Why human trafficking happens

V.P. Vamenta 09/19/2014

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…

Grand Old Man

V.P. Vamenta 09/12/2014

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…

Four-day celebration

V.P. Vamenta 09/05/2014

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…

As August closes

V.P. Vamenta 08/29/2014

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 made an impact

V.P. Vamenta 08/22/2014

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…

Auspicious August

V.P. Vamenta 08/15/2014

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)…

Auspicious August

V.P. Vamenta 08/08/2014

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…

Goodbye, July

V.P. Vamenta 08/01/2014

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,…

Women power in June

V.P. Vamenta 06/20/2014

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…

Welcoming June

V.P. Vamenta 06/06/2014

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,…

Zonta, Heritage night, June ahead

V.P. Vamenta 05/30/2014

As this religiously festive month of May comes to a close the day after tomorrow, we look back at so many more events that have happened in these closing days, before we start the opening of classes…

Summertime

V.P. Vamenta 05/09/2014

“Summertime, when the livin’ is easy”, goes a familiar standard song this Bystander used to play back in my good old years in radio years some ages ago. But not so this year, with temperatures hitting the…

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