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Finally, the eyesore that has become of the Cebu International Convention Center will hopefully be a thing of the past. This is my hope which I think others who have been to this historic edifice will agree…
Pillboxes in Toledo and Liloan, tunnels in Buhisan, memorial markers at the old Southern Islands Hospital. These are just some of the little things that World War II veterans on both sides of the conflict used to…
Yesterday was a poignant moment for some of the more than three thousand Japanese citizens living in Cebu, at least for those who went to Marco Polo Cebu Hotel. Beside its tennis courts is a life-size bronze…
Let me thank the Datu Lap-Lapu Chapter of the United Architects of the Philippines (UAP) for bravely taking the cudgels in opposing the 20-storey monstrosity of a building that Gov. Hilario Davide III wishes to cap his…
Atlas Consolidated Mining and Development Corp. (ACMDC) turned 65 last month quietly and with no fuss. This once proud owner of Toledo Copper Mine, the largest in Asia in the 1970s, has actually spun off a subsidiary,…
I was as surprised as everyone else to see the drama unfold last Monday when the much-maligned, once-wheelchair-bound, ex-president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was elected as the first female Speaker of the House and by an overwhelming majority at…
Nearly two decades before the earthquake that struck Bohol and Cebu in 2013, the need for a kind of instruction book on how to take care of structures built during the Spanish colonial period was already felt…
The recent announcement of a basket of infrastructure solutions for Cebu ought to be welcomed, albeit with much anxiety; for this will spell a lot of sacrifices from all of us commuters. This is what happens when…
I received word from someone who late last week wrote the chair of the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) that the NHCP has not issued any permit to allow the Cebu provincial government to proceed…
I was emailed a four-page letter late last week in the name of a certain Archt. John Ray M. Jimenez to Gov. Hilario Davide III dated June 12, 2018. I’m not sure if the governor did indeed…
It appears that the much-awaited rolling out of faith-based tour packages by the Department of Tourism is on hold with the entry of the new Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat. In last week’s Tourism Innovation Forum hosted by…
The grand Cebu Capitol Building turns 80 today in a somber mood as plans for a 20-storey building continue. This “looming tower”, to borrow the title of Lawrence Wright’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book on the rise of Al…
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