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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…