All for her parents

Nestle L. Semilla 03/25/2017

Magna cum laude graduate offers her achievement to her fisherman-father, fish vendor-mother Clad in her toga with one hand holding her college diploma and a medal hanging on her neck, Regine Villamejor couldn’t help but cry when…

With honors

03/18/2017

It’s only six days to go before Regine Villamejor crosses “the finish line” in her personal race to graduate with honors at the University of San Jose-Recoletos (USJ-R) in Cebu City. And it had been a tough…

Feria’s festive salute to the graduates

PR 03/13/2017

IT’S graduation season once again! As a way of congratulating the Class of 2017, Radisson Blu’s Feria treats the graduates with a 50% discount on their total bill for lunch or dinner buffet from March 15 to…

Cheers to the Class of 2017 at the Waterfront

PR 03/13/2017

WATERFRONT Cebu City Hotel and Casino congratulates the Class of 2017 for a job well done with exciting promos at their top-notch restaurants. Hats Off to the Graduates of 2017 Celebrate your milestone and success with Uno’s…

Gratitude-filled Christmas

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 12/23/2016

I have had only celebrated Christmas outside of the Philippines in two occasions: in 2014 when the family lived in Guangzhou, China and in 2015 when we experienced a White Christmas in Montana, USA. In both instances,…

A fitting gift

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 08/05/2016

Graduate school is tough. The overconfident 2014 version of myself did not realize this. I was a mother to then one-year-old twins and the family was based in Guangzhou, China. The original plan was to work on…

Real world

Jason A. Baguia 07/01/2016

From a distance, courtesy of Facebook, I witnessed your graduation amid the soccer field, or what used to be one when I was an undergraduate student like you were. The bluegrass, I imagine, must have been turning…

Veggie vendor by day, honor student at night

04/19/2015

Judy Ann Capilos, 17, wakes up at 5 a.m. each day, not to enjoy the sunrise, but to sell vegetables in her neighborhood and help her widowed mother put food on the table. In the afternoon, she…

Habal-habal driver is HS class valedictorian

Rene Alima 04/12/2015

Habal-Habal motorcycle driver Leon Abella didn’t let poverty stop him from achieving his dreams. Abella, a 22-year-old resident of barangay Don Andres Soriano, Toledo City graduated top of his class as  valedictorian at the Don Andres Soriano…

Increase in grad fee subsidy eyed

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 04/06/2015

Cebu City Councilor Dizon said he is lobbying for an increase in the tuition subsidy of beneficiaries of the city’s scholarship program. Since consultations have yet to be done for the increase, Dizon said he still doesn’t…

Sugarcane worker arrested during graduation of daughters

Apple Ta-as 03/30/2015

A 39-year-old man was arrested during the graduation of his three daughters  in Caputatan Norte Elementary School in Medellin, northern Cebu last Sunday night. Danilo Dumaguit, a sugarcane laborer was arrested by police due to a standing…

Lapu girl kills self before graduation

Norman V. Mendoza 03/25/2015

A 12-YEAR-OLD girl of barangay Basak, Lapu-Lapu City dreamed of becoming a teacher one day. Her dreams died with her when she was found hanging from a wooden beam in the ceiling of her room with a…

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