Rebranding Junquera

Jobers Reynes Bersales 07/29/2019

Without funding from local government nor from such a well-oiled cultural institution as the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, there is one medium-sized hotel in downtown Cebu City that is doing its own cultural heritage…

Manandis and henpecked men

Jobers Reynes Bersales 07/22/2019

Andres Abellana is today a mere street leading to a section of Guadalupe from the Cebu Capitol. Very few know anything about him beyond this.  In his heyday, he was a Capitan Municipal of San Nicolas (and…

Remembering the ‘Mananabang’

Jobers Reynes Bersales 07/08/2019

The recent announcement by Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia, during her first week back in the provincial seat, to increase the monthly stipend of Barangay Health Workers (BHWs) from 1,500 to 3,000 pesos reminded me of how far our…

Making Cebu number one again

Jobers Reynes Bersales 07/01/2019

  Governor Gwendolyn F. Garcia begins her first day in office today with a resounding mandate of nearly 300,000 votes over her opponent in the last elections, the same one she clashed with during the illegal power…

What lies beneath the Patria?

Jobers Reynes Bersales 06/10/2019

The Archdiocese of Cebu is spending money to find out if anything of cultural and historic import is buried beneath the Patria de Cebu. Dr. John Peterson, my doctoral dissertation adviser, will lead a team that will…

How about a Homo cebuensis?

Jobers Reynes Bersales 04/15/2019

  The announcement last week that what archaeologists for nearly a decade have called the ‘Callao Man’ has now been determined to be a separate species called ‘Homo luzonensis’ has put the Philippines once again on the…

CICC: Cebu’s lost gem?

Jobers Reynes Bersales 04/08/2019

Former Cebu governor Gwendolyn F. Garcia, who is aiming to reclaim the governorship of Cebu, minced no words in saying that someone will be held to account for the sorry state of the Cebu International Convention Center…

PAST FORWARD: An embarrassment of sex and riches?

Jobers Reynes Bersales 03/11/2019

  Coming on the heels of the most extraordinary meeting of all heads of Catholic bishops councils all over the world in the Vatican, the recent report of an alleged rape of a minor by a priest…

Davide Should Learn from Serging

Jobers Reynes Bersales 02/04/2019

      Sergio Osmeña Jr., Serging to his generation, left his mark indelibly on the landscape of Cebu. He single-handedly expanded Cebu’s real estate with what has now come to be known as the North Reclamation…

PAST FORWARD | Titos and Titas of Cebu #Throwback

Marc Cosep 11/29/2017

How do you define a generation? If you’re an active Facebook user, chances are you’ve stumbled on the group page called “Classic Bai to the Titos and Titas of Cebu” which captures the essence of a generation,…

Ego in the year of living dangerously

Jobers R. Bersales 11/13/2013

Past Forward I write this piece as trucks from various companies are busy packing relief goods for the victims of supertyphoon Yolanda here at the Wrocklage Yard of the University of San Carlos (USC) Downtown Campus. There…

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