Oral health and mental health are more connected than you think

Pau Miranda 02/04/2024

A new report has found that oral health is indirectly connected to the mental well-being of older adults. A study by a team at Okayama University Hospital found that “good oral health may lower the risk of several diseases.”…

Net Gainers reach +8

Mahar Mangahas - @inquirerdotnet 01/28/2023

As 2022 closed, after three pandemic years, the people getting better off have finally outnumbered those getting worse off. In the SWS December 2022 survey, there were 34 percent of Filipino adults saying their quality of life…

Cebu City targets 58K individuals for National Vaxx Days

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 02/09/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City is targeting to inoculate 58,000 individuals for the three-day National Vaccination Days on February 10 to 12, 2022. Doctor Jeffrey Ibones, the head of the City Health Department (CHD), said they…

Cebu City’s new curfew starts from 12 midnight to 3am for adults and 10pm to 4am for minors

Pegeen Maisie M. Sararaña 12/02/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City’s new curfew starts at 12 midnight to 3 a.m. for adults and 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. for minors starting December 2, 2021. Police Lieutenant Colonel Wilbert Parilla, deputy director for…

Oplan Bulabog nets 579 Cebu City violators

Pegeen Maisie M. Sararaña 08/09/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City policemen apprehended 579 quarantine violators in three days of Oplan Bulabog, majority of which were curfew violators. Police Lieutenant Colonel Wilbert Parilla, deputy director for operations of Cebu City Police Office…

Lessons from the timeless story of the small prince

Doris Mondragon 04/15/2021

The grown-up world can be so perplexing to a child. Why don’t adults smile all the time? Why do they refuse to run around in fields and make shapes in the clouds? And why do they assume…

Police rescues five minors, arrests three adults with paraphernalia

Delta Dyrecka C. Letigio 11/04/2018

Five minors who escaped from the Regional Rehabilitation Center for Youth in Central Visayas in Argao town, south Cebu were rescued by the police in Barangay Basak San Nicolas, Cebu City on Sunday (November 4). Police authorities…

In the land of crocodiles

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 05/01/2017

This is not the place for Captain Hook, what with his fear of crocodiles. But Crocolandia Nature Park, the closest animal haven city dwellers can visit after the closure of the Cebu City Zoo, is certainly a…

Ayala Center Cebu opens Little Free Library

PR 10/17/2016

AYALA Center Cebu joined the global movement to share books, bring people together and create communities of readers with the opening of the Little Free Library (LFL) yesterday at the Level four Garden Area near Fudge. The…

‘The Road to Porndiction’

Francis B. Ongkingco 09/30/2016

(Part 1 of 3) Drugs! Death! Damnation! Our society, now more than before, is experiencing the toll of these words as we become helpless and fearful spectators of the vicious cycle of extrajudicial executions. There is no…

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