Memories of Mactan Airport

Jobers R. Bersales 06/21/2017

The recent offer of the GMR-Megawide Cebu Airport Corp. (GMCAC) to submit an unsolicited bid of P200 billion for a second runway at the Mactan-Cebu International Airport brings to mind my first experience landing at what was…

Chinese and Muslim settlements in pre-colonial Cebu?

Jobers R. Bersales 06/14/2017

The recent soft opening of the Rosita Rodriguez Arcenas Gallery of Chinese and Southeast Asian Ceramics at the University of San Carlos Museum occasioned a rekindling of questions whether there was a thriving Chinese settlement in Cebu…

Will there be peace in Mindanao?

Jobers R. Bersales 06/07/2017

So much has been written about the pros and cons of martial law in Mindanao, most especially why it is mostly people in Luzon who are complaining while those in the south are not. I was with…

USC’s harvest of firsts and more

Jobers R. Bersales 05/31/2017

The Annual Year-End Planning Conference of the University of San Carlos opened and closed in an upbeat mood. Never before in the history of the Cebu or of USC — hey, even the country perhaps — where…

Exposing human trafficking

Jobers R. Bersales 05/24/2017

New York — By the time this piece comes out, the exposé of my friend and fellow aktibista during our student days, Marivir Montebon, on the scourge of Filipino human trafficking in the United States will have…

Remembering Juan Diyong

Jobers R. Bersales 05/17/2017

May 1815 ought to be forever etched in the history of Sibonga, Naga and San Fernando, for exactly two hundred and two years ago this month, something happened that may have charted their future somewhat differently today.…

The baluartes of Cebu

Jobers R. Bersales 05/10/2017

Fort San Pedro turned 452 years old last May 8, but I think Cebuanos remembered more the Mandaue fiesta, which also always falls on that same day. Fewer still remember or know that a total of 74…

The USC Museum at 50

Jobers R. Bersales 05/03/2017

Nearly two weeks and 50 years ago, at around 3:45 in the afternoon of April 23, 1967, first lady Imelda Romualdez Marcos and USC president Fr. Rudolf Rahmann, SVD, formally inaugurated the University of San Carlos Museum.…

Love in the time of terrorism

Jobers R. Bersales 04/26/2017

  Forgive me for borrowing and then altering the title of Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s 1985 novel “Love in the Time of Cholera,” but I feel it appropriate if we are to understand the allegations…

After Inabanga, keep calm and do carry on!

Jobers R. Bersales 04/19/2017

Whether it’s the devastating slave raids in the Visayas and Luzon carried out by Moro pirates from Balanguigui and Jolo between 1599 and well nigh into the 1850s or the recent furtive landing of Abu Sayyaf terrorists…

Moro raids and the Japanese occupation

Jobers R. Bersales 04/12/2017

The clash in Inabanga, Bohol, the other day between government forces and the terrorist group Abu Sayyaf brings to mind the dreadful centuries of Moro slave raids that decimated the coastal towns of the Visayas and Luzon…

The Philippines and ‘bad’ feng shui

Jobers R. Bersales 04/05/2017

If national and local politics are so tumultuous nowadays, I would not fault you if you wonder whether this country is always doomed forever to drift aimlessly or that just when we are about to rise, things…

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