LOOK: Daanbantayan Salvage Archeological Project leads to discovery of more human remains

Doris C. Bongcac 03/04/2023

MANDAUE CITY, CEBU — A team of archeologists that is trying to salvage human remains and some artifacts that were found near the Daanbantayan Cultural Center has found more human skeletons in the area on Friday, March…

The crowning of Cebu City, the Queen City of the South

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 02/24/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The year was 1936 when then-Congressman Vicente Rama, more known to his people as the Don Vicente Rama, was teased in Congress why the bustling economic leader of the country’s mid-southern islands remained…

Lapulapu, the Bornean Baloney, and the vacuum of history

Jobers Reynes Bersales 11/18/2019

I almost fell off my rocker when I read Pachico Seares’ column in Sunstar last November 11 about a German named Erich Wannemacher suggesting to Lapu-lapu City Tourism Officer Edward Mendez that Lapulapu was Muslim and therefore…

Preparing for the Talisay Landing

Jobers Reynes Bersales 10/21/2019

There was a time when the Leyte Landings, which was commemorated yesterday, was a big affair in the Philippines. The 50th anniversary in 1994, was one of them, when a pair of commemorative stamps and a commemorative…

Lessons from the Patria Issue

Jobers R. Bersales 01/21/2019

  I just came back from a return visit to a little-known small fort or stockade inside Catmondaan Elementary School. And I’d like to use this remnant of a once-intact defensive structure of the Spanish period to…

Entrepreneur invests in Cebu’s first library café for homegrown authors

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 01/15/2017

ENTREPRENEUR Caroline Porras, president and chief executive officer of ClintKAMMS Corp., invested about P1 million or another business venture that will serve as home of printed books and a venue for authors to converge and discuss their…

All for good

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 07/16/2015

Now it can be told. Cebu Archbishop Jose S. Palma had apprehensions about the holding of the 51st International Eucharistic Congress in Cebu City come January 24 – 31, 2016 for many reasons, mainly logistical and organizational.…

Changing of the guard

Jobers R. Bersales 02/13/2014

After over a decade at the helm of the Cebu Archdiocesan Commission for the Cultural Heritage of the Church, Msgr. Carlito Pono bade farewell to the commission members the other night with a final meeting and a…

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