The happiness measurement biz

Mahar Mangahas - @inquirerdotnet 12/17/2022

The measurement of happiness is a regular activity in quality-of-life research. There is a World Database of Happiness (WDH) and a Journal of Happiness Studies (JHS); Professor Ruut Veenhoven of Erasmus University, Netherlands, WDH founder and JHS’…

Mayor Cortes: Odette changed Mandaue’s preparation, planning for calamities

Mary Rose Sagarino 12/17/2022

MANDAUE CITY, Philippines — Super Typhoon Odette has changed the way the Mandaue City government looks at preparation and planning for calamities. Super Typhoon Odette, which ravaged the Visayas including Metro Cebu on Dec. 16, 2021 or…

Chan to DPWH-7: Blacklist erring contractors

Futch Anthony Inso 12/16/2022

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines — Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Junard “Ahong” Chan urged the Department of Public Works and Highways in Central Visayas (DPWH-7) to blacklist erring contractors from participating in bidding and receiving projects. Chan said this in…

Engkwentro 8: OPBF champ Gabunilas to fight former flyweight champ Espinas in non-title bout

Glendale G. Rosal 12/16/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The ARQ Boxing Stable stalwarts are ready to rumble for the “Engwkentro 8” fight card on Dec. 20, 2022, at the San Fernando sports complex in south Cebu.  ARQ’s strength and conditioning trainer,…

Cebu City has 7 more drug-cleared barangays

Wenilyn B. Sabalo 12/16/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Seven barangays in Cebu City were recently declared “drug-cleared” by the Regional Oversight Committee on Barangay Drug Clearing (ROCBDC). These are barangays Basak Pardo, Buot Taup, Kinasang-an, Lusaran, San Antonio, Pamutan, and Parian,…

PBA’s Bolick, Red Lions coach Fernandez to hold coaching clinic in Leyte

Glendale G. Rosal 12/16/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — NorthPort Batang Pier’s star player Robert Bolick and San Beda Red Lions head coach Boyet Fernandez III will spearhead the two-day coaching clinic called the OCCCI D-League Coaches Clinic tomorrow, Saturday, Dec. 17…

The burden that a husband and father has to carry for losing his wife, daughters to Odette

Mary Rose Sagarino 12/16/2022

MANDAUE CITY, Cebu — Whenever heavy rain pours, his seven-year-old daughter covers her ears in fear. This is what Harold Bantigue has to deal with as he and his daughter, Eleisha Faith, continue to live with the…

The year that was: 5 people who hogged the headlines

Daniza Fernandez - Reporter / @DFernandezINQ 12/16/2022

MANILA, Philippines—It’s been a colorful and remarkable year for good and bad news, including those that fall in between. But in over 300 days, some stories are more controversial than others. As we turn the page to…

A year after Odette: Things return to normal but ’emotional scars’ still remain

Mary Rose Sagarino, Morexette Marie Erram 12/16/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines – The scars Typhoon Odette, internationally known as Rai, left in Cebu may have started to gradually disappear, more especially as people have begun returning to their pre-pandemic lives.   But for Cebuanos like…

Super Typhoon Odette: Silver linings from a calamity

Wenilyn B. Sabalo 12/16/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — As Cebuanos observe the first anniversary of Super Typhoon Odette today, Dec. 16, 2022, some recall the struggles they experienced at the height of the howler’s rage and the ‘silver linings’ they learned…

First day of Misa de Gallo in Central Visayas goes smoothly

Pegeen Maisie Sararana 12/16/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — There were no untoward incidents reported during the first day of  Misa de Gallo from all over Central Visayas on Friday,  December 16, 2022, police said. Police Brigadier General Roderick Augustus Alba, chief…

‘Christmask’ and other thoughts

Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnet 12/16/2022

It has been all of three years. How time moved exceedingly slow during the three years of the COVID-19 pandemic that the world went through, that you and I endured and survived, but which millions did not.…

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