Malcolm Sanchez: Being Dad

Apple Ta-as 06/17/2017

THE LIFE of Malcolm Sanchez became an open book the moment he decided to enter politics. Being one of the city councilors of Mandaue, he doesn’t mind telling his story over and over, even the one concerning…

Remembering ‘Hector the Terrible’

Connie E. Fernandez 06/17/2017

My mother was busy cooking some noodle dish when I arrived from school. I sighed. Noodles again, I thought. For five straight days, dinner had been different varieties of noodles. Yet no one was celebrating a birthday.…

Hidden crime

Editorial 06/01/2017

The arrest of a mother who wasn’t able to pay her power bills for her shanty yet managed to operate a sari-sari store that served as the venue for her cyberporn trafficking was all the more alarming…

Mandaue cyberporn

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Jose Santino S. Bunachita 05/30/2017

Rosalyn (not her real name) was famous in Sitio Sampaguita, Barangay Opao in Mandaue City for operating a roadside sari-sari store and selling pastries online. Her relatives and neighbors were caught by surprise when they learned that…

Ariana Grande concert: 22 dead in blast

05/23/2017

Manchester, United Kingdom — Twenty-two people, including children, were killed and dozens injured when a man detonated a bomb at a pop concert by US star Ariana Grande, in Britain’s deadliest terror attack in 12 years. Screaming…

‘HELP ME FIND MY CHILD’

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, April Alexis B. Agustin, Norman V. Mendoza 05/22/2017

As 1,700 fire victims appeal for help, a mom struggles to find her missing daughter As they set aside their worries of the possibility of not being allowed to rebuild their houses razed by Sunday’s fires in…

MAO BA?

Editorial 04/04/2017

STILL ALIVE A daughter asked her father what his plans for his 82nd birthday were. He said he always spent his birthdays at the Social Security System (SSS) office. The daughter asked why. “To let them know…

Body found floating off Nocnocan Island identified

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 01/21/2017

CEBU CITY—The body found floating in the sea off Nocnocan Island in Bohol belonged to the missing crane operator MV Meridian Tres which sank last Tuesday evening. Lieutenant Junior Grade Jimmy Berbo, commander of the Talibon Coast…

Mother faces charges for harming daughter

06/21/2016

CHARGES of child abuse were filed by the Cebu City Prosecutor’s Office against a mother accused of physically abusing her five year-old daughter while under the influence of drugs. Cebu City Prosecutor Jennifer Karen Alo-Leyson filed charges…

Toni Pino-Oca: Glam mom

Hayde Quiñanola 05/08/2016

IT IS said that angels cannot walk on earth and so God sent mothers. They make cookies and costumes. They turn a house into a home. They go by hook or by crook to see their children.…

Iris Castillo-Cular: Finding meaning in motherhood

Orly J. Cajegas, Rob Gonzales 05/10/2015

The essence of a woman, paraphrasing Miss Universe 1993 Sushmita Sen, is being a mother.  1992 Miss Teen Cebu City and 1993 Miss Cebu Tourism Iris Jasmin Castillo-Cular knows this too well. Gifted with a loving husband,…

Girl, 3 rescued from Pa

Carine M. Asutilla 10/18/2014

A 3-year-old girl was rescued by Cordova Police and the Department of Social Welfare and Development after she was allegedly raped by her father. A concerned neighbor called the attention of the DSWD and the police onThursday…

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