Digong plays a Marcos card

Jobers R. Bersales 10/12/2016

The fast thawing of ice-cold relations between China and the Philippines in the wake of our victory over this emerging superpower in the Arbitral Tribunal over the former’s illegal occupation of our sovereign territory in the West…

Blasa Perez’s pocket of wonder

Jobers R. Bersales 10/05/2016

There is still hope for Cebu — or maybe just Mandaue. But let us assume this will really work for all of Cebu. Despite all the negative things we see and the negative comments we say and…

CEAP on its 75th year

Jobers R. Bersales 09/28/2016

The Catholic Educational Association of the Philippines (CEAP) is on its second day of a three-day national convention at the Cebu Waterfront Hotel in Lahug. This gathering of some 3,500 delegates comes as CEAP marks its 75th…

Why the Marcos dictatorship failed

Jobers R. Bersales 09/21/2016

Yesterday was 44th anniversary of the start of dictatorial rule by late president Ferdinand Marcos, a one-man rule that would last until he was hurriedly whisked off Malacañang by forces of the United States in 1986. As…

Cebu’s colonial core as World Heritage Site?

Jobers R. Bersales 09/14/2016

Before I proceed, let me first take this space to bid farewell to a dear friend and a very active, selfless supporter of the University of San Carlos Press and the University of San Carlos Museum. A…

Iceland’s Sword and Philippine Archaeology

Jobers R. Bersales 09/07/2016

In 2011, a team of archaeologists from the National Museum of the Philippines and the University of San Carlos unearthed six burials in front of the old façade of San Remigio Church in the town of the…

Learning from Japanese taxation and subway systems

Jobers R. Bersales 08/31/2016

Kyoto, Japan — The wonders never cease, despite coming here in this ancient Japanese city a number of times already over the past decade. This industrial powerhouse of a country that once lay prone after two atomic…

De Lima’s dilemma

Jobers R. Bersales 08/24/2016

If President Rodrigo Duterte will have his way in this first-ever relentless fight to end the drug menace in this country, its casualties will not just be billionaire drug lords and their protectors but one female senator…

Celebrating two Golden Ages of Cebuano cinema

Jobers R. Bersales 08/17/2016

The world will finally know that Cebu once had its own brand of cinema this Saturday when the book “Lilas: An Illustrated History of the Golden Ages of Cebuano Cinema” will be launched at 4 p.m. at…

The changeless land called Senippilihp

Jobers R. Bersales 08/10/2016

There is a beautiful yet sad place called Senipilihp where the gods have long abandoned in favor of little mortals who rule over simple tiny mortals called Onipilifs in a chaotically unchanging atmosphere. The top ruler in…

Mandaue points the way

Jobers R. Bersales 08/03/2016

And we always thought Cebu City would lead the way. Apparently not, given its fractious politics and the way the mayor there has behaved strangely, to say it mildly. It now appears that the people of Mandaue…

The Drug Menace and the Role of the Church

Jobers R. Bersales 07/27/2016

On the day of President Rodrigo Duterte’s State of the Nation Address, the Archdiocese of Manila held a mass for the victims of extrajudicial killings in the wake of the president’s no-nonsense crusade to rid this country…

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