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I am currently on holiday in a beautiful snow-filled landscape in Japan and yes, loving every moment of it with dear family. There had been heavy snowfall the past two days, with temperatures dipping. In this era…
My maternal grandparents — Dado and Patring — showed me how to read newspapers. They operated a seafood stall at the Mandaue City Public Market ever since I could remember. A big part of my childhood up…
LEGALITY OF CONTROVERSIAL TWO DAY SESSION Issues surrounding the legality of the controversial two-day Cebu City Council session last August 7 and 8 may no longer be determined after both the administration Bando Osmeña Pundok Kauswagan (BOPK),…
The 112 unresolved killings in a span of six months in Cebu is quite alarming in itself but the deaths of a young couple and the alleged attempted ambush of a barangay official, all from Cebu City,…
The tragic deaths by suicide of designer Kate Spade and gourmand Anthony Bourdain have spurred reflection among observers of popular culture the world over. Resurgent is the message that wealth, fame, and success do not guarantee joy,…
Though the sentiment for Charter change was mixed in a recent public hearing in Cebu City as chaired by the Senate committee on constitutional amendments, the antis weren’t drowned by the pros when it came to voicing…
I was listening to the radio when local station dyAB broadcast the call of some Supreme Court employees for Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno to resign. The speech of Erwin Ocon, president of the Supreme Court Employees…
Plato said, beauty is the “object of love;” Aquinas, that beauty is that which “pleases when seen…” Both believed that beauty is universal, true for all and everywhere, unchanging, immutable; As if it went according to the…
The Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) administration will seek the help of Commission on Audit (COA) in dealing with the confiscated vault found inside the detention facility. A vault containing P263,000 was discovered last Friday…
ASSAILANTS Netizens speculated that the killers of Elisa Badayos, Karapatan human rights group coordinator in Negros Oriental, and the Karapatan group as well, may be the communist New People’s Army (NPA). A netizen named Gel Bords commented,…
Recent updates on children’s concerns have highlighted the issue of teenage pregnancy. The Young Adult Fertility and Sexuality Study stressed that “The victims of teenage pregnancy are the girl herself, her child, her parents and relatives and…
Not a few people have asked me this question even before the on-going, P683-million underpass project along N. Bacalso Avenue. This question brings to mind the numerous 14th-15th-century artifacts that we recovered—and the many, many more that…
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