Puto-sikwate sends 37 scholars to school

Apple Ta-as 12/23/2014

Before pancakes, bacons and eggs  became regular breakfast favorites, puto and sikwate were the morning mainstays in dining tables in Cebuano homes. Puto to the uninitiated is sticky rice cooked in coconut milk which is wolfed down…

PCA tie-up to open market for Mandaue coco waste products

Norman V. Mendoza 07/04/2014

Locally-made geo-nets and other coco waste products will soon have more clients to buy them in the local  market after the Mandaue Coco Waste Processing Center partnered with the Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) to train the center’s…

Tourists with a purpose

Marian Z. Codilla 02/17/2014

With chisel and hammer,  American visitors Mike Herman and Eddie Leazer spent the morning helping repair a fisherman’s boat in barangay Okoy, Bantayan Island. The visitors were not ordinary tourists. The US Army Apache pilots had come…

Over 600 fishing boats distributed to fisherfolks in storm-devastated Bantayan towns

Marian Z. Codilla 02/16/2014

  I don’t know how to react, I am overwhelmed and just cried.” This is what Lilibeth Gidukos, a wife of a fisherman and a mother of seven children said after she lost everything in the horrifying…

‘Kutseros’ keep horse carriages alive in city

Bjorn Abraham Tabanera 01/02/2014

The day finds 60-year-old Amado Abatayo maneuvering his tartanilla pulled by Carlo, a silky brown horse along side streets of downtown Cebu City. Standing a little over 5 feet, Abatayo still possesses much energy and vigor as…

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