JENNIFER Helen Weigel could not believe that she bested 87 other beauties when she was hailed Woman of the World 2017 during the Globe Classic 2017 last June 24 in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was the first…
BADIAN DRUG BUST She is accused of being a big-time drug personality in Badian town in southwestern Cebu. And her four bank books with transactions involving millions of pesos seem to show why. Her lifestyle — that…
Filipinos my age will surely agree that what we had was a “pro-American” childhood. I went to a Catholic girls’ school run by American nuns, so I suppose the bias is not unexpected. But if learning to…
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…
In just five years, the island province of Bohol has experienced all imaginable crises, starting with a 7.2-magnitude earthquake in 2013 and the recent attempt of the Abu Sayyaf Group to sow terror in one of its…
Bohol Provincial Board (PB) Member Niño Rey Boniel has both time and resources at his side when he made the surprising claim that his wife, Bien Unido Mayor Gisela Bendong-Boniel, is alive and is in hiding. Then…
Trying to implement major projects to be funded by the national government can be quite a tedious and taxing process that can take years of lobbying and processing papers, not to mention being further complicated by partisan…
RIDERS numbering to around 400 completed a 200-kilometer route from the Bellevue Resort on Panglao Island to Guindulman, Bohol and vice versa in the first day ride of the Giro d’ Luca 2017 yesterday. One of the…
Queen City of the South to host international figure skating competition Cebu will be at the center of the international figure skating scene as it hosts the final leg of the Southeast Asia Challenge International Figure Skating…
The Cebu Provincial Health Office (PHO), one of the implementers of Executive Order No. 26, otherwise known as the nationwide ban on smoking, intends to strictly enforce President Rodrigo Duterte’s order across the province; while striking…
The Kabataan Party-list has warned that the House bill on financial assistance that gives priority to “poor but deserving students” is being used to justify tuition increase instead of scrapping it altogether. In a statement, Kabataan…
For years, since I lost my faith after reading about the Big Bang and Charles Darwin, I decided to be an atheist. Yes, it was a decision, an attempt of becoming. Contrary to my declarations, deep inside…
