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…

‘Uphill battle’ against Marcos burial

Carmel Loise Matus 08/29/2016

While militant and civil society groups held yet another rally to protest the burial of the late president Ferdinand Marcos in the Libingan ng mga Bayani, two Cebu-based martial law era activists believe the Supreme Court may…

Hero’s burial for a hero-maker

08/23/2016

“WE LIVE by symbols.” We make meaning through them — we are homo significans. The battle for the public meaning of the Libingan ng mga Bayani has now reached Padre Faura, threatening to become the first confrontation…

No signs of torture on Casiban’s body

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Norman V. Mendoza 08/18/2016

POLICE investigators have found no traces of torture on the body of PO2 Ryan Casiban. Senior Supt. Rey Lyndon Lawas, deputy director for operations of the Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO-7), said the autopsy conducted…

JAGUAR BURIED LIKE A HERO

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Apple Ta-as, Doris C. Bongcac, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 06/27/2016

If one did not know any better, the huge crowd of people who joined yesterday’s funeral march on N. Bacalso Avenue in Cebu City was burying a folk hero, not someone whom the police have tagged as…

Mausoleum prepared as Jaguar’s final resting place

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 06/27/2016

FOR the last three days, nine workers worked to prepare the burial chamber of Jeffrey “Jaguar” Diaz, whom the police tagged as a major drug personality. The mausoleum was not finished in time for Jaguar’s internment yesterday…

Barangay official promises burial assistance for Montes

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 05/30/2016

ERMITA barangay captain Felicisimo “Imok” Rupinta yesterday vowed to help the family of John Jason Montes avail of burial assistance from the Cebu City government. Rupinta told Cebu Daily News that the barangay does not have a…

Puwera gaba sa ubang politiko

Lloyd Suarez 04/12/2016

Wa na gyu’y respeto ning ubang mga politiko kay bisag sakyanan sa minatay, kab-itan pa gyud og tarpaulin nga anaa ang ilang  pangan. Niadtong Domingo sa udto sa Lahug, nakasunod ko’g minatay paingon nga ilubong. Sa lubot…

Garcia family matriarch laid to rest Sunday

Carmel Loise Matus 02/07/2016

  THE matriarch of the Garcia family was laid to rest at the Angelicum Garden of Angels in Mandaue City this afternoon. Retired Regional Trial Court judge Esperanza “Inday” Fiel Garcia died due to kidney failure last…

Marine advocate, scuba diver Amores laid to rest in Mactan

Norman V. Mendoza 06/28/2014

Alfonso Amores, the reconstructive surgeon and environmentalist scuba diver who died in a diving accident in Surigao Del Sur, was laid to rest yesterday at the Mactan Memorial Gardens after a 10 a.m. Mass at at the…

King’s daughter, workmates mourn loss of business founder, ‘papa’

Apple Ta-as, Eileen G. Mangubat, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 06/19/2014

A risk-taker in business. “Big daddy” to employees. The boss who worked non-stop extending his base in Cebu to  a fast-growing corporate network in the Visayas and Mindanao. But the loss of Richard King was most keenly…

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