WITHOUT RECOGNITION: SAME-SEX UNIONS INT HE PHILIPPINES Treating themselves as a married couple, Michael Cano and Jay Lugo live together at a rented apartment in one of Cebu City’s upland residential areas. After their symbolic wedding…

Legalizing same sex unions

King Anthony Perez 09/01/2018

  Part 2 MARRIAGE WITHOUT RECOGNITION It’s pretty much the same with the rest, I think,” was how Amanda Karina Escano described her kind of family. Amanda Karina or Kina to her closest friends, has been living…

A symbolic union

King Anthony Perez 08/31/2018

MARRIAGE WITHOUT RECOGNITION It all started with a chit chat in a busy barbeque stand along Escario St., Cebu City. Michael Cano, 31, and Jay Lugo, 34, met sometime in 2014 when they shared a conversation about…

Declining farmer population

Futch Anthony Inso 08/29/2018

AGRICULTURE CHALLENGE Based on a 2017 survey of the Department of Agriculture (DA), the average age of farmers in the Philippines today is 60 years old. For DA, the trend was worrisome as young generation of Filipinos…

Danao City’s ‘paradise’ for children

Jessa Mae O. Sotto 08/28/2018

Laughter and the cheers of children echoed through a playground in Danao City, keeping the place alive one late afternoon. Aptly called “Children’s Paradise”, the stretch of concrete dotted with pine trees and ornamental plants has become…

A legacy of nurturing children

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 08/27/2018

Myrna Bensi-Manayon was 28 years old when she was asked to be the first day care worker of Barangay Calawisan, Lapu-Lapu City. The work offered no pay; but she readily accepted the challenge. Manayon, or Ma’am Myrna…

A life of music

Rosalie O. Abatayo 08/25/2018

LTFRB’s Montealto What makes the world go round? For newly-appointed Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board Central Visayas (LTFRB-7) director retired Col. Eduardo Montealto Jr., it is music. Montealto, a native of Davao City, said that music…

When inmates exchange wedding vows at Cebu City Jail

Morexette Marie B. Erram 08/25/2018

Despite the sweltering heat, Mary Rose Rodriguez was all smiles as officers of the Cebu City Jail placed a veil over her head and tightly secured it with a plastic tiara. “I’m so excited to get married…

Setting the perfect example

Nestle Semilla 08/20/2018

Fifty-year-old Joseph Angtud felt his stomach rumbling as he began to walk to an area — away from the crowd — in the busy streets of Barangay Centro, Mandaue City. It was almost 7 p.m. and he…

Prospects for the working horse

Delta Dyrecka Letigio, Gerard Vincent Francisco and Zena V. Magto USJ-R Interns 08/19/2018

Tartanilla (Conclusion) Boyo is a four year old horse that trots daily along Leon Kilat Street, Duljo-Fatima and Pasil, Cebu City. He is easily recognized by many coachmen and avid passengers of horse-drawn carriages called tartanilla for…

Tartanillas Kutseros brave the streets of Cebu City

08/18/2018

Jeepney drivers are unabashedly considered the “king of the road” as this unique Filipino mode of public transport has become a necessity for most commuters. However, about a century ago, the streets were ruled by coachmen on…

Tartanilla Cebu’s fading chariots

USJ-R Interns 08/17/2018

First of three parts Cars rushing by, the honking of horns trying to drown each other, and people running after fully-loaded jeepneys. These are early morning scenes along Leon Kilat Street, Cebu City as the noise from…

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