#CDNFiestaSeñor2022: How a devotee celebrates Fiesta Señor amid the pandemic

Doris Mae Mondragon 01/14/2022

CEBU, Philippines—For Rosanna Pangan, being a devotee of the Señor Santo Niño, gives her confidence that no matter what life throws at her, she has someone whom she can call on for help or “masampit” in Cebuano. …

11.9 million jobless Filipinos in September – SWS

Inquirer Research 12/15/2021

MANILA, Philippines — About 11.9 million Filipinos were found jobless in September amid the worst surge in COVID-19 cases in the country. The latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey showed that 24.8 percent of the labor force…

MCIA reports improving passenger traffic

Futch Anthony Inso 12/07/2021

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines — The Mactan Cebu International Airport (MCIA) is slowly recovering from months of slow passenger traffic. Lissa Aines Librodo, Airline Marketing and Tourism Development head of GMR-Megawide Cebu Airport Corporation, said that currently, they…

Why we’re disinterested in reading

Stephen Suba - @inquirerdotnet 12/06/2021

Reading sucks. In 2017, when I was in the ninth grade, I remember classmates who boasted about how they could finish 600-page books in six hours. One friend would mention Dante Alighieri’s “Inferno,” another friend talked of…

Fuente Christmas tree lit up, symbolizes hope amid pandemic

Pegeen Maisie M. Sararaña 12/02/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The giant Christmas tree at the Fuente Osmeña Circle has been officially lighted, looking to bring hope amid the pandemic. The approximately 100-foot tree was lit on Wednesday night, December 1, 2021, in…

School won’t be the same

Anna Cristina Tuazon - @inquirerdotnet 12/01/2021

I have a sinking feeling that — as painful as it was for students to transition from in-person classes to online learning — it would be just as painful to transition back to face-to-face classes after almost…

Ending the respiratory disease pandemic

Leith Greenslade - @inquirerdotnet 11/29/2021

NEW YORK — COVID-19 has exposed the limited ability of health systems around the world to cope with a pandemic of respiratory infection. With the official death count from COVID-19 now over five million, and the unofficial…

The unbearable lockdown of Filipino children

Gideon Lasco - @inquirerdotnet 11/19/2021

We’re approaching the two-year mark of the pandemic, and one thing now very clear is that how people experience it depends on one’s position in life: one’s occupation, country of residence, socioeconomic status, age, and gender. Thus,…

As gov’t OKs caroling, Eleazar reminds cops to start night patrols

Gabriel Pabico Lalu - Reporter / @GabrielLaluINQ 11/11/2021

MANILA, Philippines — Police officers were reminded by outgoing Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Gen. Guillermo Eleazar to start patrols to secure people in the streets, as the government allowed caroling for this Christmas season. Eleazar on…

Mandaue City has highest vaccination rate among CV cities

Mary Rose Sagarino 11/10/2021

MANDAUE CITY, Philippines — Several barangays in Mandaue City have already reached a high vaccination rate. Mandaue City remains to be the top city in Cebu Island with the highest vaccination rate of eligible individuals. Almost 70…

DOH now considering mandatory vaccination

Kathleen de Villa - Researcher 11/06/2021

MANILA, Philippines — Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire on Friday said the country may have to implement mandatory vaccination to achieve herd immunity against COVID-19. The health official was reacting to remarks a day earlier by Secretary…

Remembering

Rosario A. Garcellano - @inquirerdotnet 11/01/2021

The ceremony of remembering the dead is in full flower even as the living continue to be restricted by the pandemic. On television reportage on the rise and fall of the costs of cut flowers deemed needed…

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