Treasure

Fr. Randy Figuracion 07/31/2016

Alfonso and Helen come to Mass every morning. Rain or shine, they are present. At times, I see Helen alone because her husband has errands to do. She attends church to pray. It is her way of…

UN event spotlights 17 goals to end poverty, save planet

04/23/2016

United Nations — A 17-year-old Honduran-American activist called for a youth movement to eradicate poverty and preserve the planet. The president of the tiny Pacific island nation said urgent funds are needed to develop his country and…

Violence against women, children rises

Apple Ta-as 03/03/2016

POVERTY and unemployment are still the top causes  of the increasing violence against women and children in Cebu City. “Every now and then, we have been trying to reach out to various barangays in Cebu City to…

The poor and suffering

Raymund Fernandez 01/31/2016

This writer, the writer of kinutil, grew up in childhood as a close neighbor to poverty. He grew up, first, in Dumanjug where they were landowners with tenants who depended on them and to whom they were…

At the mercy of pushers

Editorial 11/17/2015

The circumstances behind the death of suspected drug pusher Wilson Villanueva in Toledo City last Sunday would have been just another item in a growing list of police stories about the war against drugs were it not…

Sacrifice pays off

08/27/2015

We share in the joy of  Argao student Barly Dinalo, who  won a bronze medal in a math competition abroad. He bested more than 100 elementary and high school students around the world to rank among the…

Three bridges eyed for Argao, Bogo, Medellin

Victor Anthony V. Silva 06/14/2015

Projects funded under ‘Tulay ng Pangulo’ program for calamity-hit areas The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) in Central Visayas is evaluating three sites in Cebu where new bridges will be put up under the national government’s Tulay…

Unwanted pregnancies

05/11/2015

Most of the world celebrated Mother’s Day yesterday but here in the country, we have countless stories that tell  of the poverty and its attendant challenges  faced by a lot of Filipino mothers and how they were…

Renew commitment to poor – Palma

Victor Anthony V. Silva 04/06/2015

Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma linked the pope’s Lenten message of “renewal and grace” to the celebration of the Year of the Poor. In his Easter Vigil message on the evening of the Black Saturday, Palma urged the…

12.4M jobless from Sept to Dec 2014 — SWS

Inquirer 02/03/2015

Manila — The level of joblessness among adults nationwide barely moved in 2014 from a year ago despite an estimated 2 million Filipinos joining the ranks of the jobless at the end of last year, the latest…

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…

Mysterious hole

01/08/2015

Isidro Toledo, barangay  chief of Maslog, Danao City said water supply for washing and laundry wasn’t a problem in their area since sources are within walking distance. This makes it hard to accept hook, line and sinker…

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