DSWD bares 2017 thrusts, priorities

PR 11/30/2016

TO promote collaborations with critical stakeholders at all levels, the Department of Social Welfare and Development in Central Visayas (DSWD-7) recently conducted a brief orientation highlighting the 2017 thrusts and priorities of the agency issued by Secretary…

Govt docs, staffers dedicated to quality health care for poor

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 11/26/2016

HEALTH Secretary Paulyn Jean B. Rosell-Ubial said the government’s doctors and medical staffers remain committed to providing quality health care to poor people despite the challenges in resources and controversies confronting them. “I know that a lot…

DSWD launches 2nd database of CV’s poor households

06/27/2016

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) 7 launched its second Listahanan Database for Central Visayas at Cebu Parklane International Hotel Monday morning. The said database is designed to provide easy and accurate access to information…

HISTORIC CONGRESS OF FAITH

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 01/24/2016

Opening Mass today in Plaza Independencia All eyes will be on Cebu City starting today as the 51st International Eucharistic Congress (IEC) unfolds. Thousands of Catholic faithful, including many of the 12,000 delegates from 71 countries who…

Cebu City to round up mendicants and vagrants

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 08/03/2015

Cebu City Hall will be rounding up mendicants and vagrants all over the city this month to mark its annual observance of Anti-Mendicancy Month. Cebu City Anti-Mendicancy Board executive director Joy Pesquera said they will start the…

Romano ‘modern martyr’ for poor

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 07/12/2015

Exactly three decades ago yesterday, Fr. Rudy Romano, a Redemptorist priest, was abducted by armed men in barangay Tisa, Cebu City. He was never seen again. The 1985 disappearance of the militant priest was remembered by  friends,…

Care for streetkids, public urged

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Melissa Q. Cabahug 04/27/2015

Church leaders in Cebu called on the people to reach out and care for street children instead of maltreating them in the wake of the death of 11-year-old street child Chastity Mirables a day after Easter Sunday.…

Definitely good news

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 04/06/2015

Like many people who usually hie off to different places outside Cebu, I had wanted to go on a retreat to Liptong Woodland in Bacong, Negros Oriental for a change of scenery and some quiet time during…

Giving the poor a voice

04/05/2015

by Fe N. Reyes How can we make sure that the poor have a voice in the International Eucharistic Congress (IEC) to be held in Cebu in January 2016?  This was the ultimate question set before us,…

Cebu youth leaders moved to action after Pope Francis encounter

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 01/26/2015

‘Francis effect’ Overwhelmed by their experience of seeing Pope Francis during the “Youth Encounter” at the University of Santo Tomas (UST) in Manila, at least 40 youth leaders from different Cebu towns have vowed to work doubly…

Time to work for renewal

01/23/2015

Pope Francis is back in the Vatican, but the message he gave to Filipinos remains. Not just to reflect upon. While the pope’s calls to stop corruption in all levels,  to serve the poor and work to…

Archival richest; Only Dizon, Tumulak are non-millionaires

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 06/25/2014

Engineer, environmentalist and politician Nestor Archival is the richest elected official of Cebu City based on  his self-declared assets. Councilor Archival, whose green advocacy led to his building an ecological-friendly house that is a showcase in Talamban,…

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