A farmer’s son’s journey: From SAF member to CPPO chief

Alven Marie A. Timtim 10/03/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — A former member of the elite police unit, Special Action Force, who has done a yearlong tour of duty outside the country, particularly in Kosovo in southeastern Europe, is now at the helm…

Dr. Utlang: A woman is powerful, an equalizer

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 03/29/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — A woman is powerful if she knows her place and if she knows she can get any place she wants to go. This is the mindset of Dr. Alice Utlang, Cebu City government’s…

A bacteria, not a virus, was the ‘COVID-19’ of our colonial past

Jobers Reynes Bersales 03/22/2020

At the small plaza honoring Rajah Humabon just across the Archdiocesan Museum of Cebu today is an obelisk that very few recognize. It is but a miniature version of gargantuan Egyptian obelisks of old but intended to…

Inside Carreta Cemetery: How a couple raised a family in Cebu’s famous graveyard for 30 years (Part 2)

Delta Derycka C. Letigio 11/02/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines —  Surrounded by tombs and crosses, Celia and Ereberto Ramirez raised a family of six children inside the Carreta Cemetery.  It was not the ideal home to nurture infants or raise toddlers.  But somehow,…

Inside Carreta Cemetery: How a couple raised a family in Cebu’s famous graveyard for 30 years (Part 1)

Delta Derycka C. Letigio 11/01/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — In the company of the dead, the Ramirez family makes a living.  It has been so for 30 years when couple Ereberto and Celia Ramirez arrived in Cebu in search of the proverbial…

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