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Local business leaders have pinned their hopes on the realization of the government’s ambitious infrastructure program and proposed tax reforms to help sustain the uptrend in the country’s economy. Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) President…
With the Christmas season kicking off last September 1, work on the M. Lhuillier Christmas Tree of Hope at the Fuente Osmeña Circle in Cebu City is expected to be completed before December 1. A familiar, welcome…
As soon as I settled, the taxicab accelerated, and I was off to a new day. How often I had taken this route, daily in fact, and yet always it had its surprises. Three or four nights…
What can I do? These words, followed by a slight shrug of the shoulders, have a familiar ring to them, especially to those who have worked closely with the late Cardinal Vidal. It was his favorite expression…
CEBU City Mayor Tomas Osmeña is very happy with the boycott staged by Barug Team Rama councilors during the regular council session last Tuesday. “If that is the game they want to play, we will play it.…
Cebu City hotels will distribute toiletries and mattresses to patients of the Cebu City Medical Centers and students from public schools starting next week. The distribution of toiletries is part of the Hotels Outreach Program for the…
Junior high school teacher Edeson Villarias, his wife Apple and their two-year-old child Zyna Nicole were living a blissful, albeit modest life in Talisay City. But the couple’s world crumbled when they learned that their little angel…
To all my Muslim friends here and abroad, Eid Mubarak (or Blessed Celebration)! It’s a common greeting on the feast of Eid al-Fitr that marks the end of Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting and good…
ANTI-DISCRIMINATORY ORDINANCES Anti-discrimination advocates are now looking at the success story of 21-year-old Hezekiah Diaz, the transwoman who was recently allowed by her school to march and graduate as a woman, as a model in the fight…
At a tender age of six, James Esparaguera already has an inkling of what he will be like 20 years from now. “Magpari ko. (I want to be a priest),” he said, creatively expressing his thoughts by…
Building homes of hope and resilience There is hope even in the darkest of times. Almost four years after the tragic Super Typhoon Yolanda, the people of Tacloban City have opened new chapters in their lives. Exhibiting…
In the ’70s, we told each other in posters: “Today is the first day of the rest of your life.” Today, the same thought is better said this way: “These are your last happiest days.” Either way,…
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