Politics is personal

Jobers R. Bersales 03/29/2017

We all lament all these deaths and turn emotional at photographs of poor people getting killed or caught in the crossfire of the continuing and relentless drug war in our midst. But I heard neither sigh nor…

Social media as deadly mob

Jobers R. Bersales 03/22/2017

Trending on Facebook and probably other social media sites is the controversy currently hounding David Lim Jr. and the visually recorded altercation and allegedly involving victim nurse Ephraim Nuñal. If there is one thing I can conclude…

Who’s who in the Chinese cemetery

Jobers R. Bersales 03/15/2017

Archaeologists and some historians love cemeteries not because we live morbid lives. Far from it, we see these cities of the dead as mute repositories of information and historical data. Every cemetery is an artifact, which explains…

Reining in those motorcycles

Jobers R. Bersales 03/08/2017

My good friend Terry Davenport, no stranger to motorcycles, describes them as the epitome of the Kamikaze pilots of World War II: they zoom past, unmindful of whoever gets in their way, as if on a suicide…

The dying spirit of Edsa

Jobers R. Bersales 03/01/2017

Thousands more people went to Luneta to rally behind Pres. Rodrigo Duterte than at the Edsa Shrine — and for two days at that! I managed to watch painfully as my dear old favorite singer, Jim Paredes,…

The good friars of old Oslob

Jobers R. Bersales 02/22/2017

A brief unplanned stop at a church renovation project going nowhere somewhere in Western Cebu, I had a brief chat with one of the parishioners there that got me into thinking about how history will judge us…

Political will in Mandaue

Jobers R. Bersales 02/15/2017

Let me digress from the series of articles on the towns of Cebu in the late Spanish period to congratulate Mayor Luigi Quisumbing for his zeal in strictly enforcing traffic laws and ordinances in Mandaue City. In…

A Danao with no lake

Jobers R. Bersales 02/08/2017

In the Cebuano language, Danao connotes a lake or at least a large body of freshwater. In fact the lake in San Francisco, on the Camotes Islands just across Danao City, is named Danao. Anyone going to…

Oslob controversies, ca. 1882

Jobers R. Bersales 02/01/2017

In 1882, Fray Gregorio Ros, OSA, parish priest of Oslob, answered a set of 81 questions that, like the previous set of articles on Toledo in this space last month, provides us today an intriguing glimpse of…

Trump dumps heritage and the arts

Jobers R. Bersales 01/25/2017

The times are a-changing for the US. And, boy, will these changes cause ripples all over the world. As expected the era of an ultra-conservative president leading the world’s most powerful nation, the United States, would start…

Toledo in the eyes of Juan Climaco, 1886

Jobers R. Bersales 01/18/2017

(Conclusion) Before I proceed to connect with last week’s column again, let me invite everyone to the Book Talk and Signing of “The Feast of the Santo Niño: An Introduction to the History of a Cebuano Devotion”…

Toledo in the eyes of Juan Climaco, 1886, part 2

Jobers R. Bersales 01/11/2017

Before I proceed to connect with last week’s column, let me congratulate Raymund L. Fernandez on the successful launch of his full color 200-page “Kamingaw: an Impressionist Portrait of the Bisaya Painter Martino A. Abellana” held at…

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