We went against the grain last Friday morning, as we drove to meet the Translacion motorcade, which was bringing the statues of the Sto. Niño and the Virgin of Guadalupe to Mactan. The traffic on our lane…
Among the last wishes that the Cebuano artist Manuel Rodriguez Sr. uttered shortly before he died in Florida at the age of 105 last year was for his remains to be brought and buried in the land…
As I woke up at dawn to write this column on Saturday, my wife told me that Metro Ayala was burning. She had been monitoring updates on Facebook of the fire which started on Friday evening at…
President Rodrigo Duterte recently raised the question why we do not have a Lapu-Lapu Day. While other heroes are honored with national holidays, he asks why Lapu-Lapu, the first hero in the Philippines and, more importantly, a…
It is a bright warm morning today as the Tropical Storm Vinta leaves Cebu while I write this piece. The plants in the garden are still dripping from last night’s rain, and the puddles in the street…
Now that the controversy over Dengvaxia has resurrected the debate about the side effects of vaccination, this issue reminds me of Bughaw, an artist and young mother who gave birth aided only by a tribal hilot to…
Just a few days since two children died after receiving vaccines from health workers here in Cebu, the Department of Health’s (DOH) immunization program is getting the flak once again, this time with its dengue vaccination program.…
Thursday last week marked the eighth year of the Maguindanao Massacre and it went on like any other day, no longer commemorated by massive public outrage in the streets and in both mainstream and social media seen…
Still starving from lack of breakfast, I found myself being dragged by friends at the Cebu Provincial Capitol into having lunch with them last Friday. I was just arriving to attend the afternoon segment of the food…
In 1967, five countries, namely Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines, founded an organization called the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean). This was in the wake of the American involvement in the war in Vietnam…
The redesigns for the old jeepney being proposed by certain foreign-owned car companies commissioned by the government gives the Philippine “King of the Road” a really modern makeover. They feature more streamlined designs; so expect to see…
A simple note scribbled by Albert Einstein on a hotel stationery and given to a bellboy in lieu of a tip at the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo in 1922 has recently been sold at an Israeli auction…
